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1720 BCE
Mission San Jose
Mission San Jose is completed in San Antonio and other missions are built .Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California. It was founded on June 11, 1797, by the Franciscan order and was the fourteenth Spanish mission established in California. The mission is the namesake of the Mission San José district of Fremont, which was an independent town subsumed into the city when it was incorporated in 1957. -
1718 BCE
East Texas
East Texas missions are moved to San Antonio. In addition to the presidio and pueblo , the misión was one of the three major agencies employed by the Spanish crown to extend its borders and consolidate its colonial territories. In all, twenty-six missions were maintained for different lengths of time within the future boundaries of the state of Texas. -
1718 BCE
San Antonio founded
San Antonio founded. San Antonio was given its name on June 13, 1691, because that was the feast day of St. Anthony of Padua -- and the day that a Spanish expedition came to the river they called Rio San Antonio. But San Antonio was not founded until 1718, when its first mission and first presidio were established at San Pedro Springs. -
1699 BCE
Father Hidalgo's
Father Hidalgo's speech encourages Mexicans,Texas,and others to fight for independence. In 1810 he gave the famous speech, "The Cry of Dolores", calling the people to protect the interest of their King Fernando VII by revolting against the European Spaniards who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy. -
1685 BCE
La salle
La salle settle fort St. Louis. La salle made a darling journey down the Mississippi River, and claimed "Louisiana" for France. -
1682 BCE
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi de la Yselta (1682). This was the first mission. It is located by El Paso, Texas. The Yselta community is also recognized as the oldest in Texas and claims to have the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the U.S -
1529 BCE
Cabeza de vaca
Cabeza de vaca reports on explorations in Texas. He told his story in the book La Relacion -
1519 BCE
Pineda
Pineda maps Gulf.Pineda commanded a Spanish expedition that sailed along the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Mexico, in 1519. He and his men were the first Europeans to explore and map the Gulf li between the areas previously explored by De León and Diego Velázquez.
