Spanish Colonization Timeline

Spanish rule extended (1525)

Fransisco de Montejo undertook conquest of Yucatan (1526)

Pacific coast regions were conquered by Nuno de Guzman (1530 - 1536)

Indians of Jalisco rebelled (1541)

Found valuable silver mines (1546)

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked on the coast of Texas (1528)

Francisco Vazquez de Coronado led an expedition to search for gold (1540 - 42)

A settlement was made in Florida (1565)

Juan de Onate began the conquest of New Mexico (1598)

Pueblo Indians of the region rebelled (1680)

Pueblo Indians were reconquered (1694)

Adams-Onis Treaty was published (1819)

War of the Spanish Succession (1701-13)

Notable Administrative Reforms undertaken by Charles III (1784)

Napoleon I occupied Spain (1808)

The Cortes promulgated a liberal constitution in the king's name (1812)

Hildago issued the Grito de Dolores (Sep. 16, 1810)

Hildago captured a granary and lost control of his rebel army (Sep 28, 1810)

Royalist forces defeated Hildago at the Bridge of Calderon (Jan 18, 1811)

Royalists captured Hildago and other major insurgent leaders (March 19, 1811)

Hildago was executed (July 31, 1811)

Morelos called the constituent congress at Chilpancingo (1813)

Morelos issued the constituent congress at Apatzingan (1814)

Ferdinand VII returned from involuntary exile (1814)

Morelos was shot as a heretic and a revotoutionary (Dec 22, 1815)

Mexico won it's independence (Aug 24, 1821)

Iturbide issued the Iguala Plan (1821)

Juan O'Donju signed the Treaty of Cordoba (Aug 24, 1821)

Military groups proclaimed Iturbide Emperor Agustin I (May 18, 1822)

Augustin I was crowned in a pompous ceremony (July 21,1822)

The empire was recognized by the U.S. (Dec 12, 1822)

The emperor dismissed congress and ruled through an appointed 45-man junta (Oct 31,1822)

Santa Anna proclaimed that Mexico should become a republic (Dec 2, 1822)

Augustin returned from european exile (1824)

Mexico adopted a republican constitution (1824)

A decree was published that abolished slavery in Mexico (1829)

Guadalupe Victoria was elected the first president of Mexico (1824)

Centeralists replaced Federalists (1828)

Vicente Guerrero was the second president of Mexico but he was soon overthrown (1829)

Federalists were in power (1833)

Federalists lost power; Centeralists gained power (1836)

Santa Anna was chosen as president (1833)

Valentin Gomez Farias attacked the privileges of the clergy (1834)

The Mexican government closed the border to further immigration (1830)

Santa Anna adopted a new constitution (1836)

Santa Anna was captured by Texas forces (April 1836)

The U.S. annexed the Republic of Texas (1845)

James K. Polk was elected president (March 1845)

Mexican and U.S. patrols clashed (April 1846)

Polk's congressional majority formally declared war on Mexico (April 1846)

Santa Anna reemerged as president (Sep 1846)

Sant Anna was beaten and forced to retreat (Feb 23, 1847)

Winfield Scott defeated Santa Anna (Sept 14,1847)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago formally ended hostility between the two countries (Feb 2, 1848)

Conservatives invited Santa Anna to become dictator (1853)

Santa Anna decreed that the dictatorship should be prolonged indefinitely (Dec 16, 1853)