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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
Texas
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Apr 13, 1450
Columbus reaches the Americas
Columbus first set sail in the early modern period. He was a navigator and an admiral. He discovered America in the year of 1492. He led major sea powers in Europe, sending expeditions to build networks and colonies in the new world. -
Juan de Onate establishes Santa Fe
He and his party traveled up the Rio Grande to present-day northern New Mexico, where he encamped among the Pueblo Indians. He founded the province of Santa Fé de Nuevo México and became the province's first governor.Oñate soon gained a reputation as a stern ruler of both the Spanish colonists and the indigenous people. -
La Salle established Fort St. Louis
Leaving Fort Wayne with eighteen Native Americans, he canoed down the Mississippi River in 1682, naming the Mississippi basin "La Louisiane"[8] in honor of Louis XIV. At what is now the site of Memphis, Tennessee, he built a small fort, Fort Prudhomme. On April 9, at the mouth of the Mississippi River near modern Venice, Louisiana, La Salle buried an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory for France. In 1683, on his return voyage, he established Fort Saint Louis of Illinois, at Star -
Mission is founded in San Antonio
Mission San Antonio de Padua was founded on July 14, 1771, the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra, and site of the first Christian marriage and first use of fired-tile roofing in Upper California.By 1805, the number had increased to 1,300, but in 1834, after the secularization laws went into effect, the total number of Native Americans at the Mission was only 150. -
San Antonio becomes capital of Texas
In 1773 San Antonio de Béxar became the capital of Spanish Texas. By 1778, the settlement’s population of more than 2,000 was made up of poor Indians and settlers and was described as "miserable” by visitors.By 1795, all of the missions had been put to work for other purposes and the San Antonio de Valero Mission became a military barracks. Later it would become known as the Alamo. -
Texas independent from Spain
Texans fought and won the Texas Revolution in 1835-36. Texas now became an independent nation, the Republic of Texas. Attracted by the rich cotton lands and ranch lands, tens of thousands of immigrants arrived from the U.S. (bringing slaves) and from Germany as well. In 1845, Texas joined the United States, becoming the 28th state. Determined to protect slavery, Texas declared its secession from the United States in 1861 to join the Confederate States of America. -
Mexican independence
On September 16, 1810, the priest Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla started a revolt against Spanish rule. He and his untrained Indian followers fought against the Spanish, but his revolt was unsuccessful and Father Hidalgo was executed. After this setback, Father Jose Maria Morelos led the revolutionaries, but he also failed and was executed. These two men are still symbols of Mexican liberty and patriotism.
After the Mexican-born Spanish and the Catholic Church joined the revolution, Spain wa -
Moses Austin settles 300 families in Texas
Stephen F. Austin led the Old 300 Familes into Texas after the death of his father Moses Austin in 1821.After his father's death he obtained a confirmation of the Texas grants from the newly established Mexican government, and in 1821-23 he established a colony of several hundred American families on the Brazos river, the principal town being named, in his honor, San Felipe de Austin. -
Stephen F. Austin brings Anglo Americans to Texas
Stephen F. Austin led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States.His father died in June 1821, leaving Austin a newly acquired permit to colonize 300 families in Spanish Texas. He traveled to Mexico City in 1822-1823 to secure Mexican recognition of the Spanish grant. This done, he colonized the 300 families, as well as an additional 750 families under subsequent contracts. -
Martin de Leon petitions to establish first Tejano colonies
Don Martín De León was the only Tejano empresario to settle a colony in Texas, in the days before statehood.Otherempresarios,
such as Moses Austin and Sterling C. Robertson, were Anglos who had been drawn to Texas by the lure of land. De León established his colony in southeast Texas, near the Gulf Coast, and founded the city of Victoria. He and his four sons governed the colony. -
Green de Witt settles 400 more families in Texas
In 1822, Dewitt petitioned the Mexican government for permission to settle colonists in Texas but was denied.After gaining the support of Stephen F. Austin, an influential Texas empresario, Dewitt's second petition, in 1825, was granted. He was given permission to settle 400 respectable, industrious, Catholic families in an area bounded by the Guadalupe River, San Marcos River, and Lavaca River. -
Sam Houston,first president of Republic of Texas
Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas, Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as governor. Although a slaveowner and opponent of abolitionism, he refused, because of his unionist convictions, to swear loyalty to the Confederacy when Texas seceded from the Union, bringing his governorship to an end. To avoid bloodshed, he refused an offer of an army to put down the rebellion, and inst -
Texas releases 40% of Western land to U.S.A
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Slaves are freed
the 13th amendment was ratifed in december of 1865 freeing all slaves in the united states and its' territories
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 was a powerful move that promised freedom for slaves in the Confederacy as soon as the Union armies reached them, and authorized the enlistment of African Americans in the Union Army.
Legally, the last 40,000 or so slaves were freed in Kentucky[83] by the final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in Dece -
Spindletop produces over 17.5 million barrels of oil
The gusher spewed oil more than 100 feet into the air until it was capped nine days later. With that dramatic fanfare, Texas' economy was wrenched from its rural, agricultural roots and flung headlong into the petroleum and industrial age. -
World War I ends
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State Board of education is created
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More than 21,000 miles of Texas highway is completed
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Barbara Jordan;first African American woman elected to Texas Senate
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Billingual Education & Training Act is passed
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Irma Rangel;elected first hispanic female legislator in Texas
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Ann Richards is elected second female governor
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George W. Bush is elected governor of Texas
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Texas is second most populated stae in the U.S
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Hispanics make up Texas more than 30 persent of states population
