Tenochtitlan · event 6 of 7

8 November 1519

Cortés enters the city. Moctezuma II receives the Spanish on the Iztapalapa causeway. Bernal Díaz writes that some of the soldiers asked whether what they saw was a dream.

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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