Spanish mission timeline

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    THE SPANISH MISSIONS

  • Corpus Christi de la Isleta

  • Antonio Margil de Jesús,. He departed Spain on March 4, 1683, and arrived at Veracruz on June 6.

  • Franciscan priest Damián Massanet left Barcelona to serve as a missionary in the New World

    Massanet spent several years building missions in Mexico. Then, in 1690, he accompanied General Alonso De León, governor of the state of Coahuila, to establish a Spanish presence in Texas. In that year, Mission San Francisco de los Tejas was founded near the Neches River.
  • founder of the first Spanish mission in East Texas

    rossed the Atlantic in 1683 to help found the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro.
  • Franciscans. After ordination he joined twenty-three of his brethren, who crossed the Atlantic in 1683 to help found the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro.

  • he accompanied Gov. Alonso De León in the successful search for René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's Fort St. Louis

  • First east texas mission

    san francisco de los tejas is created
  • 1690, he accompanied General Alonso De León, governor of the state of Coahuila, to establish a Spanish presence in Texas.

  • mission closed

    mission san fransisco de los tejas is closed
  • St. Denis sailed from La Rochelle to Louisiana on the second expedition of Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, his relative by marriage. In Louisiana St. Denis commanded a fort on the Mississippi River and another at Biloxi Bay.

  • mission founded

    san antonio de valero mission is founded in san antonio
  • In 1740 the viceroy of Mexico named him colonel of the military companies of Querétaro,

  • texas' first recorded hurricane