Independence & Revolution · event 3 of 8

13 September 1847

Chapultepec falls. United States forces storm the castle and occupy the city. Mexico loses half its territory in the treaty that follows. The Niños Héroes are commemorated at the foot of the hill.

The Independence & Revolution era

  1. 16 September 1810
  2. 1821
  3. 13 September 1847
  4. 1864
  5. 1876
  6. 1900
  7. 1910
  8. 1917

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