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| ARIZONA STATE HISTORICAL INFORMATION 2000 BC Indians introduce agriculture to Arizona. 1200 AD Hopi village of Oraibi is founded. May be oldest American town where people have continuously lived. 1539 Father Marcos de Niza, looking for cities of gold, explores Arizona and claims it for Spain. 1540 De Cardenas discovers Grand Canyon. 1692 Father Kino starts work and founds Guevavi mission. 1700 San Xavier del Bac mission (White Dove of the Desert) is founded. 1776 A presidio (fort) is built at Tucson. 1821 Arizona is now governed by Mexico. 1848 At end of Mexican War most of Arizona becomes part of United States. 1853 By Gadsden Purchase, rest of Arizona becomes part of United States. 1854 Copper is discovered in Arizona. 1857 First stagecoach in Arizona. 1858 Gold is discovered on Gila River. 1862 Chief Cochise and Apaches attack soldiers at Apache Pass, beginning a ten year war with settlers. 1863 Territory of Arizona is created by Congress, with Prescott as capital. 1864 Kit Carson captures approximately 7,000 Navajo indians in Canyon de Chelly, forcing them to leave Arizona. 1869 John Wesley Powell explores the Grand Canyon by boat. 1870 Population is 9,658 1881 Railroad crosses state. 1881 The gunfight at the O.K. Corral, October 26. 1886 The great Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders to soldiers on September 4. Indian fighting is over. 1880 Phoenix becomes capital of Arizona Territory. 1900 Population is 122,931. 1911 Roosevelt Dam is completed. 1912 February 14th, Valentines Day, Arizona becomes the 48th State: Capital is Phoenix, first Governor is George W. P. Hunt. 1919 Grand Canyon National Park is founded. 1930 The planet Pluto is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. 1936 Hoover Dam is completed. 1940 Population is 499,261. Arizona is known as Grand Canyon State. 1948 Indians obtain the right to vote. 1960 Population has zoomed to 1,302,161. 1963 United States Supreme Court decision maintains Arizona's right to large amounts of Colorado river water. 1964 Barry M. Goldwater, Senator from Arizona, runs for president....but loses. 1965 Judge Lorna Lockwood is elected as Chief Justice of Arizona State Supreme Court. 1968 London Bridge (which was falling down) is moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona. 1968 Congress authorizes Central Arizona Project to bring Colorado river water to Phoenix and Tucson. 1975 Raul H. Castro became the first Mexican American Governor of Arizona. 1981 Population grows to 2,718,425. 1981 Arizona Justice Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman on the United States Supreme Court. 1988 Governor Evan Mecham becomes the first United States Governor in 59 years to be impeached. 1988 Acting Governor Rose Mofford sworn in as the 18th Governor on April 5, the first woman in the state to hold the office. 2000 Census Declares Arizona Population to be 5,130,632. |
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