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16th century in Spanish colonial Mexico — the center of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in North America and the East Indies. ...
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century established New Spain, bringing Spanish rule, Christianity, and European influences. Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, after a prolonged struggle marked by the Mexican War of Independence.
Alberro, Solange. "Crypto-Jews and the Mexican Holy Office in the Seventeenth Century". In The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800, edited by Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering, 172-185. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Bocanegra, Matias de and Seymour Liebman, Jews and the Inquisition of Mexico: The Great Auto de Fe of 1649 ...
Two key works by historian Charles Gibson, Tlaxcala in the Sixteenth Century (1952) [96] and his monograph The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519–1810 (1964) [97] were central in reshaping the historiography of the indigenous and their communities from the Spanish conquest to the 1810 Mexican ...
The U.S. agrees to pay US$15 million to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico. It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas , and gave the U.S. ownership of Alta California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico , most of Arizona , Nevada , and Utah , and parts of Wyoming and ...
In the 16th century, following the colonization of most of the new continents, perhaps as many as 240,000 Spaniards entered ports in the Americas. Since the conquest of the Aztec Empire, Mexico became the principal destination of Spanish colonial settlers in the 16th century. They were joined by 450,000 in the 17th century.
The Earliest Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl (Spanish: Primeros Monasterios en las faldas del Popocatépetl) are sixteen earliest 16th-century monasteries which were built by the Augustinians, the Franciscans and the Dominicans in order to evangelize the areas south and east of the Popocatépetl volcano in central Mexico.
The 19th century was a time of great political and military turmoil in Mexico, with repetitive wars against the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of France and the United States of America, as well as internal wars provoked by the different visions that the ruling classes had over the ideal model of the new nation. After having lost more than half ...