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3500 B.C. – 300 A.D. | The Pre Classical Period | 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 PeriodMap of the Classic Era | 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 PeriodMap of the Postclassic Era The Pre-Hispanic Era in Oaxaca The Tolteca and Chichimeca Cultures 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) Cortés lands in America and founds Veracruz (1519) | 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 ConquestMoctezuma II 1480? – 1520 The Colonial PeriodThe Settlement of New Spain Afro-Mexicans:Black Immigration & the Costa Chica 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): The Casa de Moneda is founded (1535) and the first printing press on the Continent (1549) “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 José Morelos y Pavón 1765 – 1815 Expulsion of the Jesuits (1767) Churches are constructed in the Churriguerresque, Baroque, Plateresque and other styles | 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? Los Niños Heroes: Reality or Myth? Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez (1768-1829) Emperor Augustín Iturbide 1822 – 1823 Guadalupe Victoria – Vincente Guerrero – 1833 Cholera epidemic in Guadalajara The Pastry War. France – Mexico, 1838 U.S. Invasion – The Mexican-American War (1846 – 1848) Liberal Reform (1858 – 1861) Cinco de Mayo – The Battle of Puebla (May 5, 1862) | 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 RevolutionMexican Revolution (1910) – A SummaryThe Revolution 1910 – 1920:Venustiano Carranza The Zapatista Movement (1911 – 1919) A Nation in Flux Part 1 Cristero Wars (1927 – 1929) Porfirian style social peace (1926 – 1993) Adolfo López Mateos Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Carlos Salinas de Gortari TLATELOLCO – Then & Now | 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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This table was translated, adapted and reprinted with permission, from “Historia
Sinóptica de México” by Luis Pazos, book published by Editorial Diana.
