What are really important events that happened in Arizona?

Answer 1

Marcos de Niza was the first European to explore the area in 1539.

Corondo came in 1540, and members of his expedition found the Grand Canyon.

Father Kino is responsilbe for the colonization of Arizona, he is known as the Father of Arizona.

George Goodwin was the first territorial governor of Arizona.

Answer 2

• The Hopi city of Oraibi is established, 1200 AD.
• Father Marcos de Niza, explores Arizona searching for cities of gold, and claims it for Spain, 1539.
• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado of Spain searches for the Seven (golden) Cities of Cibola, 1540.
• Father Kino establishes the Guevavi mission, 1692.
• A Spanish fort is built at Tucson, 1776.
• Mexico gains military control of Arizona, 1821.
• United States wins the Mexican War and gains all of Arizona north of the Gila River, 1848.
• The rest of Arizona becomes part of United States by the Gadsden Purchase, 1853.
• Copper is discovered in Arizona, 1854.
• Gold is discovered on the Gila River, 1858.
• Chief Cochise and Apaches attack soldiers at Apache Pass, beginning a ten year war with settlers, 1862.
• Territory of Arizona is created; Prescott is the capital, 1863.
• Kit Carson captures approximately 7,000 Navajo in Canyon de Chelly, forcing them to leave Arizona, 1864.
• The capital is changed to Tucson, 1867 and is eventually changed in 1880 to Phoenix (but not moved until 1889).
• John Wesley Powell explores the Grand Canyon by boat, 1869.
• Railroad crosses state, 1881.
• Wyatt Earp and three of his brothers, together with Doc Holliday, become famous in the O.K. Corral gunfight by killing and

  Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne who are suspected cattle rustlers, 26 October 1881.

• The great Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders to soldiers, 4 September 1886.
• Valentines Day, Arizona becomes the 48th State: Capital is Phoenix, first Governor is George W. P. Hunt. 14 February 1912
• Grand Canyon National Park is founded, 1919.
• The planet Pluto is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, 1930. (The IAU downgrades Pluto to a Dwarf Planet 24 August 2006).
• Boulder Dam is completed, 1936. J. G. Tierney was the first worker to die in the construction of the dam on 20 December 1922, and his son, Patrick W. Tierney was the last on 20 December 1935 of the 112 who were killed. The dam is renamed in 1947 to Hoover Dam.
• Native Americans obtain the right to vote, 1948.
• Barry M. Goldwater, Senator from Arizona, runs for president, 1964....but loses.
• London Bridge is moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, 1968.
• The Hopi Reservation is divided by Congress between the Hopi and the Navajo Nations, 1974.
• Raul H. Castro became the first Mexican American Governor of Arizona, 1975.
• Arizona Justice Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman on the United States Supreme Court, 1981.
• Governor Evan Mecham impeached, 1988.
• Governor Rose Mofford sworn in as the first woman in the state to hold the office, 5 April 1988.
• Shooting at the Tuscon shopping center, 8 January 2011.