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New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

Timeline of Events

1680

8.10.1680

The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.

1848

8.22.1848

The United States annexes New Mexico.

1850

9.9.1850

The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

1868

6.1.1868

Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.

1879

7.19.1879

Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.

1881

4.18.1881

Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

1912

1.6.1912

New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.

1917

2.24.1917

World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

1941

11.1.1941

American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

1960

8.16.1960

Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at convert 102800, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.

1962

6.14.1962

The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation.

1976

3.4.1976

The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.

1982

3.30.1982

Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of ''Columbia'' at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.