Horses and Mules

By srb11
  • Jan 11, 1500

    1500

    Spanish Conquistadors came to the Americas
  • Jan 1, 1519

    1519

    Coronado set out for North America with 150 horsemen
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  • Dec 11, 1539

    1539

    Desoto's expedition with 237 horses
  • Dec 11, 1547

    1547

    Antoni de Mendoza, first governor of New Spain (Mexico), had 11 haciendas and over 1500 horses

  • 1790

    the average American farm was 100 acres

  • 1800

    the horse was a central element in urban life, horse population grew rapidly

  • 1830

    farm machinery such as mowing, reaping, and threshing machines, John Deere's steel plow, the corn planter, and the two-horse cultivator were invented

  • 1832

    first fire horse was purchased

  • 1850

    horses becaqme an integral part of urban fire departments

  • 1855

    congress authorized the raising of two horse-mounted regiments, known as the 1st and 2nd Cavalry

  • 1862

    congress passed the Morrill land grant act. that led to the establishment of the state agricultural collages

  • 1868

    the rural horse population in American was estimated at nearly 8 milloin, while the number of farm workers was well under 7 million

  • 1868

    the first of the nations veterinary colleges opened at cornell university

  • 1890

    horses averaged about 2000 pounds apiece

  • 1900

    there were over 27000 purebred Belgians, Clydesdales, Percherons, Shires and Suffolk punches in the United States, increased average horse size to 1200 and 1500 pounds

  • 1906

    the number had grown to nearly 1500 horses

  • 1910

    500 acre wheat farms were not uncommon

  • 1911

    team events begun

  • 1917

    entry of the United states into World War 1 tipped the balance in favor of an Allied victory
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