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Fourteen years after setting out for Texas, 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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the Mexican government forbids further American emigration to Texas.
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the Battle of Gonzales is waged and the War of Texas Indepedence begins.
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Texas Decloration of Independence
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3 day seige ended by all remaining surviors killed on this day.
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Sam Houston in a panick run eastward to avoid Mexican army.
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About 350 texans are ordered to be executed at Goliad, but an estimated 30 escape
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lasting for 18 minutes at San Jaciento
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it ended the texas revolution
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the people choose the elected officials
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withdrawing Texas from the union
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Robert E. Lee is ordered to go to Washington
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accepts confederaste state hood
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Texas is a Confederate state before it even withdraws from the union
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Sam Houston resigns as governor to protest against secession
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about 68 unionists start for mexico and 19 are killed by confederates
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Gorden Granger arrives in Galventston to anounce slavery has been abolished
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the constitutional convention approves an ordiance to nullify the actions of the sessession convention
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president andrew johnson issues a proclamation of peace between the United States and Texas
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us congress readmitted texas back into the union reconstruction continued but only for another 4 years
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end to reconstruction in Texas
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Battle of the Palo Duro Canyon led by Mackenzie
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present state constitution is adopted
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a&m is opened at collage station but was origanally called agricultural and mechanical collage
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the great hurricane attacks galvenston and kills 6000 people there
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oil found by mining engieer
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lT. Benjiman D. Foulis makes military flight in a Wright Brothers Plane
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constitutional convention meets to attempt ot make a new state constitution
