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Show ~I 'SERTl u. ~ .H. I S T 0 n_ y , 0 , F M e) X I C 0. ment of 1u ·s t.e J· gn ougl1t, to be ~h-·vrc, d in r TA 26,, the• r'.u' in. of the Tc;:pancca•s J•n IAZS the beginning of the reign of Itz~~atl m 1423, and t1 at.?f T , I " • • • • ' the tyr!mny of Maxtlaton in I f22. . 1 • CHIMA.LPOPOCA. This unhappy k1.ng was confo~nd.ed by ~c:?ft~, Martinez, and Herrera, with his ncphcw,Acolnahuacatl, ion of HUltn-: lihuitl; from whel\._C~ thefe authors . allow . Cbimalpopoca OlllyJ, t'eJ~ years of reign, and make him die .qy. th~ han.ds ~f ~he T,cp~pecas;. but the contrary appears ftom the pam tmgs and re,auons . of, ~he Ind1ans, cited by Torqu~vnada, and partly feep by ourfelves. SJ~lleDZfl, b;y inauentiQn, fal)s_into a cont.racU~tioq; for he fays that Chu~alpopoc. wa.s . .the younger bror,h~r of :u u.itzilihuid : of. this Jking he. afl~rm~; that he bega.n to reign at eighteen years of_- age, . and that he re1g1~eq lefs than eleven, fo that he ml:lft have die~ beforc1 he was twenty-nuw years ~f age; and Chimalpopoc~, who.,immediately. fucce~ded him, mufl: have been at leafi t-.yenty-eight wh~n he began to re1gn ; notwithftandiog Siguepza m~ktls ·him afc;<:>nd the thro~c a forty years anq ~pward.s. , In the colleCtion of Menp<;>~l .tl~i~ king ~s. ·npt. given. more than ten. ·years of reign. Torque\nada and S1guenza gw'7 h1m tlurteen, which account is certainly the moft probable, copfidering the feries of his aCtions and events : but Betancol}rt following 'L'orqnema,da, ma~es many notable anacronifm~ on this fubjett. l;le fixes the eletl:ion. of Chimalpopoca in the time of Techotlalla, king of Acolhuacan ~ ~et us fuppofe that it was in the la11: year •of this king: Techotlalla was fuaceeded by lxtlilxochitl, who reigned (even years. I~tlilxochitl by Tc.zo_zomoc, who tyrannifed over tha! empire. nine years, and to him, Maxil,aton fucceeded, in whofe tin)e. Chiq1alpopoca di~<;l. J).~cqrding to thpfe.fuppofitions <!-d.opted bY. 'f9rqqew,aqa,.and ~~tanco,urt, . we mufi give Cbimalpopoca ~t leaft fixteen years Qf re)gn, refulting from tht; feven of. Ixtlilxochitl and .th~ nin~ <?f Tizozomoc; which is contrary: to their own chrC?nology and that of other hifi:orians. If we chufe to co~b.ine the chronology of the kings o~ Mexico with t~at qf the kings, of Tlatelolco, agreeable to the calculation of the above mentioneq authors, there will hardly remain nineteen years to be divided between the two kings Chimalpopoca and Itzcoatl, as we {hall afterwards find. Granting therefore thirteen years of reign to Chimalpopoca, according to the opinion of mo!l: hitlorians, we ought to fix the b~ginniryg of}~ lU • H I S T 0 R Y 0 'F 'M E X I C 0. irr 141 o. Maxtlaton fucceeded to Tizozomoc, his father, a year before. the death of Chimalpopoca, that is, in I 422. Tizuzomoc kept the crown of Acolhuacan nine years; having died in 1422, his tyranny began therefore in 1413. With refpeet to Ixtlilxochitl, the lawful king of Acolhuacan, we know that he reigned feven years until I 413, when his life, together with his crown, was taken frmn him by the tyrant TizozOIJ?OC; he began therefore to reign in 14-06. Hu'ITZILIHU'ITI:.. Refpeeting the number of years which this monarch reigned hiftori:ms are extremely different. in opinion. Siguenza fays, ten years and ten months. Acoftu and Mar.tinez give him thirteen; the Interpreter, twenty-one. Toquemada attefts, that among the Mexican hi{l:orians whom he· confulted, fome ·give him twenty-two years and others twenty ... fix; l:tut we have no doubt. that the true number of years is that mentioned by the Interpreter; becaufe we know, from· the li!iftorical paintings·of the Mexicans', that the thirteenth year of this ki-ng was a ·fecular year; whi.ch, according to our chronological table, mull: have been· the year 1-4-02 ; · he began therefore to reign in ':t-3~9: Having died in 1·410; as appears from what w~ have £1id. concerning the reign of Chimalpopoca, we ought to allow J-i:uitzi1ihuitl twenty-one years of reign. AcAMAPITZIN. Suppofing the··chrono·logy of the preceding kings to be j uft, and. the epoch of the foundation of Mexico to be eftablilhed; we have little to fay with regard to the reign . of this king. Torquemada affirms~ that the. paintings and .manufcript hiftorJes fix the elec .. tion of Acamapitzin in . the twenty-eighth year after the founaation of Mexico. He w.as elected therefore in ' I 3 52' or in the beginning of I 3'5 3, and his reign. muft have laited thirtyrfeven years, or. fomething lefs. . The·intorregnum ,which happened after the death of this king was of four. rpon ths, . as Siguenza fay~ ;, whereas all the others' were . but of a few days •. s· E c. 1'. 1 IV. ' . Concerning the ·Epochs ·o.f the Events if tbe Conquo/f.' . J J lT is qot very difti<mlt ·to trace ~he , epochs>of, the. events of the. con-q~ e!t, becauf~ we .6nd tl,l.em, in g~.neraJ me.otioned by the ,conqueror . , ·Cortes, • 239 ·DlSSERT .. II. '--v--J |