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Year
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Mexico
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Americas
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Europe
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Asia
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1517
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Cordoba expedition
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Martin Luther nails his 95
Theses
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1518
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Juan de Grijalva expedition
Cortes leaves Cuba for Mexico
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1521
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1521, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was
conquered
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1522
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Cortes was appointed governor and captain general
of New
Spain
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1524
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Council
of the Indies created
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1527
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Audiencia est in New Spain
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1531
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vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe
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1533
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Mexico
City University founded
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1536
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first coins minted in New Spain
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1537
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the New Laws outlaw indian slavery
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1540
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Coronado searches for Cibola
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1541
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Mixton War of 1540 -41
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1546
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Chichimeca War
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1547
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Mayan War against Spanish for 20 years
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1560
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ships travel in annual convoys for
protection
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1563
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cathedral in Mexico City started
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1564
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Trade with China Established
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1571
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Spanish Inquisition in Mexico till 1820
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Battle of Lepanto
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1588
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defeat of Spanish Armada
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1610
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Santa Fe colony founded
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1619
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Jamestown, Virgina founded
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1624
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Virginia becomes a crown colony
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1642
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English Civil War
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1644
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Qing dynasty begins
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1692
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Salem witch trials
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1695
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Sor Juana de la Cruz dies
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Peter the Great in Europe
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1697
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last
Msyan kingdom of Canek capitulates
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1700
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Bourbon
Reforms start under Philip
V of Spain
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Treaty of Utrecht ends War of the Spanish Succession
Britain granted asiento to
supply slaves to the Spanish America
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1713
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1750s
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paintings of Miguel Cabrera
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French and Indian War till 1763
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1762
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Rousseau publishes Social Contract
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1764
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Jose de Galvez in New Spain
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Stamp Act
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1767
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Jesuits expelled
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Cook in Pacific
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1769
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Missions est in California
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1773
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Boston Tea Party
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1775
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American Revolution starts
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1785
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Castillo de Chapultepec built
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1787
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US Constitution signed
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1789
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Washington first president
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French Revolution begins
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English Convicts sent to Australia
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1803
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Louisiana Purchase
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1804
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Silver production rises to 27 million Pesos
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor
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1808
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Napoleon invades Spain
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1810
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's 1810 Grito de Dolores
(call for independence)
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Argentina independent
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1811
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Miguel Hidalgo executed by firing squad on July 31, 1811
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Paraguay, Venezuela independent
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War between the US and Britain
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1813
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Jose Marcia Morelos issues a Declaration of
Independence, Constitution
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1814
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Napoleon exiled to Elba
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1815
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Morelos executed
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Battle of New Orleans
Waterloo
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1820
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coup in Spain, Colonel Iturbide joins the rebels
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1821
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Mexican Independence from Spain, September 27, 1821 , Iturbide
marched into the capital with Vicente
Guerrero and Guadalupe Victoria and the army
Iturbide declares himself emperor of Mexico
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Peru independent
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1823
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E
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Santa Anna Plan de Casa Mata to oust the emperor
Iturbide goes into exile
Central America leaves Mexico
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Monore Doctrine issued
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1824
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Iturbide returns to Mexico and is executed
1st pres of Mexico President Guadalupe Victoria
1824 -29
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1829
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President
Vicente Guerrero
Spanish
invasion of Mexico
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1830
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President
Bustamante 1830 - 32
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1833
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Santa Anna pres
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Carlist Wars in Spain
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1835
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Revolt
of Texas
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1836
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1838
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Pastry War, French blockade
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Opium War
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1840
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Yucatan Congress approved a
declaration of independence, rejoins Mexico in 1843
Mexican states of
Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas declare federal republic with
Laredo as the capital |
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1842
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Hong Kong given to UK
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1845
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Santa Anna exiled to Cuba, Texas joins the Union
Mariano Paredes y
Arrillaga overthrows Herrera |
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1846
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Mayan Caste War, Santa Anna returns to Mexico
May 13, 1846,
Congress declared war on Mexico
May 8,
1846,Battle of Palo Alto
September 21–23, 1846Battle of Monterrey
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1847
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Feb 23 Battle of Buena Vista
Sept 12 Battle of Chapultepec
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1848
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Feb 2 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Revolutions throughout Europe
Gold discovered in California
Communist Manifesto
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1852
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Santa Anna returned to power in
a coup |
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1853
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Gadsen Purchase |
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Taiping Rebellion Starts
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1854
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Plan of Ayutla to
remove Santa Anna |
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Crimean War
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1855
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Santa Anna defeated and exiled, Juan Alvarez president
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1857
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W
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Constitution of 1857, modeled after the one of 1824,
president can only serve one term, reforms conataining power of church
and military
War of the Reform starts
army declares
Zuloaga the new president |
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1861
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Liberals under Juarez win the War of the Reform,
Juarez first Indian president
Spain, England
and France agreed to the Convention of London |
American Civil War Starts
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1862
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Spain, England and France land
troops, blockade demanding repayments of debt. England and Spain
depart, French troops stay. Napoleon III wants empire
French
defeated at Puebla
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1863
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F
r
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n
c
h
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French install Maximilian as emperor
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Gettysburg
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1867
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French withdraw from Mexico, Maximilian executed,
Constitutional Republic restored
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Cuban rebellion against Spain
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Meiji era starts in Japan , great industrialization
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1871
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Juarez
Runs for a Fourth Term despite no re election article of the Constitution of 1857, Diaz
launches 'no re-election' revolt
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Franco-Prussian War
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1872
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Mexico City - Veracruz railway
finished
Juarez
dies in office, Lerdo
becomes president
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1875
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Senate was added to the
legislature |
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1876
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P
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r
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t
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Lerdo
runs for and wins presidency again, Diaz revolts again, defeats a federal army in
Tlaxcala, Diaz rules in an era known as the Porfiriato
1876
- 1911
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1880
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Manuel
Gonzalez president
Banco Nacional de México was founded |
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1884
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Diaz wins pres again, has the constitution amended,
first to allow two terms in office, and then to remove all restrictions
on re-election
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1900
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growing opposition to Diaz's rule
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Boxer rebellion
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1890
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Mexican treasury has a surplus |
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1898
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Spanish-American
War
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Boer War
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1908
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Diaz announces he will not seek re-election, but
does anyway
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Ford begins assemble line production
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1910
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Francisco Madero runs against
Diaz, who had Madero jailed . Diaz becomes pres over with fraud, public
anger
Madero
issuses call for Revolution on November 20
Beginning
of the Mexican Revolution
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Japan annexes Korea
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1911
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M
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R
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Ciudad Juarez surrenders to the rebels Orozco and Villa
Diaz resigns
Modero wins election
Orozco rebels against Modero
Felix
Diaz rebels in Veracruz
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Qing Dynasty overthrown
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1913
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Coup starts against Modero on Feb 9
Decena
Tragica in
Mexico City
Gen Huerta changes sides
Modero arrested and murdered
Huerta becomes president
Coahuila Governer
Carranza does not recognize Huerta
Huerta
greatly enlarges army
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1914
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Americans occupy Veracruz, hundreds killed by naval fire, widespread
anger at the US
Huerta resigns
Carranza holds
convention at Aguascalientes
Eulalio
Gutierrez as provisional president
Divid by
land reformers Zapatista and Villa and Constitutionalists Carranza and
Obregon
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WWI starts
First Battle of the Marne
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1915
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Obregon takes Mexico City as
Gutierrez flees
Battle
of Celaya Obregon defeats Villa
US
recognizes Carranza
Villa,
angry at not getting US recognition , kills 15 Americans in Mexico and
attacksColumbus, New Mexico
Pershing ordered
into Mexico to catch Villa, leaves in 1917 emptyhanded |
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1917
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Zimmermann Telegram
Constitution of 1917, church power limited,
foreigners not allowed to own land
Carranza
elected president
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Russian Revolution
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1919
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Zapata assassinated by federal
army
Alvaro
Obregon, Plutarco Callas and Adolfo de la Huerta rise in revolt
Carranza
assassinated by own guard while fleeing
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1920
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Obregon becomes
president |
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1921
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Mexico
is the world's 3rd largest oil producer
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1923
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Villa assassinated
America
recognizes Mexico
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Facism Starts in Italy
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1924
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Obregon supports the CRON union
Adolfo de la Huerta leads short lived revolt
Radical reformer Plutarco Callas becomes
president
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1926
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C
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W
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Cristeros War begins, gov
fights church ends 1934 |
Lindbergh flies across Atlantic
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1928
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Obregon assassinated, Callas
rules till 1934 through puppets Callas creates national party PNR,
later known as PRI, which holds power till the 2000 |
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1934
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Cardenas president
Cardenas
starts major land redistribution
Callas
forced into exile
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Hitler becomes Fuher
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Mao's Long March
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1936
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Cardenas nationalizes foreign
oil companies PeMex founded |
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Spanish Civil War
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1939
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WWII starts
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1940
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Comacho becomes president |
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1942
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Mexico declares war on Axis after tankers sunk by
u-boats, Mexican Air force fights in Pacific
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Revolution in Argentina
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1946-50
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Aleman president, major dams built, University City
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Korean War
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1954
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Women allowed to vote
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Dien Bien Phu falls
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1959
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Castro takes over Cuba
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1968
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Tlatelolco massacre
Mexico
City Olympics
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China Cultural Revolution
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1970-76
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Echeverría
president
nationalization
of banks, population control urged
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Coup in Chile
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1976-82
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Oil boom years
Oil prices sink, economic crisis
foreign debt crisis
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1985
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Mexico City earthquake
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1988-94
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Salinas president
free market and private enterprise
policies
Zapatista
uprising
Drug
trafficing grows
Peso
overvalued
NAFTA
signed
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1994 - 2000
|
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Zedillo president
the Peso suddenly
collapsed , known as the December Mistake, and led to an economic
recesssion |
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2000-2006
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Vicente
Fox first non PRI president
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