State · 1325 – 1521

Aztec Empire

A state of 1325 – 1521 — 196 years in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Azcapotzalco. It was replaced by Kingdom of New Spain. The atlas records 7 things within it — wars and battles 5 · unrest and atrocity 1 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 24 people, 12 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 196 years; 1325 – 1521
Rulers: 24; the tlatoani
Most ground: 212,400 km²; in 1502
Within it: 7; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Aztec Empire in 1502, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Aztec Empire in 1502, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 212,400 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Aztec Empire in 1429, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Aztec Empire in 1502, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Azcapotzalco · replaces · 995 – 1428

After it

Kingdom of New Spain · replaced by

Rulers

The line of tlatoani.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Tezozomoc	1367 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Acamapichtli	1376 – 1395	19 years	ending not on record
Tlacacuitlahuatzin	1395 – 1450	55 years	ending not on record
Huitzilihuitl	1396 – 1417	21 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Chimalpopoca	1417 – 1427	10 years	died by suicideWikidata's manner of death	child
Maxtla	1426 – 1428	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Moctezuma I	1440 – 1469	29 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Xilomantzin	1440 – 1473	33 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Axayacatl	1469 – 1481	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ahuitzotl	1486 – 1502	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Hernando Cetochtzin	1521 – 1526	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Andrés de Tapia Motelchiuh	1525 – 1530	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

24 rulers, 12 with terms dated as terms, covering 1367 – 1530. Median reign 16 years. 5 of 11 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

5,800 km² in 1435, 212,400 km² in 1515; at its largest 212,400 km² in 1505. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedGlyphs for the member States of the Aztec Triple Alliance · CC BY-SA 4.0 · FDRMRZUSA ; See sourced files for original author(s)
flag, undatedMilitary spiritual poles and pens pattern · CC0

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1400 – 14991 row

Americas · discovery · 1492

1500 – 15996 rows · 5 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire · battle · 1519 – 1521
La Noche Triste · battle · 1520
Fall of Tenochtitlan · battle · 1521
Battle of Otumba · battle · 1520
Massacre in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan · atrocity · 1520
Cholula massacre · battle · 1519

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood196 years
stood longer than 62% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held212,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 59% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median16 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 51% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record24
has more rulers on record than 93% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1305 – 1541, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1502, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2608489 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.