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Period: Apr 13, 1490 to
texas
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Apr 13, 1492
Clombus reaches the Americas.
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Apr 13, 1519
Alvares de pineda explores gulf coast of texas.
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Spanish troops on a retaliatory raid are defeated by Indian residents of a large encampment at Spanish Fort in present-day Montague County.
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Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costillo and several hundred of his parishioners seize the prison at Dolores, Mexico, beginning Mexico's struggle for independence from Spain.
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The convention of 1832 is held.
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Texas Declaration of Indepedance is adopted at Washington -on-the-brazos.
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Sam Houston is elected president
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U.S. congress passes a joint resolution for annexing texas to the United States.
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Texas becomes the twenty-eight state
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Battle of Palo Alto near Brownsville is first major battle of two-year Mexican War.
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The first railroad to actually begin operation in Texas is chartered by the state government. The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado begins operation in 1853
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Two reservations are established for Indians in West-Central Texas: one for Comanches on the Clear Fork of the Brazos in Throckmorton County, the other for more sedentary Indian groups, such as Tawakonis, Wacos and Tonkawas, near Fort Belknap in Young Cou
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Sam Houston is elected governor of texas.
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The Secession Convention approves an ordinance accepting Confederate statehood
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Slavery end's in texas.
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Texas voters approve a new state constitution.
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Constitution of 1876 is adopted.
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Charles Goodnight establishes the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon, the first cattle ranch located in the Panhandle.
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Texas women win the right to vote in primary elections.
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A tornado kills 114, injures 597 at Waco; 150 homes and 185 other buildings are destroyed.
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Texas women gain the right to serve on juries.
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San Antonio native Ed White becomes the first American to walk in space.
He was born in (November 14,1930--January 27.1967) and he was an engineer, United States Air Force Officer and a Nasa Astronut. On June 3,1965, he bacame theFirst American to Conduct aSpacewalk. -
Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong transmits the first words from the surface of the moon: "Houston, the Eagle has landed."
He was born in August 5 1930 is An American Aviator and former astronut,tes pilot,aerospace engineer. He was the first person to step foot on the moon.Armstrong is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. -
Democrat Ann Richards becomes the first woman governor of Texas in her own right.
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Former Texas Gov. George W. Bush elected President of the United States
