Texcoco

Cuauhtémoc was captured while fleeing Tenochtitlán by crossing Lake Texcoco in disguise with his wife, family, and friends.

According to Cortés himself, on 27 February 1525 it was revealed to him by a citizen of Tenochtitlan named Mexicalcingo that Cuauhtémoc, Coanacoch ( the ruler of Texcoco ) and Tetlepanquetzal ( the ruler of Tlacopan ) were plotting his death.

The alliance was composed of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.

As tlatoani, Moctezuma solidified the alliance with two neighboring peoples, Tlacopan ( a small city-state ) and Texcoco.

In this skillfully crafted Triple Alliance, 4 / 5ths of a newly conquered territory would be divided between Texcoco and the Aztecs, with the remaining 1 / 5 given to Tlacopan.

Among the Aztecs ' greatest achievements, Moctezuma and Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco organized the construction and completion of a double aqueduct pipe system, supplying the city of Tenochtitlan with fresh water.

Places like this also existed in Texcoco, Chapultepec, Huaxtepec ( now called Oaxtepec ) and Texcotzingo.

The Aztecs saw this vision on what was then a small swampy island in Lake Texcoco, a vision that is now immortalized in Mexico's coat of arms and on the Mexican flag.

After a flood of Lake Texcoco, the city was rebuilt under the rule of Ahuitzotl in a style that made it one of the grandest ever in Mesoamerica.

The resulting weight of the structures caused them to sink into the sediment of Lake Texcoco.

Every Atlcahualo festival, seven children were sacrificed in and around Lake Texcoco in the Aztec capital.

* Aztec Triple Alliance – Tenochtitlan, Texcoco ( Aztec site ) and Tlacopan ; better known as the Aztec Empire

** Cacamatzin, king of Texcoco ( b. 1483 )

* Nezahualcoyotl is crowned Tlatoani of the Kingdom of Texcoco.

** Ixtlilxochitl I, ruler of the Mesoamerican city-state of Texcoco, and ally of the Aztecs

* The Aztec Triple Alliance ( also known as The Aztec Empire ) forms with the alliance of three Aztec city-states — Tenochtitlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopán — and defeats Azcapotzalco to win control of the Valley of Mexico.

* March 13 – Recognized date for the founding of Tenochtitlan on a small island in Lake Texcoco by the Mexica empire at the dawn of the day.

In Mexico, Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztec empire, built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now the Federal District in central Mexico.

According to legend, the various groups who were to become the Aztecs arrived from the north into the Anahuac valley around Lake Texcoco.

According to legend, when the Mexicans arrived in the Anahuac valley around Lake Texcoco, they were considered by the other groups as the least civilized of all, but the Mexican / Aztec decided to learn, and they took all they could from other people, especially from the ancient Toltec ( whom they seem to have partially confused with the more ancient civilization of Teotihuacan ).

Often the term " Aztec " refers exclusively to the Mexica people of Tenochtitlan ( now the location of Mexico City ), situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, who referred to themselves as Mexica Tenochca or Cōlhuah Mexica.

Sometimes the term also includes the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan's two principal allied city-states, the Acolhuas of Texcoco and the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, who together with the Mexica formed the Aztec Triple Alliance which controlled what is often known as " the Aztec Empire ".

From the 13th century, the Valley of Mexico was the heart of Aztec civilization: here the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the city of Tenochtitlan, was built upon raised islets in Lake Texcoco.

It originated in 1427 as a triple alliance between the city-states Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan who allied to defeat the Tepanec state of Azcapotzalco, that had previously dominated the Basin of Mexico.

Soon Texcoco and Tlacopan became junior partners in the alliance which was de-facto led by the Mexica of Tenochtitlan.