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| 1843 |
| | William Hickling Prescott brings the Conquistadors dramatically to life in his 3-volume History of the Conquest of Mexico | |
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| 1846 |
| | President Polk sends a US army into Texas, provoking the Mexican-American War | |
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| 1847 |
| | William Hickling Prescott follows his great work on Mexico with a 2-volume History of the Conquest of Peru | |
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| 1848 |
| | A treaty signed in Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, gives the US six new states | |
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| 1850 |
| | California is admitted to the union just two years after being acquired from Mexico | |
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| 1854 |
| | US minister to Mexico James Gadsden secures a treaty by which the USA purchases from Mexico much of southern Arizona | |
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| 1855 |
| | Liberal leaders Juan Alvarez and Ignacio Comonfort launch a political programme in Mexico that becomes know simply as 'the Reform' | |
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| 1858 |
| | Conservatives seize Mexico City at the start of a civil war against the Liberal government | |
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| 1861 |
| | The Liberals recover Mexico City and elect Benito Juarez as president | |
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| 1861 |
| | Benito Juarez, president of a bankrupt Mexico, suspends interest payment on the nation's foreign debt | |
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