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Mexico’s Pacific South States

Timeline 3000 B . C .

Olmecs live in what is now Guerrero. The Maya settle in Oaxaca and Chiapas.

200 B . C .

A . D . 1200s Monte Albán becomes part of the Miztec culture; Mitla as well is settled and the vast murals are produced making it unlike any other city in the world. 1420–1500 Aztecs take over the center of the Mexican Valley and begin to expand their empire. Eventually they rule most of Mexico, dominating the culture and the other native people still present. 1517 The Spanish arrive in Mexico. Chiapas becomes a part of Guatemala under the Conquistadors. 1523 Colima City founded. 1810–1821 Mexican War of Independence is fought against Spain. 1824 Chiapas gains independence from Guatemala and joins Mexico as a free state. 1829 President Vicente Guerrero abolishes slavery in Mexico; years before the United States. 1849 State of Guerrero is created from land from other nearby states. 1858 Benito Juárez, originally from Oaxaca, becomes president of Mexico. 1877 Porfirio Díaz, also of Oaxaca, takes control of the government. 1880 Railroad built across Colima from Capital City to Manzanillo by Porfirio Díaz, enabling transportation of materials both into and out of the interior.

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1892

The capital of Chiapas moved from San Cristóbal to Tuxtla Gutiérrez.