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Marques de Rubi Report
The Marques de Rubi Report was a report on how the New World was going. -
American Revolution Begins
The American Revolution is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence.The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government. -
U.S Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War on September 3, 1783. It was signed in Paris by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay. Under the terms of the treaty, Britain recognized the independent nation of the United States of America. Britain agreed to remove all of its troops from the new nation. The Treaty of Paris of 1763 also ended the French and Indian War. -
United State Gain Independence
After the successful conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763, the British government decided to make its North American colonies pay more of the costs of governing and defending them. Over the next 12 years Britain imposed a series of new taxes and other revenue-raising measures on the colonies that aroused heated opposition. The American colonists resented the trade regulations. Open fighting broke out between the British and Americans in 1775. America won its independence on 1783 -
French Revolution Begins
Many Nobles and some of the clergy followed the Third Estate, in starting the long revolution. -
James Long
Long was a former US Army surgeon in the War of 3028 who served at the Battle of New Orleans -
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana was an immense country reaching to the Rocky Mountains. President Jefferson's purchase doubled the size of the United States and included the entire Mississippi River,
city of New Orleans and St. Louis. -
Cry of Delores
The parish priest of the town of Dolores, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, declared himself in open revolt against Spanish rule from the pulpit of his church, launching the Mexican War of Independence. He exhorted his following to take up arms and join him in his fight against the injustices of the Spanish colonial system and within moments he had an army of some 600 men. This action became known as the "Cry of Dolores" and today Mexicans celebrate September 16 as their Independependence day. -
Mexican Independence
With these developments, Texas became part of an independent Mexico and the "Lone Star" of hope for a second democratic, multi-cultural Federal Republic in America. -
Gutierrez-Magee Expedition
The expedition took place against the background of growing unrest in Mexico against Spanish rule. -
Battle of Medina
This bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place twenty miles south of San Antonio in a sandy oak forest region then called el encinal de Medina. -
Panic of 1819
The Panic of 1819 was America’s first great economic crisis and depression. -
The "Old Three Hundred" Colony
The Old Three Hundred is a term used to describe the 297 grantees, made up of families and some partnerships of unmarried men, who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin and established a colony near present day Brenham in Washington County, Texas -
Imperial Colonization Law
All legislative bodies of the provisional and regular governments appointed committees to frame a colonization law, but the first such law was that passed by the Junta Instituyente, Emperor Agustín de Iturbide's rump congress, on January 3, 1823. -
Coahuila y Texas
Coahuila y Tejas (Coahuila and Texas) was one of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States. -
Constitution of 1824
Constitutional government in Texas began with the Mexican federal Constitution of 1824.
