mid-spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps Texas coastline
Jan 1, 1528
alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked near Galveston beginning exploration
Jan 1, 1541
Francisco Vazquez Coronado crosses the Texas panhandle in search of the seven seas
Jan 1, 1554
cornado dies
thanksgiving is held near president-day El Paso by Juan de Onate, the members of his expedition and natives of the region
Jumano Indians request Spanish missionaries from New Mexico to travel to the vicinity of president-day San Angelo and instruct the Jumanos about Christianity
first Spanish mission, Corpus Christi de la Isleta, is established a few miles from present-day El Paso
french explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, looking for the mouth of the Mississippi river, lands in Texas by mistake
colonist at fort st.Louis not fled by Indians, diseases, poisonous snakes and malnutrition are finished off by karankawa Indians
Spanish Gen. Alonso de Leon’s expedition finds the remains of fort st. Louis
first east Texas mission under construction, San Francisco de los tejas, near present-day weches ,Houston co. the mission is closed in 1693
- through the 18th century, Spain established catholic missions in Texas, and the towns of San Antonio
spanish build a presidio, nuestra senora de los Dolores de los tejas, to protect the east Texas
san José y san Miguel de aguayo mission, founded near San Antonio Valero
san Antonio de Valero mission, known as the Alamo was the chapel, is found in San Antonio
Missions at San Antonio are producing thousands of pounds of cotton annually
_ Santa Cruz de san Saba mission near present-day menard destroyed and eight residents killed by Comanche’s and their allies
Spanish troops on a retailory raid are defended by Indian residents of a large encampment at Spanish fort in present-day Montague County
Texas’ first recorded hurricane strikes near Galveston
group of settlers led by Antonio Gil Ybarbo establishes a civilian community near an abandoned mission site
father Miguel hidalgo y costillo and several hundred of his parishioners seize the prison at Dolores, Mexico
about 130-strong men, the Gutierrez-Magee expedition crossed the Sabine from Louisiana in a rebel movement against Spanish rule in Texas
la salle is killed by several of his own men at unknown
