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Last reviewed: 10 September 2009 |
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HISTORY
300–900 The Classical Period; Construction of Teotihuacan complex; Monte Albán and the Zapoteca Culture; The Maya Culture
900–1521 The Post Classical Period; Pre-Hispanic Era in Oaxaca; The Tolteca and Chichimeca Cultures
1325–1521 The Aztecs and the Founding of Tenochtitlan
1519 Founding of Veracruz by Hernan Cortés
1521–1810 The Spanish Conquest; The Colonial Period
1531 The Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Madonna with Indian features who miraculously appeared to an Indian, St Juan Diego near Mexico City)
1551 Founding of the University of Mexico, Mexico City. The first University on the North or South American Continents
1656 Inauguration of the first Cathedral in Mexico
1810–1821 Mexico's Independence struggle from Spain
1848 Loss of Texas and part of California to the USA
1864–1867 Maximilian of Austria's Empire
1910 The Mexican Revolution
1911–1919 The Zapatista Movement and Civil War
1917 Mexican Constitution drawn up
1929 Beginning of effective one-party (PRI) rule
1968 Student protests broken up by army and paramilitary forces prior to Mexico City Olympic Games – scores of students killed.
1982 Debt crisis breaks. President Lopez Portillo nationalises private banks
1985 Major earthquake hits Mexico City killing thousands
1994 North American Free Trade Agreement comes into force
2000 Presidential Elections bring an end to 71 years of PRI rule President Fox (Partido Acción Nacional) took office on 1 December
2002 1 January, Mexico takes its seat on the UN Security Council for the years 2002/2003
2006 Presidential and Congressional elections took place on 2 July. On 5 September, the Federal Electoral Court declared Felipe Calderón (PAN) the winner of the election and President-elect. 1 December 2006: Calderón inaugurated as President.
2009 1 January, Mexico takes its seat on the UN Security Council for the years 2009/10.
2009 Parliamentary electiions put the PRI party back in control of Congress.
