BobRingReflections

This article is about the history of Mexico, from just before the country secured its independence from Spain in 1821, through today, presented in timeline fashion.   The article is a follow-on to my recent blog posts on Mesoamerican Ancient History, the Spanish Conquest, Spanish Expansion to the North, and Territorial Evolution of the United States.   My principle source and starting point for the article is “The History of Mexico” at history.com, from which I steal liberally, supplemented by many other online sources. The setting:   Spain started the conquest of Mexico in 1521 with the defeat of the indigenous Aztec civilization and began their North American colony that they called New Spain, ruled by a Viceroy from their new capital in Mexico City.   Almost 300 years later, by the early 1800s, they had conquered and colonized lands that reached south to Central America and north to the western United States . Independence Era 1808 Napoleon Bonaparte occupied Spain, dep