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(1200's - 1500's) Pueblo Indians established villages along the Rio Grande and its tributaries
(1536) Cabeza de Vaca, Estevan the Moor, and others began rumors of the Seven Cities of Cibola (Gold)
(1540) Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, while searching for that gold, discovered the Grand Canyon
(1598) Juan de Onate established San Juan de los Caballeros as the capital
(1600) San Gabriel founded as the second capital
(1601) Colonists deserted San Gabriel
(1609) Governor Pedro de Peralta established new capital at Santa Fe
(1626) Spanish Inquisition established
(1641) Governor Luis de Rosas assassinated
(1680) Pueblo Indians forced colonists and Spaniards to retreat to Mexico
(1706) Villa de Albuquerque founded
(1743) French trappers reached Santa Fe
(1807) Zebulon Pike led first Anglo-American expedition to New Mexico
(1821) Mexico declared independence from Spain; Santa Fe Trail opened
(1828) Gold discovered in Ortiz Mountains
(1837) Governor Albino Perez and top officials assassinated in revolt against Mexican taxation
(1846) Mexican-American War began; Stephen Watts Kearny annexed New Mexico to U.S.
(1848) Mexican-American War ended; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed
(1850) New Mexico designated a territory; denied statehood
(1854) Gadsden Purchase added 45,000 square miles to territory
(1861) Confederates invaded New Mexico; Territory lost northern-most section; Territories of Arizona and Colorado created
(1863-1864) The Long Walk - Navajos and Apaches relocated to Bosque Redondo
(1868) Navajos and Apaches return to homelands
(1878) Railroad arrived
(1881) Billy the Kid shot
(1886) Geronimo surrenders; Indian uprisings ceased
(1898) Thomas Alva Edison produced first motion picture in New Mexico
(1910) New Mexico Constitution drafted
(1912) New Mexico became 47th state
(1916) Francisco "Pancho" Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico
(1920) Women won the right to vote
(1922) Oil discovered on Navajo Reservation
(1942) New Mexico soldiers forced to endure World War II Bataan Death March
(1945) World's first atomic bomb detonated at Trinity bomb site southern New Mexico
(1947) Alleged crash of UFO near Roswell
(1948) Native Americans won right to vote in elections
(1950) Uranium discovered
(1980) Deadliest prison riot in U. S. occurred at New Mexico State Penitentiary
(1982) Space shuttle Columbia landed at Holloman Air Force Base
(1998) New Mexico celebrated cuartocentenario, 400th anniversary of its founding
(2000) Valles Caldera National Preserve established
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