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1582 - Fray
Bernadino Beltran and Fray Antonio de Espejo travel to New
Mexico
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1598 - Juan de
Onate 1595-1628 establishes the first Spanish capital of San
Juan de los Caballeros
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1599 - Battle at
Aroma between Pueblo natives and Spaniards
Facts about the
History of New Mexico History - 1600's
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1605 - Juan de
Onate 1595-1628 leads expedition to the Colorado River
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1626 - The
terrifying Spanish Inquisition established in New Mexico
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1680 - Pueblo
Indian Revolt lead by Pope, a Pueblo Indian from the San Juan
Pueblo
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Late 1600's
Navajos, Apaches, lies, and Comanches begin raids against
Pueblo Indians
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1696 - Second
Pueblo Revolt - the Natives were defeated
Facts about the
History of New Mexico History - 1600's
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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
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1776 - Franciscan
Fathers Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de
Escalante explore route from out New Mexico to California.
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1786 - Juan
Bautista de Anza ( 1736- 1788) makes peace with the Comanche.
Facts about
the History of New Mexico History - The Early 1800's
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The Native Indians
of New Mexico were the Apache, Comanche, Jemez, Kiowa, Manso,
Navaho, Pecos, Ute and Pueblo Indian tribes
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1807 - Zebulon M.
Pike (1779-1813), a native of New Jersey, leads first Anglo
American expedition into New Mexico
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1821 - Mexico
declares independence from Spain
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1821 - William
Bucknell ( 1773 - ?) opens the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri
and New Mexico
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1828 - Gold
discovered in the Ortiz Mountains
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1835 - Las Vegas
is the last Spanish colony established in North Americ
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1841 - Texans
invade New Mexico and claim all land east of the Rio Grande
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1846 -
Mexican-American War begins. Stephen Watts Kearny ( 1794 -
1848) annexes New Mexico to the United States
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1848 - Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican-American War
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1850 - New Mexico
(which included present-day Arizona, southern Colorado,
southern Utah, and southern Nevada) is designated a territory
but denied statehood
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1854 - The Gadsden
Purchase adds 45,000 square miles to the territory
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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
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1863 - New Mexico
is partitioned in half. Territory of Arizona is created
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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
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1878 - The
railroad arrives in New Mexico
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1881 - Billy the
Kid ( 1859-1881) is shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner
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1886 - Apache
chief Geronimo and his followers surrender to General Nelson
A. Miles, thus ending Indian hostilities cease in the
Southwest
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1908 - Pat Garrett
is shot to death at the age of 57 in an argument with a
rancher
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1898-1901 The
Spanish American War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris
the US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
Origin of the name
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