Texas History

By garcimis000
  • Nov 4, 1492

    Colombus

    Began eploration in the americas.
  • Nov 6, 1519

    Pineda

    Pineda maps the coastline from present day Florida to present day Texas.
  • Nov 4, 1528

    Cabeza de Vaca

    Cabeza de Vaca and three men survive the Narvaez expedition by being shipwrecked on Galvestine Island. They are captured by Indians and held prisoner for many years
  • Nov 6, 1540

    Coronado

    Pineda maps the coastline from present day Florida to present day Texas.
  • Nov 4, 1542

    Moscoso

    Took over the de Soto expedition and led men into east Texas. He found petroleum, but did not know what its value was at the time. Turned around and backtracked home.

  • Onate

    Claimed the Rio Grande valley for Spain.

  • Mission Corpus Christi de la Ysleta

    The mission was built among the Tigua people in 1682. Shortly after the mission was built, 21 Spanish families moved to the area to meet the spiritual needs of the Tigua people.

  • La salle

    Built Fort Saint Louis, Garcitas Creek, Matagorda Bay, Texas.

  • Mission San Francisco de los Tejas

    They feared that even though La Salle’s settlement had failed, France would send another group of settlers to try again.

  • Mission Santisimo Nombre de Maria

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

  • Mission Nuestra Senora de la Concepción de Acuna

    The mission was permanently moved to San Antonio in 1731.

  • 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 was located on the east bank of the San Antonio River. During the 1730s and 1740s, the mission suffered from repeated attacks by the hostile Apache indians.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • San Xavier missions

    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

    Irish immigrants to the area named their settlement after the mission.