Texas Milestones

By 10714jd
  • Period: Sep 17, 1500 to

    1500-1600

  • Nov 5, 1528

    Cabeza de Vaca

    Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked on Galveston Island. After trading in the region for some six years, he later explored the Texas interior on his way to Mexico.
  • Apr 20, 1540

    Coronado

    Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was a treasure hunter in texas. He led an expedition to the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola to look for riches with about one thousand men from Mexico. They never found any fortunes.
  • Period: to

    1600-1700

  • La Salle

    Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle wound his way in 1682 down the Mississippi, claiming the entire Mississippi watershed in the name of France. He went on an expedition but was killed by his own men.
  • Period: to

    1700-1800

  • Period: to

    1800-1900

  • Austin Grant

    Stephen F. Austin inherited a grant of land near the Brazos river region and there were many complications with the Mexican government. He also introduced a large number of colonists to the united states. He gave influence over the settlers in Anglo, Texas.
  • Mexican Independence

    For the Mexicans, to gain thier independence thier wrote The constitution of 1824 to give Mexico a republican form of government. It failed to write the rights of the states including Texas.
  • Austin imprisoned

    Stephen F. Austin was put in prison by Sant Ana, because the Anglo were growing in population and the Mexicans were making immmigration rules but Stephen always foud loopholes to get people.
  • Battle at Gonzales

    The Mexicans went to retrieve a cannon they gave to the residents of gonzales but the Texans fired the cannon and put up the flag "Come and take it"
  • Battle of Alamo

    The Texans lost this siege because they were greatly outnumbered from 189 soilders to 1600 soilders. Santa ana wanted San Antoinio back.
  • Runaway Scrape begins

    The Runaway Scrape was when the people of colonies and settlements moved east ward to not get caught up with Santa ana. He sarted it with the siege ,the alamo, and the san jacinto battle
  • Massacre at Goliad

    In the battle of Refugio, the Texans surrurendered thinking that they would be sent home back to thier familes. The Mexicans took all the Texans back to Goliad where Santa ana ordered for them to all be shot, burned, then buried.
  • Battle of San Jacinto

    At the Battle of San Jacinto the Texans had thier victory by ambushing them and sending a spy, Deaf Smith, to cut of thier owlny escape. They even got 730 prisoners
  • Texas joins the United States

    James Polk, a U.S. president, signed a legislation that staetes that Texas is the twent-eight state of thUnited States. He signed it on 29 December 1845.
  • Texas secedes and joins the Cofederacy

    Texas secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy. The voting was one hundred seventy-one to six and Sam Houston was one of those six people who voted against it.
  • Battle of Galveston-the Bayou City

    At the Battle of Galveston the UNion recaptured Galveston and caimed thier victory but thier advantage was they had moreships.