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MEXICO / EUROPE / USA & THE WORLD3500 B.C. - 300 A.D. / The Pre Classical Period
Map of the Preclassic Era
2500 B.C. to 250 A.D.
The Olmeca Culture / The Classic Greek Culture (1200 B.C. to 323 B.C. the year in which Alexander the Great dies)
The Roman Empire is founded (753 B.C.)
The Roman Republic and Empire / Egyptian Pyramids (2613 - 2494 B.C.)
Mesopotamia: Hammurabi's Code (1700B.C)
The Birth of Buddha (563 B.C.)
The Great Wall of China (221 B.C.)
The Birth of Christ
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 / Attila the Hun invades various regions in Europe (375 - 425)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (476)
The beginning of the Middle Ages and Feudalism (476 - 1453)
The Arabs defeat the Visigoths in Spain (711)
Charles the Great is crowned Emperor (800) / Justinian builds Santa Sofia in Cosntantinople (532 - 237)
The Chinese invent Porcelain (650 approx.)
Mahommed marches from Mecca to Medina (622), beginning of the Muslim era
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 / The first Crusade (1096)
The University of Cambridge is founded (1209)
Magna Carta (1215)
The height of the Rennaisance (1500)
Leonardo Da Vinci's "La Gioconda" (1503 - 05)
Charles I of Spain is elected emperor of the Holy Roman and Germanic Empires as Charles V (1519) / The Bizantine church breaks with Rome (1054)
The Inca Empire (1100)
Marco Polo travels to China (1271 - 1295)
Constantinople falls to the Turks
Columbus arrives in what is later called the Americas (1492)
1521 - 1810 / The Spanish Conquest
Moctezuma II 1480? - 1520
Cortés and the Conquest (1519 - 1521)
The Aztecs Speak - An Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico
In Search of Malinche - the Mexican Mata Hari
"La Malinche"
La Malinche - Unrecognized Heroine
The Colonial Period
The Settlement of New Spain
Religion & Society in New Spain
The Economy of New Spain
Slavery a la Mexicana
Afro-Mexicans:
Black Immigration & the Costa Chica
African Roots Stretch Deep into Mexico
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 / The Protestant Reform (1521)
Michael Angelo paints the Last Supper in the Sisteen Chapel (1536 - 1541)
Copernicus publishes his theory that the Sun is the center of the Universe, and that the Earth revolves around it (1543)
The first Encyclopedia is published (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, d'Alembert) (1751)
The French Revolution
Napoleon overthrows the King of Spain Fernando VII and places his brother Joseph on the throne (1808)
The Industrial Revolution in England (1760 - 1851) / Sir Walter Raleigh founds the first English Colony in North America (North Carolina) (1587)
The Taj Mahal is built in India (1631 - 1653)
The French founded New Orleans in Louisiana (1718)
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning Rod (1752)
The North American colonists protest high taxes, The Boston Tea Party (1773)
The 13 English colonies declare their independence (4th of July 1776)
USA buys Louisiana from the French - The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
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
The Battle of Calderón, 1811
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
1833 Cholera epidemic in Guadalajara
The Pastry War. France - Mexico, 1838
Santos Degollado
Loss of Texas and portion of California (1848)
Liberal Reform (1858 - 1861)
Maximilian's Empire (1864 - 1867)
Maximilian & Carlota - the Emperor and Empress of Mexico
The Republic
The Porfiriato (1877 - 1910)
Porfirio Díaz - An Enigma / The Holy Alliance is created to defend Absolutism (Austria, Russina and Prussia) (1815)
England's Victorian Period (1837 - 1901)
The Suez Canal is opened (1869)
The Curies discover radiation (1898) / Independence of:
Colombia (1810),
Venezuela (1811),
Argentina (1816),
Chile (1818),
Peru (1821),
Brazil (1822)
and Uruguay (1825)
American Civil War (1861 - 1865)
USA purchases Alaska from Russia for $7 million dollars (1867)
1910-1989 / Chinese Immigration in Mexico
1910 - Founding of the Cruz Roja - Mexico's Red Cross
The Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution (1910) - A Summary
The Revolution 1910 - 1920:
Venustiano Carranza
Victoriano Huerta
Francisco Madero
Alvaro Obregón
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Aquiles Serdán
Emiliano Zapata
The Zapatista Movement (1911 - 1919)
A Nation in Flux Part 1
A Nation in Flux Part 2
The Revolution 1920 - 1940:
Consolidation Part 1
Consolidation Part 2
Consolidation Part 3
Plutarco Elias Calles
President 1924 - 1928
Cristero Wars (1927 - 1929)
Part 1:
Toward the Abyss
Part 2:
The Combat Phase
Part 3:
Behind the Scenes
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
- Index to Feature Section October 2 1968
The Oiling of a Crisis 1938 - 1988 / The Russian Revolution (1917)
The British Empire becomes a Commonwealth (1926)
Benito Mussolini establishes Fascism in Italy (1922 - 1943)
Hitler comes to power (1933)
Spanish Civil War (1936)
The European Free Trade Zone is established between six countries (1957) / 1st World War (1914 - 1918)
2nd World War (1939 - 1945)
Mexico - Forgotten World War II Ally
The United Nations Organization is formed (1945)
Mao Tse Tung takes power in China (1949)
Korean War (1950 - 1953)
Castro institutes a Communist Dictatorship in Cuba (1959)
Americans land on the Moon (1969)
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. / The Maastricht Treaty unites Europe (1993)
The "Euro" becomes the common currency of the EEC. (1999) / The USSR and the Eastern Block Countries abandon the Socialist system.
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