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{{Infobox terrorist attack
|title=First Magdalena massacre
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|location=[[Magdalena de Kino]], [[Sonora]], [[New Spain]]<br/>Modern Day: [[Magdalena de Kino]], [[Sonora]], [[Mexico]]
|date=November 3, 1757
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|type=[[Mass murder]]
|fatalities=31
|injuries=Unknown
|perps=[[Seri people|Seri]]
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{{Campaignbox Indian Wars of northwest New Spain}}
The '''First Magdalena massacre''' was an attack by [[Indigenous peoples of Mexico|Indigenous]] [[Seri people]] against the [[Spain|Spanish]] mission village of [[Magdalena de Kino]], in the present day northern [[Mexico]]. The attack occurred on November 3, 1757 and was the first of two massacres at the town. The second [[Second Magdalena Massacre|attack]] came almost exactly nineteen years later in November, 1776. Not much is known except for the deaths of thirty-one men, women and children, as well as [[Jesuit]] [[missionary|missionaries]].

==See also==
*[[Capture of Tucson (1846)]]
*[[Capture of Tucson (1862)]]
*[[American Indian Wars]]
*[[Apache Wars]]
*[[Navajo Wars]]

==References==
# Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1888, ''History of Arizona and New Mexico, 1530–1888.'' The History Company, San Francisco.  
# Cooper, Evelyn S., 1995, ''Tucson in Focus: The Buehman Studio.'' Arizona Historical Society, Tucson. ({{ISBN|0-910037-35-3}}).
# [[Henry F. Dobyns|Dobyns]], Henry F., 1976, ''Spanish Colonial Tucson.'' University of Arizona Press, Tucson. ({{ISBN|0-8165-0546-2}}). 
# Drachman, Roy P., 1999, ''From Cowtown to Desert Metropolis: Ninety Years of Arizona Memories.'' Whitewing Press, San Francisco. {{ISBN|1-888965-02-9}}.

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[[Category:History of Sonora]]
[[Category:1750s in New Spain]]
[[Category:Conflicts in 1757]]
[[Category:1757 in North America]]
[[Category:Massacres by Indigenous Mexicans]]