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Period: Sep 24, 1400 to
Texas History
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Period: Sep 29, 1400 to
Age of Contact
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Oct 24, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus sights the Caribean Islands after 33 days of exploration. -
Feb 24, 1519
Hernan Cortes
Cortez lands an army in Mexico. They travel east until they find the Aztec empire of Tenochtitlan. They kill all the Aztecs after knowing that they don't believe in God. -
Sep 24, 1519
Alvarez de Pineda
Alvarez is the first european to explorer the Texan coast and to chart it. -
Sep 24, 1527
Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca went on an expedition to conquer all between Florida and Texas. They got shipped wrecked and managed to suvive by becoming witch docters in an indian tribe. -
Mar 24, 1539
Fray Marcos
Fray Marcoss led an expedition to find a golden city. Later he had supposible seen it in the distance. -
Jul 7, 1540
Vazquez de Coronado
He had gone on an expedition to find the golden city that Fray Marcos had seen. To his disapointment it ended up being mud huts. They later found Turk who told them that there is a man who eats on plates made of gold but that was also a myth. -
May 25, 1542
Luis Moscoso
After the death of Hernan de Soto, Moscoso led the rest of his expedition to the Brazos River and then to back to the Mississippi River and then sailed to Mexico. -
Corpus Christi de La Ysleta
Spain establishes the first permanent European settlement in Texas. -
Rene Roberto Cavelier Siuer de la Salle
He led the first european expedition from the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, thus claiming it to France. He named this area Louisana. He returned to France and got and army to colonize the mouth of the Mississippi. A storm set him off course. -
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Revolution
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American Independece
The American colonies win their independence from Great Britian. -
Mexican Idependence
Mexico wins its independece from Spain. -
Decree of April 6
Stopped immigration from the USA to Mexico. -
Santa Anna arrives
Santa Anna's army arrivied in San Antonio. -
Declaration of Independence
The Texas Declaration of Independence was adopted by vote. -
Message
A message was recieved that day that Travis is at the Alamo, and many people head to the sene of the fighting. -
Texas Attackes the Mexican Army
Texans attack while the Mexican army is unprepared to fight. In the end Texans won. -
Annexed
Texas gets annexed by the USA. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Idalgo
Treaty ended The dispute over texas between the US and Mexico -
Texas seccedes
This day Texas seccedes from the Union after Lincoln wins the post as president. -
American troops in Texas
Up until the Union soldiers were allowed to leave Texas unharmed. After shots were fired, they were captured as prisoners of war. -
Confederate Attackes
On this day Confederates made a succes full attack against Union vessels. -
Lincoln is shot
Lincoln is shot in the Ford Theater. -
Palmito Ranch
The final land battle. John ford deafets Union invader trying to get to the main land from the Brazos Islands. -
Railroad
The transcontinental railroad is completed. -
Hurricane
Galveston is hit by a hurricane for twelve hours.. -
Oil
At 1,139 feet, a drill found oil that shot in the air for 9 days. -
WW I
America enters the war after Germany did many things against us. -
Great Deppression
After the stock market fail, the economy came chrasing down. Many people were left without jobs. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombers attack Pearl Harbor; destoying naval ships. -
Hiroshima
American bombers throw an atomic bomb at Hiroshima Japan, ending the war for the Japanese. -
JFK
John F. Kennedy was assasinated when driving through Dallas be Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Vietnam
Combat troops arrive in vietnam to protect the American air base.
