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Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked near Galveston. He begins his journey that marks the white man's first exploration of Texas.
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The Coronado Expedition set out for Texas to search for the seven cities of Cibola.
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La Salle lands in Texas instead of finding the mouth of Mississippi.
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This Mission is founded in east Texas.
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To celebrate soldiers of the Ramon expedition stage the first horse race in Texas.
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The Alamo is founded.
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Philip Nolan receives a passport to go to Mexican Texans.
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The Mother of Texas (Jane Wilkinson Long)is born in Maryland.
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The Long Expedition crossed the Sabine to declare a "government" in Texas.
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Moses Austin looks for permission to colonize a part of Mexican Texas.
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The Mexican Government gives Moses Austin permission to settle 300 families in Texas.
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The Fredonian Rebellion begins in Nacogdoches.
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Jim Bowie became a Mexican citizen.
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Santa Anna is inauguated president of Mexico.
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Stephen Austin is arrested for trying to start a revolution against Mexico.
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David Crockett and his "Tennessee boys" arrive at the Alamo.
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The Turtle Bayou Resolutions, documents leading to the revolution of 1836, are adopted.
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The steamship Laura navigates the Buffalo Bayou but misss the new cily Houston,due to dense vegitation.
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Moses Lapham, who helped destroy Wince's Bridge at San Jacinto to cut off Mexican escape, is killed by Native Americans.
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The Texas senate votes buy a captured Mexican ships from the French to start a new navy.
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Chief Bowles of the Cherokee is killed at the Battle of the Neches.
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Peace talks between the Comanches and the Texas government. It turned into a fight at the Council House in San Antonio.
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The prisoners of the Mier Expedition draw white and black beans from a pot; the17 who draw black beans are killed by the Mexicans.
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The Republic of Texas is officially declared at an end.
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General Winfield Scott and Santa Anna battle at Sierra Gorda. The American victors captured Santa Anna's wooden leg.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War.
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Texas's first railroad, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado, is chartered.
