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Fransisco Vasquez de Coranado maped the state of texas.
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Fransisco Vasquez de Coranado crosses the Texas panhandle in search of the 7 cities of Cibola.
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Francisco Vázquez de Coronado crosses the Texas Panhandle in search of in search of the seven cities of Cibola.
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Coranado dies. He is the first white man to explore texas.
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La Salle looks for the mouth of the Mississippi River. He is the first european man to see this.
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La Salle is killed by his own men.
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1690 - May - First East Texas mission under construction, San Francisco de los Tejas, near present-day Weches, Houston Co. The mission is closed in 1693.
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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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spanish bulid a presdio Neustra Senora de los Delores de los tejas to protect east Texas
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Missions at San Antonio are producing thousands of pounds of cotton anually.
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Santa Cruz de San Sabá mission near present-day Menard destroyed and eight residents killed by Comanches and their allies
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Texas' first recorded hurricans strikes
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Father Miguel Hidalgo and several hundred of his parishioners seize the prison at Delores, Mexico beginning Mexico's struggle of independence from Spain.
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Jane Long gave birth to the first anglo american baby in Texas named Mary James.
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Santa Anna and Texas' provisonal president David Burnet sign 2 treaties: The Treaty of Velasco one public, one secret - ending the Texas Revolution. The treaties were, however, violated by both sides. Texas' independence was not recognized by Mexico and Texas' boundry was not determined until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended which ended the Mexican War, signed in 1848
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Baylor University is founded.
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In the year of 1854 women gained the right to vote. Back then women couldn't do anything, so this is a big up-side.
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Colonel Ranald Mackenzie leads the 4th US Cavalry in the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, south of present-day Amarillo, an encounter that ends with the confinement of southern Plains Indians in reservations in Indian Territory. This makes possible the wholesale settlement of the western part of the state.
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Teddy Roosevelt arrives in San Antonio to recruit and train the "Rough Riders" for the First Cavalary to fight iln the Spanish-American War in Cuba.
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The "great hurricane" of 1900 destroys most of Gaveston. It killed about 6,000 people.
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1937 - March 18 - A massive explosion, blamed on a natural-gas leak beneath the London Consolidated School building in Rusk County, kills an estimated 296 students and teachers. Subsequent deaths of people injured in the explosion bring the death count to 311. As a result, the Texas legislature requires that a malodorant be added to the odorless gas so that leaks can be more easily detected.
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The French-owned SS Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate, explodes in the Texas City harbor, followed the next morning by the explosion of the SS High Flyer. The disaster kills almost 600 and injures at least 4,000 more. The concussion is felt 75 miles away in Port Arthur, and the force creates a 15-foot tidal wave.
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Barbara Jordan of Houston becomes the first black woman elected to the Texas Senate
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April 19 - Siege that began on Feb. 28 ended, federal agents storm the compound called Mount Carmel near Waco, where cult leader David Koresh and his followers, called Branch Davidians, had reportedly been storing a large cache of assault weapons. The assault and ensuing fire kill four agents and 86 Branch Davidians.
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Former Texas Gov. George W. Bush elected President of the United States.
