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The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico dates back up to 12,000 years, beginning with the presence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in the region. Gradually, these nomadic people adopted a more settled, agricultural lifestyle and began to build multi-story stone or adobe dwellings now known as pueblos by 750 CE.
Park Van Tassel makes the first balloon flight in New Mexico Territory on July 4 at New Town. [12] 1883 Germania club founded. [13] Ladies' Library Association active. 1885 New town of Albuquerque chartered. [14] Henry Jaffa elected mayor of new town. [1] 1889 – University of New Mexico founded. 1890 – Population: 3,785. [4]
A total of 103 executions have been recorded in New Mexico: four during the Spanish Colonial era (1598–1821), none during the Mexican era (1821–1846), 51 during the Territorial era (1846–1913), 20 by the U.S. Military during the Taos Rebellion (1847), 27 between 1913 and 1960, when the death penalty was removed except for the murder of a police officer, and one since 1976, when the death ...
For ten years after abolition, there were two men on death row in New Mexico whose crimes and trials took place before then: [3] Robert Ray Fry, bludgeoning and stabbing of a Shiprock woman in 2000 (he has also three other murder convictions). [4] Timothy Allen, for the kidnapping, rape, and murder by strangulation of a teenage girl in 1994
New Mexico: A History of Four Centuries (1962), standard survey; Bullis, Don, New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, 1540–1980, 2 vol, (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2008) 393 pp. ISBN 978-1-890689-17-9; Chavez, Thomas E. An Illustrated History of New Mexico, 267 pages, University of New Mexico Press 2002, ISBN 0-8263-3051-7
Albuquerque is the medical hub of New Mexico, hosting numerous medical centers. The University of New Mexico Hospital is the largest hospital in New Mexico with 628 licensed beds and is the primary teaching hospital for the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, the state's only medical school. It provides the state's only residency ...
The New Mexico Governor Lionel Sheldon, having newly taken office, and doing so in a time when news stories of Billy the Kid and John Kinney were rampant, was intent on making an example out of Yarberry. The New Mexico Attorney General, William Breedon, handled the case for the prosecution, assisted by Arnet R. Owen.
National Register of Historic Places in Albuquerque, New Mexico (131 P) Pages in category "History of Albuquerque, New Mexico" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.