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3500 B.C. 300 A.D.
MEXICO
The Pre Classical Period
Map of the Preclassic Era
2500 B.C. to 250 A.D.
The Olmeca Culture
EUROPE
USA & THE WORLD
The Classic Greek Culture (1200 B.C. to 323
B.C. the year in which Alexander the Great
dies)
Egyptian Pyramids (2613 - 2494 B.C.)
Mesopotamia: Hammurabi's Code
(1700B.C)
The Roman Empire is founded (753 B.C.)
The Birth of Buddha (563 B.C.)
The Roman Republic and Empire
The Great Wall of China (221 B.C.)
The Birth of Christ
300 - 900
A.D.
The Classical Period
Map of the Classic Era
250 B.C. - 900 A.D.
Teotihuacan
Attila the Hun invades various regions in
Europe (375 - 425)
Justinian builds Santa Sofia in
Cosntantinople (532 - 237)
Monte Albán and the Zapoteca Culture
The Fall of the Roman Empire (476)
The Chinese invent Porcelain (650
approx.)
The Maya Culture
The beginning of the Middle Ages and
Feudalism (476 - 1453)
MAYA INDEX
The Arabs defeat the Visigoths in Spain
(711)
Mahommed marches from Mecca to
Medina (622), beginning of the Muslim
era
Charles the Great is crowned Emperor (800)
900-1521
The Post Classical Period
Map of the Postclassic Era
900 A.D. - 1521 A.D.
The first Crusade (1096)
The Pre-Hispanic Era in Oaxaca
The Tolteca and Chichimeca Cultures
The University of Cambridge is founded
(1209)
The Quetzalcoatl Trinity
Magna Carta (1215)
Tarasco Culture & Empire (1100 - 1522)
The height of the Rennaisance (1500)
The Aztecs and the Founding of Tenochtitlan (1325 - 1521)
Leonardo Da Vinci's "La Gioconda" (1503 05)
The Bizantine church breaks with
Rome (1054)
The Inca Empire (1100)
Marco Polo travels to China (1271 1295)
Constantinople falls to the Turks
Are You Related to the Aztecs? An Analysis of The UtoAztecan Family
Texcoco - Nezahualcoyotl: The Philospher King (14031473)
Columbus arrives in what is later called
the Americas (1492)
Charles I of Spain is elected emperor of the
Holy Roman and Germanic Empires as
Charles V (1519)
Star Snake (Citlalcoatl - Aztec)
Moctezuma I (The Other Moctezuma)
Jeronimo de Aguilar
Hernan Cortés
Cortés lands in America and founds Veracruz (1519)
Chauhtemoc: Winner in Defeat
1521 - 1810
The Spanish Conquest
Moctezuma II 1480? - 1520
Cortés and the Conquest (1519 - 1521)
The Protestant Reform (1521)
Michael Angelo paints the Last Supper in the
Sir Walter Raleigh founds the first
English Colony in North America
(North Carolina) (1587)
The Aztecs Speak - An Aztec account of the Conquest of
Mexico
In Search of Malinche - the Mexican Mata Hari
"La Malinche"
La Malinche - Unrecognized Heroine
Sisteen Chapel (1536 - 1541)
The Colonial Period
The Settlement of New Spain
Religion & Society in New Spain
The Economy of New Spain
The first Encyclopedia is published (Voltaire,
Rousseau, Diderot, d'Alembert) (1751)
Slavery a la Mexicana
Afro-Mexicans:
Black Immigration & the Costa Chica
African Roots Stretch Deep into Mexico
Napoleon overthrows the King of Spain
Fernando VII and places his brother Joseph
on the throne (1808)
Bartolome de las Casas: Father of Liberation Theology
Copernicus publishes his theory that the Sun
is the center of the Universe, and that the
Earth revolves around it (1543)
The Taj Mahal is built in India (1631 1653)
The French founded New Orleans in
Louisiana (1718)
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning
Rod (1752)
The French Revolution
The Industrial Revolution in England (1760 1851)
The North American colonists protest
high taxes, The Boston Tea Party
(1773)
The 13 English colonies declare their
independence (4th of July 1776)
USA buys Louisiana from the French The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
The Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe (1531)
Founding of The University of Mexico, Mexico City. The
first University on the North or South American Continents.
(1551)
The First Viceroy of Mexico (1530 - 1550):
Antonio de Mendoza
The Casa de Moneda is founded (1535) and the first printing
press on the Continent (1549)
Nuño Beltran de Guzmán
"Bloody Guzman" & the Founding of Guadalajara
Vasco de Quiroga: Practical Utopia (1537 - 1565)
The Jesuit Father Kino (1644-1711)
Innauguration of the first Cathedral in Mexico (1656)
Juana Inés de la Cruz (Sor Juana) 1651-1695
Miguel Hidalgo 1753 - 1811
José Morelos y Pavón 1765 - 1815
Expulsion of the Jesuits (1767)
Nicolas Bravo 1786 - 1854
Churches are constructed in the Churriguerresque, Baroque,
Plateresque and other styles
Ignacio de Allende 1779 - 1811
Antonio López de Santa Anna 1794 - 1876
1810 - 1910
Mexico's Independence from Spain (1810-1821)
Independence of:
The Colonial Government - Successful Failure
The Holy Alliance is created to defend
Absolutism (Austria, Russina and Prussia)
(1815)
The Cry of Independence: September 15, 1810
England's Victorian Period (1837 - 1901)
Venezuela (1811),
"El Grito" - September 15 or September 16?
The Suez Canal is opened (1869)
Argentina (1816),
Miguel Hidalgo
The Curies discover radiation (1898)
Chile (1818),
Colombia (1810),
The Battle of Calderón, 1811
Peru (1821),
Los Niños Heroes: Reality or Myth?
Brazil (1822)
Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez (1768-1829)
and Uruguay (1825)
Javier Mina
American Civil War (1861 - 1865)
Lucas Alamán (1792-1853)
Melchor Ocampo (1814-1861)
USA purchases Alaska from Russia for
$7 million dollars (1867)
Emperor Augustín Iturbide 1822 - 1823
Agustín Itúrbide, Unappreciated Unknown
Guadalupe Victoria The First President - 1824-1828
Vincente Guerrero President - 1829
Antonio López de Santa Anna
1833 Cholera epidemic in Guadalajara
The Pastry War. France - Mexico, 1838
Santos Degollado
Loss of Texas and portion of California (1848)
Liberal Reform (1858 - 1861)
Maximilian's Empire (1864 - 1867)
Maximilian & Carlota - the Emperor and Empress of Mexico
The Republic
The Porfiriato (1877 - 1910)
Porfirio Díaz - An Enigma
1910-1989
Chinese Immigration in Mexico
The Russian Revolution (1917)
1st World War (1914 - 1918)
1910 - Founding of the Cruz Roja - Mexico's Red Cross
The British Empire becomes a
Commonwealth (1926)
2nd World War (1939 - 1945)
The Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution (1910) - A Summary
The Revolution 1910 - 1920:
Venustiano Carranza
Mexico - Forgotten World War II Ally
Benito Mussolini establishes Fascism in Italy
(1922 - 1943)
The United Nations Organization is
formed (1945)
Hitler comes to power (1933)
Victoriano Huerta
Spanish Civil War (1936)
Mao Tse Tung takes power in China
(1949)
Francisco Madero
Alvaro Obregón
The European Free Trade Zone is established
between six countries (1957)
Korean War (1950 - 1953)
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Castro institutes a Communist
Dictatorship in Cuba (1959)
Aquiles Serdán
Americans land on the Moon (1969)
Emiliano Zapata
The Zapatista Movement (1911 - 1919)
A Nation in Flux Part 1
A Nation in Flux Part 2
The Revolution 1920 - 1940:
Consolidation Part 1
Consolidation Part 2
Consolidation Part 3
Plutarco Elias Calles
President 1924 - 1928
Cristero Wars (1927 - 1929)
Part 1:
Toward the Abyss
Part 2:
The Combat Phase
Part 3:
Behind the Scenes
Institutional Single Party system (1926 - 1993)
Lazaro Cardenas
Diego Rivera
José Clemente Orozco
Porfirian style social peace (1926 - 1993)
Octavio Paz
Agustin Yañez
Adolfo López Mateos
President 1958 - 1964
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
President 1964 - 1970
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
President 1988 - 1994
TLATELOLCO - Then & Now
- Index to Feature Section October 2 1968
The Oiling of a Crisis 1938 - 1988
The 1990s
The Zapatista Movement
The Maastricht Treaty unites Europe (1993)
North American Free Trade Agreement is signed between
USA, Canada and Mexico (1992), takes effect in 1994
The "Euro" becomes the common currency
of the EEC. (1999)
Drugs, Revolution and the Militarization of Mexico (1994 - )
NAFTA 1999 - Five years After.
To the History Index - To the People of History
The USSR and the Eastern Block
Countries abandon the Socialist system.