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Period: Jan 1, 1490 to
TEXAS HISTORY
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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
Age of Contact
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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher columbus
Italin who sailed for spain
Lands on san salvador and claimed the territory for spain. -
Apr 21, 1519
Cortez
spanish conquistador who landed in mexico
renamed their capital mexico city,would be capital of new spain -
Jun 2, 1519
pineda
spanish explorer who mapped theccoast of texas -
Jun 27, 1527
cabeza de vaca
shipwreacked near galveston
malhado met and live with the karankawn,
returned to mexico years later with stories of good l;and and treasures -
Feb 23, 1540
coronado
The spanish sent to capture cibola they split up to go to the grand canyon and palo duro canyon.
Expolred much of the Texas panhandle -
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Spanish Colonial
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La salle
the french ,sailed allthe way from canada, down the mississippiriver,to the gulf of mexico.
Salle called the area lousiana,then he landed in texas -
Cry of Delores
miguel hidalgo and costilla are cathlic priest ,launches the mexican war of indenpendence with the issing of his "Grito De Delores.Hidalog was killed doing the Mexican war of the independence. -
Battle of Medina
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Period: to
Mexican National
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Period: to
Revolution and republic
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Period: to
early statehood
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Period: to
cotton,cattle,and railroad
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Period: to
civil war and reconstruction
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Period: to
age of oil
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Period: to
great depression and world war ii
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Period: to
civil right and conservatism
