Arlene's Texas History Timeline 15/16

By Arlene Sanchez
  • Period: Jan 1, 1490 to

    Texas History

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Italian who sailed for spain.Columbus lands on San Salvador.Claimed the territory for Spain.Returned several times.Was arrested and banned from the New World.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1492 to

    Age of Contact

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Cortez

    Spanish conquistador who landed in Mexico in 1519.Met and conquered the Aztecs.Renamed their capital Mexico City.Would be capital of New Spain.
  • Jan 1, 1519

    Piñeda

    Spanish explorer who mapped the coast of Texas in 1519.
  • Jan 1, 1527

    Cabeza de Vaca

    Shipwrecked near Galvaston in 1527.Malhado. Met and lived with the Karankawa.Returned to Mexico years later with stories of good land and tresures.
  • Jan 1, 1540

    Coronado

    Spanish,1540,Was sent to find Cibola.First see Palo Duro and Grand Canyons, explored much of the Texas panhandle.

  • La Salle

    French, sailed all the way from Canada, down the Mississippi River, to the Gulf of Mexico. He called the area Louisiana.1685,he landed in Texas.Built Ft.St.Louis. The fort and and Lasalle was killed by his men.
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    Spanish Colonial

  • San Antonio

    San Antonio was established as a mindway point between Mexico and the East Texas.Missions.Spain realized that presidios and missions alone would not do.They also needed settlers.

  • Adams-Onis Treaty

    Gave the U.S Florida and the Neutral Ground.U.S promised to keep hands off of Texas.Spain also sighned this treaty.

  • Treaty of Cordoba

    O'Donojú agreed to sighned a treaty with the Iturbide because of how the Spanish cause was lost.So the two leaders signed the treaty and now the Spanish Colonial rule of Texas which had begun it's first mission came to an end.What was once the Spanish colonia province of Texas became a territory of a free Mexico.
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    Mexican National

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    Revolution and Republic

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    Early Statehood

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    Cotton,Cattle,and Railroads

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    Civil War and Reconstuction

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    Age of Oil

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    Great Deppresion and World War 2

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    Civil Rights and Conservatism

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    Contemporary Texas