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Alonso Alvarez De Pineda was a spanish explorer maps
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked near Galveston begin exploration
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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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Thanksgiving is held near present-day El Paso by Juan de Oñate, the members of his expedition and natives of the region.
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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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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 location
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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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First East Texas mission under construction, San Francisco de los Tejas, near present-day Weches, Houston Co. The mission is closed in
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Spanish build a presidio, Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de los Tejas, to protect the East Texas missions.
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San Antonio de Valero mission, known as the Alamo was the chapel, is founded in San Antonio.
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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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San José y San Miguel de Aguayo mission founded near San Antonio de Valero.
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Missions at San Antonio are producing thousands of pounds of cotton annually.
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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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Spanish troops on a retaliatory raid are defeated by Indian residents of a large encampment at Spanish Fort in present-day Montague County.
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Texas' first recorded hurricane strikes near Galveston.
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Group of settlers led by Antonio Gil Ybarbo (sometimes spelled Ibarvo or Y'barvo) establishes a civilian community near an abandoned mission site; the new town is called Nacogdoches.
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Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costillo and several hundred of his parishioners seize the prison at Dolores, Mexico, beginning Mexico's struggle for independence from Spain.
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About 130-men strong, the Gutierrez-Magee Expedition crossed the Sabine from Louisiana in a rebel movement against Spanish rule in Texas.
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Moses Austin dies, his son, Stephen F. Austin, receives authority to continue the colonizing effort.
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A hurricane wrecks the fleet of pirate Jean Lafitte in Galveston.
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1817-1820 - Jean Laffite occupied Galveston Island and used it as a base for his smuggling and privateering.
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The Mexican government gives Austin permission to settle 300 families in Texas.
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Jared E. Groce arrives on the banks of the Brazos to set up a home. Among his belongings is a supply of cottonseed - the first in Texas.
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Stephen F. Austin received a grant from the Mexican government and began colonization in the region of the Brazos River. Mexican officials approve Austin's plan to bring three hundred families into his colony. This group becomes known as the "Old Three Hundred."
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Richard King, founder of the King Ranch, is born in New York
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Henry Cohen, founder of the Galveston Plan to settle European Jews, dies in Houston.
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A terrible tornado rips through Waco.
