700 A.D. - 1200 A.D.: Pueblo
people lived on the land and the Hopi
village was founded

1539: Father Marcos de Niza,
looking for cities of gold, explored
Arizona and claimed it for Spain

1540: Francisco Coronado
explored the area

1692: Jesuit priests arrived in
the Arizona area

1700: San Xavier del Bac mission
White Dove of the Desert: was founded

1752: Tubac became first
permanent settlement

1821: All of Arizona governed by
Mexico

1846: The Mexican-American War
began

1848: The Mexican-American War
ended; most of the land became part of
the United States of America

1854: Copper discovered in
Arizona

1858: Gold found in the Gila
River

1862: Confederate troops
occupied Tucson; Cochise and Apaches
attacked soldiers at Apache Pass

1863: Arizona Territory created
by Congress, with Prescott as the
capital

1869: John Wesley Powell
explored the Grand Canyon by boat along
the Colorado River

1881: The first railroad crossed
the state

1881: The infamous "Gunfight at
the OK Corral"

1886: The Apache Chief Geronimo
finally surrendered, and Indian fighting
ended

1889: Phoenix became the capital
city

1911: The Roosevelt Dam project
completed

1912: Arizona became the 48th
State on February 14th, Valentine's Day

1919: Grand Canyon National Park
established

1930: The planet Pluto
discovered by astronomers at the Lowell
Observatory

1936: Hoover Dam completed and
dedicated

1948: Arizona native American
Indians won the right to vote

1964: Barry Goldwater, Arizona
Senator, ran for U.S. President

1968: London Bridge moved from
England, to Lake Havasu City, Arizona

1981: Sandra Day O'Connor became
the first woman appointed to the U.S.
Supreme Court

1991: The Central Arizona
water: Project completed

2001: Arizona Diamondbacks won
the World Series, beating the New York
Yankees in 7 games
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