Latin America History

Tenochtitlan

Sep 3, 1325

The Aztecs discover , and create Tenochtitlan. the Spaniards were deeply impressed by the beauty, order and cleanliness of this city with between 150,000 and 300,000 inhabitants, one of the biggest metropolises in the world at the time.

Temple

May 10, 1480

The final stage of the Templo Mayor was completed and
reaches a height of 40m

Treaty of Tordesillas

Jul 21, 1494

The two European powers reached an agreement to divide South America. In the resulting Treaty of Tordesillas. Portugal gained control over the land that became present-day Brazil. In this section, you will look at Portuguese-speaking Brazil, the largest country in South America.

Emperor

Feb 10, 1502

Moctezuma II becomes tlatoani or Mexican Emperor.

Montezuma

Nov 28, 1502

Montezuma becomes Aztec emperor. Was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520. During his reign the Aztec Empire reached its maximal size.

Spanish Conquest

Mar 8, 1519

Hernando Cortez landed on the coast of Mexico. Cortez and his men marched into the interior of the country until the reached the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, the site of present day Mexico City. and by 1521 Cortez and his army had conqured the Aztecs.

Francisco Pizarro

Jan 12, 1532

Francisco Pizarro invades and conquers the Inca empire in Peru.

Earthquakes

Aug 15, 1647

Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake.

Sculptures

Jan 6, 1790

Two massive Aztec scupltures were dug up in Mexico City . Aztec stone sculpture is the culmination of a long Mesoamerican tradition in the carving of stone—from ordinary volcanic rock to highly prized semi-precious stones such as jade into objects and monuments of all sorts.

Haiti

Sep 13, 1790

Haiti was a french colony w. an inportant sugar industry. Africans brought the island to by force worked on the sugar plantations & other plantations. These years, Toussaint L'Ouverture led a slave rebellion in Haiti and took over the government of the island.

Independence

May 9, 1821

Between 1810 and 1825, most of Spain's former colonies had declared and won independence and had divided up into republics. Mexico also achieved independence from spain under Agustin de' Iturbide, who proclaimed himself as emperior in 1822.

Portugal

Sep 29, 1822

After Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, many people in Brazil demanded independence from Portugal. However, the Portuguese government wanted Brazil to remain a colony. But the Brazilians kept pushing for independence. Finally, thousands of them signed petitions asking Dom Pedro, the son of Portugal’s king, to rule Brazil as an independent country. He agreed, and in September of 1822, he declared
Brazil’s independence from Portugal.

Treaty

Feb 7, 1873

Peace treaty fixes frontier between argentina & chile along the ridge of the andes.

Panamal Canal

Oct 10, 1881

It cuts through the land bridge and connects to the Atlanta , and Pacific oceans. Ships from both hemispheres use the canal, making Panama a crossroads of world trade. The canal made possible the exchange of both goods and ideas.

Population

Sep 9, 1900

Population reaches 542,000

Institutional Revolutionary Party [ PRI ]

Feb 5, 1929

During this year a new political pary arouse. This party helped introduce democracy and political stability for much of the 20th century. It continued the party of redistributing land to the peasants.

Mercosur

May 15, 1955

an economic common market that
began operating in the southern cone of South
America in 1995.

General Augusto Pinochet

Dec 11, 1973

Education is very important in Chile. When they
are between the ages of 6 and 13, all children must
attend school, and public education is free. Higher
education has suffered because of political unrest.
The universities had been independent and of high
quality. Then a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew Salvador Allende’s government in 1973.

Gabriel García Márquez

Nov 12, 1982

Early in the last quarter of the 20th century, South American
writers claimed the world’s attention with their extraordinary novels. Perhaps the most famous of these writers is Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982.

Soccer

Nov 10, 1986

Argentina wins FIFA Cup in Estadio Azteca