New Spain · event 3 of 9

1531

The Virgin of Guadalupe. Juan Diego’s vision at Tepeyac, on a hill previously associated with the goddess Tonantzin. She becomes the emblem of Mexican identity.

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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