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July 7 



July ii 

 July 15 



July I g 

 Aug. 3 



Aug.25(?) 



Aug. 26 

 Aug. 29 



Sept. 7 



September 



to 

 January 



October 



Nov. 29 



Ooronado reaches Cibola and captures the first city, the 

 pueblo of TIawikuh, which he calls Granada. 



The Indians retire to their stronghold on Thunder mountain. 



Pedro de Tovar goes to Tusayan or Mold, returning within 

 thirty days. 



Ooronado goes to Thunder mountain and returns the same day. 



Ooronado writes to Mendoza. He sends Juan Gallego to 

 Mexico, and Melchior Diaz to Corazones with orders for 

 the army. Friar Marcos accompanies them. 



Lopez de Cardenas starts to find the canyons of Colorado 

 river, and is gone about eighty days. 



Alarcon enters the mouth of Colorado river. 



Hernando de Alvarado goes eastward to Tiguex, on the Rio 

 Grande, and to the buffalo plains. 



Pedro de Alvarado arrives in New Spain. 



Hernando de Alvarado leaches Tiguex. 



Diaz and Gallego reach Corazones about the middle of Sep- 

 tember, and the army starts for Cibola. 



Coronado visits Tutahaco. 



The army reaches Cibola, and goes thence to Tiguex for its 

 winter quarters. The natives iu the Rio Grande pueblos 

 revolt and are subjugated. The Turk tells the Spaniards 

 about Quivira. 



Diaz starts from Corazones before the end of September, 

 with twenty-live men, and explores the country along the 

 Gulf of California, going beyond Colorado river. 



Diego de Alcaraz is left in command of the town of San 

 Hieronimo. 



Mendoza and Pedro de Alvarado sign an agreement in 

 regard to common explorations and conquests. 



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Jan. 8 Diaz dies on the return from the mouth of the Colorado, and 



his companions return to Corazones valley. 

 March Alcaraz, during the spring, moves the village of San Hier- 



onimo from Corazones valley to the valley of Suya river. 

 April 20 Beginning of the Mixton war in New Galicia. 



Coronado writes a letter to the King from Tiguex, which lias 



been lost. 

 Tovar and perhaps Gallego return to Mexico 

 April 23 Coronado starts with all his force from Tiguex to cross the 



buffalo plains to Quivira. 

 May The army is divided somewhere on the great plains, perhaps 



on Canadian river. The main body T returns to Tiguex, 

 arriving there by the middle or last of June. 

 De Soto crosses the Mississippi. 



