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  New Mexico, United States  

 


State/Province : Latitude: 34.351601535062194, Longitude: -106.13647460937499


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New Mexico, United States Timeline

1607
La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is founded.HL PBS
1762
3 Dec:  By a secret treaty, France cedes Upper Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to Spain.GoogleBooks
1803
30 Apr:  The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France.Avalon OurDocs
30 Nov:  Louisiana Territory is officially transferred from Spain to France.Avalon LSM
20 Dec:  In a military ceremony, the French turn over the Louisiana Purchase to the United States.GNO LoC
1821
16 Nov:  The Santa Fe Trail opens for business.NPS SFT
1853
30 Dec:  Land, currently in Arizona and New Mexico, is bought from Mexico, known as the Gadsen Purchase.Avalon USNA
1912
6 Jan:  New Mexico becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
1916
15 Mar:  General John Pershing leads an invasion of Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.1stWW USArmy
1917
24 Feb:  The Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers United States western territory to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the U. S., is presented to Woodrow Wilson, effectively bringing America into the war.USNA OurDocs
1947
7 Jul:  The Roswell Incident occurs.Space RAM
8 Jul:  The U. S. Army Air Force announces that it had captured a flying saucer.AJ W I R E D
1975
4 Apr:  Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a new company, Microsoft, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.W I R E D CIOViews
1980
10 Oct:  The Very Large Array (VLA) is dedicated outside of Socorro, New Mexico.AAS Harvard
1986
25 May:  Hands Across America takes place.ABCNews GoogleMaps
1997
24 Jun:  The U. S. Air Force reports on the "Roswell Incident".AFMag PopSci