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1519 |
Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) founds Veracruz |
1520 |
Montezuma II is killed |
1528 |
Juan de Zumarraga (1468-1548) arrives as bishop of Mexico City and begins native conversion to Catholicism |
1718 |
Franciscan missionaries settle in Texas which is of New Spain |
1803 |
Napoleon took Louisiana back from New Spain but sold it to the United States |
1810 |
Overthrow of the king of Spain by Napoleon |
1811 |
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is captured and executed |
1821 |
Spain recognizes Mexican independence with the Treaty of Cordoba |
1822 |
General Augustin de Iturbide assumes control as Emperor of Mexico |
1823 |
General Santa Anna deposes Iturbide, the monarchy fails, and a new constitution creates a federal republic |
1829 |
President Vicente Guerrero abolishes slavery |
1829 |
A Spanish attempt at re-conquest is halted by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876) |
1836 |
February 23 to March 6 - A band of 189 Texas volunteers defied a Mexican army of thousands for 13 days of siege at the Alamo |
1846 |
1846-1848 US-Mexican War |
1848 |
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo reduces Mexico's territory by half, ceding present-day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, and part of Colorado to the U.S. |
1853 |
Santa Anna agrees to the Gadsden Purchase, ceding a further 48,000 square km (30,000 square mi) to the United States |
1863 |
The French occupy Mexico City and Napoleon III of France appoints Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria (1832-1867) as Emperor of Mexico |
1864 |
Maximilian is executed |
1910 |
1910-1920 Mexican Revolution where the figures of Madero, Huerta, Carranza, Villa and Zapata arise |
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