Indigenous peoples of the Americas Smallpox killed from one third to half of the native population of Hispaniola in 1518. By killing the Incan ruler Huayna Capac, smallpox caused the Inca Civil War of 1529–1532. Smallpox was only the first epidemic. Typhus (probably) in 1546, influenza and smallpox together in 1558, smallpox again in 1589, diphtheria in 1614, measles in 1618—all ravaged the remains of Inca culture. Smallpox killed millions of native inhabitants of Mexico. Unintentionally introduced at Veracruz with the arrival of Pánfilo de Narváez on April 23, 1520, smallpox ravaged Mexico in the 1520s, possibly killing over 150,000 in Tenochtitlán (the heartland of
Representative Music Band of the Mexican Armed Forces at the initiative of the President Porfirio Díaz, the Music Band of the Supreme Power was founded. It changed its name several times in the over 80 years that followed while being the foremost military band of the armed forces. The band was renamed in 1973 to the Representative Music Band of the Mexican Armed Forces. From then on it accompanied the Mexican Presidential Guard (EMP) in important state ceremonies and events and has played in the CDMX, venues all over Mexico as well as in overseas festivals. On 20 February 2015, the band was reorganized to be truly representative