Joshua's Texas History Timeline 15-16

  • Period: Jan 1, 1490 to

    Texas History

  • Period: Jan 1, 1492 to

    Age of Contact

  • Oct 31, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus
    He was Italian
    Sailed Spain
    He was banned from the new world
  • Jan 1, 1519

    Pineda

    Spanish explorer
    Mapped the coast of Texas In 1519
  • Dec 2, 1519

    Hernan Cortez

    Hernan Cortez
    He was a spanish conquistador
    He was a aztec
    He landed in Mexico in 1519
  • Jan 1, 1527

    Cabeza de Vaca

    Shipwrecked near Galveston in 1527
    he lived with Karankawa
    Retuened to Mexico years later
  • Jan 1, 1540

    Coronado

    Sent to capture cibola
    First to see the grand canyon
    First to see the palo duro canyon
  • LaSalle

    LaSalle was French
    He sailed from Canada to Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico
    He built Ft. St.Louis and got killed by his men
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    Spanish Colonial

  • Adams-Onis Treaty

    It was a treaty between the United states and Spain in 1819.Florida ceed to the U.S. and they defined a boundary between the U.S. and Spain.
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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 Reconstruction

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    Age of Oil

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    Great Depression and World War II

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    Contemporary Texas