The first known inhabitants was the Clovis culture about 11,500 years ago.
The Anasazi were present by 1200 BCE.
Francisco Coronado explored the area from 1540 to 1542.
Juan de Onate became the first Governor of Nuevo Mexico in 1598.
Santa Fe was settled by 1608.
Po'pay's Pueblo Revolt ousted the Spaniards in 1680.
Diego de Vargas restored Spanish Rule in in 1692.
Albuquerque was founded in 1706.
Mexico became independent of Spain in 1821.
The Santa Fe Trail was established in 1821.
The Texas Santa Fe Expedition tried to exercise its claims to the area in 1841.
The US acquired New Mexico as a result of the 1846-1848 Mexican American War.
In 1849 Kit Carson moved to Taos.
The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 completed the southern border of the State.
The US Civil War came to the State in 1862.
Billy the Kid was killed at Fort Sumner in 1881.
New Mexico becomes a US State in 1912.
The Trininty test of the Atomic bomb was conducted on 16 July 1945.
The Roswell Incident happened in 1947.
New Mexico Campaign happened in 1862-02.
the mexican's revolution and in the past 200 years the independence of Mexico
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot happened in 1980.
It never happened.
No- there has never been a US president from New Mexico.
Mexico (the country) is south of California. New Mexico (the U.S. state) is east of California, past Arizona.
New Mexico was admitted to the union as the 47th U.S. state on January 6, 1912.
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The Roswell UFO fell in New Mexico
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