TX history 1400-2014

  • Period: Sep 24, 1400 to

    1400 to 2014

  • Period: Sep 29, 1400 to

    Age of contact

  • Oct 1, 1492

    christopher columbus

    Christopher Columbus dicovers the west hemisphere in 1492.
  • Feb 24, 1519

    Hernan Cortes

    Hernan Cortes comes to the new world and sails to tenochtitlan, the largest and strongest city of the natives. Cortes finds wrong in the saacrifice of the natives, so due to the cause of that he seizes the Aztecas and the gold and silver as well. After that he establishes a spanish colony over the ruins of the tribe.
  • Jun 2, 1519

    alonso alvarez the pineda

    he was the first european to see west florida, texas, louisiana, mississippi, and alabama.
  • Jan 1, 1527

    Alvar nunez cabeza de vaca

    Cabeza the vaca shipwrecked in texas by the cause of a storm. cabeza de vaca also was aided by friendly natives and accompanied by his slave esteban.
  • Jan 1, 1539

    Fray Marcos

    fray marcos claimed to find the seven cities of cibola yet it really wasn't made out of gold so he wasted money and food to get there and coronado's time.
  • Sep 26, 1542

    Francisco Vasquez de Coronado y Lujan

    Ferancisco Coronado led an expidition from Mexico City to present day Kansas
  • Jul 2, 1543

    Luis de Moscoso Alvarado

    Luis de Moscoso marched across Louisiana and West Texas with his army of conquistadores.
  • Rene-Robert Cavaleir, Sieur de La Salle

    La Salle explored the Great lakes, The Mississippi River, and established a base in Texas but was killed by the people in order to let them have their freedom.
  • Corpus Christi de la Yesleta

    Corpus Christi de la Yesleta
    Spain establishes the first settlement in Texas.
  • Period: to

    Revolution

  • American Independence

    The American colonies won their independence from Great Britian.
  • Mexican independence

    Mexico wins its independence from Spain.
  • The Battle of The Alamo begins

  • Texas Declaration of Independance is made

  • The Battle of the Alamo ends

  • Battle of San Jacinto The War ends

  • Texas enters The Union (U.S.A)

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed

  • Lincoln avoids getting assasinated

  • Fort Sumter was "attacked"

  • The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Lincoln

  • Lincoln is Assasinated

  • Battle of Palmito Ranch

  • Transcontinental Railroad is made

  • Galveston Hurricane

  • Oil shot up from Spindletop hill

  • The U.S.A enters World War 1

    The U.S.A enters World War 1
  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash
  • The U.S naval ships were attacked at Pearl Harbor

    The U.S naval ships were attacked at Pearl Harbor
  • The U.S Air Force released the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

    The U.S Air Force released the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
  • President, John F. Kennedy was Assasinated

    President, John F. Kennedy was Assasinated