Event
Fall of Tenochtitlan
The siege that began on 30 May 1521 ended on 13 August 1521 with the capture of Cuauhtémoc.
- Dates
- 30 May 1521 – 13 Aug 1521
- Place
- Tenochtitlan
The siege that began on 30 May 1521 ended on 13 August 1521 with the capture of Cuauhtémoc.
Connections 8
interventions
- Cuauhtémoc 13 Aug 1521 was made prisoner According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
involved
- Cuauhtémoc According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
- Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
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Tlaxcala
According to Hernán Cortés
Primary record
1
Cortés writes that more than 25,000 warriors of Tlaxcala were assigned to the division of Pedro de Alvarado, and that more than 20,000 men of Texcoco went with him on another march. Other allies fought as well.
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Charles V
According to Hernán Cortés
Primary record
1
The royal fifth of the gold Cortés melted, in his count.
- Tenochtitlan According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
appears in
- Letters of relation of Hernán Cortés According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
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Letters of relation of Hernán Cortés
According to Hernán Cortés
Primary record
1
Cortés's count of one day's slaughter and prisoners, and what he says of the cries. He puts the killing on his allies; the story gives it as his claim.
Timeline 2 dates
- 30 May 1521 – 13 Aug 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan
- 13 Aug 1521 Cuauhtémoc intervened in Fall of Tenochtitlan According to Hernán Cortés
Proof 1 source
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Letters of Cortés: the five letters of relation to the Emperor Charles V, volume 2 (English translation by Francis Augustus MacNutt, 1908; the Third Letter is dated 15 May 1522), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1908.
Primary record
this lord having been made prisoner, the war immediately ceased, which God Our Lord was pleased to bring to its end on this day, the Feast of San Hipolito, which was the 13th of August in the year 1521.
from the day when we laid the siege to the city, which was the 30th of May of the said year, until it was taken, seventy-five days passed
more than twenty-five thousand warriors of Tascaltecal
what was melted amounted to one hundred and thirty thousand castellanos, of which one fifth was given to the treasury of Your Majesty
As the city of Temixtitan was so important, and so renowned throughout these parts
we were about nine hundred Spaniards, and they more than one hundred and fifty thousand men
we had more trouble in preventing our allies from killing and inflicting tortures than we had in fighting with the Indians
such was the slaughter done that day on water and on land
they numbered in all more than forty thousand men; and such were the shrieks and the weeping of the women and children that there was none whose heart did not break
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