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