Founding of Tenochtitlan
Legend says an eagle on a cactus marked the spot
According to legend, the Mexica Aztecs founded Tenochtitlan on an island in Lake Texcoco where they saw an eagle perched on a cactus. The city of causeways and canals became the Aztec capital and one of the world's largest cities; Mexico City stands on its site.
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Oxford University is older than the Aztec state: teaching at Oxford existed by about 1096, while Tenochtitlan was founded only in 1325.
In 1324, Mansa Musa gave away so much gold in Cairo that its value fell. According to tradition, a year later Tenochtitlan was founded across the world.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — 25 years earlier
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — 16 years earlier
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — 10 years earlier
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — 12 years later
- 1347–1351 Black Death — 22 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 12 years later
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 1 year earlier
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 2 years later
Alive at the time
- Mansa Musa (aged 45)
- Orhan (aged 44)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 37)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 37)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 21)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 20)
- Edward III (aged 13)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 11)
- Charles IV (aged 9)
- Giotto (aged 58)