The few properties that were left have disappeared;
the houses and churches are deteriorating because there is no one to
care for them or to repair them. The day will come when, even if there
are friars to serve, they will have to begin the conquest all over
again.
Fray José María Pérez Llera,
Apuntes
The people of the presidio of Tubac and of the pueblo
of Tumacácori have removed to the presidio of Tucson as a
consequence of the murders committed by the barbarians during the month
of December last.
El Sonorense,
February 21, 1849
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson unseats John Q.
Adams for the American presidency. |
| 1830 | U.S. Congress passes
legislation providing for the removal of Indian tribes to lands west of
the Mississippi. |
| 1831-36 | Charles Darwin, naturalist
aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, studies the flora and fauna of South
America. |
| 1834 | By the Indian Intercourse Act
the U.S. government to prevent unauthorized settlement on Indian
lands. |
| 1835 | Samuel Colt patents his
revolving pistol in England, the following year in America. |
| 1836 | Sam Houston inaugurated as
first president of the independent Republic of Texas. |
| 1837 | Eighteen-year-old Victoria
ascends the English throne.
Mexico lets its first railroad concession. |
| 1839 | Charles Goodyear vulcanizes
rubber. |
| 1841 | The capture of ill-starred
Texan Santa Fe expedition is hailed by New Mexico Gov. Manuel Armijo as
a "great victory over the Texas invaders."
In Mexican California John A. Sutter buys the livestock and goods as the
Russians pull out of Fort Ross. |
| 1845 | Texas admitted as a state by
the U.S. |
| 1846 | The Smithsonian Institution
founded. |
| 1846-47 | The Donner party suffers the
horrors of winter at Truckee Lake. |
| 1847 | Gen. Zachary Taylor, in spite
of himself, defeats the Mexicans at Buenavista.
Brigham Young lays out Salt Lake City. |
| 1848 | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
issue the Communist Manifesto.
U.S. troops storm the Taos, N.M., pueblo church to crush local
resistance. |
| 1850 | U.S. census records a
population of 23,191,000. |
| 1851 | The Great Exhibition in London
marks the culmination of British industrial leadership. |
| 1852 | Louis Napoleon is proclaimed
Emperor Napoleon III. |
| 1853 | Santa Anna rules Mexico with
all the trappings of absolute dictator. |
| 1854 | Pope Pius IX promulgates the
dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the first since the Council of
Trent.
The Office of Surveyor General for the Territory of New Mexico is
established to deal with Spanish and Mexican land grants.
The Light Brigade charges "into the mouth of hell" at Balaclava in the
Crimea. |
| 1855 | Mexico has fifteen miles of
railroad. |
| 1856 | The bloody Kansas "civil war"
rages. |
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