Important event during the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, wherein Hernán Cortés, his invading army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital at Tenochtitlan. It began on 30 June 1520 in what is now Mexico and lasted until 1 July 1520. The setting was Lake Texcoco. It was part of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Before and after
- from 1520 to 1600Mannerism
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- 1520Stockholm Bloodbath
- 6 April 1520Death of Raphael
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- from 1521 to 1523Swedish War of Liberation
- from 1521 to 1526Italian War of 1521–1526
- 18 April 1521Martin Luther defies the Emperor at the Diet of Worms
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