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This is a timeline about Texas events happening in the dates of March 16 to January 8. 1840-1865.
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Peace talks between the Comanches and the Texas government turn into a fight at the Council House in San Antonio.
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1842 February 11 The crew of the San Antonio stages the republic's first, and only, mutiny
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March 2 Robert Potter, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, is murdered in the Regulator-Moderator War.
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April 20 Germans form a society to aid German immigration to Texas.
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September 18 Forty-two people are massacred by Indians at the Battle of Salado Creek.
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December 31 The Archives War: Austin citizens keep the state's papers from being moved to Houston.
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March 25 The prisoners of the Mier Expedition draw white and black beans from a pot; the 17 who draw black beans are executed by the Mexicans.
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December 28 Rebecca Cummings, who is engaged to William Travis when he goes away to the Alamo fight, marries another man, David Portis
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August 15 President Houston calls out the militia to put down the Regulator-Moderator War.
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1845 February 1 Baylor University is founded.
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1846 February 19 The Republic of Texas is officially declared at an end.
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April 25 A border skirmish near Brownsville marks the beginning of the U.S. war with Mexico.
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May 8 The Battle of Palo Alto, the first major fight of the Mexican War, results in a U.S. victory.
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May 9 Gen. Zachary Taylor defeats the Mexicans at Resaca de Ia Palma
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May 12 Norris Cuney, one of the most prominent black men in Texas, is born a slave in Waller County.
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September 21 Ranger Capt. Robert Gillespie dies leading a charge on the Bishop's Palace in Monterrey during the Mexican War.
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1847 January 19 Nuns of the Ursuline order arrive in Texas.
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April 18 Gen. Winfield Scott and Santa Anna battle at Sierra Gorda. The American victors capture Santa Anna's wooden leg
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1848 February 2 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War.
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February 5 Belle Starr, the Texas bandit queen, is born in Missouri.
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1849 June 6 Fort Worth is founded.
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August 11 Gov. George Wood sends three companies of Rangers to Corpus Christi to guard settlers from Goliad to the Rio Grande against Indian attacks.
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October 1 William Sansom becomes the first prisoner at the Huntsville state prison.
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1850 February 10 Texas's first railroad, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado, is chartered.
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November 25 Texas accepts the Compromise of 1850, and gets $10 million in exchange for giving up a claim that stretches all the way to California.
