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200
Teotihuacan Culture
The inhabitants of the Teotihuacan culture built large pyramidal bases that were distinguished because they used the slope and the board. Their most important constructions were the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, as well as the Road of the Dead and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. -
450
Development of Maya Culture
The Maya civilization developed sophisticated art forms using both perishable and durable materials, including wood, jade, obsidian, ceramics, carved stone monuments, stucco and finely painted murals. It was a Mesoamerican civilization that developed mainly in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and the western part of Honduras and El Salvador, covering more than 300,000 km². -
850
Development of Toltec Culture
The Toltec culture is one of the many pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica, which inhabited the area of present-day Mexico and its development covered part of the classic and post-classic Mesoamerican periods, that is, between 800 AD and 1200 AD, The Toltecs dominated the Huasteca region, part of what is now San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas, as well as central Mexico. In Tula (today Hidalgo), its most important urban center, various groups coexisted, such as the Nahua and Otomi. -
1200
Development of Olmec Culture
Its origin dates back to the Preclassic or Formative period, around 1,500 B.C., and its period of maximum splendor was between 1,000 and 400 B.C. Its cultural disintegration occurred around 100 A.D., considered the Epi-Olmec period, a stage where they developed in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region, it was a civilization that developed during the Preclassic period of Mesoamerica. -
1325
Fundation of Tenochtitlan
Mexico-Tenochtitlan was the capital or altépetl of the Mexica. During the Spanish domination, Mexico City was founded on it, which was the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and after independence, the capital of the United Mexican States. -
1519
Arrival of Spaniards
The Spaniards arrived at the great Tenochtitlán on November 8, 1519 and the great emperor Moctezuma received Cortés with great honors and lodged him in the palace of Axayácatl and later took Moctezuma hostage. -
1521
Fall of tenochtitlan
On August 13, 1521, according to historians' interpretations of historical sources, the Fall of Tenochtitlan took place, also known as the Siege of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica civilization, carried out through negotiation between civilizations. -
1521
Viceregal Mexico
The period known as the Colony or Viceroyalty in Mexico began in the 16th century, when the Spanish arrived in Tenochtitlan, and is also known as the Viceroyalty because the country was governed by a representative of the King of Spain who held the title of viceroy. -
Mexico's independence
The period of our history known as the War of Independence begins in the early morning of September 16, 1810, when Father Miguel Hidalgo gives the so-called "Grito de Dolores" and ends on September 27, 1821 with the triumphal entry of the Trigante Army. -
Preclassic Period
The Early Preclassic period is characterized by the appearance of the first agricultural villages, where societies were egalitarian and lived in no more than 20 huts. The main crops were maize, beans, chili and squash, continues with the transformation of some of them into proto-cities and ends with the emergence and development of three primitive cities: Cuicuilco, Teotihuacán and Monte Albán. -
Process of sedentarism and constitution of Mesoamerica
The first Mesoamerican cities were consolidated around ceremonial centers with the appearance of some agricultural and artisan neighborhoods. Urbanism had a great development in the pre-Hispanic cultures, where we can observe the magnitude of the cities of Teotihuacan, Tollan-Xicocotitlan and Mexico-Tenochtitlan.