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Spain concentrates its power in Texas at San Antonio
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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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Presidio and missions built at Goliad to protect Texas Coast
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A hurricane wrecks the fleet of pirate Jean Lafitte in Galveston.
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Mexico gains independence from Spain
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Texas petitions for separation from Coahuilla
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General Santa Anna becomes dictator of Mexico and changes peaceful laws.
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First shots of Texas revolution fired in Gonzales
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Seige of Alamo begins
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Texas, Mexico peace treaty signed
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Austin becomes state capital
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Mexican General Woll captures San Antonio
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Southern route of the Butterfield Overland Mail crosses Texas on its way between St. Louis, Mo., and the West Coast. Service discontinued in March 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War. 1859
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Hurricane destroys or damages every house in the port of Indianola, finishing the job started by another storm 11 years earlier. Indianola is never rebuilt.
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Population expands greatly
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The "GREAT HURRICANE'' destroys much of Galveston and kills 6,000 people there
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Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois makes first military air flight in a Wright brothers plane at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
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President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas
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Oil becomes big business in Texas
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my birthday!
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George W. Bush is elected President of the United States
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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
