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THE CORONADO EXPEDITION, 1540-15-12 



[ETH. ANN. 14 



June 



June 24 

 August 



Sept. 28 



Oct. 2 



December 



Coronado, with thirty horsemen, rides north to Quivira, 

 where he arrives forty-two ( ?) days later. 



Pedro de Alvarado is hilled at Nochistlan, in New Galicia. 



Coronado spends about twenty-five days in the country of 

 Quivira, leaving "the middle or last of August." 



The Indians in New Galicia attach the town of Guadalajara, 

 but are repulsed. 



Coronado returns from Quivira to Tiguex and writes a letter 

 to the King. 

 November Cardenas starts to return to Mexico with some other inva- 

 lids from the army. He finds the village of Suya in ruins 

 and hastily returns to Tiguex. 



Coronado falls from his horse and is seriously injured. 



The Mixton peiiol is surrendered by the revolted Indians 

 during holiday week. 



1542 



Coronado and his soldiers determine to return to New Spain. 

 They start in the spring, and reach Mexico probably late in 

 the autumn. The general makes his report to the viceroy, 

 who receives him coldly. Coronado not long after resigns 

 his position as governor of New Galicia and retires to his 

 estates. 



De Soto reaches the mouth of Red river, where he dies, 

 May 21. 



Cabrillo starts on his voyage up the California coast. He 

 dies in January, 1543, and the vessels return to New Spain 

 by April, 1544. 



Villalobos starts across the Pacific. His fleet meets with 

 many misfortunes and losses. The survivors, five years 

 or more later, return to Spain. 



Friar Juan de la Cruz is killed at Tiguex. where he remained 

 when the army departed for New Spain. Friar Luis also 

 remained in the new country, at Cicuye, and Friar Juan 

 de Padilla, at Quivira, where he is killed. The compan- 

 ions of Friar Juan de Padilla make their way back to 

 Mexico, arriving before 1552. 



1544 



Nov. 30 Promulgation of the New Laws for the Indies. 



Sebastian Cabot publishes his map of the New World. 



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Mendoza, before he leaves New Spam to become viceroy of 

 Peru, answers the charges preferred against him by the 

 officials appointed to investigate his administration. 



April 17 

 June 27 



Nov. 1 



Nov. 25 



