Independence & Revolution · event 6 of 8

1900

The Gran Canal opens. The drainage works are completed, and Lake Texcoco is effectively gone. The city begins sinking in earnest.

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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