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American Indians make knives from stone.
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Proto-Indians went to live at the Gault site.
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American Indians living near Galveston Bay begin making pottery
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Caddo Indians grow a lot of kinds of crop
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The Rio Grande is the longest river in Texas, it is 1,896 miles long.
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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps the Texas coast.
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Europeans arrive in Texas and encounter the Karanawas.
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Explorer Francisco Vasquez de Cornado crosses the Texas Panhandle
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A Spanish Treasure fleet shipwrecks off of present-day Parde island
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Spainiard Hernan Gallegos wrote about the Jumano Indian's lives in Texas.
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Texas produces a record of crop of more than 400,000 bales of cotton.
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Juan de Onate crosses the Panhandle on his way Qurivira.
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Spainards first record seeing Apache Indians riding horses.
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A group of colonists led by a French exploer named Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle, landed in Matagorda bay in Texas.
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The Spanish build a mission named San Francisco de los Tejas.
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Martin de Alarcon establishes the San Antonio Valero mission.
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Settlers from the Canary Islands arrive in San Antonio
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Rancher Tomas Sanchez establishes the town of Laredo
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The Marques de Rubi expedition begins
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Antonio Gil Ybarbo finds the town of Nacogdoches in Texas.
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Juan Agustin Morfi, the Author of The History of Texas, dies.
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Philip Nolan, a U.S. citizen, receives permission to capture wild horses in Texas.
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U.S. citizen James Long and a small force invade Texas, only be defeated by Spanish forces.
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Mexico, which included Texas at the time, won Independence from Spain.
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The Spanish government gives Moses Austin permission to found a colony in Texas.
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Settler Jared Groce plants a cotton crop, possibly the first in Stephen F. Austin's colony
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About 3,000 Anglo settlers live in Texas without permission of the Mexican government.
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Empresario Martin de Leon settelers families on the lower Guadalupe River.
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Mexican officials adopt the Constitution of 1824.
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An American Indian attacks the Green Dewitt Conloy and forces them to flee Gonzales.
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The Fredonian Rebellion begins when Haden Edwards declares independence from Mexico.
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Stephen F. Austin receives a contract to settle an additional 100 families in Texas.
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General Manuel de Mier y Teran begins a tour of Texas for the Mexican Goverment.
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Thomas J. Pilgrim organizes a Sunday school and private boy's school in San Felipe.
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President Guerrero issues a decree to end slavery in Mexico, except for in Texas.
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The Texas Gazette newspaper begins publication in Austins colony.
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Mexico issues a law that changes rules on immigration and trade in Texas.
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The town of Gonzales receives a cannon from the Mexican government to defend citizens against American Indian attacks.
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Mary Austin Holley's letters, describing the early Texas, are published.
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Texas Farmers export some 7,000 bales of cotton, worth about $315,000 to New Orleans.
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Stephen F. Austin is arrested in Saltillo.
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Texans become concerned when the Mexican government officially abolishes the Constitution of 1824
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An estimated 1,000 U.S. Immigrants enter Texas each month.
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Texas settlers hold about 3,500 land grants.
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Texas settlers attack Mexican soldiers at Gonzales, forcing them to leave.
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Texas troops push Mexican troops out of San Antonio, capturing the city.
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The Siege of the Alamo begins.
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The Texas declaration of Independence is adopted.
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Texas wins the Battle of San Jacinto,ending the Texas revolution.
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Sam Houston becomes the first popularity elected president of the Republic of Texas.
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The first official Texas flag is adopted by the Texas Congress.
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Texas government begins work in Houston, the new capital.
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The US Congress authorizes a diplomat to g to Texas
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Velasco citizens hold a horse race on the coast near town.
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William H. Wharton is elected to the Texas Senate.
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Texans elect Mirabeau B. Lamar as president.
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France become the first European nation to recognize Texas as an independent country.
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Repeated attacks and discrimination force more than 100 Tejano families to flee Nacogdoches.
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Texas passes a homestead law, protecting settlers from being seized to pay debts.
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The first collage charted by the Republic Rutersville College is foundeed.
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Austin, the capital of Texas, has 850 residents.
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Galveston University opens it doors to five students.
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William Kennedy publishes Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas.
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President Mirabeau B. Lamar sends the Texas Navy to the Yucatan coast.
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Snider de Pellegrini, director of a French colonization company, brings 14 settlers to Texas.
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General Adrian Woll and about 1,400 Mexican soldiers capture San Antonio.
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The Tehuacana Creek Councils lead to peace between Texans and several Texas Indian groups.
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Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels comes to Texas followed by a group of German immigrants
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President Sam Houston sends troops into the East Texas to end the Regulator-Moderator War.
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Texans elect Anson Jones president of the Republic.
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United States annexes Texas.
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At least 30,000 enslaved American Indians live in Texas.
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On December 29 the U.S. Congress officially admits Texas to the Union approves its first state constiution.
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Texas sings a peace treaty with the Penateka Comanches.
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Fighting breaks out between US forces and Mexican troops at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
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Thomas J. Rusk and Sam Houston become the first Texans to serve the US Senate.
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George T. Wood is elected governor of Texas.
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Samuel H. Walker dies in combat during a conflict in Mecico.
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Senate cenus reports the states population at more than 142,000.
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Texans cast their first votes as U.S. Citizens in a presidential election
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The Texas population reaches 200,000 people.
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In her book Texas in 1850, Melinda Rankin describes the state and urges people to move to Texas.
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Work begins on the Port Isabel Lighthouse. When completed, light could be seen from 16 miles away.
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US army troops abandon Fort Worth after settlers mover farther west beyond the fort.
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After many false starts, track is finally laid for the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway.
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The American or Know-Nothing, Party Becomes active in Texas.
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The Governor's Mansion is built in Austin.
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Slaves in Colorado County acquire weapons and plan a rebellion, but the plot is discover before it can begin.
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The Butterflied Overland Mail begins taking passengers and mail by stagecoach from Missouri, through Texas, and on to California.
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A series of clahses occurs between Texas rangers and Mexican Americans near Brownsvile.
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Sam Houston easily beats incumbent Hardin Runnels in the election for Texas governor.
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Texans vote, by more than three to one, to secede from the United States.
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Troops leave San Antonio for New Mexico, planing to capture the Southwest for the Confederacy.
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The Texas Frontier Regiment is established.
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Union forces capture Galveston
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The Texas cattle population increases rapidly during the Civil War.
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A Union attempt to invade Texas is turned back at Sabine Pass.
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Union troops capture Brownsvile.
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In a battle near Mansfield, Louisiana, Confederate forces stop a Union invasion of northeastern Texas.
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Colonel Christopher "Kit" Carson leads an attack against Plains Indians in the Panhandle.
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The last land battle of the war is fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas.
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The last land battle of the war is fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas.
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African American George T. Ruby is elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
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Texas adopts a new constitution.
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Fort Richardson is established near Jacksboro.
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Texas cowboys move a herd of 15,000 cattle to the market. It is the largest single herd of the era.
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Edmund J. Davis is elected governor, the last Republican to hold the office until Bill Clements was elected in 1978
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Republican Edmund J. Davis is elected governor.
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Texas has 538 miles of rail lines.
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A public school system is created in Texas.
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Ranchers begin to ship thousands of cattle from Dennison after Missouri, Kansas, Texas Railroad extends a line there.
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Clarksville,TX got 109.4 inches of rain.
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The Democratic Party regains full control of state government.
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Plains Indians attack a group of buffalo hunters in the Battle Adobe walls.
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Comanche leader Quanah Parker surrenders, ending the Red River War.
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Texans adopt the constitution that governs the state today.
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About 2,700 animals die during a cattle stampede near the Brazos.
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Texas A&M University opens as an all-male military institution.
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The Texas legislature passes a law that allows the state to fund railroads with land grants.
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Apache Leader Victorio launches raids along the Mexican border.
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The Texas and Pacific Railway meets the Southern Pacific line near El Paso, forming the first transcontinental railroad route through Texas.
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A ranch in the Panhandle purchases enough barbed wire to fence 250,000 acres.
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The University of Texas formally opens.
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The Knights of Labor begin a major strike against Jay Gould's railroad company.
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There are more 8,000 miles track in Texas.
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The Texas legislature passes the Antitrust Act of 1889.
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Texas Normal College and Teacher's Taring Institute, now called the University of North Texas, opens in Denton.
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James Stephen Hogg– the first native born Texan to become governor– is elected.
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The Texas Railroad Commission is established to regulate railroads in Texas.
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A leading association of farmers endorses the Populist Party.
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Dillers strike oil in Corsicana.
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The first football game is played between the University of Texas and A&M.
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Teddy Roosevelt organizes and trains the Rough Riders in San Antonio.
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Teddy Roosevelt organizes and trains the Rough Riders in San Antonio.
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A hurricane hits Galveston, killing some 6,000 to 8,000 people.
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Texas has more than 350,000 farms, and almost half of all farmers are tenant farmers.
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The Spindletop well strikes oil, producing more than 17 million barrels of oil the next year.
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The Spindletop oil strike spurs the growth of the Texas oil industry
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The Corsicana Oilers set a basketball record by defeating the Texarkana team 51 to 3.
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A large oil strike is made in the Humble oil field in Harris.
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The first Neiman Marcus department store opens in Texas.
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Oil is discovered at Goose Creek along Galveston.
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Jovita Idar becomes the first president of the League of Mexican Women.
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The Houston Ship Channel opens, and Houston soon becomes an important oil-refining center.
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The Houston Ship Channel is completed, leading to the growth of industry in the Houston area.
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The Texas legislature passes the first state law requiring children to attend school.
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Texas troops are sent to France to fight in World War I.
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Texas ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which bans the sale or manufacture of alcohol.
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After decades of fighting for the right to vote, women are allowed to vote in Texas primary elections.
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An application is filed to drill for oil on state owned land in West Texas. Several years later Santa Rita No.1 strikes oil.
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Governor William Hobby breaks dockwatersstrike in Galveston.
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Texans elect Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson as t e state's first female governor.
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Automobile registrations reach 1 million.
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Some 300,000 Texans are unemployed.
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The coldest temperature in Texas was -23`F.
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James V Allred is elected governor of Texas.
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Texas celebrates 100th anniversary of th Texas Revolution.
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Texans elect W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel as governor.
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The Southern Aircraft Corporation, the first airplane manufacturer in Texas, is formed.
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Large numbers of Texans volunteer for military service in World War II
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The U.S. Supreme Court declares the Texas white primary unconstitutional
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A Texas law establishing white primaries is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Smith v. Allwright.
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Texan Audie Murphy receives the Medal of Honor for stopping a Germ tank attack in France
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More than 3 million automobiles are registered in Texas
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Allan Shiver successfully runs for a third term as governor
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Women are allowed to serve on Texas juries for the first time
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Wink TX Got 1.76 inches of rain in 1956.
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Texas women call for an equal rights amendment to the state constitution
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Texas musician Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Texas own Gulf coastal tidelands up to a 10.35 mile limit
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Henry B. Gonzalez is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and John Tower is elected to the U.S. Senate
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The Manned Space Center, now the Johnson Space Center, is built in Houston
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President of the United States after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
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Texas singer Janis Joplin's career takes off after a performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival.
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Texas Instruments releases the first handheld calculator.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration sends the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
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Members of the Chicano movement and the Mexican American Youth Organization form the La Raza Unida Party
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Barbara Jordan is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Texan Barbara Jordan is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the first black woman from the South to serve in Congress
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Texan Barbara Jordan is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the first black woman from the South to serve in Congress
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A major attempt to adopt a new Texas constitution fails.
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Austin City Limits goes on the air with Willie Nelson as its first guest musician
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The Texas population reaches 14 million
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For the first time in state's history, the majority of Texans vote for a Republican presidential candidate- Herbert Hoover.
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Texas writer Larry McMurty receives the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Lonesome Dove.
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Raul Gonzalez is elected to the Texas Supreme Court. He is the first Mexican American elected to statewide office
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Texas musician Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed in a helicopter crash.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement is passed, easing trade among the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
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The hottest temperature in Texas was 120`F
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George W. Bush takes office as governor
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The Texas state government employs more than 230,000 people in more than 200 agencies, with a two-year budget totaling more than $98 billion.
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Rick Perry becomes the 47th governor of Texas.
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Republicans gain control of the Texas House of Representatives.
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Texas becomes the national leader in wind power generation
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TX timber industry got $1.9 Billion.
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Sales of livestock added up to more than $10.8 Billion.
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Rick Perry becomes the longest-serving governor in Texas history. He was elected governor again in 2008.
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Cowboys Stadium, later renames AT&T Stadium, opens in Arlington
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Texas receives its lowest ever recorded rainfall.
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Texas made 730 million barrels of Crude oil. Which is worth $55 billion.
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Agriculture added $36 billion to Texas economy
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Texas had 244,700 farms in 2012.
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Texas exports more than $124 billion worth of goods
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TX exporters of electronics/computers were worth more than $45 billion.
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Based on the 2010 Census, Texas gains four new seats in Congress.
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Texans again elect Sam Houston president of the Republic.
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The Emancipation goes into effect in Texas, freeing state slaves
