Sonsonate

City · 1553 CE · in North America

Capital of United Provinces of Central America (1834–1834).

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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.
• Spanish treasure fleet (1566–1790 CE): Convoys of the Flota de Indias sailed from Seville (later Cádiz) to Veracruz, Cartagena and Portobelo, gathered at Havana, and returned via the Florida Straits and the Azores laden with American silver and gold.

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