Late Middle Ages · North America · Religion

1487

Aztec Templo Mayor Rededicated

1487

Emperor Ahuitzotl inaugurated the rebuilt Great Temple of Tenochtitlan with a mass sacrifice that chroniclers estimate at tens of thousands of captives, carried out over four days while lines of prisoners stretched beyond the city. The event was theater, terror, and state religion fused into an act meant to define imperial power.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1473: Aztec Tlatelolco Market at Full Scale
After: October 12, 1492: Columbus Makes Landfall

Before and after in Religion

Before: 1486: Malleus Maleficarum Published
After: 1491: Nzinga Nkuwu of Kongo Baptized

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.