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The Aztecs arrive in Mexicos central valley after a long migration from their northern homeland. Following the prophecy of one of their gods, Huitzilopochtli, found a settlement on the marshy land near Lake Texcoco. By the early 15th century, the Aztecs and their first emperor, Itzcoatl, and would form a three-way alliance with the city-states of Texcoco and Tlatelóco and establish joint control over the region.

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Francisco Hernández de Córdoba was the first European to visit Mexican territory. Members of the local native population clash with the Spanish explorers, killing some 50 of them and capturing several more. Like most of the first European visitors to the New World, Cortés was driven by the desire to find a route to Asia and its immense riches in spices and other resources.

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The capital of Mexico is Mexico City and it is located in the Valley of Mexico. It had to be rebuilt after the Aztec population was devastated during the Siege of Tenochtitlan in 1521 by the Spanish during their quest to conquer Mexico.It was chosen to be the capital because that's where the Aztec Empire built their capital city was called Tenochtitlan.

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Mexico was founded on september 6 1810. the first to discover mexico was Hernan Cortes. The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.

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The date marks the moment when Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest known as Father Hidalgo, made the first cry for independence.  After a moving speech in the Mexican town of Dolores, Hidalgo took up the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a Roman Catholic image of the Virgin Mary as she appears to Juan Diego, an indigenous Mexican believer who was later sainted by the church.

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Cinco de mayo is a holiday celebrated in parts of Mexico and the United States in honour of a military victory in 1862 over the French forces of Napoleon III. This holiday is also called the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla. The Battle of Puebla was when  6,000 French troops under General Charles Latrille de Lorencez set out to attack Puebla de Los Angeles, a small town in east-central Mexico.

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The Mexican Revolution begins when Madero issues the Plan of San Luis Potosí, promising democracy, federalism, agrarian reform and worker’s rights and declaring war on the Díaz regime. By 1911, Díaz is forced to step aside and Madero is elected president, but conflict and violence continue for the better part of the next decade.

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Mexico remains neutral throughout World War I, despite efforts by Germany to enlist the country as an ally. Despite the warring factions in Mexico, Carranza is able to oversee the creation of a new liberal Mexican constitution in 1917. In his efforts to maintain power, however, Carranza grows increasingly reactionary, ordering the ambush and murder of Zapata in 1919.

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As a symbol of its growing international status, Mexico City is chosen to host the Olympic Games. On October 2, ten days before the Games were to open, Mexican security forces and military troops surround a demonstration at the historic Tlatelolco Plaza and open fire. Though the resulting death and injury toll is concealed by the Mexican government at least 100 people were killed and many others wounded.

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By the mid-1980s, Mexico is in financial crisis. On September 19, 1985, an earthquake in Mexico City kills nearly 10,000 people and causes heavy damage. The displaced residents, dissatisfied with the government’s response to their situation, form grassroots organizations that will blossom into a full-fledged human rights and civic action movement.The country’s problems are exacerbated by continuing accusations of electoral fraud against the PRI and the devastation caused in the Yucatán by a massive hurricane in 1988.