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Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca reaches Culiacdn, Mexic
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The Spanish explorer, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explores the from Gulf of California to Kansas and discovers the Grand Canyon
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Fray Augustin Rodriguez and Captain Francisco Sanchez Chamuscado travel up the Rio Grande
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Fray Bernadino Beltra and Fray Anthonio de Espejo travel to New Mexico for more land
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Juan de Onate establishes the first Spanish capital of San Juan de los
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Battle at Aroma between Pueblo natives and Spaniards
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Navajos, Apaches, lies, and Comanches begin raids against Pueblo Indians
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The Spanish Inquisition established in New Mexico as a territory
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Pueblo Indian Revolt lead by a Pueblo Indian from the San Juan Pueblo.He wanted freedome
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the Natives were defeated in war by diseases, viruses and killing each other
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Francisco atanasio dominguez and silvestre velez de escalante explore route from out of New Mexico to arizona.
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Juan Bautista de Anza
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Zebulon M. Pike a native of New Jersey, leads first Anglo American expedition into New Mexico
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Mexico declares independence from Spain. Became its own country in the americas.
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Texans invade New Mexico and claim all land east of the Rio Grande
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Mexican-American War begins. Stephen Watts Kearny
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican-American War
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The Gadsden Purchase adds 45,000 square miles to the territory
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New Mexico is partitioned in half. Territory of Arizona is created
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1910 New Mexico Constitution drafted in preparation for statehood.
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The Date that New Mexico was admitted to the Union Constitution New Mexico was the 47th State to be admitted to the Union.
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Pancho Villa raids Columbus, N.M. some people think that that what he did was for a distraction for germany to start the attack
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Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico opens for artits around the wrld
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Adoption of the l9th Amendment gives women the right to vote in the U.S and new mexico a few mounths later
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Secretary of State Soledad Chacon and Superintendent of Public Instruction Isabel Eckles elected first women to hold statewide office.
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Gila Wilderness is established in southwest New Mexico with more than 550,000 acres
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Oil is discovered on the Navajo Reservation by the native americans diging
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Spanish Colonial Arts Society is founded in Santa Fe by Mary Austin and Frank Applegate
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Route 66 is designated as Chicago-to-Los Angeles route goes through Santa Fe
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Fred Harvey Company leases La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, hires Mary Colter and John Gaw Meem to redo it
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Oil is discovered at Hobbs, setting off a boom in the New Mexico
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the dust bowl eventualy made its way to new mexico
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the great deperssion starts moving in to new mexico and effects millions around the U.S
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santa fe was not as effected as the rest in new mexico becuse of the number of rich people in the area.
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they bomed peral harbor in hawii and killed plenty of americans in the bombing
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A group of New Mexicans arrived in the Philippines just 3 months before the war began tring to stop the war from the phillipines and to take the japanese out
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the US government opened German and Italian prisoner camps all over the new mexican territory
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the air feilds that helped in world war II was kirtland,fort sumner,deming,alamugordo,roswell,carelsbad,clovis and hobbs
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the japanese sent bombers and fighter plains to pearl harbor to destroy the navy base and all of the ships
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New Mexicans went beyond the quota goals set by the state for new mexico the goal was 30000 and the goal was met for the trops of the Spirit of Bataan
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New Mexico soldiers serving in the 200th Coast Artillery during World War II are captured by the Japanese and forced to endure the Bataan Death March
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new weapons and war machines were being upgraded about every 6 mounths which made new mexico make new plains because of all the air force bases in the area
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they started because the US did not want any spies watching there stratagies or info getting out into the japanese public
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Navajo "Codetalkers" are influential in helping end the war so the japanese could not understand the languge so they can say things that were imortant to the american allies
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1,065 Pueblo Indians served on European and Pacific fronts large numbers of Hispanic New Mexicans served in the war for three years
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the great deperssion ends and life resumes to the average life
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they were creating a mega weapon to stop the war or to make the japanese surrender or give up.
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they bought a national park to make it into a test site and for a the production of the atom bomb the fat man
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Little Boy, was dropped by a B-29 over Hiroshima on august 6th
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Fat Man, was dropped over Nagasaki three days later
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World's first atomic bomb detonated at Trinity Site in southern New Mexico after its development at Los Alamos.
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US and Mexican government signed the Bracero Program which saved about 169,000 Mexican workers who helped the US
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New Mexico helped WWII by the Navajo Code Talkers to the Manhattan Project
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UFO allegedly crashes between Roswell and Corona, believers claim U.S. government institutes massive coverup of the incident.
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there was know need for the war camps only the people that still fight for the other teams.they ended them because they had little people still fighting
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Native Americans will the right to vote in state elections.Miguel Trujillo of Isleta Pueblo was the first to vote as a native american
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town of hot springs changes its name to T or C because of a hit TV show
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uranium was discovered near grants on and old native ameican ranch and was mined for years and gave up more than 60 percent of the uranium founded in the united states
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a film version of the 1951 strike against a zinc mining company in Grant County is released
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Buddy Holly makes his first recording at Norman Petty Studio in Clovis
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they made a move about a native american girl and the movie is called Lucky Liz”, in Zuni Mountains
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Famed movie producer Mike Todd and three others die in the crash of his plane, the “Lucky Liz”, in Zuni Mountains
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The State Records Center is established in Santa Fe, taking over the archival responsibilities previously held by the Historical Society of New Mexico
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First sections of Interstate 40 in New Mexico completed
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Atomic Energy Commission’s Project Gnome carries out first underground nuclear detonation in salt dome near Carlsbad with objective of peaceful applications
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Institute for American Indian Arts is established at the campus of the Santa Fe Indian School.
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a navajo person named Monroe Jymm and another one named james atcitty become the first navajo state legislatures
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it was built for easy travel to go to the northwest from toas nAt 565 feet above the Rio Grande, it is the tenth highest bridge in the United States
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a 2.7 mile long tram way that was the longest at the time was finished.it started at the bottom then ends at the top of sandia peak
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New Mexico Department of Game and Fish introduces oryx into the Tularosa Basin, intending them to be hunted for sport
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New Mexico Constitution Review Committee meets, adopts changes later to be rejected by voters
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President Nixon signs Congressional legislation returning Blue Lake and 48,000 acres of surrounding land to Taos Pueblo
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yearly festival of hot air balloons that takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA during early October. The balloon fiesta is a nine day event, and has around 750 balloons
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the dun of the monkey chickens
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Jemez runner Al Waquie sets record in Pike’s Peak marathon, one of his many mountain running victories
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Space shuttle Columbia lands at White Sands Space Harbor in 1982 due to more space to land
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New Mexico gets a third U. S. Congressional seat filled by Bill Richardson/
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she becomes the first woman New Mexico Supreme Court Justice due to womans rights
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Santa Fe Institute is founded as a nonprofit research and education center specializing in the interdisciplinary study of complex systems
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new mexico Natural History and Science Museum it was founded in ABQ and became very popular over the years.
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Lechugilla Cave is not that far away from carilsbad and was founded as one of the deepest cave systems in the world
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it opens in Santa Fe, incorporating the Laboratory of Anthropology as a unit of the Museum of New Mexico
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it opens in Las Cruces, later becomes the Bruce King New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Center
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the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. is completed. It received its 1st shipment of nuclear waste in 1999
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new mexico changed it to land of enchantment by Michael Martin Murphey is adopted as official state ballad
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the international ufo Museum and Research Center opens in Roswell, New Mexico because of the supposibly the crash of a ufo 30 years earlier
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First Hantavirus outbreak known in U. S. occurs in the Four Corners area
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Ted Turner purchases the 588,000-acre Vermejo Park Ranch from Pennzoil Corporation
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Sandia Laboratories ASCI Red is rated as world’s fastest supercomputer, a position it held until 2000
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WIPP near Carlsbad opens and receives its first shipment of radioactive waste in the picture it says what they need to use it in
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Cerro Grande fire leaves thousands homeless in Los Alamos, more than 400 homes are destroyed
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Zuni Hotshots assist with rescue efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York following tragic attack on September 11. Alfred Marchant from Alamogordo dies in the second plane crashing into the Twin Towers
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State of New Mexico and Virgin Galactic, the British company created by entrepreneur. Richard Branson to send tourists into space, announce an agreement to build a spaceport
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New Mexico Rail Runner Express service begins to Santa Fe
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