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Jan 1, 1519
mid-spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps Texas coastline
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Jan 1, 1528
alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked near Galveston beginning exploration
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Jan 1, 1541
Francisco Vazquez Coronado crosses the Texas panhandle in search of the seven seas
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Jan 1, 1554
cornado dies
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thanksgiving is held near president-day El Paso by Juan de Onate, the members of his expedition and natives of the region
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Jumano Indians request Spanish missionaries from New Mexico to travel to the vicinity of president-day San Angelo and instruct the Jumanos about Christianity
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first Spanish mission, Corpus Christi de la Isleta, is established a few miles from present-day El Paso
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french explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, looking for the mouth of the Mississippi river, lands in Texas by mistake
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colonist at fort st.Louis not fled by Indians, diseases, poisonous snakes and malnutrition are finished off by karankawa Indians
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Spanish Gen. Alonso de Leon’s expedition finds the remains of fort st. Louis
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first east Texas mission under construction, San Francisco de los tejas, near present-day weches ,Houston co. the mission is closed in 1693
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- through the 18th century, Spain established catholic missions in Texas, and the towns of San Antonio
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spanish build a presidio, nuestra senora de los Dolores de los tejas, to protect the east Texas
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san José y san Miguel de aguayo mission, founded near San Antonio Valero
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san Antonio de Valero mission, known as the Alamo was the chapel, is found in San Antonio
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Missions at San Antonio are producing thousands of pounds of cotton annually
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_ Santa Cruz de san Saba mission near present-day menard destroyed and eight residents killed by Comanche’s and their allies
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Spanish troops on a retailory raid are defended by Indian residents of a large encampment at Spanish fort in present-day Montague County
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Texas’ first recorded hurricane strikes near Galveston
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group of settlers led by Antonio Gil Ybarbo establishes a civilian community near an abandoned mission site
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father Miguel hidalgo y costillo and several hundred of his parishioners seize the prison at Dolores, Mexico
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about 130-strong men, the Gutierrez-Magee expedition crossed the Sabine from Louisiana in a rebel movement against Spanish rule in Texas
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la salle is killed by several of his own men at unknown
