When he left, he told Thatcher he was going to Mexico.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

When the World Cup began, Banks was in goal as England got through their group containing Uruguay, Mexico and France, drawing 0 – 0 with the former and clinching 2 – 0 victories over the latter.

When Mexico rejected American annexation of Texas, Polk led the nation to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which gave the United States most of its present Southwest.

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for northern New Mexico.

When conquistadores arrived in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan ( now Mexico City ), they found that the people's diet consisted largely of corn-based dishes with chiles and herbs, usually complemented with beans and tomatoes or nopales.

When negotiating for the possibility of annexation to the US in late 1836, the Texan government instructed its minister Wharton in Washington that if the boundary were an issue, Texas was willing to settle for a boundary at the watershed between the Nueces River and Rio Grande, and leave out New Mexico.

When the Mormons arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, the Great Basin was still a part of Mexico and had no secular government.

" When Newman wasn't available to be on-site during the film's principal photography in Mexico, William Roberts was hired, in part to make changes required by Mexican censors.

When Fromm moved to Mexico City in 1949, he became a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ) and established a psychoanalytic section at the medical school there.

When the Spanish invaded the Aztec empire in what is now Mexico, they were quick to exploit the color for new trade opportunities.

When he resigned to run for the presidency in 1999, Rosario Robles Berlanga became the first woman mayor of Mexico City.

When used about ethnic groups the term " Aztec " refers to several Nahuatl speaking peoples of central Mexico in the postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, especially the ethnic group that had a leading role in establishing the hegemonic empire based at Tenochtitlan, the Mexica.

When Niven presented himself at Central Casting, he learned that he needed a work permit to reside and work in the U. S. This meant that Niven had to leave the U. S., so he went to Mexico, where he worked as a " gun-man ", cleaning and polishing the rifles of visiting American hunters.

When looking underneath the Pyramid of the Moon, a Chalchiuhtlicue statue was found and has since been moved to El Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City.

When it arrived in 1904, the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway made a big difference.

When Johnson could get no support in Congress, he supposedly had the Army " lose " some supplies ( including rifles ) " near " ( across ) the border with Mexico

When it was built, it was the only all-weather airport between Albuquerque, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California.

When she ends up stranded in New Mexico, she meets a sailor on his way back to San Diego from leave.

When a University of Missouri student, questioned on radio, was unable to give an account of her hometown's name, the question was put to L. Mitchell White, then editor and publisher of the Mexico Ledger: "' The first settlers found a wooden sign along the trail.

When Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821, the military presence at the presidio decreased.

When it became obvious that the election was fixed, Madero supporter Toribio Ortega took up arms with a group of followers at Cuchillo Parado, Chihuahua, Mexico on November 10, 1910.

When Pickett returned to the Army in September 1862, he was given command of a two-brigade division in the corps commanded by his old colleague from Mexico, Maj. Gen. James Longstreet, and was promoted to major general on October 10.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

When Alexander Brandel rose to speak, the hall became silent.

When the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company reached its 125th year as a going industrial concern during 1958, it became an almost unique institution in the mechanical world.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

When cattle became more valuable, ranch owners frowned upon this practice and it was discontinued, at least when the boss was 'round.

`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.

When he attended the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade school here about six months ago, Jim became convinced that an individual can do something constructive in the ideological battle and set out to do it.

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

When telescopes became commonplace, setting circles sped measurements

When she became her godly form " Her hair's ambrosia breathed a holy fragrance.

When he became ill, the Alemanni claimed to have put a hex on him ( 78. 15. 2 ).

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.

When Yolande's pregnancy ended, probabably with a miscarriage, Alexander's granddaughter Margaret became the heir.

When Alexander became emperor, he was young, amiable, well-meaning, and entirely under the dominion of his mother.

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

When Kolmogorov became aware of Solomonoff's work, he acknowledged Solomonoff's priority.

When the Roman infantry became entangled in combat with his army, the hidden ambush force attacked the legionnaires in the rear.

When Angelo Cardinal Roncalli was elected and became Pope John, there was some confusion as to whether he would be John XXIII or John XXIV ; he then declared that he was John XXIII to put this question to rest.

When Thomas became Chairman of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) in 1982, Hill went along to serve as his assistant, leaving the job in 1983.

When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.

When that party dissolved, he became a member of the Know-Nothing party.