Tenochtitlan · event 7 of 7

1520

Smallpox, and the Noche Triste. Disease reaches the city and kills a large share of the population including the emperor Cuitláhuac. In June the Spanish are driven out across the causeways with heavy losses.

The Tenochtitlan era

  1. c. 100 AD
  2. 1325
  3. 1428
  4. c. 1450
  5. 1487
  6. 8 November 1519
  7. 1520

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