Note 787 — Chapter III

The earliest fixed date for the founding of Tenochtitlan (Mexico city) is 1325. Brasseur tells us that Carlos de Sigüenza y Gongora made the first chronological table of ancient Mexican dates, which was used by Boturini, and was improved by Leon y Gama,—the same which Bustamante has inserted in his edition of Gomara. Gallatin (Amer. Ethnol. Soc. Trans., i.) gave a composite table of events by dates before the Conquest, which is followed in Brantz Mayer’s Mexico as it was, i. 97. Ed. Madier de Montjau, in his Chronologie hiéroglyphico-phonétique des Rois Astéques de 1352 à 1522, takes issue with Ramirez on some points.