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Oct 13, 1492
Christopher colombus
Christopher Columbus discovered america. -
mexican independents
mexico wins independents from spain -
mexican troops
Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing all of the Texian defenders. -
independence
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836. On March 2, 1836, Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico. -
mexican
Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing all of the Texian defenders. -
battle
The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 20 minutes. -
arrival
the arrival of [Pfanner] with his settlers and urging him to have the settlers write letters home. -
treaty
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in village of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848, ending the Mexican War and extending the boundaries of the United States west to the Pacific Ocean. -
lincoln
The manner of Lincoln's arrival was ridiculed by his enemies and criticized by many friends. According to Lamon, Lincoln soon regretted the midnight journey to Washington as unworthy of the leader of a great republic. But Lincoln's advisers, like Lamon, believed the plot to assassinate him was genuine and that his life was endangered from the moment he crossed the Maryland line. -
1861
On April 12, 1861, 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. -
the emancipation proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation 1863. On Jan. 1, 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared free all slaves residing in territory in rebellion against the federal government. This Emancipation Proclamation actually freed few people. -
1865
Shortly after 10:00 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln -
civil war
May 13, 1865, The last significant fighting of the Civil War takes place at the Palmito Ranch along the Rio Grande between Col. Theodore Barrett and John S. -
golden spike
On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. The transcontinental railroad had long been a dream for people living in the American West. -
hurricane
Surface weather analysis of the hurricane on September 8, just before landfall.The Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on September 8, 1900 -
spindletop
The Lucas gusher at Spindletop, January 10, 1901. This was the first major gusher of the Texas Oil Boom. Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas in the United States. -
war with germany
On April 6, 1917, the United States formally declared war against Germany and entered the conflict in Europe -
attack
The attack on Pearl Harbor [nb 4] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II -
1945
06 August - U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, American B-29 bomber the Enola Gay drops the world's first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 were injured.