Beginning of the Mixton war in New Galicia. Coronado writes a letter to the King from Tiguex, which has been lost. Tovar and perhaps Gallego return to Mexico. [Sidenote: April 23] Coronado starts with all his force from Tiguex to cross the buffalo plains to Quivira. [Sidenote: May] The army is divided somewhere on the great plains, perhaps on Canadian river. The main body returns to Tiguex, arriving there by the middle or last of June. De Soto crosses the Mississippi. [Sidenote: June] Coronado, with, thirty horsemen, rides north to Quivira, where he arrives forty-two (?) days later. [Sidenote: June 24] Pedro de Alvarado is killed at Nochistlan, in New Galicia. [Sidenote: August] Coronado spends about twenty-five days in the country of Quivira, leaving “the middle or last of August.” [Sidenote: Sept. 28] The Indians in New Galicia attack the town of Guadalajara, but are repulsed. [Sidenote: Oct. 2] Coronado returns from Quivira to Tiguex and writes a letter to the King. [Sidenote: November] Cardenas starts to return to Mexico with some other invalids from the army. He finds the village of Suya in ruins and hastily returns to Tiguex. [Sidenote: December] Coronado falls from his horse and is seriously injured. The Mixton peñol 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. [Sidenote: April 17] De Soto reaches the mouth of Red river, where he dies, May 21. [Sidenote: June 27] Cabrillo starts on his voyage up the California coast. He dies in January, 1543, and the vessels return to New Spain by April, 1544. [Sidenote: Nov. 1] Villalobos starts across the Pacific. His fleet meets with many misfortunes and losses. The survivors, five years or more later, return to Spain. [Sidenote: Nov. 25] 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 companions of Friar Juan de Padilla make their way back to Mexico, arriving before 1552. 1544 [Sidenote: Nov. 30] Promulgation of the New Laws for the Indies. Sebastian Cabot publishes his map of the New World. 1547 Mendoza, before he leaves New Spain to become viceroy of Peru, answers the charges preferred against him by the officials appointed to investigate his administration. [Illustration: XXXVIII. The New Spain and New Mexico Country] [p345] HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION THE CAUSES OF THE CORONADO EXPEDITION, 1528–1539 ALVAR NUÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA