Tenochtitlan · event 1 of 7

c. 100 AD

Teotihuacán rises. Forty kilometres north-east, a city of over 100,000 people is built on a grid two and a half kilometres long. It collapses around 650 AD and is ruins long before the Mexica arrive.

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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