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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of contact
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Period: Jan 24, 1400 to
texas history
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Oct 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus
In october 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered new land. Spain establishes most of south america,many caribbean islands,mexico, all of central america, and part of the land that makes up the united states -
Jan 1, 1519
Alonso Alvarez De Pineda
De pineda was the firts beuropean to explore thye Texas coast, he maped the land and told his superior, Francisco Garay and went back to mexico. He died in 1520 in a native american uprising. -
Feb 1, 1519
Hernan Cortes
Hernan cortes sailed from Cuba and landed his army on the eastern coast of Mexico.He met the aztecs who believed him to be a legendary god that had comeback, he saw the ways of the aztec people reached their gods and wanted their land. He made the aztec people rebel against their emporor and took their land and turned it into what is now known as Mexico City. -
Jan 1, 1527
Cabeza De Vaca
Cabeza De Vaca was a member of a large expedition to conquer the area between florida and mexico in 1527.In 1528 the baots where in a terrible storm and driven towards present day galveston, Cabeza De VAca called this island Malhado, the isle of misfortune.they met the karankawas who were kind and generous to them. De vaca and Estevancio, known as the first black man to enter Texas, became highly regearded shamans, or healers.After spending sixs years there De vago back. -
Jan 1, 1539
Fray Marcos
Fray Marcos was sent by the viceroy of new Spain (Antonio de mendoza) in search of the lost cities of gold De Vaca talked about. -
Sep 29, 1539
Moscoso and de soto
traveled to florida and moved west, ended up at the mississipi river in 1541, De soto died thre in the spring of 1542. Moscoso led the expedition after his death as far west as the lower Brazos river. Moscoso then led back to the mississipi and built boats and set off down the river sailing along the coast of mexico. -
Jul 7, 1540
De Cornado
cornado explored north texas in find of the cities of gold, he met the turk who also told him about another pueblo with 'gold' but didn't find anything and put him to death. Cornado claimed Texas, New Mexico and arizona for spain. -
corpus christi de la esleda
spain established the first permanent european settlement in texas. -
La Salle
la salle led an expedition to the mississipi river south to the gulf of mexico and claimed the entire inland region of mississippi and named it louisiana in honor of the french king, louis XIV. when la salle returnede he made a deal that a french colony is founded in the mouth of the mississippi so he could capture somesilver mines in northern new spain. la salle organized the trip on august 1 of 1684, with four ships filled with 280 colonists ready to sail. -
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revolution
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american revolution
the thirteen american colonies win their independence from great britian -
mexican revolution
mexizco wins its independece from sapin -
the battle
On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise. -
decleration of independence
the decleration of independence was made overnight when they captured santa anna's army on march 2nd -
the battle begins
on march 6, of 1836 the battle of the alamo began with mexican soilders attacking the walls -
battle of san jacinto
During the Texan War for Independence, the Texas militia under Sam Houston launches a surprise attack against the forces of Mexican General Santa Anna along the San Jacinto River.in late April, Houston’s army surprised a Mexican force at San Jacinto, and Santa Anna was captured, bringing an end to Mexico’s effort to subdue Texas. In exchange for his freedom, Santa Anna recognized Texas’s independence; although the treaty was later abrogated and tensions built up along the Texas-Mexico border. -
Texas enters union
In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex the territory of Texas. On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War. -
treaty of guadalupe hidalgo
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the area that would become the states of Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, as well as parts of Colorado and Wyoming. -
lincon arrives
lincon arrives at washington secretly at washington when threats of assasination are going around -
fort sumter
General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
emancipation proclimation
Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. Attempting to stitch together a nation mired in a bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln made a last-ditch, but carefully calculated, decision regarding the institution of slavery in America. -
lincoln is shot
John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. -
battle of palmito ranch
a gentleman’s agreement precluded fighting between Union and Confederate forces on the Rio Grande. In spite of this agreement, Col. Theodore H. Barrett, commanding forces at Brazos Santiago, Texas, dispatched an expedition, composed of 250 men of the 62nd U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment and 50 men of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. David Branson, to the mainland, on May 11, 1865, to attack reported Rebel outposts and camps. Prohibited by foul weather from crossing to -
transcontinental railroad complete
the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history. No longer would western-bound travelers need to take the long and dangerous journey by wagon train, and the West would surely lose some of its wild charm with the new connection to the civilized East. -
galveston hurricane
a Category 4 hurricane ripped through Galveston, Texas, killing an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 people. At the time of the 1900 hurricane, Galveston, nicknamed the Oleander City, was filled with vacationers. Sophisticated weather forecasting technology didn’t exist at the time, but the U.S. Weather Bureau issued warnings telling people to move to higher ground. However, these advisories were ignored by many vacationers and residents alike. A 15-foot storm surge flooded the city, which was then situa -
spindletop
an enormous geyser of oil exploded from a drilling site at Spindletop Hill, a mound created by an underground salt deposit located near Beaumont in Jefferson County, southeastern Texas. Reaching a height of more than 150 feet and producing close to 100,000 barrels a day, the “gusher” was more powerful than any previously seen in the world. A booming oil industry soon grew up around the oil field at Spindletop, and many of the major oil companies in America, including Gulf Oil, Texaco and Exxon, -
world war 1; 1917-1929
Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I.When World War I erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality for the United States, a position that the vast majority of Americans favored. Britain, however, was one of America’s clo -
pearl harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Cong -
BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on -
JFK assasinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible during a parade.As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally
