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Christopher Columbus and his crew sighted the Caribbean islands. Also established a colony on his second visit on the West Indies islands.
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Cortez destroyed the Tenochtitlan and killed most Aztecs. Also re named the city to Mexico. His actions had inspired many other Spaniards.
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First European to explore the Texas coast.
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He was a member of a expedition to conquer Florida and Mexico in 1527 but crashed landed in Texas
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He was a priest that was selected to go to a expedition to find Cibola
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Coronado lead a expedition of three hundred soldiers with Fray Marcos to find Cibola.
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He lead the De Soto expedition after De Soto died.
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Spain establishes the first perment European settlement in Texas
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La Salla lead a Texas expedition to navigate and conquer the lands around Mississippi River. He missed the Mississippi river and landed 400 miles away on the Texas coast. The colony he established had failed and only a few people came back to the French colony.
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The American colonies win their independence from Great Britain.
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Mexico wins its independence from Spain.
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The decree of april 6, 1830 issued that immagrants from United States could not come to Mexico anymore.
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The Mexican Army arrived at the Alamo
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The Convention of 1836 produced the declaration of independence overnight.
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The Mexican army attacked the Texans the morning of March 6.
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The Texan army launched a surprise attack against the Mexican army.
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Texas enters the Union.
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This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico.
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Lincoln avoids assassination attempt.
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General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union.
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Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation.The proclamation freed all slaves in states that were still in rebellion.
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John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln
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On May13 the Battle of Palmito Ranch was fought and won by the confederates in south Texas.
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A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
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A Category 4 hurricane ripped through Galveston, Texas, killing an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 people.
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An enormous geyser of oil exploded from a drilling site at Spindletop Hill.
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The United States Congress declared war upon the German Empire.
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The stock market crashes beginning the Great Depression.
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Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans.
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The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The first US troops land on Vietnam.
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