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Aug 20, 1540
THE EXPEDITION
FRANCISCO VAZQUEZ DE CORANADO ARRANGED AN EXPEDITION TO FIND THE SEVEN GOLDEN CITIES OF CIBOLA -
FIRST SETTLEMENT
Juan de Oñate came to New Mexico with 500 Spanish settlers and soldiers and 7,000 head of livestock to found the first New Mexican settlemen -
THE PUEBLO REVOLT
Pope planed to attack the Spanish on Aug. 18, but the Spanish learned of it so Pope attacked on the 13 instead and the Spanish retreated -
TAKEN BACK
Diego de Vargas surrounded New Mexico and pursauded the Indians to agree to peace. -
FIGHTING BACK
Juan Bautista de Anza led a group of 560 men against the comanches who were out of control and killing many Spanish and Pueblo peoples. -
THE FIRST SCHOOL BOOK
Padre Antonio Jose printed the first school text in NM in Taos. -
ARRESTED
Lt. Zebulon Pike was sent to New Mexico to locate the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers, but was arrested instead -
NO MORE PEACE
The peace between the nomadic Indians and New Mexicans fell apart...in 1821 governor Melgares led a raid into Navajo country -
NEW CONSTITUTION
A new constitution was drafted in Mexico which New Mexico was able to use to gain priviliges out of. -
new mexico before statehood
by the treaty of gaudelupe-hidalgo ending the mexican war,made public in washington on july 4,1848,the united states achieved its principal objectives: -
SCHOOL AND WELLFARE
Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy arrives in New Mexico and establishes schools, hospitals and orphanages throughout the territory -
GADSDEN PURCHASE
New Mexico gains 45,000 square miles in the Gadsden Purchase -
LONG WALK
Navajos are forced onto a long walk to be relocated -
IN TWO
New Mexico is split into two, creating Arizona -
RAILROAD & WAR
the railroad arrives in New Mexico, opening full-scale trade and migration from the east and midwest, just when the Lincoln County War erupts in southeast New Mexico -
SHOT DEAD NOT FINISHED
Billy the Kid is shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner -
GERONIMO
Geronimo surrenders which makes the Indian hostilities cease in the Southwest -
INDIAN DAY SCHOOL
The first movie made in New Mexico, Idian Day School, is produced by Thomas A. Edison -
ONE MORE TIME
New Mexico drafted another constitution -
FINALLY
New Mexico is accepted as a state by President Taft
