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La Venta (Olmec)
c. 1000-600 BC

Izapa
300 BC-100 AD

Teotihuacán
150-750 AD

Monte Albán
200-750 AD

Palenque (Maya)
650-800 AD

El Tajín
600- 1100 AD

Chichén Itzá
800- 1200 AD

Tenochtitlán (Aztec)
1325- 1521 AD

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Viceregal
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The Encounter:
Arrival of Cortés
1519
The Conquest
1521
First three Franciscan
friars come to New Spain
1523
Twelve Franciscan
missionaries join them
1524
Founding of jesuit Order
by St. Ignatius Loyola
1534
Manila - Acapulco trade
route established
1565
Jesuits arrive
in Mexico
1572
Jesuits expelled from
Spain and New Spain
1767
Founding of Academy
of San Carlos
1780
Viceregal
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19th Century
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Struggle for independence begins 1810
Independence won 1821
Mexico becomes a republic
1824
War with United States
1846-48
Liberal government under Juarez
begins reform period
1855
French occupy Mexico City 1863
Maximilian of Austria
Emperor of Mexico
1864-67
Maximilian is executed and
Jurez regains power
1867
Porfirio Diaz rules
as dictator
1876-80 &
1884-1911
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20th Century
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Mexican Revolution
overthrows Diaz
1910-11
Revolutionary Constitution adopted 1917
Revolutionary social and economic
reforms, including land distribution
1920-30
Orozoco comes to US to exhibit work
and paint murals
1927-31
Siqueriros opens experimental workshop
in New York, visited by Jackson Pollock
1935
WPA mural project begun by Roosevelt,
inspired by Mexican muralist movement
1935
"Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art"
exhibited at Museum of Modern Art,
New York City
1940
"Mexico: Splendors of 30 Centuries"
exhibited in NYC, San Antonio, L.A.
1990-91
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