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Jan 1, 1200
Pueblo Indians
Pueblo Indians established villages along the Rio Grande. The Pueblo people are a Native American people in the Southwestern United States. Their traditional economy is based on agriculture and trade. When first encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they were living in villages that the Spanish called pueblos, or towns. Of the 21 pueblos that exist today, Taos, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi are the well known.
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Jul 8, 1536
Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca, Estevan the Moor, and others began rumors of the Seven Cities of Cibola (gold). Cabeza de Vaca was born around 1490. In 1527 he embarked on a royal journey to the lands of America. -
Aug 20, 1540
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Coronado was born into a family in Salamanca, Spain, in 1510. He started his expedition in 1535. In 1540, he found the Grand Canyon.
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Juan de Onate
Don Juan de Oñate y Salazar lived from 1550 to 1626. In 1595 he was ordered by King Philip II to colonize the northern frontier of New Spain. He established San Juan de los Caballeros in 1598. -
San Gabriel
San Gabriel founded.
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Governor Pedro de Peralta
Established Santa Fe as capital. He was the governor of New Mexico from 1610 to 1614.
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Villa de Albuquerque
Catholic missionaries, not farmers, first settled in the area that would become Alburquerque, building churches in several pueblos in the early 1600s. During this time the Indian population declined, due largely to the diseases introduced by the settlers. They finally named this place Villa de Albuquerque. -
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike led first Anglo-American expedition to New Mexico. General Wilkinson's son served as one of his lieutenants. In early November 1806, Pike and his team recorded the sighting of and tried to climb to the summit of the peak that was named after him. -
Mexico Declared Indipendence from Spain
From 1815 to 1821 most of the fighting by those seeking independence from Spain was done by isolated guerrilla bands. The Spanish viceroy, however, felt the situation was under control and issued a general pardon. -
Ortiz Mountains
In 1828, gold was discovered in the Ortiz Mountains. The Ortiz Mountains are a mountain range in north central New Mexico, in Santa Fe County. Placer mining for gold in the Ortiz Mountains was carried out by the early Spanish using Indian slave labor, but the first significant placer workings began in 1821. -
Mexican American War Started
Combat operations lasted a year and a half, from spring 1846 to fall 1847. American forces quickly occupied New Mexico and California, then invaded parts of Northeastern Mexico and Northwest Mexico -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Signed
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed by Nicholas Trist on behalf of the U.S. and Luis G. Cuevas, Bernardo Couto and Miguel Atristain as plenipotentiary representatives of Mexico. It was signed at the main altar of the old Basilica of Guadalupe at Villa Hidalgo. -
New Mexico Territory
The Territory of New Mexico was an organized territory of the United States that was from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of New Mexico. -
Gadsen Purchase
The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande. The Gadsden Purchase was for the purpose of the US's construction of a transcontinental railroad along a deep southern route. It was also related to reconciliation of outstanding border issues following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -
The Long Walk
Navajos and Apaches were relocated to Bosque Redondo. Navajos were forced to walk at gunpoint from their reservation in what is now Arizona to eastern New Mexico. Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866. -
Railroad
The El Paso and Southwestern Railroad was a short-line American railway company which operated in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The railroad was known as the Arizona and South Eastern Railroad from 1888 to 1902.
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Billy the Kid Shot
Billy was born in July 14, 1881, also known as Henry Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War. He became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. According to legend he killed 21 men.
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Geronimo Surrendered
Geronimo Surrendered in 1886. The Indians were torn when he was unable to return. The Indian uprisings ceased. -
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison produced first motion picture in New Mexico. Most of the work was performed by Edison's assistant, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, beginning in 1888. It was finally finished and presented in 1898. -
New Mexico Constitution Drafted
The Constitution of the State of New Mexico is a state constitution and the document governing the political framework of New Mexico. Article II contains a bill of rights. It was adopted in a constitutional convention on November 21, 1910, ratified by vote of the People November 5, 1911, and became effective upon admission to the union on January 6, 1912. -
New Mexico as State
New Mexico played a role in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. Both Confederate and Union governments claimed ownership and territorial rights over New Mexico Territory. In 1861 the Confederacy claimed the southern tract as its own Arizona Territory -
Women Won Right To Vote
Voting rights for women were introduced into international law by the United Nations' Human Rights Commission, whose elected chair was Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government" -
Atomic Bomb
World's first atomic bomb detonated at Trinity bomb site southern New Mexico. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945. -
Native American Rights
In WWII Native Americans risked their lives for the US and when they cam back realised they couldn't vote. Native Americans won right to vote in elections. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act put an end to individual states claims on whether or not Indians were allowed to vote through a federal law.
