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Aztecs arrive at Lake
Texcoco and start to
build the city of
Tenochtitlan on the
site. -
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Hernán Cortés
arrives in the Aztec
Empire and enters
Tenochtitlan.
The Spanish are
driven out of the city
by the Aztecs. -
Francisco Pizarro
captures the Inca ruler
Atahualpa at the Battle
of Cajamarca. Cuzco
falls to the Spanish the
following year. -
Triple alliance formed between the cities of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan. This cements the power of the Aztec Empire.
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The disease smallpox
sweeps through the
region that is today
Mexico, killing 25% of
the Aztec population.
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