Edgar Texas History Timeline 15-16

Texas History

Period: Jan 1, 1490 to Jun 30, 2016

Age Of Contact

Period: Jan 1, 1492 to Dec 31, 1689

Christopher Columbus

Oct 12, 1492

Claimed the New World for Spain and called it San Salvador.
Was arrested and baned from the New World.

Herman Cortez

Jan 1, 1519

Landed in Mexico in 1519.
Meted the Aztect and the King of the Aztects.

Pineda

Dec 1, 1519

The first spanish explorore who maped Texas in 1519.

Cabeza de vaca

Dec 1, 1527

Shipwrecked near galveston in the time 1527.
Returned to mexico a year later

Spanish Colanial

Period: Jan 1, 1689 to Dec 31, 1821

San Antonio

Jan 1, 1718

In 1718 the Spanish built the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar on
the west side of the waterway.

Mexican National

Period: Jan 1, 1821 to Dec 31, 1836

Revolution and Republic

Period: Jan 1, 1835 to Dec 31, 1845

Early Statehood

Period: Jan 1, 1845 to Dec 31, 1861

Cotton,Catile,and Railroad

Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Dec 31, 1901

Clivil War and Reconstrction

Period: Jan 1, 1861 to Dec 31, 1870

Age Of Oil

Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 1929

Great Depression and World War II

Period: Jan 1, 1929 to Dec 31, 1945

Cilvil Rights and Congervatims

Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 2016

Contemporay Texas

Period: Sep 21, 2015 to Sep 21, 2016