Clovis people living in the area
Arizona History Timeline
This website was created and is maintained by:
Philip J. June
Tucson, AZ
This website was first created
and published on 11.27.07;
Last update was 11.27.07
12,000 B.C.
Agricultural settlements established
1000 B.C.
Hohokam Culture
200 A.D. - 1450 A. D.
Mendoza sends Marcos de Niza in search of the seven cities of gold
1539
Coronado follows de Niza into Arizona
1540
Spanish Jesuit missionaries arrive
1600's
Father Kino arrives in southern Arizona
1692
Father Kino begins building of San Xavier del Bac
1697
Father Kino establishes the Mission San Agustin
1757
Hugo O'conor establishes the Presidio of San Agustin del Tucson
1775
The Presidio of Tucson is completed
1781
San Xavier and the convento are completed (more or less)
1797
Mexican-Spanish War begins
1810
Mexican-Spanish War ends with Treaty of Cordoba, Tucson is now part of Mexico
1821
Mexican-American War begins
1846
Mexican-American War ends with Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Mexican Arizona U.S. borders in dispute
1848
Gadsden Purchase makes Southern Arizona part of U.S.
1853
Southern New Mexico Territory (incl Southern Arizona) secedes
1861 - 1863
Civil War battle of Picacho Pass fought north of Tucson
1862
Arizona becomes a territory of the U.S.
1864
Tucson is the Arizona Territorial Captial
1866 - 1877
First Southern Pacific Railroad
train arrives in Tucson
1880
Electric lights arrive
1883
Territorial legislature authorizes the University of Arizona
1885
Arizona Territorial University (precursor to U.of A.) opens
1891
Arizona becomes the 48th state
1912
Tucson becomes first city in the U.S. to own a munincipal airport (present day Davis Monthan A.F.B.)
1920
Linbergh lands in Tucson
1927
F.B.I. captures Dillinger at Tucson Hotel Congress
1934
Arizona
The
Grand Canyon State
History of
Capitol Building in Phoenix
Anasazi culture emerges
1200 B.C.
Pueblo Golden Age
900 A.D. - 1130 A. D. .
Apache and Navajo migrate into Arizona
1300
Hernando de Alarcon in Yuma area
1540
Army establishes Ft. Yuma
1853
Colorado City - settlement at Ft. Yuma
1857
Colorado City renamed Arizona City
1858
Stagecoach arrives in Yuma
1858
War with the Apaches
1861 - 1886
Arizona City floods, is rebuilt as Yuma
1866
Phoenix officially recognized
1868
Territorial legislature proposes
penetentiary
1875
Settlers establish Agassiz at foot
of San Francisco Peaks
1876
Silver is discovered in Tombstone
1877
Bisbee founded
1880
Gunfight at the OK Corral
1881
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
arrives in Flagstaff
1882
Geronimo surrenders
1886
Capital moved to Phoenix
1889
Lowell Observatory established
in Flagstaff
1894
Paleolithic hunter-gatherers
arrive
15,000 B.C. -
10,000 B.C..
Asarco Open Pit Copper Mine
Kubla Khan Formation
Kartchner Caverns - Benson
Main Street
Old Tucson
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