Timeline of New Mexico History

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Key to help you understand the timeline.
1. The Pueblo people drive the Spaniards out of the area of New Mexico
2. Much of the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona is explored while
seeking an overland way to reach Monterey, California from Santa Fe
3. The Gadsden Purchase adds more land to the New Mexico Territory
4. Juan de Oñate leads the colonization of the area of New Mexico
5. The Pueblo people win the right to vote
6. Mexico becomes independent from Spain, and government officials in New Mexico ally with
Mexico
7. Francisco de Coronado arrives in the area of present-day New Mexico to explore
8. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war between the U.S. and Mexico.
Mexico loses much of its territory, including New Mexico.
9. New Mexico becomes the 47th state in the U.S.
10. Albuquerque is officially founded
11. Susana Martinez becomes the first elected female governor of New Mexico and the first
Hispanic female governor in the U.S.
12. Zebulon Pike leads an expedition to explore the Red River, which takes them into northern
New Mexico
13. The first passenger train reaches New Mexico
14. Santa Fe is officially founded
15. The Republic of Texas invades New Mexico, trying to increase its borders. The invasion fails.
16. New Mexico becomes a U.S. territory
17. Spanish colonists resettle the area of New Mexico