New Mexico History Timeline

New Mexico History Timeline

This History Timeline has been developed to provide a 'snapshot' of the famous people and
events during this historical time period. Important dates in a fast, comprehensive,
chronological, or date order providing an actual sequence of important
past events which were of considerable significance to the
famous people involved in this time period.
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	1536	The Native Indians of New Mexico were the Apache, Comanche, Jemez, Kiowa, Manso, Navaho, Pecos, Ute and Pueblo Indian tribes Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca reaches Culiacdn, Mexico
	1540	The Spanish explorer, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1510-1554) explores the area from Gulf of California to present-day Kansas and discovers the Grand Canyon
	1580	Fray Augustin Rodriguez and Captain Francisco Sanchez Chamuscado travel up the Rio Grande
	1582	Fray Bernadino Beltran and Fray Antonio de Espejo travel to New Mexico
	1598	Juan de Onate 1595-1628 establishes the first Spanish capital of San Juan de los Caballeros
	1599	Battle at Aroma between Pueblo natives and Spaniards
	1605	Juan de Onate 1595-1628 leads expedition to the Colorado River
	1626	The Spanish Inquisition established in New Mexico
	1680	Pueblo Indian Revolt lead by Pope, a Pueblo Indian from the San Juan Pueblo
	1600's	In the late 1600's Navajos, Apaches, lies, and Comanches begin raids against Pueblo Indians
	1696	Second Pueblo Revolt - the Natives were defeated
	1756	1756 - 1763 - The Seven Years War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over land is won by Great Britain. France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in return for Cuba
	1776	Franciscan Fathers Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante explore route from out New Mexico to California.
	1786	Juan Bautista de Anza ( 1736- 1788) makes peace with the Comanches.
	1807	Zebulon M. Pike (1779-1813), a native of New Jersey, leads first Anglo American expedition into New Mexico
	1821	Mexico declares independence from Spain
	1821	William Bucknell ( 1773 - ?) opens the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and New Mexico
	1828	Gold discovered in the Ortiz Mountains
	1835	Las Vegas is the last Spanish colony established in North America
	1841	Texans invade New Mexico and claim all land east of the Rio Grande
	1846	Mexican-American War begins. Stephen Watts Kearny ( 1794 - 1848) annexes New Mexico to the United States
	1848	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican-American War
	1850	New Mexico (which included present-day Arizona, southern Colorado, southern Utah, and southern Nevada) is designated a territory but denied statehood
	1854	The Gadsden Purchase adds 45,000 square miles to the territory
	1859	John Brown raided Harpers Ferry and set in motion events that led directly to the outbreak of the Civil War.
	1861	1861 - 1865: The American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president and in 1861 the South Secedes. The initial Secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America. The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War.
	1863	Known as the "Long Walk," Navajos and Apaches are forced to walk more than 300 miles from north-eastern Arizona and north-western New Mexico to Bosque Redondo
	1863	New Mexico is partitioned in half. Territory of Arizona is created
	1865	The surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy
	1865	1865 December 6 - The Abolishment of Slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, thus officially abolishing slavery
	1865	The surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy
	1871	William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid ( 1859-1881) kills his first man with a knife in Silver City at the age of 12 years old
	1878	The railroad arrives in New Mexico
	1881	Billy the Kid ( 1859-1881) is shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner
	1886	Apache chief Geronimo and his followers surrender to General Nelson A. Miles, thus ending Indian hostilities cease in the Southwest
	1898	1898-1901 The Spanish American War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris the US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
	1908	Pat Garrett is shot to death at the age of 57 in an argument with a rancher
	1912	Statehood - The Date that New Mexico was admitted to the Union - January 6, 1912. Constitution - New Mexico was the 47th State to be admitted to the Union. State Motto - " Crescit eundo " the State Motto is translated as " It grows as it goes "

New Mexico History Timeline

New Mexico Timeline
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