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Christoper Columbus reached the Americas. He saw many Carribbean Sea. He returned three times to the America. On the second visit he built a permanet colony on one of the Island of the West Indies
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Alvarez de Pineda explored the Texas coastline. . He became the first European to explore the Texas coast.He stopped for 40 days in a mouth of a river. He called the mouth of the river Rio de las Palmas.
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Cortes invaided Aztecs empire in Mexico.He sailed from Cuba and landed 500 soilders on the eastern coast of Mexico. The Aztecs welcomed Cortes. They believed he was their legendary god Quetzalcoatl.
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Cabeza de Vaca shipwreacked on what is believed to have been Galveston Bay. He was a member of a large expedition that was sent to conquer the areas between Florida and Mexico
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Fray Marcos thought he saw the seven cities, rich in gold, silver, and precious gems. He sayed that he saw the seven cities of gold,silver and wealth and people in woolen clothes
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He lead an expedition across northern Texas. He was disappointed because instead of finding golden treasures he found mudstoneand angrey Zunni warrios ready to defend their village
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De Soto Moscoso expedition reached East Texas across northern Texas. He reached the Mississippi River in 1541.
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Spain estabishes the first permenent Eurapeon settlement in Texas
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La Salla established the French settlement in Texas.The Mississippi region was named Louisiana.He named it in honor of the French king Louis XIV.
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The American colonies win their independece from Great Britain
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Mexico wins its indepandence from Spain.
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On April 6,1830, the Centralist govermernt in Mexico issued a law baased on many of Meir y Terian recommendations. The law also set up new forts. Taxes were called custom dutiies.
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On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise.
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The Texas Declaration of Independence was produced, literally, overnight. Liberty was given to the people.
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The final assault came before daybreak on the morning. Mexican soliders came from the darkness.By sunrise, the battle had ended.
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Sam Houston launches a surprise attack against the forces of Mexican General Santa Anna along the San Jacinto River.
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6 monthes after the congress of the Republic of Texas, Texas is admitted into the United States as the 28th state.
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When it was signed it ending the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States.
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Lincoln shows up unexpectedly at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.
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The American Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter.
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President Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery.
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John Wilkes Booth fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
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The Battle of Palmito Ranch was the last land battle of the American Civil War. It took place in the extreme southern tip of Texas, near Brownsville.
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The presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah.
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A Category 4 hurricane hit Galveston. It killed 6,000 to 8,000 people.
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An enormous oil exploded from a drilling spot in Spindletop Hill. It reached a height of more than 150 feet.
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US Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war on Germany.
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Billion of dollars were lost, which wiped out thousands of investers.
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Just before 8 am hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic bombs. During wartime a atomic bomb is dropped on Japan.
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John F. Kennedy gets killed while traviling through Dallas, Texas
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Carrying the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade
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Was leader of the Civil Right Movments
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6 pm on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room
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President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign.
