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| 1867 |
| | Maximilian, the emperor of Mexico, and two of his generals are shot after being surrounded and captured at Querétaro | |
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| 1868 |
| | An armed uprising against Spanish rule takes place in the town of Lares in Puerto Rico, becoming known as the Grito de Lares ('Cry of Lares') | |
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| c. 1877 |
| | Cattle-rustler William H. Bonney becomes known as Billy the Kid in his brief and murderous career of crime in New Mexico | |
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| 1904 |
| | The US consul in Mexico, Edward Herbert Thompson, begins a very profitable excavation at the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá | |
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| 1908 |
| | George McJunkin, near Folsom in New Mexico, sees the bones of an extinct giant bison, partially exposed after a flash flood, with an ancient spear point embedded in the skeleton | |
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| 1910 |
| | A revolution begins in Mexico that will last ten years before being resolved | |
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| 1911 |
| | Emiliano Zapata leads peasant groups in the Mexican revolution, under the slogan 'Land and Liberty' | |
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| 1912 |
| | New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the United States of America | |
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| 1917 March 1 |
| | A deciphered telegram, from the German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann, inflames US public opinion by promising Texas and more to Mexico | |
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| 1920 |
| | Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón | |
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