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Period: Feb 3, 1500 to
1500s to 2000
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Jan 1, 1519
1519
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explores and maps the Texas coastline -
Jan 2, 1528
1528
Cabeza de Vaca explores the Texas interior on his way to Mexico -
Jan 3, 1540
1540
The Spanish explorer, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1510-1554) explores northern Texas -
1685
Texas claimed by the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687) for France -
1827
Mier y Teran explorers texas for mexico -
1828
Andrew Jackson is elected president -
1829
Mexico refuses United states offer to buy Texas -
1829
Mexico abolishes slavery -
1830
Law of April 30 cancles most empresarios -
1831
Nat Turner leads slave revolt -
1832
Texas residtance to mexico declared in the Bayou Resolutions. Civil War erupts in Mexico -
1832
South Carolina nulliflies "Tariff of Abominations." -
1833
Convention of 1833 drafts the first state constitutuion for Texas -
1834
- General Santa Anna becomes dictator of Mexico and changes peaceful laws
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Oct 1835
1835 -- (Oct.) Sam Houston is ordered to raise an army. -
1835
(late) Texans seize Presido La Bahia at Goliad and San Antonio -
1835
- (June) Texas rebels defeat Mexican forces at Fort Anahuac
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June 1835
(June) Texas rebels defeat Mexican forces at Fort Anahuac -
Oct 1835
(Oct) First shots of Texas revolution fired in Gonzales -
Dec 1835
(Dec.) Texans ratify Declaration of Independence at Goliad -
Feb 24 1836
1836 -- (Feb 24) Seige of Alamo begins -
March 6 1836
(March 6) The Alamo falls -
March 27 1836
- (March 27) Santa Anna orders execution of troops at Goliad
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April 15 1836
1836 -- (April 15) Santa Anna burns Harrisburg -
April 20 1836
1836 -- (April 20) Sam Houston's army of 910 arrive at San Jacinto river -
April 21 1836
1836 -- (April 21) Texans defeat Santa Anna at San Jacinto -
May 14 1836
1836 -- (May 14) Texas, Mexico peace treaty signed -
OCT 22 1836
1836 -- (Oct. 22) Sam Houston becomes first President of the Republic of Texas -
1839
1839 -- Austin becomes state capital -
1840
Texans massacre Comanche chiefs at San Antonio Council House Fight -
1842
Rebels try to reinstate Mexican law in San Antonio -
1843
Mexican-Texan truce signed -
1845
(Dec. 29) President Polk signs annexation acts allowing Texas into the United States of America -
1861
Texas joins the Confederate States of America -
1863
Confederates in Texas win the Battle of Galveston; a major confederate victory -
1866
Texas rejoins the United States of America -
1900
Population expands greatly -
1929
Stock Market Crash -
1943
Texas Economy booms. Jobs open up in Petrochemical industry -
1957
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is opened -
1963
Nov. 22) President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas -
1969
July 20) Neil Armstrong made his historic walk as the first man on the moon -
1970s
Oil becomes big business in Texas -
1988
Texan George Bush is elected President of the United States -
2000
George W. Bush is elected President of the United States -
1842
(Sept) Mexican General Woll captures San Antonio -
March 2 1836
1836 -- (March 2) Declaration of Independence presented at Washington-on-the-Brazos.
