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Between the years of 1539 and 1821, the Spanish Empire explored, colonized, and ruled over what is the state of Arizona in the United States. In 1539, Fray Marcos de Niza passed through what is now southeastern Arizona in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola.
The earliest documented Spanish activity in southern Arizona is the 1539 expedition headed by Fray Marcos de Niza, in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola. Their stay in Arizona was brief and transitory, as they quickly passed into New Mexico and into the history of that region.
In the spring of 1687, the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino lived and worked with the Native Americans in the area called the Pimería Alta, or "Upper Pima Country," which presently includes the Mexican state of Sonora and the southern portion of Arizona.
17 Μαρ 2009 · Permanent Hispanic settlement in todays Arizona did not take place until 1752, when a presidio was established at Tubac, only to be relocated in 1776 forty miles north to Tucson. Under the uncertain protection of a weak Spanish garrison, rancheros attempted to raise livestock in the valleys of the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Rivers.
An introductory chapter deals with “myth and reality in the Upper Pimería.” The origins of the name “Arizona,” the Spanish influence on local architectural styles, women, politics, and the place of ranching and mining are briefly treated in an overview of the period.
a shipwreck on Galveston in present-day Texas straggled in after a strenuous hike across present-day Texas and New Mexico. The group leader Alva Nunez Cabeza De Baca told Spanish officials that there was nothing of interest to the east but the heard of seven rich cities to the north.
The history of Arizona encompasses the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Post-Archaic, Spanish, Mexican, and American periods. About 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, Paleo-Indians settled in what is now Arizona.
