Timeline-El Paso Valley

  • 1581   Rodríguez/Chamuscado entrada
  • 1583   Espejo entrada
  • 1598   Oñate entrada
  • 1609   Santa Fe established
  • 1659
    •   Guadalupe de los Mansos mission established
  • 1665   San Francisco de la Toma and La Soledad missions established
  • 1680   Pueblo Revolt, San Pedro de Alcántara, Sacremento, and San Lorenzo             settlements established
  • 1682   Ysleta, Senecú, and Socorro missions established
  • 1683   Santa Gertrudis and Guadalupe de los Sumas missions and San Jose             presidio and settlement established
  • 1684   Mansos and others revolt, Paso del Rio presidio and Paso del Norte
                settlement established
  • 1691   Nuestro Padre San Francisco mission established
  • 1692   San Diego mission established, New Mexico reconquered
  • 1707   Santa María Magdalena mission established
  • 1710   Sumas revolt
  • 1726   Mission established at San Lorenzo, Sumas revolt
  • 1730   Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Caldas mission established
  • 1745   Sumas revolt
  • 1749   Sumas revolt
  • 1760   Apache raids increase
  • 1793   San Elizario presidio and settlement established
  • 1821  Mexican independence from Spain
  • 1824  Settlements of El Paso become part of Chihuahua
  • 1835  Customs house established in Paso del Norte, first Anglos arrive in El Paso
  • 1836  Texas independence from Mexico
  • 1848  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo sets Rio Grande as border
  • 1849  Settlement of Franklin established, later renamed El Paso
  • 1852  Rio Grande shifts, making Socorro, Ysleta and San Elizario part of Texas
  • 1871  Ysleta incorporated into El Paso county and Tiguas lose their land
  • 1877  San Elizario Salt War
  • 1881  Railroad comes to El Paso
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