Arizona Timeline

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1100 AD
The Anasazi Indians build first "apartments."
 
Cabeza de Vaca crossed southern portion of Arizona enroute to Mexico. He carried stories of the Seven Cities of Cibola.
 
Estavan, a black Morrocan slave, became  one of the explorers of the southwest.
1538 AD
Marcos de Niza, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and others explore southwest.
1538 - 1580 AD
Father Kino began missionary work in the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Valleys.
1680 AD
 
1700 AD
Spanish troops establish Arizona's first white settlement at Tubac.
1752 AD
Tucson established as a Spanish Fort.  Fathers Escalante and Dominguez expeditions found place to cross the Colorado River.
1776 AD
Peace with the Apaches was negotiated - the peace lasted for 32 years.
1790 AD
Navajo Indians were reduced to submission by the Spanish in Canyon de Chelly.
1804 - 1806 AD
Arizona became a province of Mexico and the Santa Fe Trail, a trade route opened.
1821 AD
Traders begin exploring Apache Indian Areas. Bill Williams trapped from the far northwest as far south as Sonora.  Kit Carson, Sylvester and James Ohio Pattie became trappers in the Gila Valley.
 
Mormon Battalion took possession of Tucson and raised the American flag to mark a wagon road from Santa  Fe to the Pacific called Cooke's Wagon Road.
1846 AD
John C Freeman surveying party escorted Sonorans westward down the Gila River.  Gila Howard was born becoming the first Anglo-Saxon child born in this territory.
1849 AD
Peter Kitchen becomes one of the first American ranchers in Arizona.
1854 AD
First regular stage line in Arizona, the San Antonio and San Diego Company began.
1857 AD
 Weekly Arizonan, the first newspaper, was published in Tubac.
1859 AD
The westernmost battle of the Civil War was fought near Picacho Peak by Carleton's California Volunteers. Jefferson Davis declares Arizona a confederate territory.
1862 AD
President Lincoln creates the Arizona Territory with Prescott as the capital. John N Goodwin was the first territorial governor.
1863 AD
"The Long Walk" begins as most Navajo Indians surrender and are forced to walk from Fort Defiance to Fort Sumner, New Mexico - a distance of 300 miles.
 
The Territorial Capital moved to Tucson.  The first public schools opened in Prescott and Tucson.
1867 AD
Major John Wesley Powell made the first full exploration of the Grand Canyon.            1869 AD
Silver bonanzas in Pinal Mountains, Tombstone Mountains and Bradshaw Mountains.
1870 AD
Cotton is first cultivated by Arizona settlers.
1873 AD
The first big copper mining operations began in Clifton. The Territorial Prison opened at Yuma.
1875 AD
Territorial Capital returned to Prescott.  The first bank, Bank of Arizona, was established in Prescott.
1877 AD
First train, Southern Pacific, arrived in Tucson stimulating the copper industry.
1880 AD
Tempe Normal School (later renamed Arizona State University) opened in Tempe.  Geronimo and his Apache Raiders surrendered to the US Army.
1886 AD
Copper leads gold and silver in importance in Arizona.
1888 AD
Territorial Capital moves to Phoenix.
1889 AD
The University of Arizona is established in Tucson.  Citrus begins large scale commercial growth.
1891 AD
Stagecoach service is started between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon.
1892 AD
A Senatorial Committee proposed admission of Arizona and New Mexico as a single state which was opposed by the Arizona people.
1898 AD
Arizona became the 48th State on February 14th.  George P Hunt was first elected Governor.
 
Arizona National Guard was mobilized due to Pancho Villa's earlier raid on Columbus, New Mexico.
1916 AD
The first native Arizonan, Thomas E Campbell, is inaugurated as Governor.
1917 AD
 
1919 AD
American Indians were declared citizens.
1924 AD
 
1930 AD
Navajo language used for secret code against the Germans and Japanese in World War II.
1942 - 1945 AD
Arizona Indians given the right to vote.
1948 AD
Martin Luther King Day declared a holiday.
1990 AD
1999 AD
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