Mexican Timeline

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1546

    Maya culture

    Regularly lived in the area of Quintana Roo and Yucatan
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1523

    Mixtec Culture

    Oaxaca, Guerrero and Puebla, preclasic period
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE

    Olmec culture

    mother culture, Veracruz and Tabasco, Preclasic period
  • Period: 500 BCE to 100

    Zapotec Culture

    South Oaxaca Valley, Mexico
  • Period: 100 to 800

    Huastec culture

  • Period: 350 to 650

    Teotihuacan culture

    Valle Mexico,
  • Period: 400 to 1519

    Totonac Culture

    Veracruz
  • Period: 900 to 1521

    Toltec culture

    Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Mexico and Morelia, Master constructors
  • Period: 1200 to 1521

    Aztecas

    Mexico valley, clasic period
  • 1519

    Arrive to Tenochtitlan

    Cortes and his men arrive Tenochtitlan
  • Period: 1521 to

    New Spain

    Mexico forms part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
  • Independence Day

    El grito de Dolores set off a flurry of revolutionary action by thousands of natives and mestizos, who banded together to capture Guanajuato and other major cities west of Mexico City. Despite its initial success, the Hidalgo rebellion loses steam and is defeated quickly, and the priest is captured and killed at Chihuahua in 1811. His name lives on in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, however, and September 16, 1810, is still celebrated as Mexico’s Independence Day.
  • Mexico changes

    Mexico become a Federal Republic
  • Period: to

    Mexican American War

    this war ends with Mexico being forced to sell its northern provinces to the U.S
  • Period: to

    "La reforma"

    This period was characterized by liberal reforms, limiting the power of the catolic church
  • Period: to

    The new emperor

    Archduke Maximillian of Austria is installed as an emperor by frence, but is toppled and executed.
  • Period: to

    Porfiriato

    Porfirio Diaz 's long dictatorship brings stability at the price of political represion
  • Period: to

    Mexican Revolution

    Mexican Revolution ends the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship