Historical Atlas of North America (13 August 1521)

Political map of North America & the Caribbean on 13 Aug 1521 (The Conquistadors: Fall of Tenochtitlan), showing the following events: Reign of Cuitláhuac; La Noche Triste; Battle of Otumba; Lake Texcoco campaign; Reign of Cuauhtémoc; Ponce de León’s last expedition; Fall of Tenochtitlan.

C a r i b s

Middle

Mississippian

G r e a t P l a i n s

p e o p l e s

I n n u

C e n t r a l A l g o n q u i a n p e o p l e s

Lokono/
Arawak

G r e a t B a s i n

p e o p l e s

Northwest

Plateau

Peoples

Pacific Northwest Coast
Peoples

Fernandina/
Cuba(Sp./Col.)

New
Found
Land

C a l i f o r n i a p e o p l e s

N o r t h e r n
A t h a b a s k a n
p e o p l e s

O n e o t a

I n u i t

Iroquois

Confederacy

Eastern Algonquian
peoples

Chichi-
meca

M a y a

Southwest
peoples

Viceroyalty of
The Indies(Sp./Col.)

Castilla
de Oro(Sp.)

Santiago(Sp./Col.)

The
Bahamas

La Florida(Sp. claim)

New Spain
of the Ocean Sea(Sp/Cortés adm.)

South

Appalachian

Mississippian

Santo
Domingo(Sp./Col.)

V e n e z u e l a

C h i b c h a n

Aztecs

Veragua(Sp./Col. disp.)

New
Andalusia(Sp. claim)

Puerto
Rico(Sp./Col.)

Sta. María de Guadalupe

Sta. María de la Antigua

Nueva Toledo(Sp./Col.)

SM Victoria(Sp/Cortés)

Santo Domingo

Santa María
la Antigua
del Darién

Panamá

25 Jun–25 Nov 1520Cuitláhuac leads
Aztecs against Spanish

30 Jun–1 Jul 1520Cortés flees Tenochtitlan
in the night

7 Jul 1520Cortés defeats Aztec
pursuit at Otumba

27 Dec 1520–13 Aug 1521Cortés gains control
of Lake Texcoco

25 Jan–13 Aug 1521Cuauhtémoc leads
final Aztec resistance

Mar–Jun 1521Ponce de León makes failed
attempt to settle Florida

26 May–13 Aug 1521Cortés captures Tenochtitlan,
ending Aztec Empire

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North America, 13 Aug 1521: Fall of Tenochtitlan
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