Tegucigalpa

City · 1578 CE · in North America

Capital of Honduras (1840–today).

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• Valletta (1566 CE): Capital of Malta (1967–today).
• Aurangabad (1592 CE): Capital of Hyderabad State (1727–1763).
• Vientiane (1560 CE): Capital of Lan Xang (1560–1707), Kingdom of Laos (1956–1975), Communist Laos (1976–today).

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.
• Hernán Cortés (1485 CE – 1547 CE): Spanish conquistador whose expedition brought down the Aztec Empire, beginning the Spanish colonization of mainland Mexico.
• 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.
• 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.
• Our Lady of Guadalupe (1531 CE): Catholic tradition holds that the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego at Tepeyac in 1531; the image became a central symbol of Mexican Catholicism and identity.
• Viceroyalty of New Spain established (1535 CE): Spain established the Viceroyalty of New Spain, governed from Mexico City, to rule Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands and later the Philippines.
• Popol Vuh (c. 1554 CE): Kiche Maya text recording the creation myth and the story of the Hero Twins, written in the Latin alphabet in the 16th century and preserved in Francisco Ximénez's copy.

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