New Spain · event 4 of 9

1535

The Viceroyalty of New Spain. Mexico City becomes the capital of a territory reaching from California to Central America and across the Pacific to Manila.

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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