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6 days ago · don diego de vargas central to early new mexico history. he governed new mexico from 1691 to 1697. de vargas is known for leading a, quote, bloodless reconquest of the area following the pueblo ...
May 23, 2024 · A statue of Don Diego de Vargas is lowered onto a flatbed June 18, 2020, after it was removed from Cathedral Park.
1 day ago · Elmer Maestas speaks during public comment at a May 29, 2024 City Council meeting regarding a plan to put a statue of Don Diego de Vargas in the New Mexico History Museum and a statue of the ...
May 9, 2024 · In 1681 an expedition of reconquest was mounted. It failed. Otermin determined that “a reconquest of New Mexico with anything less than a major army would be impossible.” Other invasions failed in the 1680s. Don Diego de Vargas ultimately accomplished the reconquest at the end of 1692.
6 days ago · The Don Diego de Vargas statue, created by Donna Quastaoff and originally installed in 2007, will be in the museum starting in the summer and spend at maximum four years there, leaders said during the press conference. A specific location in the building has yet to be identified, New Mexico History Museum Executive Director Billy Garrett noted.
6 days ago · In 1691, Governor Diego de Vargas, in the name of King Charles II of Spain, gave Ysleta mission its official name: Corpus Christi de los Tiguas de Ysleta. To the Tigua, however, following the tradition of having carried the image of San Antonio with them on the march from Isleta (New Mexico), the mission church is known as San Antonio de Padua.
May 6, 2024 · A leader of the now Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museums said the change clarifies the collection; others contend it's an attack on Hispanic heritage.
