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Mission at Ysleta
Spanish build the mission of Corpus Christi de la Ysleta. -
La Salle Builds fort
La Salle builds the first french fort in Texas. He established a French settlement on the Texas coast in summer 1685, the result of faulty geography that caused him to believe the Mississippi River emptied into the Gulf of Mexico in the Texas coastal bend. The settlement on the right bank of Garcitas Creek in southern Victoria County -
Karankawa indians attack
The Karankawa indians destroy La Salles fort. After bad relations and killings on both sides, the Karankawa attacked Ft. St. Louis and killed remaining colonists except for five children. -
La Salle's abandoned ship at Matagorda Bay
Spanish find La Salle's abandoned ship at Matagorda Bay. La Salles 's ship was called La Belle. -
St. Denis and Domingo Ramon missions
St. Denis and Captain Domingo Ramon start missions in East Texas. St. Denis traveled through East Texas with Father Hidalgo and established six missions and a presidio. -
Mission of San Antonio de Valero
The mission of San Antonio de Valero ( the Alamo) is established. One year before the war, a Spanish expidition went to Texas to find a good halfway point between the Rio Grande and East Texas. The Spanish picked an area on the San Antonio River and built Mission of Sna Antonio de Valero. -
San Saba
Spanish establish a mission and a presidio at San Saba for the Lipan Apaches. The Lipans hoped to start a war between the Comanches and the Spanish. The Spanish did not know whta the Lipans knew: The mission was located in Comanche Territory. -
Fillibuster invade Texas
Fillibuster Augustus Magee and Bernardo Gutierrez d Lara invade Texas. The expedition took place against the background of growing unrest in Mexico against Spanish rule. Magee and Gutierrez's forces captured Nacogdoches in August 1812. They traveled toward La Bahia, picking up new fighters along the way. -
Moses Austin's colonization plan
Spain approves Moses Austin's colonization plan. Baron de Bastrop was a stroke of luck for Austin, because he reminded the govenor that Spain had settled Louisiana wuiith people from the US. -
James Long attacks La Bahia
Dr. James Long leads an attack on La Bahia.After Lafitte refused to help Long, he returned to Nacogdoches, he found theat his forces were under attack by the Spanish. Long fled to Louisiana and joined forces with some rebels working to free Mexico from Spain. He led a group of 52 men to an attack on La Bahia. -
Stephen F. Austin's first colonists
Stephen F. Austin brings his first colonists to Texas after hisfather Moses Austin died. His job was now to lead about 300 families to into unknown territory of Texas. -
Martin de Leon establishment
Martin de Leon establishes a settlement at Victoria. He wanted to start a colony with Mexican families along the Guadalupe River. -
Green DeWitt colony
Green DeWitt establishes a colony with Gonzales as its main town. He recived a contract to bring 400 families to the area along the Lavaca, San Marcos and Guadalupe Rivers in 1831 -
Burnet, Zavala, Vehlein land grants
David Burnet, Lorenzo de Zavala, and Joseph Vehlein recive land grants in southeastern Texas. None of these men had enough money or support to attract settlers by themselves, insead they sold their contracts to The Galveston Bay and Texas Land company. -
Mier y Teran explores Texas for Mexico
He visited Texas twice: first, as leader of a boundary-commission expedition to Nacogdoches in 1828–29; and second, as commandant general of the Eastern Interior Provinces, in which role he visited Galveston Bay in November 1831. -
Stephen F. Austin recives last land grants
Stephen F. Austin recives the last of his five land grants to settle families in Texas. -
Mexico abolishes slavery
September 15 1829
On this day in 1829, the Guerrero Decree, which abolished slavery throughout the Republic of Mexico except in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, was issued by President Vicente R. Guerrero. -
Law of April 1830
The Law of April 6,1830 cancels most empresario contracts. Mexico hoped that the ban onslavery would put americans off coming to Texas. The Mexican Congress passed a new law to stop people from the United States from coming to Texas. -
Bayou Resolutions
Texas resistance to Mexico declared in Bayou Resolutions. Civil War erupts in Mexico. Texas settlers wrote this resolution, by then the resistance it called for was well under way. -
Convention of 1833
Convention of 1833 drafts the first state Constitution for Texas. The Convention of 1833 met at San Felipe on April 1 as a successor to the Convention of 1832, to which San Fernando de Béxar (San Antonio) had refused to send delegates. -
Mexican leaders imprision Stephen F. Austin
He started home in December 1833, only to be arrested on the journey and brought back to Mexico City. Austin, who had spent the last decade counseling moderation, was considered a suspect in trying to incite insurrection in Texas. He was held without charges in a Mexican prison for almost a year, but never brought to trial. -
William Travis captures Anahuac
William Barret Travis, Texas commander at the battle of the Alamo, established a legal practice in Anahuac, he had an amphibious assault on Tenorio's position and captured the Mexican soldiers easily. -
Battle of Anahuac
Two major events at Anahuac, in 1832 and 1835, upset those who wanted to maintain the status quo with Mexican authorities and thus helped to precipitate the Texas Revolution. Both difficulties centered around the collection of customs by the national government of Mexico. -
Texans win Battle of Gonzales
When Domingo de Ugartechea, military commander in Texas, received word that the American colonists of Gonzales refused to surrender a small cannon that had been given that settlement in 1831 as a defense against the Indians, he dispatched Francisco de Castañeda and 100 dragoons to retrieve it. -
Seige and Batlle of San Antonio
In October-December of 1835, rebellious Texans (who referred to themselves as “Texians”) laid siege to the city of San Antonio de Béxar, the largest Mexican town in Texas.After about a month and a half of siege, the Texians attacked in early December and accepted the Mexican surrender on December 9. -
The Constitution Begins
The Texas Revolution had begun five months previously, and the interim government, known as the Consultation, had wavered over whether to declare independence from Mexico or pledge to uphold the repudiated Mexican Constitution of 1824.
