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The Spanish build their first mission known as Corpus Christi de Ysleta.
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Explorer Robert Rene Cavelier Sieur De La Salle estabishes Fort. St. Louis in Texas. It was the first French fort in Texas.
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The Karankawa indian tribe destroys Fort St. Louis and drive the French out.
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Spain finds Fort St. Louis abandoned and destroyed so they set fire tp it.
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Captain Domingo Ramon and St. Denis establish missions in East Texas.
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San Antonio de Valero (Alamo) is established.
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Spain and France go to war.
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The Sppanish establish a mission and a presidio at San Saba
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The French cede Louisiana to the Spanish. In other words, the French dropped all land claims and formally gave Spain the large piece of land.
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Filibusters Guiterrez de Lara and Augustus Magee invade Texas.
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Dr. James Long launches an attack on the presidio at La Bahia
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Stephen F. Austin's plan is approved by the Spanish government.
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Austin leads the Old 300 into Texas
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Mexico claims independance from Spain.
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Denmark Vesey is executed for leading a slave rebellion.
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Stephen F. Austin brings his first colonists to Texas.
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The United States adopts the Monroe Doctrine.
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Martin De Leon establishes a settlement at Victoria.
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Mexican constitution of 1824 makes Texas a part of the Mexican state Cohuila y Tejas
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Green DeWitt establishes a colony with Gonsales as its main town.
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David Burnett, Lorenzo de Zavala and David Vehlein receive land grants in Sotheastern Texas.
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Great Britain and the United States renew the agreement to jointly occupy the Pacific northwest.
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Mier y Teran scouts out Texas for Mexico. Reports indicate that Texas is becoming less Mexican and they hve to settle ore Mexicans there and bring Mexican troops into the area.
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Stephen F. Austin receives the last of his five land grants to settle Texas.
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Andrew Jackson is elected president
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The Mexican government permanantly abolishes slavery.
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Mexico refuses U.S offers to buy Texas from the Mexican government.
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Law of April 30 cancels most Empresario contracts.
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Nat Turner leads a slave revolt.
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Civil War erupts in Mexico because of Texas resistance.
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South Carolina nulifies the Tariff of Abominations.
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Drafts first state constitution for Texas.
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The first antislavery book was published.
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Stephen F. Austin is imprisoned by Mexian officials.
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William Barrett Travis captures Anahuac.
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Cherokee indians are forced off there land after the discovery of gold.
