TimeLine of Mexican History
Pre-Columbian History TimeLine
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50,000 BC |
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First evidence of Humans in Mexico |
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40,000 BC |
Pre-agricultural era |
Last Ice Age |
Neanderthal man dies out |
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30,000 |
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8,000 BC |
Landbridge to Siberia goes underwater |
Agriculture beings in Middle East |
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7,500 BC |
Mural Art, Baja 7,000 Large animals vanish, less rainfall |
Walled city of Jericho |
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5,000 |
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5,000 -
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1,500 BC |
Archaic era |
evidence of agriculture at Tehuacan
Pottery appears
1300 Tlatilco figurines, Lake Texcoco |
5,000 Sea divides Britain from Europe 3100 1st Egyptian Dynasty 2700 Great Pyramid built 2,500 Indus civilization 2,500 Knossos founded 2,350 Sumerian empire founded 2200 Xia Dynasty China 1850 Stonehenge started 1760 Shang Dynasty China 1,750 Hammurabi 1304 Rameses the Great |
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1,500 |
Pre-Classic era |
Terracing and chinampas (floating gardens) |
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1400 |
earliest ballcourts found in Paso de la Amada |
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1200 |
Beginning of Olmec Culture |
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1300 |
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1300 Rameses the great |
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1200 |
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1232 Israelites in Canaan |
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1100 |
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1122 Zhou Dynasty China |
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1000 |
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1050 Dorians invade lower greece |
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900 |
900 San Lorenzo abanonded by Olmecs, La Venta becomes Olmec center Oldest Olmec writing found |
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800 |
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814 Carthage Founded |
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700 |
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500 Oldest Zapotec writing
Height of Olmec Culture
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776 1st Olympic Games 750s Height of Assyria 752 Rome founded |
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600 |
End of Assyrian Empire |
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500 |
563 Buddha born 551 Confucus born 559 Cyrus founds Persian Empire |
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400 |
480 Battle of Thermopylae 460 Age of Pericles |
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Decline of Olmecs |
323 Alexander dies at Babylon |
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Han Dynasty |
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100 |
Classic Era |
150 Cholula Pyramid started Height of Teotihuacan civilization 150 AD Pyramid of the Sun constructed
450
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26 BC
Roman Empire
476 AD |
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Mayan Classic Age
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500 |
rise of Xochicalco, El Tajin, Cholula |
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600 |
650 Teotihuacan sacked rise of Zapotecs in Oaxaca |
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632 Death of Muhammad |
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900 |
900 Toltec Empire dominates much of central Mexico 1100 |
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981 Vikings in Greenland |
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1000 |
Post Classic Era |
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1066 Hastings 1st Crusade |
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1100 |
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1200 |
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Inca Empire |
Mongol Empire |
1215 Magna Carta |
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1300 |
1325 Aztecs found Tenochtitlan |
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1428 Aztec Empire 1521 |
1453 Fall of Constantinople Columbus |
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1600 |
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After Arrival of Spanish TimeLine
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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 |
C o l o n i a l
M e x I c o
N u e v a
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Juan de Grijalva expedition Cortes leaves Cuba for Mexico |
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1521 |
1521, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was conquered |
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1522 |
Cortes was appointed governor and captain general of New Spain |
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1524 |
Council of the Indies created |
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1527 |
Audiencia est in New Spain |
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1531 |
vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe |
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1533 |
Mexico City University founded |
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1536 |
first coins minted in New Spain |
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1537 |
the New Laws outlaw indian slavery |
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1540 |
Coronado searches for Cibola |
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1541 |
Mixton War of 1540 -41 |
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1546 |
Chichimeca War |
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1547 |
Mayan War against Spanish for 20 years |
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1560 |
ships travel in annual convoys for protection |
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1563 |
cathedral in Mexico City started |
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1564 |
Trade with China Established |
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1571 |
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 |
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 |
Sor Juana de la Cruz dies |
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Peter the Great in Europe |
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1697 |
last Msyan kingdom of Canek capitulates |
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1700 |
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 |
paintings of Miguel Cabrera |
French and Indian War till 1763 |
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1762 |
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Rousseau publishes Social Contract |
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1764 |
Jose de Galvez in New Spain |
Stamp Act |
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1767 |
Jesuits expelled |
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Cook in Pacific |
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1769 |
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 |
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 |
French Revolution begins |
English Convicts sent to Australia |
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1803 |
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Louisiana Purchase |
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1804 |
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 |
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's 1810 Grito de Dolores (call for independence) |
Argentina independent |
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1811 |
Miguel Hidalgo executed by firing squad on July 31, 1811 |
Paraguay, Venezuela independent |
War between the US and Britain |
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1813 |
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 |
Morelos executed |
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Battle of New Orleans Waterloo |
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1820 |
coup in Spain, Colonel Iturbide joins the rebels |
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1821 |
e m p I r e |
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 |
Peru independent |
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1823 |
E a r l y
R e p u b l I c |
Santa Anna Plan de Casa Mata to oust the emperor
Iturbide goes into exile
Central America leaves Mexico |
Monore Doctrine issued |
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1824 |
Iturbide returns to Mexico and is executed
1st pres of Mexico President Guadalupe Victoria 1824 -29 |
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1829 |
President Vicente Guerrero Spanish invasion of Mexico |
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1830 |
President Bustamante 1830 - 32 |
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1833 |
Santa Anna pres |
Carlist Wars in Spain |
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1835 |
S a n t a
A n n a
M e x i c a n
A m
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Revolt of Texas |
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1836 |
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1838 |
Pastry War, French blockade |
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Opium War |
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1840 |
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 |
Santa Anna exiled to Cuba, Texas joins the Union Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga overthrows Herrera |
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1846 |
Mayan Caste War, Santa Anna returns to Mexico May 13, 1846, Congress declared war on MexicoMay 8, 1846,Battle of Palo Alto September 21–23, 1846Battle of Monterrey
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1847 |
Feb 23 Battle of Buena Vista Sept 12 Battle of Chapultepec |
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1848 |
Feb 2 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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Revolutions throughout Europe Gold discovered in California Communist Manifesto |
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1852 |
Santa Anna returned to power in a coup |
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1853 |
Gadsen Purchase |
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Taiping Rebellion Starts |
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1854 |
Plan of Ayutla to remove Santa Anna |
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Crimean War |
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1855 |
Santa Anna defeated and exiled, Juan Alvarez president |
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1857 |
W a r
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R e f |
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 |
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 |
F r e n c h |
French install Maximilian as emperor |
Gettysburg |
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1867 |
French withdraw from Mexico, Maximilian executed, Constitutional Republic restored |
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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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 |
P o r f i r i a |