Category: New Mexico Territory
Categories: US History | Louisiana Purchase | New Mexico History
From 1598 to 1693, the Spanish "Kingdom of New Mexico" reached from Taos Pueblo, following the Rio del Norte to Guadalupe del Paso (Ciudad Juarez). Don Juan de Oñate, the first colonizer of the Kingdom of New Mexico, arrived at San Juan de los Caballeros in 1598 with approximately 130 Spanish soldiers, the families of most of the soldiers, and servants from New Spain. Around 80 more soldiers, some of their families, arrived in 1600. Of more than 200 named on the Oñate lists, less than 40 made stayed to make homes there. Other soldiers came from 1610 to 1680 and married daughters and grand-daughters of the first colonists. -- Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period by Fray Angelico Chavez, Revised Edition, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1992.
The Pueblo Revolt in 1680 (also known as Popé's or Po'pay's Rebellion) killed about 400 of the Spanish colonizers and drove the remaining 2,000 out of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, back to El Paso del Norte. In 1681 an attempt by the Spaniards to regain control of New Mexico from the Puebloans but failed and the Spanish were driven back to El Paso.
Reconquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México by Spain, 1692
In August 1692 Diego de Vargas, along with 60 soldiers, 100 Indians, seven cannons and one Franciscan priest left El Paso and marched unopposed back to Santa Fe and on September 14, 1692 a formal act of repossession of Santa Fe de Nuevo México for New Spain was proclaimed by de Vargas.
At this time many Spanish families resettled in the province on Land Grants deeded to them by the King of Spain. Many of their descendants still reside in New Mexico. The book Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period by Fray Angelico Chavez (Revised Edition, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1992) details the families based on records of the Catholic church as maintained since first settlement.
By 1800 the Spanish population of New Mexico had reached about 25,000.
Province of New Mexico, Independent Country of Mexico, 1821
After the Mexican War of Independence, New Mexico belonged to Mexico. In 1836, the Republic of Texas "claimed" all land east of the Rio Grande as theirs, however, the 1841 Texas Santa Fe Expedition efforts to establish a presence in the claimed section of the New Mexico Province, failed.
The Santa Fe Trail was established in 1821 as a means of trade between Independence, Missouri and the city of Santa Fe. It was a vital trade route and connected, in Santa Fe, to the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, which was another vital trade route to Mexico City.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
After the Mexican-American War, Mexico ceded their holdings of the American Southwest and California to the United States.
New Mexico Territory, 1850–1912
In September 1850, the US Congress established the "New Mexico Territory" which included areas known today as Arizona, New Mexico and some of Colorado.
In 1861, the Arizona Territory was established to separate the land which is now the states of Arizona and New Mexico.
'New Mexico Statehood, 1912
New Mexico entered the United States as the 47th state on January 6, 1912.
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