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Name: kaqchikel

Type: Cluster

Start: 1524 AD

End: 1530 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Kaqchikel Kingdom
  • Kaqchikel Kingdom (Spain)
  • Establishment


  • April 1524: Iximché, the main city of the Kaqchikel Maya people, was conquered by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado in 1524. The Kaqchikels became Spanish vassals.
  • August 1524: The Kaqchikel abandoned their capital in Iximche and broke their alliance with the Spanish conquistadors.
  • Chronology


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    1. Spanish wars of colonization in the Americas


    Were a series of expeditions and military campaigns by Spanish conquistadores and discoverers to conquer territories in central and southern America.

    1.1.Spanish conquest of Guatemala

    Was a protracted conflict where Spanish colonisers gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of Guatemala into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain.

  • May 1530: In 1530, the Kaqchikel Kingdom, led by their ruler Tecún Umán, surrendered to the Spanish conquistadors in what is now Spanish America. This marked the beginning of Spanish colonization in the region.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1525: Santiago de Guatemala is occupied by Spanish forces (1524).

  • Disestablishment


  • May 1530: In 1530, the Kaqchikel Kingdom, led by their ruler Tecún Umán, surrendered to the Spanish conquistadors in what is now Spanish America. This marked the beginning of Spanish colonization in the region.
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