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Signature. Diego de Vargas Zapata y Luján Ponce de León y Contreras (1643–1704), commonly known as Don Diego de Vargas, was a Spanish Governor of the New Spain territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (currently covering the modern US states of New Mexico and Arizona). He was the title-holder in 1690–1695, and effective governor in 1692 ...
Over 600. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, also known as Popé's Rebellion or Po'pay's Rebellion, was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, larger than present-day New Mexico. [1] Incidents of brutality and cruelty, coupled with persistent Spanish policies that ...
Taos Pueblo's most prominent architectural feature is a multi-storied residential complex of reddish-brown adobe, built on either side of the Rio Pueblo. The Pueblo's website states it was probably built between 1000 and 1450. [4] The pueblo was designated a National Historic Landmark on October 9, 1960.
Jul. 31—A controversial statue of a Spanish conquistador that has been in hiding since 2020 will soon be on public display again. The life-size bronze statue of Don Diego de Vargas, whose role ...
On the morning of January 19, 1847, the insurrectionists began the revolt in Don Fernando de Taos, present-day Taos, New Mexico and nearby Taos Pueblo. They were led by Pablo Montoya, a Hispano, and Tomás Romero, a Taos Puebloan also known as Tomasito (Little Thomas). Romero led a Native American force to the house of Governor Charles Bent ...
Nov. 24—A man charged in the beating deaths of a father and son at a house in Taos Pueblo in 2019 was ordered by a federal judge Friday to remain in custody while awaiting trial, court records show.
Mirabal became a prominent political leader and activist in the Taos Pueblo in the 1920s and 1930s. [2] Mirabal rejected a proposed meeting with President Herbert Hoover, choosing instead to travel to New York in January 1933 to meet with then president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. [2]
Taos was the most northern stop on the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, also known as the King's Highway, from Mexico City. [11] Mountain men who trapped for beaver nearby made Taos their home in the early 1800s. [6] In December 1826 Kit Carson arrived [12] and later married Josefa Jaramillo from Taos. [7]