Moscow and Mexico City began their rise in the same year: in 1325 Ivan Kalita became Prince of Moscow, and the Aztecs, by tradition, founded Tenochtitlan — the future Mexico City — on an island in a lake.
The events
- Ivan Kalita becomes Prince of Moscow1325 · Moscow. In 1325 Ivan Kalita became Prince of Moscow, and Metropolitan Peter moved his seat to the city. Gaining the Horde's patent for the grand princely title and the right to collect tribute, Ivan I laid the basis of Moscow's rise.
- Founding of Tenochtitlanc. 1325 · Tenochtitlan. 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.
More amazing facts
- 1324 · 1325 In 1324, Mansa Musa gave away so much gold in Cairo that its value fell.
- 1324 · 1375 Mansa Musa made it onto European maps.
- 1325 · 1354 Ibn Battuta travelled about 117,000 km, almost three times round the equator.
- 1325 The wooden bucket that Modena and Bologna supposedly went to war over has been kept in Modena for some 700 years.
- 1327 Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq ordered Delhi's people to move to a new capital over 1,000 km away.
- 1330 A Delhi sultan issued copper coins worth silver, and his subjects began minting them at home.