Chapultepec

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1400s Eventually, the area became a retreat strictly limited to the ruling and religious elite.
1420s Nezahualcoyotl was the first to build a palace in the area
1465 Moctezuma I ordered his portrait carved into a rock at the foot of the hill and constructed the Tlaxpana aqueduct, which measured three km.
1521 During the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, one of the last battles between the Spanish and ruler Cuauhtemoc occurred at Chapultepec Hill in 1521.
1523? Shortly thereafter, the Franciscans built a small hermitage over the indigenous altar on Chapultepec Hill.
1525? Hernan Cortes appropriated Chapultepec and granted the northern portion to Captain Juan Jaramillo, who would become the husband of La Malinche.
1530 Charles V decreed the area as the property of the Mexico City and open to it to the public.
1847 Mexican-American War - Battle of Chapultepec 9/11/1847
1947 US President Harry Truman Visits Mexico and Goes to Freemasonic Memorial at Chapultepec
Chapultepec Park
Moctezuma II built reservoirs to raise exotic fish and to store water. He also had trees and plants from various parts of the Aztec Empire planted here.