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Period: Sep 17, 1500 to
1500 1600
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Nov 5, 1528
Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca a ship wreck on what is known today as Galveston. After trading in the region for six years, he later explored the Texas interior on his way to Mexico. -
Apr 20, 1540
Coronado
In search of the f Seven Cities of Cibola, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado lead an edventure into the southwestern United States and across northern Texas. -
Period: to
1600-1700
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La Salle
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle made Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay, and then formed the basis for France's take to Texas. Two years later, LaSalle was killed by his own men. -
Period: to
1700-1800
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Period: to
1800-1900
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Austin Grant
Mexican authorities were less certain. Alarmed by the numbers of former Americans migrating to Texas and rumors the U.S. intended to worry the region, the Mexican government began to limit immigration in 1830. -
Mexican Indepencence
On September 16, 1810, a priest named Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla became the father of Mexican independence with a historic offer urging Mexicans to take up arms against the Spanish government. -
Austin imprisoned
In 1813, at the age of 21 years, he was elected to the territorial Legislature of Missouri, and was again elected to that position each year until 1819. -
Battle at Gonzales
About the middle of September, 1835, General Cos landed at Matagorda, with five hundred Mexican troops, and proceeded on his way to Bexar. On his arrival in Texas, active operations commenced. -
Battle of Alamo
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Runaway Scrape begins
The period roughly between the fall of the Alamo, and the Victory at San Jacinto is known as "The Runaway Scrape." . -
Massacre at Golaid
the massacre garnered support for the cause against Mexico both within Texas and in the United States,they were contributing greatly to the Texan victory at the battle of San Jacinto. -
Battle of San Jacinto
Following the Battle of the Alamo, Santa Anna, with more than more than seven hundred men, was in hot pursuit of Sam Houston and the Texas Army. -
Texas joins the US
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Texas secedes and joins the Confedercy
The Texans who voted to leave the Union did this over the disbelife of their governor, Sam Houston. A Houston's election in 1859 as governor seemed to say that Texas did not share the rising secessionist sentiments of the other Southern states. -
Battle of Galveston - the bayou city
As part of the Union blockade of the Texas coast, Commander William B. Renshaw led his group of eight ships into Galveston harbor to demand surrender of the most important Texas port on October 4, 1862.
