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Mexico’s Pacific North States

Timeline 1200 B . C .

Cochimi Indians live in Baja California Indians live in Culiacán, Sinaloa.

A . D . 900s

1500s 1600s

The Spanish arrive in Mexico.

The Yaqui Indians make a treaty with the Spanish; the Seri Indians revolt. Cora Indians revolt, and Spain sends the military to conquer them; Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Galicia are set up to govern this territory; the Jesuits are expelled.

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1700s

1810–1821 Mexican War of Independence is fought against Spain. 1862 France invades Mexico. 1867

Benito Juárez triumphs over the French, executes the Emperor Maximilian, and resumes his presidency.

1876 1910 1913

Porfirio Díaz begins his period of dictatorship.

The Mexican Revolution begins.

Sonoran Álvaro Obregón becomes the revolutionary leader in charge of northwestern Mexico.

1920 1924

Obregón is elected president of Mexico.

Plutarco Elías Calles, a protégé of Obregón and fellow native of Sonora, is elected president of Mexico, serving until 1928. Abelardo Rodríguez Luján, an ally of Calles from Sonora, is appointed to complete the term of Pascual Ortiz, who resigned. The Mexican government launches the Border Industrialization Program, which encourages the creation of small factories called maquiladoras.

1932

1965