Texas Milestone

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  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    1500s

  • Nov 5, 1528

    Cabeza de Vaca

    Cabeza de Vaca
  • Apr 20, 1540

    Coronado

    Coronado
    Fransisco Vasquez de Cornado went to search for treasure with nearly 1,000 men. But after months came back with nothing. But after he got back to Mexico, he became city councilman until he died on September 22, 1554.
  • Period: to

    1600s

  • La Salle

    La Salle
    Well know explorer and fur trader in canada, Rene Robert cavelier, Sieur de Salle came to the US. Then when he left on a boat, he missed his target and ended up in Matagorda Bay, Texas. Where he founded Fort Sumter.
  • Period: to

    1700s

  • Period: to

    1800s

  • Austin Grant

    Austin Grant

  • Mexican independence

    Mexican independence
    Mexico gains independence.

  • Austin Imprisioned

    Austin Imprisioned
    Stephen F. Austin was arrested because he was accused of trying to take over the Mexican govement. but he wasnt. He was innocent, but the Mexicans didnt believe it. So they put him in Jail.

  • Battle at Gonzales

    Battle at Gonzales
    100 Mexican soilders were sent to retrieve a cannon and the Texans loaded it with scrap metal and fired. It was the start of the Texas Revolution.

  • Battle at the Alamo

    Battle at the Alamo
    On Feburary 23, 1836, The Battle at the Alamo started. The Mexicam army had 2000 soilders, and the Texan army only had 189. On March 6th, 1836, all of the Texan soilders were dead.

  • Runaway scrape begins

    Runaway scrape begins
    Texans heard that the mexican army was heading eastward and they gather personal items and abandoned their homes and headed east. Many people died from the rough conditions. The headed back home once the heard the news that Texas won at the battle of San Jacinto.

  • Masscre at Goliad

    Masscre at Goliad
    ON March 20th the Texas prisoners were taken to Goliad. And Santa Anna ordered them to be executed. they were divied into 3 groups and executed.

  • Battle at San Jacinto

    Battle at San Jacinto
    On April 21Sam Houston lead an army of about 750 men. Santa Anna had about 1500 men. Texas won. They killed 700 mexicans and 750 taken in as prisoners.

  • Texas joins the United States

    Texas joins the United States
    Texas joins the United States.

  • Texas Secedes and joins the Confederacy

    Texas Secedes and joins the Confederacy
    Texas wanted to keep slavery so it seceded from the US and went to the confederacy. This happened on Feburary 1st 1861.

  • Battle of Galveston- the bayou city

    Battle of Galveston- the bayou city
    On New Years Day, Galveston was recaptured. 26 confederates died and 117 wouned. 400 men were captured.