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Proto-Indians live at the Gault site.
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Coastal American Indians make knives and scrapers from stone.
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American Indians living near Galveston Bay begin making pottery.
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The Caddos grow many kinds of crops in East TX.
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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps the TX coast.
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Europeans arrive in TX and encounter the Karankawas.
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Explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado crosses the TX Panhandle.
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a Spanish treasure fleet shipwreck off of president-day Padre Island.
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Spanish Hernan Gallegos writes about the lives of the Jumano Indians in TX.
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Juan de Onate crosses the TX Panhandle on his way to Quivira.
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Spaniards first record seeing Apache Indians riding horses.
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A group of colonists led by french explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle lands in Matagorda Bay in TX.
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The Spanish build a mission named San Francisco de los Tejas.
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Martin de Alarcon establishes the San Antonio de Valero mission.
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Settlers from the Canary Islands arrive in San Antonio.
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Rancher Tomas Sanchez establishes the town of Laredo.
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The Marques de Rubi expedition begins.
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Antonio Gil Ybarbo founds the town of Nacogdoches in East TX.
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Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Sabine River holds more than 5.5 billion cubic meters of water.
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Philip Nolan, a u.s. citizen, received permission to capture wild horses in Texas.
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U.s. citizen James long and a small Force invades Texas, only to be defeated by Spanish forces.
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Mexico, which includes Texas, wins its independence from Spain.
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The Spanish government grants Moses Austin permission to found a colony in Texas.
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Settler Jared Groce plant a cotton crop, possibly the first in Steven F Austin colony.
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Empresa Rio Martin de Leon settles families on the lower Guadalupe River.
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Mexican officials adopt the constitution of 1824. Coahuila and Texas are merged to form one state.
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The Fredonian Rebellion begins when Hayden Edwards declares independence from Mexico.
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An American Indian attack on the green DeWitt Colony forces settlers to ffle Gonzales.
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Stephen F Austin received a contract to settle an additional 100 families in Texas.
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General Manuel de Mier y Teran begins a tour of Texas for the Mexican Government.
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Taper begins publication in Austin's colony.
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Isaac Sunday School and private boys school in San Felipe.
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Presidents Guerrero issued a decree ending slavery in Mexico, but an exemption is made for Texas.
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On April 6th Mexico issues a law that changes rules on immigration and trade in Texas.
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The town of Gonzales receives a cannon from the Mexican Government to defend citizens against American Indian attacks.
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Mary Austins Holley letters, describing life in Early Texas, are published.
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Texas Farmers exports of 7,000 bales of cotton, worth about $315,000, to New Orleans.
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Steven F. Austin is arrested in Saltillo.
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Texas settlers hold about 3,500 Land grants.
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Texans become concerned when the Mexican Government officially abolished the constitution of 1824.
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An estimated 1,000 U.S. immigrants enter Texas each month.
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Texas settlers attack Mexican soldiers at Gonzales, forcing them to leave.
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Texas troops push Mexican troops out of San Antonio, capturing the city.
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The Siege of the Alamo begins.
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Velasco citizens hold a horse race on the coast near the town.
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The Texas Declaration of Independence is adopted
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Texans win the Battle of San Jacinto, ending the Texas revolution.
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Sam Houston becomes the first popularity elected president of the Republic of Texas.
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The first official Texas flag is adopted by the Texas Congress.
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Texans elect Mirabeau B. Lamar president.
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The U.S. Congress authorizes a diplomat to go to Texas.
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William H. Wharton is elected to the Texas Senate.
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Repeated attacks and discrimination for more than 100 Tejano families to flee Nacogdoches.
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Texas passes a homestead law, protecting settlers' homes from being seized to pay debts.
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France becomes the first European nation to recognize Texas as an independent country.
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Austin, the new capital, has 850 residents.
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The first college chartered by the Republic, Rutersville college, is founded.
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Galveston University opens its doors to 5 students.
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Texans again elect Sam Houston president of the Republic.
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William Kennedy publishes Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas.
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President Mirabeau B. Lamar sends the Texas Navy to Yucatan Coast.
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General Adrian woll and about 1,400 Mexican soldiers capture San Antonio.
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Snider de Pellegrini, director of a French colonization company, brings 14 settlers to Texas.
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The Tehuacan Creek Councils lead to peace between Texans and several Texas Indian groups.
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President Sam Houston sends troops into East Texas to end the Regulator Moderator War.
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Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels comes to Texas followed by a group of German immigrants.
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Texans elect Anson Jones president of the Republic.
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At least 30,000 enslaved African Americans live in Texas.
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The United States annexes Texas.
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On December 29 the U.S. Congress officially admits Texas to the Union and approves its first state constitution.
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Fighting breaks out between Mexican troops and U.S. forces at Palo Alto and Resaca De La Palma.
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Thomas J. Rusk and Sam Houston become the first Texans to serve in the U.S. Senate.
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Texas signs a peace treaty with the Penateka Comanches.
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Samuel H. Walker dies in combat during a conflict in Mexico.
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A state census reports the state's population at more than 124,000.
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Texans cast of first votes as U.S. citizens in a presidential election.
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In her book Texas in 1850, Melinda Rankin describes the state and urges people to move to Texas.
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The Texas population reaches 200,000 people.
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Work begins on the Port Isabel Lighthouse. When completed, it's lights could be seen from 16 miles away.
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U.S. Army troops abandon Fort Worth after settlers moved farther west beyond the fort.
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after many false starts, track is finally laid for the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway.
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the American, Know Nothing, party becomes active in Texas.
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The Governor's mansion is built in Austin.
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Slaves in Colorado County acquire weapons and planned a rebellion but the plot is discovered before it can begin.
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The Butterfield Overland mail begins taking passengers and mail by Stagecoach from Missouri, through Texas, and on to California.
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Sam Houston easily defeat incumbent Hardin Runnels in the election for Texas governor.
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A series of clashes occur between Texas Rangers and Mexican Americans near Brownsville.
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Texas produces a record crop of more than 400,000 of cotton.
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Texans vote, by more than 3 to 1, to separate from the United States.
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Troops leave San Antonio for New Mexico, to capture the Southwest for the Confederacy.
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The Texas Frontier regiment is established.
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Union forces capture Galveston.
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A union attempt to invade Texas is turned back at Sabine Pass.
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Union troops capture Brownsville.
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The Texas Cattle population increases rapidly during the Civil War.
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In a battle near Mansfield, Louisiana, Confederate forces stop a union invasion of Northeastern Texas.
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Colnelo Christopher "Kit" Carson leads an attack against Plain Indians in the Panhandle.
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The last Land Battle of the war is fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas.
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The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect in Texas, bring the state's slaves.
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African-American George T. Ruby is elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
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Richardson is established near Jacksboro.
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Republican Edmund J. Davis is elected governor.
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Texas Cowboys move a herd of 15,000 cattle to Market. It is the largest single herd of the area.
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Edmund J. Davis is elected governor, the last Republican to hold the office until Bill Clements was elected in 1978.
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Texas has 583 miles of rail road lines.
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A public school system is created in Texas.
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Spanish priest Juan Agustin Morfi, author of the History of Texas, 1673-1779, dies.
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Rangers begin to ship thousands of cattle from Denison after the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad extends a line there.
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The Democratic party regains full control of state government.
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Plain Indians attack a group of Buffalo hunters in the Battle of adobe walls.
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Comanche leader Quanah Parker surrenders, ending the Red River War.
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About 2,700 animals die during a cattle Stampede near the Brazos River.
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Texas Legacy passes a law that allows the state to fund railroads with land grants.
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Texas adopt a new constitution.
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Texas A&M University opens and all male military Institution.
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Texans adopt the constitution that governs the state today.
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Apache leader Victoria launches raids among the Texas-Mexico border.
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The Texas and Pacific Railway meet the Southern Pacific line near El Paso, forming the first transcontinental railroad route through Texas.
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A ranch in the Panhandle produces enough barb wire to fence 250,000 Acres.
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The University of Texas formally opens.
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The Knights of Labor begin a major strike against Jake Gould's Railroad Company.
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There are more than 8,000 miles of railroad track in Texas.
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The Texas ligature passes the Antitrust Act of 1889.
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Texas normal college and teachers' training institute, now call the University of North Texas, opens in Denton.
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James Stephen Hogg the first native-born Texan to become governor is elected.
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The Texas Railroad Commission is established to regulate railroads in Texas.
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A leading Association of farmers endorses the populist party.
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Drillers strike oil in Corsicana.
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The first football game is played between the University of Texas and Texas A&M.
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Teddy Roosevelt organizes and trains the Rough Riders in San Antonio.
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The lowest recorded temp in TX was was a chilly -23 Degrees F, occurring in 1899 at Tuila and in 1933 at Seminole.
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Texas has more than 350,000 farms, and almost half of all farmers are tenant farmers.
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A hurricane hits Galveston, killing some 6,000 to 8,000 people.
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The Spindletop well strikes oil comma producing more than 17 million barrels of oil the next year.
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The Spindletop oil strike spurred the growth of the Texas oil industry.
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The Corsicana Oilers City basketball record by defeating the Texarkana team 51 to 3
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A large oil strike is made in the humble oil field in Harris County.
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The first Neiman Marcus department store opens in Dallas.
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Oil is discovered at Goose Creek along Galveston Bay.
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Jovita Idar becomes the first president of the league of Mexican women.
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The Houston Ship Channel is completed, leading to the growth of industry in the Houston area.
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The Houston Ship Channel opens, and Houston soon becomes an important oil refining Center.
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The Texas legislature passes the first state law requiring children to attend school.
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Texas troops are sent to France to fight in World War 1.
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Texas ratifies the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, which bans the sale or manufacture of alcohol.
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After delegates of fighting for the right to vote, women are allowed to vote in Texas primary elections.
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An application is filled to drill for oil on state-owned land in West Texas. Several years later the Santa Rita number one strikes oil.
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Governor William hobby breaks the dockworkers' strike in Galveston.
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Texans elect Miriam "ma" Ferguson as the state's first female governor.
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Automobile registrations reach 1 million.
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For the first time in the state's history, the majority of Texans vote for Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover.
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Some 300,000 Texans are unemployed.
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James V Allred is elected governor of Texas.
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The Highest recorded temp in TX was a blistering 120 Degrees F, occurring in 1936 at Seymour and in 1994 at Montanans.
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Texas celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the Texas Revolution.
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Texans select W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel as governor.
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The southern aircraft Corporation, the first airplane manufacturer in Texas, is formed.
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Large numbers of Texans volunteer for military service in WWII.
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In 1873 Clarksville received 109.4 inches of rain.
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THE U.S. Supreme Court declares the Texas white primary unconstitutional.
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A Texas law establishing White primariez is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court with Smith V. Alwright.
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Texass Audie Murphy receives the Medal of Honor for stopping a German tank attack in France.
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The Rio Grande, which begins in Colorado and flows along the TX-Mexico border, runs 1,896 Miles.
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Austin City Limits goes on the air with Willie Nelson as its first guest musician.
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More than 3 million automobiles are registered in Texas.
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Allan Shivers successfully runs for a third term as Governor.
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Women are allowed to serve on Texas juries for the first time.
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Wink received just 1.76 Inches of rain in 1956
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Texas woman call for an equal rights amendment to the state constitution.
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Texas musician Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Texas owns Gulf Coastal tide lines up to a 10.35- mile limit
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Henry B. Gozalesz is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and John Tower is elected to the U.S. Senate.
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The manned space center, now the Johnson Space Center, is built in Houston.
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president of the United States after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
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Texas singer Janis Joplin's career takes off after a performance at the Money International Pop Festival.
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Texas Instruments released the first handheld calculator.
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The national Aeronautics and Space Administration says the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
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members of the Chicano movement and the Mexican American Youth Organization form La Raza Unida party.
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Barbara Jordan is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Texan Barbara Jordan is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the first black woman from the south to serve in Congress.
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A major attempt to adopt a new Texas constitution fails.
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Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in the state, at 8,749 feet above sea level.
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the Texas population reaches 14 million.
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Raul Gonzalez is elected to the Texas Supreme Court. He is the first Mexican American elected to Statewide office.
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Texas writer Larry McMurtry receives the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Lonesome Dove.
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Texas musician Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed in a helicopter crash.
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the North American Free Trade Agreement has passed, using trade along the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
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George W. Bush takes office as governor.
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Rick Perry becomes the 47th governor of Texas.
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Pick up the Texas state government employs more than 230,000 people in more than 200 agencies, with a two-year budget totaling more than 98 billion dollars.
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Republicans gain control of the Texas House of Representatives.
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The Ogallala Aquifer is the largest underground water source in T.X.
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More than 6 million acres of T.X. land are irrigated
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Texans become the national leader in wind power generation.
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Sales of TX; livestock totaled more than $10.8 billion on 2007.
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T.X, contains more than 60 million acres of forests and woodlands.
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Rick Perry becomes the longest-serving governor in Texas history. He was elected governor again in 2010.
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With 800,000 acres of land, is the largest national park in TX.
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Cowboys Stadium, later renamed AT&T Stadium, opens in Arlington.
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In 2011 the value of T.X, cotton production reached over $1.5 Billion.
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Texas receives its lowest ever recorded rainfall.
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In 2012 there were more than 244,700 farms in T.X.
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TX; exports of computers and electronics were worth more than $45 billion in 2012.
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Agriculture added some $36 billion to the T.X, economy in 2012.
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Caddo Lake is the largest natural lake in T.X, covering more than 39 square miles.
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T.X. has an estimated 23 billion tons of lignite, a type of coal.
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In 2012 T.X. produced about 730 million barrels of crude oil worth about some $55 billion.
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Texas exports more than 134 billion dollars worth of goods.
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Based on the 2010 census, Texas games for new seats and Congress.