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Christopher Columbus Sailed the Atlantic Ocean and landed on several lands in the Carribean Sea.
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Hernan Cortes landed on the eastern coast of Mexico. The Azteces thought he was a god named Quetzalcoatl. And he quickly took advantage
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Alonso came to be the first European to see the Texas coast. He drew the coast as he sailed
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Cabeza De Vaca didn't plan to land in Texas but after a storm they shipwrecked. They landed on Galveston.
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Fray Marcos headed to northward from culican shortly after he landed on Cobilo
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De Soto landed on Florida and headed toward Texas. He died but Moscoco took over and explored a liite of texas then went back.
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Cornado had found Cibola and after all of that Cibola was not a gold city
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Spain established the first perment European settlement in Texas.
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La Salle led the first European expidition that navigated the Missippi River south to the gulf
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The 13 American colinies win there indepence from Great
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Mexico wins its Indepence from Spain.
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Santa Anna arrived at the Alamo and was reaady to fight.
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Texas declared its indendence from Mexico.
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Santa Anna launched an attack on the Alamo.
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The Battle of San Jacinto that basically stated that Texas was free.
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Texas becomes the 28th state in the United States.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed by the U.S.A and the Mexican Repubilc in sign of peace and friendship.
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Texas voters ratifed secession.
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Confederate Forces open fire in the Union.
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Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves.
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John Wilkes Booth kills President Lincoln.
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The Battle of Palmito Ranch took place.
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The first transcontinental railroad is completed
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A massive hurrican hit Galveston
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An enormous geyser of oil exploded from a drilling site at Spindletop Hill, a mound created by an underground salt deposit located near Beaumont ,Texas.
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The United States declared war against Germany.
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The Stock Market crashed.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
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U.S. droped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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JFK was shot and killed in Dallas TX
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The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. They join 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam
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She was the first black woman elected to the Texas state senate and the first black Texan in Congress.
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Martin Luther King was shot and killed
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President Nixon resigned from his presidency
