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Mexico Timeline

 
3500 B.C. - 300 A.D.

The Pre Classical Period
Map of the Preclassic Era
2500 B.C. to 250 A.D.


The Olmeca Culture
300 - 900 A.D. The Classical Period
Map of the Classic Era
250 B.C. - 900 A.D.


Teotihuacan

Monte Albán and the Zapoteca Culture

The Maya Culture

MAYA INDEX


900-1521 The Post Classical Period
Map of the Postclassic Era
900 A.D. - 1521 A.D.


The Pre-Hispanic Era in Oaxaca

The Tolteca and Chichimeca Cultures

The Quetzalcoatl Trinity

Tarasco Culture & Empire (1100 - 1522)

The Aztecs and the Founding of Tenochtitlan (1325 - 1521)

Are You Related to the Aztecs? An Analysis of The Uto-Aztecan Family

Texcoco - Nezahualcoyotl: The Philospher King (1403-1473)

Star Snake (Citlalcoatl - Aztec)

Moctezuma I (The Other Moctezuma)

Jeronimo de Aguilar

Hernan Cortés

Cortés lands in America and founds Veracruz (1519)

Chauhtemoc: Winner in Defeat

1521 - 1810 The Spanish Conquest The Colonial Period

Slavery a la Mexicana

Afro-Mexicans: Bartolome de las Casas: Father of Liberation Theology

The Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe (1531)

Founding of The University of Mexico, Mexico City. The first University on the North or South American Continents. (1551)

The First Viceroy of Mexico (1530 - 1550):
Antonio de Mendoza

The Casa de Moneda is founded (1535) and the first printing press on the Continent (1549)

Nuño Beltran de Guzmán

"Bloody Guzman" & the Founding of Guadalajara

Vasco de Quiroga: Practical Utopia (1537 - 1565)

The Jesuit Father Kino (1644-1711)

Innauguration of the first Cathedral in Mexico (1656)

Juana Inés de la Cruz (Sor Juana) 1651-1695

Miguel Hidalgo 1753 - 1811

José Morelos y Pavón 1765 - 1815

Expulsion of the Jesuits (1767)

Nicolas Bravo 1786 - 1854

Churches are constructed in the Churriguerresque, Baroque, Plateresque and other styles

Ignacio de Allende 1779 - 1811

Antonio López de Santa Anna 1794 - 1876

1810 - 1910 Mexico's Independence from Spain (1810-1821)

The Colonial Government - Successful Failure

The Cry of Independence: September 15, 1810

"El Grito" - September 15 or September 16?

Miguel Hidalgo

Los Niños Heroes: Reality or Myth?

Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez (1768-1829)

Javier Mina

Lucas Alamán (1792-1853)

Melchor Ocampo (1814-1861)

Emperor Augustín Iturbide 1822 - 1823
Agustín Itúrbide, Unappreciated Unknown

Guadalupe Victoria -
The First President - 1824-1828


Vincente Guerrero -
President - 1829


Antonio López de Santa Anna

Santos Degollado

Loss of Texas and portion of California (1848)

Liberal Reform (1858 - 1861)

Maximilian's Empire (1864 - 1867)

The Republic

The Porfiriato (1877 - 1910)

1910-1989 Chinese Immigration in Mexico

1910 - Founding of the Cruz Roja - Mexico's Red Cross

The Mexican Revolution The Revolution 1910 - 1920: The Revolution 1920 - 1940:
Plutarco Elias Calles
President 1924 - 1928


Cristero Wars (1927 - 1929)

Institutional Single Party system (1926 - 1993)

Lazaro Cardenas

Diego Rivera

José Clemente Orozco

Porfirian style social peace (1926 - 1993)

Octavio Paz

Agustin Yañez

Adolfo López Mateos
President 1958 - 1964


Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
President 1964 - 1970


Carlos Salinas de Gortari
President 1988 - 1994



TLATELOLCO - Then & Now
October 2 1968

The Oiling of a Crisis 1938 - 1988
The 1990s The Zapatista Movement

North American Free Trade Agreement is signed between USA, Canada and Mexico (1992), takes effect in 1994

Drugs, Revolution and the Militarization of Mexico (1994 - )

NAFTA 1999 - Five years After.


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