Mexico City

City · 1521 CE · in North America

Capital of First Mexican Empire (1822–1823), Federated Republic of Mexico (1824–1835), Centralist Mexico (1836–1846), and 1 more.

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• Cotabato City (c. 1521 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Maguindanao (1521–1852).
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• Panama City (1519 CE): Capital of Republic of Panama (1905–today).
• Golconda (c. 1519–1591 CE): Capital of Golconda Sultanate (1519–1591).
• Guatemala City (1524 CE): Capital of United Provinces of Central America (1824–1834), Guatemala (1840–today).
• Quetzaltenango (1524 CE): Capital of Los Altos (1840–1840).
• San Salvador (1525 CE): Capital of United Provinces of Central America (1834–1838), Republic of El Salvador (1841–today).
• Banjarmasin (1526 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Banjar (1526–1859).
• Jakarta (1527 CE): Capital of Republic of Indonesia (1946–today).
• Serang (c. 1529 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Banten (1529–1808).

Around the same time and place

• Maya civilization (c. 2,000 BCE – c. 1697 CE): Civilization of southern Mexico and Central America known for its writing system, calendar, astronomy and monumental cities; Maya peoples still live in the region.
• 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.
• Bartolomé de las Casas (c. 1484 CE – 1566 CE): Dominican friar and bishop of Chiapas who denounced Spanish abuses against indigenous peoples in his Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.

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