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Feb 1, 1519
Cortes sailed for mexico from cuba.
In the 8 months it took to him to travel from the east to the cost of tenochtitlan, cortes gathered allies by means or trickery and force. -
Jul 1, 1519
Tlaxcalans attack the spanish
Summer of 1519 Tlaxcalans attack the spanish. -
Jul 1, 1519
Tlaxacalans form allaince with spainsh
Tlaxacalans Found in interest it would be easier to become allined with the spanish then be enemeys with them. -
Nov 8, 1519
Moctezuma and cortes meet.
Moctezuma greeted Cortes thinking that he was a god. But Cortes was determined tp conquer the empire for his king, his god, and for riches. -
Nov 15, 1519
Cortes take Moctezuma hostage.
Cortes new that one word from moctezuma, and he could be dead any time. So Cortes waited for the opportunity. About one week after Cortes arrived him took Moctezuma under hostage in the palace that was given for cortes to stay in. -
May 15, 1520
The spanish massacure thousands of aztecs while preparing for their religous festival
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May 15, 1520
moctezuma died.
moctezuma was hit by so many rocks that they punchured him enough to kill him. The aztecs say that the spanish killed him. But the spanish said the turth that his people has killed him with rocks. -
Jun 1, 1520
Spanish retreat after aztecs gathered arms.
The Aztecs had been gettin ready for the festival of huitzilopochtli. When Priest and nobles where killed. The aztecs where outraged. They gathered their arms and fought so ferociously that the spanish had to retreat to cortes palace. Any chase of peace becoming through spanish and aztecs was whisped away. -
Jun 1, 1520
The spanish attemted to escape from tenochtitlan but are stopped by aztecs. Latter reffered to as noche triste
When moctezuma tried to talk to his peopel to stop this they started throwing rocks at him. -
Nov 1, 1520
aztecs begin to die from small pox.
The aztecs where mostly killed or died off by small pox from June 1- November 1520. They where not ammune to it like the Europeans where. -
Aug 1, 1521
the spanish form a second attack on the now weakend aztecs
Cortes, Returned to tenochtitlan with his allies, the tlaxcalans, As wekk as the warriors of texcoco who has once been members of the triple allaince. The aztecs had no allies to help fight Defending them selfs will be very hard because of the small pox kill most of them off. -
Aug 13, 1521
the last group of aztecs surender
The last group of aztecs had desiced to surender to the spanish there emporer was hung soon there after. -
Nov 8, 1522
cortes becomes governor and captian- gernal of New spain
the spanish ripe down all the paramids and temples. 1522 Cortes Less then three years of arraving on shore, Cortes became, governor and captain- general of the new spain.