Texas History

By kesincam000
  • Nov 5, 1492

    Columbus

    Began European expleration to the Americas
  • Nov 5, 1519

    Pineda

    Mapped the texas coast line
  • Nov 5, 1528

    Cabeza de Vaca

    Traveled Texas for 7 years and wrote a book about his travels
  • Nov 5, 1540

    Coronado

    Searched for the 7 cities of gold, but found nothing
  • Nov 5, 1542

    Moscoso

    Found petroleum in East Texas

  • Onate

    Claimed the Rio Grande Valley for Spain

  • Mission Corpus Christi de la Yseta

    Shortly after the mission was built, 21 spanish families moved to the area to meat the spiritual needs of the Tigua people.

  • La Salle

    Built Fort St. Louis on Matagorda Bay.

  • Mission San Francisco de los Tejas

    Spain had learned that La Salle had been in the area and built Fort St. Louis. They feared that even though La Salle’s settlement had failed, France would send another group of settlers to try again. Mission San Francisco de los Tejas was built among the Atakapan people who were more interested in stealing horses than going to church.

  • Mission Santisimo Nombre de Maria

    the mission was completely destroyed by flooding from the Neches River.

  • Mission Nuestra Senora de la Concepción de Acuna

    After a rough beginning and several moves, the mission was permanently moved to San Antonio in 1731, becoming the third in a chain of five missions established along the San Antonio River. From the beginning the priests at Mission Concepcion tried to replace Indian ceremonies with religious festivals that taught the Indians about Christianity.

  • Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Nacogdoches

    A few years later, when they established the town of Nacogdoches, settlers used the empty buildings.

  • Mission San Antonio de Valero

    The mission became known as The Alamo, and after the epic battle against Santa Anna in 1836.

  • Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo

    The mission had a difficult beginning, but soon the 300 Indians who lived there became successful farmers and ranchers. The Indians helped dig 15 miles of irrigation ditches to bring water to the farms of the five San Antonio missions. Mission San Jose was so successful, it became known as “Queen of the Missions”

  • Mission Nuestra Senora del Espíritu Santo de Zuniga

    The mission was built to serve the Karankawa indians and to reinforce the Spanish presence in the area to help keep the French out of Texas.

  • Mission San Juan Capistrano

    Within a few years, San Juan became a successful mission with rich farmland, orchards, and gardens. By 1762, the Indians living in the mission village were raising more than 3,000 head of sheep and cattle. They were growing enough pumpkins, grapes, and peppers to supply other communities with fresh vegetables.

  • Mission San Francisco de la Espada

    The mission was renamed and move to the San Antonio area in 1731, becoming the fifth mission in the chain of missions along the San Antonio River. Indians at Mission Espada were taught masonry and carpentry by Spanish craftsmen. These skills helped the Indians survive in Texas long after the missions were closed. Mission Espada is located due South of Mission San Juan.

  • San Xavier missions

    Conflict with the local garrison commander led to relocation of the missions to a site on the San Marcos River in 1755. The missions closed the following year.

  • Santa Cruz de San Saba

    It was attacked and destroyed in a revolt by Indians less than a year later.

  • Nuestra Senora del Refugio

    It was abandoned in 1830. Later, Irish immigrants to the area named their settlement after the mission.