NMCentennialBlueBook

*September 16, 1692
The Tupatu brothers of Picuris Pueblo, Luis and Lorenzo, (Luis being one of the principal
leaders in the 1680 Revolt) confer with Vargas and the missionary fathers. They
become allies of Vargas and are given full pardon for their role in the great rebellion
The first entrada is a complete success and within four months 23 Pueblos of 10 different nations
are again allies instead of enemies. Vargas writes that the province now has to have Hispanic colonists,
five hundred families, and at least 100 soldiers in order to secure the bloodless re-conquest.
Some believed to have perished in the Revolt are found alive; Francisco Márquez finds the wife
and daughter of his uncle, Pedro Márquez; Martín Hurtado finds his sister and their mother
Juana; José Dominguez de Mondoza finds his sister and her five children.
*1693
October 4: The re-colonization of New Mexico included approximately some 800 persons who
didn't arrive at the same time. It included families, various soldiers, and a number of Indian allies.
It was led by Bartolome de Ojeda from Zía Pueblos. They brought with them 900 cattle, 2000
horses and 1,000 mules.
*1695
The first land grant was made to Francisco Montes Vigil. His wife and family travel from
Zacatecas, Mexico with the Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition and settled in Santa Cruz, New
Mexico.
*1700
A land grant in the Española Basin, the Mesilla of San Ildefonso, is made to José Trujillo for land
at the junction of Pojoaque Creek and the Río Grande.
Land grants are made to Hispanics by Governor Vargas. Grants generally fell into two
categories:
Private: Grants that are made to one individual who owns the entire grant and can sell it after possession
requirements are met.
Community: Grants that are made to a group of people who each receive a solar de casa, (plot of
land for a house), a suerte, (an irrigable plot), and rights to use the common lands (unassigned land
grant, for pasture, watering, logging, collecting firewood, hunting, fishing, and rock quarrying).
Common lands in New Mexico were owned by the community and couldn’t be sold under Hispanic
law since they belonged to everyone who had rights to that land grant.
*1704
Don Diego de Vargas dies in Bernalillo.
*1706
Villa de Alburquerque, which had been referred to as Bosque Grande de Doña Luisa, is founded
by pioneer families, about 252 people, 12 of whom settled in the present Old Town area, the others
along the river in settlements called "Ranchos de Albuquerque," Los Varelas, Los Duranes, Los
Poblanos, Los Griegos, Los Candelarias, etc. and on the west side of the river and downstream were
Los Corrales, Atrisco, Armijo, etc. Into the Sandía Mountains were Carnue and San Antonio.
1711
July 27: Frey Juan de Tagle travels to Cabildo of Santa Fe, regarding the census of inhabitants.
*1712
September 16: Santa Fe Fiesta--the Santa Fe Cabildo meets and decides to establish a fiesta in
order to honor the reestablishment of Christianity in New Mexico. A fiesta is to be held annually
with a sermon, followed by vespers, Mass and a procession in honor of Nuestra Señora del
Rosario.
**Marqués de la Peñuelo ordered residents of Santa Fe to celebrate September 16 as the
anniversary of Vargas's 1692 re-conquest.
*1714
Juana Lujan buys land near San Ildefonso Pueblo and builds the family home that comes to
be known as Rancho de San Antonio. Juana, and later her sons, encroach on the lands of San
Ildefonso.
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