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Spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps Texas coastline.
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked near Galveston begin exploration
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Coronado dies. He is one of the first white men to explore Texas, and leader of one of 20 Spanish explorations of the area.
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- Jumano Indians requested Spanish missionaries from New Mexico to travel to the vicinity of present-day San Angelo and instruct the Jumanos about Christianity.
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1682 - First Spanish mission, Corpus Christi de la Isleta, is established a few miles from present-day El Paso
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- French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, looking for the mouth of the Mississippi River, lands in Texas by mistake. He establishes a colony, Fort St. Louis, on Garcitas Creek in present-day Victoria County.
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- La Salle is killed by several of his own men at an unknown East Texas
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Colonists at Fort St. Louis not felled by Indians, disease, poisonous snakes and malnutrition are finished off by Karankawa Indians
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- Spanish Gen. Alonso de León's expedition finds the remains of Fort St. Louis. Fearing French intentions to lay claim to Spanish territory, the Spanish begin establishing missions and settlements in East Texas.
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Throughout the 18th Century, Spain established Catholic missions in Texas, and the towns of San Antonio, Goliad and Nacogdoches.
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my brother was born in Landcaster,tx at 6; 30 am
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i was born here in waxahachie, tx at 3:35 pm.I Born in baylor hospital.
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Christmas with the family was good i got every ting i wanted.And so did my brother we are vary thank full.
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to day im in mr.cieri class trying to make a timeline
