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Proto-Indians live at the Gault site.
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Coastal American Indians make knives and scrapers from stone.
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American Indians living near Galveston Bay begin making pottery.
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The Caddos grow many kinds of crops in East Texas
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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps the Texas coast
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Europeans arrive in Texas and encounter the Karankawas
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Explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado crosses the Texas Panhandle.
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A Spanish treasure fleet shipwrecks off of present-day Padre Island
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Spaniard Hernan Gallegos writes about the lives of the Jumano Indians in Texas.
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The Rio Grande, which Begins in Colorado and flows along the Texas- Mexico border, runs 1,896 miles
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Juan de Oñate crosses the Texas Panhandle on his way to Quivira.
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Spaniards first record seeing Apache Indians riding horses
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A group of colonists led by French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle lands in Matagorda Bay in Texas
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The Spanish build a mission named San Francisco de los Tejas.
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Martin de Alarcon establishes the San Antonio de Valero mission.
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Settlers from the canary Islands arrive in San Antonio.
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Rancher Tomas Sanchez establishes the town of Laredo.
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The Marques de Rubi expedition begins.
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Antonio Gil Ybarbo founds the town of Nacogdoches in East Texas
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Spanish priest Juan Agustin Morfi, author of the History of Texas, 1673-1779, dies
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Philip Nolan, a U.S. citizen, receives permission to capture wild horses in Texas.
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Philip Nolan, a U.S. citizen, receives permission to capture wild horses in Texas.
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U.S. citizen James Long and a small force invade Texas, only to be defeated by Spanish forces.
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Mexico, which includes Texas, wins it independence from Spain.
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The Spanish government grants Moses Austin permission to found a colony in Texas
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Settler Jared Groce plants a cotton crop, possibly the first in Stephen f. Austin's colony.
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about 3,000 Anglo settlers live in Texas without the permission of the Mexican government
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Empresario Martin de Leon settlers families of the lower Guadalupe River
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Mexican officials adopt the Constitution of 1824. Coahuila and Texas are merged to form one state.
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The Fredonian Rebellion begins when Haden Edwards declares independence from Mexico.
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Stephen F. Austin Receives a contract to settle an additional 100 families in Texas.
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General Manuel de Mier y Teran begins a tour of Texas for the Mexican government
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The Texas Gazette newspaper begins publication in Austin's colony
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Thomas J. Pilgrim organizes a Sunday school and private boys' school in San Felipe.
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President Guerrero issues a decree ending slavery in Mexico, but an exemption is made for Texas.
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On April 6 Mexico issues a law that changes rules on immigration and trade in Texas.
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The town of Gonzales receives a cannon from the Mexican government to defend citizens against American Indian attacks.
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Marry Austin Holley's letters, describing life in early Texas, are published.
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Texas farmers export some 7,000 bales of cotton, worth about $310,000, to New Orleans.
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Stephen F. Austin is Arrested in Saltillo.
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Texas settlers attack Mexican soldiers at Gonzales, forcing them to leave.
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Texas settlers hold about 3,500 land grants.
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An estimated 1,000 U.S. immigrants enter Texas each month.
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Texans become concerned when the Mexican government officially abolishes the Constitution of 1824.
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Texas troops push Mexican troops out of San Antonio, capturing the city.
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The Siege of the Alamo begins.
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The Texas Declaration of Independence is adopted.
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Texans win the Battle of San Jacinto, ending the Texas Revolution.
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The first official Texas flag is adopted by the Texas Congress.
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Sam Houston becomes the first popularly elected president of the Republic of Texas
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The Texas government begins work in Houston, the new capital
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The U.S. Congress authorizes a diplomat to go to Texas.
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Texans elect Mirabeau B. Lamar president.
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Velasco citizens hold a horse race on the coast near the town.
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William H. Wharton is elected to the Texas Senate
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Texas passes a homestead law, protecting settlers' homes from being seized to pay debts.
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France becomes the first European nation to recognize Texas as an independent country.
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Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in the state at 8,749 feet above sea level.
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Austin, the new capital, has 850 residents.
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The first college charted by the Republic, Rutersville College, is founded.
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Galveston University opens its doors to five students.
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Texans again elect Sam Houston president of the republic.
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William Kennedy publishes Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas.
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President Mirabeau B. Lamar sends the Texas Navy to the Yucatan coast.
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Snider de pellegrini, director of a French colonization company, brings 14 settlers to Texas.
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The Tehuacana Creek Councils lead to peace between Texans and several Texas Indian groups.
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President Sam Houston sends troops into East Texas to end the Regulator-moderator War.
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Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels comes to Texas followed by a group of German immigrants.
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Texans elect Anson Jones president of the Republic
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At least 30,000 enslaved African Americans live in Texas
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The United States annexes Texas.
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Thomas J. Rusk and Sam Houston become the first Texans to serve in the U.S. Senate.
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Fighting breaks out between U.S. forces and Mexican troops at Pal Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
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Texas signs a peace treaty with the Penateka Comanches
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George T. Wood is elected governor of Texas.
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Samuel H. Walker dies in combat during a conflict in Mexico.
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A state census reports the states's population at more than 142,00
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the Texas population reaches 200,000
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In her book Texas in 1850, Melinda Rankin describes the state and urges people to move to Texas
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Work begins on the Port Isabel Lighthouse. When completed. Its light could be see from 16 miles away.
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U.S. Army troops abandon Fort Worth after settlers move farther west beyond the fort
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After many false starts, track in finally laid for the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway
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The American, or Know-Nothing, Party becomes active in Texas.
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The Governor's Mansion is built in Austin.
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Slaves in Colorado county acquire weapons and plan a rebellion, but the plot is discovered before in can begin.
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The Butterfield Overland Mail begins taking passengers and mail by stagecoach from Missouri, through Texas, and on the California
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Sam Houston easily defeats incumbent Hardin Runnels in the election for Teas Governor
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A series of clashes occurs between Texas Rangers and Mexican Americans near Brownsvillle.
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Texas produces a record crop of more than 400,000 bales of cotton.
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The Texas Frontier Regiment is established.
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The Texas cattle population increases rapidly during the Civil War.
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Colonel Christopher "Kit" Carson leads an attack against Plains Indians in the Panhandle.
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The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect in Texas, freeing the Texas, freeing the states's slaves
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African American George T. Ruby is elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
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Fort Richardson is established near Jacksboro.
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Republican Edmund J. Davis is elected
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Texas cowboys move a herd of 15,000 cattle to market. It is the larges single herd of the era.
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Texas has 583 miles of rail lines
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A public school system is created in Texas.
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In 1873 Clarksville received 109.4 inches of rain.
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Ranchers begins to ship thousands of cattle from Denison after the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad extends a line there.
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The Democratic Party regains full control of state government
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Plains Indians attack a group of Buffalo hunter in the Battle of Adobe Walls.
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Comanche leader Quanah Parker surrenders, ending the Red River War.
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Texas adopts a new constitution.
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About 2,700 animal die during a cattle stampede near the Brazos River
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About 2,700 animal die during a cattle stampede near the Brazos River
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The Texas Legislature passes a law that allows the state to fund railroads with land grants.
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Texas A&M University opens as an all-male military Institution
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Apache leader Victorio launches rids along the Texas Mexico border.
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The Texas and pacific railway meets the Southern Pacific line near El Paso, forming the first transcontinental railroad route through Texas.
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A ranch in the Panhandle purchases enough barbed wire to fence 250,000 acres.
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The University of Texas formally opens.
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the Knights of Labor begin in major strike against a Gould's Railroad Company
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There are more than 8,000 miles of railroad tracks in Texas
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the Texas legislature passes a Antitrust Act of 1889
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Texas normal normal college and teacher training institute, now called the University of North Texas, open in Denton.
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The Texas Railroad Commission is established to regulate railroads in Texas.
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A leading Association of farmers endorses the populist party.
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Drillers strike oil and Corsicana.
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Texas has more than 350,000 farms and also almost are tenant farmers.
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a hurricane hit Galveston killing some 6000 to 8000 people.
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The Spindletop well strike oil producing more than 17 million barrels of oil the next year.
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A large oils drink is made in Humble oil field in Harris country.
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Oil is discovered at Goose Creek along Galveston Bay.
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Jovita Idar becomes the first president of the league of Mexican women.
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The Houston Ship Channel opens in Houston to McKenzie important oil refining Center
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Texas ratifies the eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution which bans the sale or manufacture of alcohol.
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An application is filled film to drill for oil on state land in West Texas. Several years later the Santa Rita No. 1 stroke oil.
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the lowest recorded temperature in Texas was a chilly -23f, occurring in 1899 at Tulia and in 1933 at seminole.
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The highest recorded temperature in Texas was blistering 120f, occurring in 1936 at seymour and in 1994 at Monahans.
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Wink received just 1.76 inches of rain in 1995
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The Texas timber industry earned more than $1.9 billion in 2007
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Sales of Texas livestock totaled more than $10.8 billion in 2007
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In 2011 the value of Texas cotton production reached over $1.5 billion.
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in 2012 Texas produced about 730 million barrels of crude oil worth some $55 billion.
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Texas has an estimated 23 billion tons of lignite, a type of coal.
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Texas exports of computers and electronics were worth more than $45 billion in 2012
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the Ogallala Aquifer is the largest underground water source in Texas.
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In 2012 there were more than 244,700 farms in Texas
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more than 6 million acres of Texas land are irrigate.
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Agriculture added some $36 billion to the Texas economy in 2012
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Caddo Lake is the largest natural lake in Texas, covering more than 39 square miles (half of which are in Louisiana).
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Toledo Bend reservoir on the Sabine river holds more than 5.5 billion cubic meters of water.
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Texas contains more than 60 million acres of forests and woodlands.
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with 800,000 acres of land, Big Bend National Park is the largest national park in Texas.
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Rancher Tomas Sanchez establishes the town of Laredo
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An American Indian attack on the Green DeWitt colony forces settlers to flee Gonzales.
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Repeated attacks and discrimination force more than 100 Tejano families flee Nacogdoches.
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General Adrian Woll and about 1,400 Mexican soldiers capture San Antionio