ID: 901002320 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002320	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Toxcatl (Mexican history, massacre, 1520)

Note: ENGLISH: A massacre occurred during Toxcatl in the year Ome Tecpatl (Two Flint, or 1520) when a small force led by Spanish conquistadores attacked celebrants in the temple precinct of Tenochtitlan. A springtime festival celebrating the deities Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca after which the veintena (a period of twenty days in the Nahua calendar) is also named. SPANISH: Una famosa masacre ocurrió durante Toxcatl en el año Ome Tecpatl (Dos pedernales, o 1520) cuando una pequeña fuerza liderada por los conquistadores españoles atacó a los celebrantes en el recinto del templo de Tenochtitlan. EASTERN HUASTECAN NAHUATL: Ce huei tlahuilantli campa momictihqueh pannoc nepa Toxcatl ipan Ome Tecpatl (Ome tecpatl, zo 1520) quemman ce cualli teticcayotl huan cuecuetztzin tlen quinnahuatiyaya tlalquixtianih caxtillaz quitehuitoh nopa ilhuitl tlen mochihuayaya nepa tiopan tlen Tenochtitlan. [link to CONA: location, Templo Mayor.]

Display Date: 1520

Names:

	Toxcatl (Mexican history, massacre, 1520) (preferred,English-P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<North and South American history> (P)
		........Mexican history (P)
		............Toxcatl (Mexican history, massacre, 1520) (I)

Other Relationships:

	located in .... Mexico City
	.....(Distrito Federal, Mexico, North and Central America) (TGN)

	role/characteristic is .... massacre
	.....(deaths, personal life events, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	affiliated/associated with .... Toxcatl
	.....(Nahua festivals, festivals, celebrations, cultural events, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Toxcatl (Mexican history, massacre, 1520)
	................GRI, FloCo terminology (2019-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ GRI, FloCo terminology (2019-)