Coronado immediately planned a major expedition. The Coronado search for Cibola begins, it lasts until 1542. Later the same year, Melchoir Diaz, attempting to contact Alarc n for Coronado, saw the lower part of the Colorado. During the succeeding 250 years the Spaniards were active in the Southwest, but reports they may have obtained from Indians about the barren, rugged canyon country must have discouraged northward exploration. 1541 John Calvin introduces the Reformation to Switzerland and organized Geneva as a theocratic state.
Protestant refugees pour into the region.
When he arrived he ordered the Indians to vacate their homes, provide his men with food, and give him any valuables they might have. The Kuaua and nearby pueblos revolted. Coronado destroyed the Pueblo and it was abandoned. Coronado crosses the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, and finally into Kansas. It is said that Coronado's guide, a Pawnee slave, deliberately led him around in circles on the empty plains, knowing there were no cities to find.