2012 Event Archeologist excavating the Templo Mayor, one of the Aztec's main temples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city), make an unprecedented find - the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones 1964 Birthday Roddy Frame, rock vocalist and guitarist, Aztec Camera-Stray 1923 Event Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established 1790 Event Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City 1547 Death Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians 1520 Death Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, killed