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FRANCISCO VAZQUEZ DE CORANADO ARRANGED AN EXPEDITION TO FIND THE SEVEN GOLDEN CITIES OF CIBOLA
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Juan de Oñate came to New Mexico with 500 Spanish settlers and soldiers and 7,000 head of livestock to found the first New Mexican settlemen
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Pope planed to attack the Spanish on Aug. 18, but the Spanish learned of it so Pope attacked on the 13 instead and the Spanish retreated
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Diego de Vargas surrounded New Mexico and pursauded the Indians to agree to peace.
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Juan Bautista de Anza led a group of 560 men against the comanches who were out of control and killing many Spanish and Pueblo peoples.
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Padre Antonio Jose printed the first school text in NM in Taos.
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Lt. Zebulon Pike was sent to New Mexico to locate the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers, but was arrested instead
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The peace between the nomadic Indians and New Mexicans fell apart...in 1821 governor Melgares led a raid into Navajo country
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A new constitution was drafted in Mexico which New Mexico was able to use to gain priviliges out of.
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by the treaty of gaudelupe-hidalgo ending the mexican war,made public in washington on july 4,1848,the united states achieved its principal objectives:
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Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy arrives in New Mexico and establishes schools, hospitals and orphanages throughout the territory
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New Mexico gains 45,000 square miles in the Gadsden Purchase
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Navajos are forced onto a long walk to be relocated
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New Mexico is split into two, creating Arizona
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the railroad arrives in New Mexico, opening full-scale trade and migration from the east and midwest, just when the Lincoln County War erupts in southeast New Mexico
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Billy the Kid is shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner
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Geronimo surrenders which makes the Indian hostilities cease in the Southwest
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The first movie made in New Mexico, Idian Day School, is produced by Thomas A. Edison
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New Mexico drafted another constitution
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New Mexico is accepted as a state by President Taft
