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May 27, 1528
Enslaved
During a gold-hunt, he and a Spainish crew were shipwrecked near what is now Galveston, Texas. He and three other spainrds wandered through the South west for years trying to find Mexico City. -
May 3, 1536
The United States Take Control
The governor of New Spain, made a priest named Marcos de Niza to lead an expedition north the next year. Estevanico and his Native American guides headed out first. They crossed the deserts of Mexico, through what is now Arizona and into New Mexico. Estevanico died there. The rest of the scouts wanted to turn around and go back to Mexico City.A man named Niza falsley reported that ge saw the seven cities of gold.Hearing this rulers sent explorers. -
Jan 1, 1539
Spaniards find Arizona
Mexico and Spain fought for gold and both countries were determend to find it. A group of spanish fortune hunters traveled north of Mexico. And came to Arizona. -
Jan 1, 1539
Exploring
Estevanico was the first non-Native person to reach Arizona. -
Jan 9, 1540
Traveling
In 1540, Franisco Vasquez de Coronado was a Spanish offical in Mexico. Like many Spanish conquistadores, Coronado wanted to
gold. So he set out, with 340 Spaniards, 300 Native Americans, and 900 enslaved people to find gold -
Mar 23, 1582
Good Luck
Good luck! Antonio de Espejo discovers silver in Arizona! -
Becomes A State
Since the Spainards found riches, more and more people wanted to be rich. People migrated in and started to settle there. As more and more people started setteling, schools, resterants, houses, hospitals, and lots of other things, started being built up, it became a town.
