New Spain · event 1 of 9

13 August 1521

Tenochtitlan falls. After a three-month siege, Cuauhtémoc is captured at Tlatelolco. Cortés orders the city demolished and a Spanish capital built on the same ground with the same stone.

The New Spain era

  1. 13 August 1521
  2. 1524
  3. 1531
  4. 1535
  5. 1553
  6. 1573
  7. 1607
  8. 1629
  9. 1692

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