La Paz

City · 1535 CE · in Oceania

Capital of Republic of Baja California (1853–1854).

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• Lima (1535 CE): Founded by Francisco Pizarro as the "City of Kings" in 1535, Lima became the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru and of independent Peru.
• Quito (1534 CE): Capital of Republic of Ecuador (1840–today).
• Thanjavur (c. 1534 CE): Capital of Nayaks of Thanjavur (1534–1673), Thanjavur Maratha Kingdom (1677–1799).
• Buenos Aires (1536 CE): First founded by Pedro de Mendoza in 1536 and refounded in 1580 by Juan de Garay; capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and of Argentina.
• Asunción (1537 CE): Capital of Paraguay (1811–today).
• Bogotá (1538 CE): Capital of Gran Colombia (1822–1831), Republic of New Granada (1834–1858), Granadine Confederation (1859–1862), and 2 more.
• Sucre (1538 CE): Capital of Bolivia (1825–today).
• Tunja (1539 CE): Capital of Granadine Confederation (1859–1862).
• Serang (c. 1529 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Banten (1529–1808).
• Lahore (c. 1529 CE): Capital of Mughal Empire (1529–1857), Sikh Empire (1799–1848).

Around the same time and place

• Tenochtitlan (1325–1521 CE): Mexica (Aztec) capital founded on an island in Lake Texcoco; with causeways, canals and chinampa gardens it became one of the largest cities in the world.
• Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521 CE): After a months-long siege weakened by smallpox, Spanish and indigenous forces took Tenochtitlan in August 1521, ending the Aztec Empire.
• Moctezuma II (c. 1466 CE – 1520 CE): Ninth tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, ruling the Aztec Empire at its height when Hernán Cortés arrived; he died in Spanish captivity in 1520.
• Hernán Cortés (1485 CE – 1547 CE): Spanish conquistador whose expedition brought down the Aztec Empire, beginning the Spanish colonization of mainland Mexico.
• Cortés’s conquest of the Mexica (1519–1521 CE): Cortés landed in 1519, won the Totonacs and Tlaxcalans as allies and took Moctezuma II prisoner in Tenochtitlan. Driven out in 1520, he returned with tens of thousands of allies and, after a siege worsened by smallpox, took the city in August 1521.
• Manila galleon (eastern Pacific) (1565–1815 CE): The American end of the Manila galleon route: eastbound galleons made landfall off California and coasted south to Acapulco, from where westbound galleons sailed with the trade winds towards Guam and Manila.
• Coatlicue statue (c. 1500 CE): A massive Aztec stone statue of the earth goddess Coatlicue, with a skirt of serpents and a necklace of hands and hearts, carved in Tenochtitlan. Unearthed in Mexico City’s main square in 1790, it is in the National Museum of Anthropology.
• Mexico City (1521 CE): Capital of First Mexican Empire (1822–1823), Federated Republic of Mexico (1824–1835), Centralist Mexico (1836–1846), and 1 more.

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