Historical place archive

New Mexico in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at New Mexico in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

4 records4 event labels4 people1846–1945

Historical events in New Mexico

1846

August 1846
Missouri Volunteers
Alexander William Doniphan · Mexican-American War

Doniphan commands Missouri volunteers after Kearny's occupation of New Mexico

1848

2 February 1848
Mexican Cession
James Knox Polk · Mexican-American War

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transfers New Mexico to the United States

1912

6 January 1912
Unification
William Howard Taft · Republican Party Government

New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the Union

1945

16 July 1945
Trinity Nuclear Test
Harry S Truman · Nuclear

The United States conducts the Trinity test, the first detonation of a nuclear explosive device.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and New Mexico. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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