New Spain · event 7 of 9

1607

The draining begins. Work starts on the Nochistongo cut to drain the lake. The project continues in one form or another for over four hundred years.

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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