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Anasazi culture culminates in the highly developed Chaco Canyon
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Beginning in the late 1100s, the upland mesas flanking the east side of the Jemez Mountains were settled by people of the Anasazi Culture. At first there were hundreds of individual, family size dwellings.
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Serious drought causes abandonment of outlying areas and end of the "Chaco Phenomenon." (actual date not available)
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Peublo Indians establish villages along the Rio Grande
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Pueblo Bonito and other Great Houses abandoned at Chaco.
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home for over 1500 Pueblo Indians who built villages, dwelled, farmed, and hunted game
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Great drought probably linked to some abandonments. No actual date available
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Abandonment of Four Corners area; population increase further south in Rio Grande and Little Colorado regions and Hopi mesas.
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More drought actual date not available
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The Treaty of Tordesillas was a pivotal document underlying the Spanish Empire's goal of expanding its domain in the world during the 15th century. The treaty would be evoked as divine claim upon land and people granted by the Pope himself in Juan de Oñate's Act of Possession. It was concluded on June 7, 1494 in order to settle the contentious matter of the possession of the newly discovered lands of the non Christian world between Portugal and Spain.
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Cabeza De Vaca, Estevan the Moor, and two others reach Culiacdn, Mexico, after crossing what is now southern New Mexico, and begin the rumors of the Seven Cities of Cibola
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Juan de Onate establishes the first capitol of San Jun de los Caballeros at the Tewa village of Ohke north of present day Espanola
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Battle of Acoma between Natives and Spaniards; seeds of Pueblo Revolt sown
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Second capitol, San Gabriel, is founded at the conflusnce of the Rio Grande and the Chama River
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Mass desertion of San Gabriel by colonists; new recruits front Spain and Mexico sent to reinforce colony.
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Onate removed as governor and sent to Mexico City to be tried for mistreatment of the Indians and abuse of power. Decision made by Spanish Crown to continue settlement of New Mexico as a royal province.
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Gov. Pedro de Peralta establishes a new capital at Santa Fe. Construction begins on the Palace of the Governors. Gaspar de Villagra publishes epic history on the founding of New Mexico, the first book printed about any area in the modern United States
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Spanish Inquisition established in New Mexico.
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Pueblo Indian Revolt Spanish survivors flee to El Paso del Norte
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Don Diego de Vargas recolonizes Santa Fe. Spanish civilization returns to New Mexico
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The Duke of Alburquerque, Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva Enriquez, arrives in Mexico City to assume duties as the 34th viceroy of New Spain.
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Villa de Albuquerque founded
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French trappers reach Santa Fe and begin limited trade with the Spanish. (actual date not given)
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Political chief Juan Jose Lobato allows 12 families to take possession of the Las Trampas land grant. He assigns each family plots for homes, gardens and growing wheat. Las Trampas was a springboard for settlement of eastern New Mexico and Colorado.
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Bishop Pedro Tamarón is the first to account for this event officially in his 1760 descriptions of New Mexico,
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Smallpox epidemic devastates New Mexico, killing more than 5000 people, a quarter of the entire population.(actual date not given)
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Gov. Juan Bautista de Anza and troops hold peace conference at Pecos Pueblo with Comanches, led by Chief Ecueracapa.(actual date not given)
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Trail between Santa Fe and St. Louis, the first complete journey over the Santa Fe Trail.actual date not given)
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Col. Jose Manuel Carrasco discovers a deposit of copper, which comes to be known as the Santa Rita Mine. (actual date unknown)
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Pedro Martín of Taos reported to Governor Alberto Máynez, that he had placed 50 families in possession of the site [paraje and sitio] of Río Colorado. (actual dte unknown)
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This was the Agreement on the Independent Kingdom of Mexico, which was concluded in the town of Cordova on
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By an act of the constituent congress, New Mexico joined to the provinces of Chihuahua and Durango, forming the Estado Interno del Norte.(actul dte not known)
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First major gold discovery in western U. S. made in Ortiz Mountains south of Santa Fe.(actul date unknown)
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First school text printed in New Mexico by Padre Antonio Jose Martinez of Taos. (actual date unknown)
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The Mexican Congress repeals all land colonization laws, seeking to become the final issuing authority for land grants along the northern frontier. Military and church leaders were alarmed at the number of Anglos receiving grants in New Mexico and Texas.(actual date not available)
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Under the constitution of 1836, the territory of New Mexico became a department and would be considered as such until U.S. occupation. (actual date npt avai;able)
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Santo Domingo revolutionaries in Santa Fe on Agua Fria Road decapitate Gov. Albino Perez. The governor tried to impose taxes ordered by Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, sparking the Revolt of 1837.
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1996 marked the 150th anniversary of one of the most significant events in New Mexico history - the Mexican American War. War between the United States and Mexico was officially declared on
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Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum was executed in Clayton, New Mexico, becoming the only person ever executed by hanging under the territorial law that imposed the death penalty on train robbers.
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New Mexico Governor George Curry issued the Lincoln Day Proclamation recognizing the one hundredth anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birth.
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This is just a guideline, not part of actual timeline
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Albuquerque Army Air Base renamed Kirtland Field
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Santa Fe Japanese internment camp is established
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N.M. National Guardsmen captured at Bataan in the Philippines, about half of the 1800 New Mexicans die before end of the war in 1945
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Holloman Air Force Base established near Alamogordo and Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis
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Navajo members of the 382nd Platoon, U. S. Marine Corps, establish secret code, become known as “Code Talkers”
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USS Santa Fe (CL-60), a Cleveland class light cruiser, is launched
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109 East Palace in Santa Fe and its administrator, Dorothy McKibbin, welcome Manhattan Project newcomers to New Mexico
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Manhattan Project site on “the Hill” at Los Alamos is established
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White Sands Proving Ground (later White Sands Missile Range) established
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The test bomb was dropped at 5:29:45 pm. The sand around the drop site turned into glass.
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nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, lead to first official reports of secret activities on “the Hill”
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about 100 German rocket engineers and scientists arrive at Fort Bliss, the beginning of U. S. Army rocket programs at White Sand
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New Mexican Bill Mauldin wins Pulitzer Prize for his World War II cartoons and reporting when he was 23
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Little Boy dropped at 8:16 am on Hiroshima.
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Fat Man dropped on 11:01 on Nagasaki
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This is just a guideline, not part of actual timeline
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Roswell Army Air Field picked up a "flying disk" It has been rumored to have contained alien bodies and said to be an alien ship
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A federal court in Santa Fe ruled that New Mexico was bring unfair towards the Minorites with voting rights, giving the Native Americans voting rights
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N. M. penitentiary riot takes place as inmates take guards hostage, 33 inmates die
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fossilized bones of perhaps the longest dinosaur yet found, Seismosaurus (Earth Shaker), are found south of San Ysidro
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I-40 is completed in New Mexico
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Space shuttle Columbia lands at White Sands Space Harbor oil Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo.*date not given
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Third U.S Congressional seat, filled by Bill Richardson (other two are Manuel Luján, Jr., and Joe Skeen)
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The world gained a serial killer
