Timeline: 100 years of New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Here are some of the biggest events in New Mexico over the past 100 years.

1912 - New Mexico becomes the 47th state . Our population was around: 327,300.

1916 - Pancho Villa raids Columbus, New Mexico .

1920 - New Mexico's Legislature ratifies the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote.

1926 - Route 66 comes to New Mexico.

1940's - WWII brings massive influx of people and dollars and changes the state forever.

1943 - Top-secret Los Alamos Research Center built for the Manhattan Project .

July 16, 1945 - Los Alamos scientists explode first atomic bomb in historic Trinity test.

1947 - Some claim aliens land near Roswell .

1948 - Native Americans win the right to vote in state elections

1972 - The first Balloon Fiesta takes flight from Coronado Mall.

1980 - The New Mexico Penitentiary Riot spreads over two days as deadliest prison riot in U.S. history.

2007 - Spaceport America breaks ground. Flights are expected to begin in 2013.

2011 - Governor Susana Martinez takes office as the state's 31st governor and the first woman elected to the post.