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Albino Pérez was a native of Veracruz, Mexico. [2] Pérez was a distinguished army colonel from central Mexico. He was appointed Governor of New Mexico by President Antonio López de Santa Anna in 1835, under the new centralized form of government. [1] He succeeded Francisco Sarracino as civilian governor and Captain Blas de Hinojos as ...
On 1 August 1837 in Santa Cruz, New Mexico, a popular revolution against the Mexican Centralist Republic Governor Albino Pérez took place due in large part to widespread opposition to the governor's ineffective policies towards custom officials, who according to the revolutionaries were using corrupt taxation practices to take advantage of the ...
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic ...
Mar. 9—David Manzanares recalls the early days of Oppenheimer in New Mexico. In some ways, they weren't far different from physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's early days in New Mexico: full of ...
New Mexico's nuclear history began in 1943 with the relocation of the Manhattan Project to Los Alamos, which led to the development and detonation of the first atomic bomb.
The revolt underlined how increased isolation from Mexico City combined with "Mexico's declarations of political equality for all ethnic groups" increased Pueblo and Hispano cooperation in Mexican New Mexico—"the two groups ousted the governor and briefly established an Independent state—the Cantón—with an Indian serving as its governor. [1]
Political divisions of the Centralist Republic of Mexico, ca. 1836–1846. Mexican governors of New Mexico were the political chief executives of the province and later territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (New Mexico) between 1822, when Mexico gained independence from Spain, and 1846, when the United States occupied the territory following the Mexican–American War.
Scientists and military officials established a secret city in Los Alamos during the 1940s and tested their work at the Trinity Site some 200 miles (322 kilometers) away.