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When Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, He was heading for a new way to trade with a old country, And if it was not for his not knowing of a large land mass west of England he would not of found America.
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This is when Alonso Alvarez first landed in texas and decieded to map out the Texas shore line. He is the reason we can travle off the shores of Texas today.
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Thanks Giveing is held near present-day El Paso by Juan de Oñate, the members of his expedition and natives of the region, This was the first Thanks Giveing and started the anual giveing of thanks on the 30th of Aprill.
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The first East Texas mission whent under construction, San Francisco de los Tejas, near present-day Weches, Houston. The mission is closed in 1693.
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Antonio de Valero mission (known as the Alamo) is founded in San Antonio. Soon to be messed up and blood stained by the battels there.
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First election held in Texas, voters choose officials of the municipal government of San Fernando.
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Texas' first recorded hurricane strikes near Galveston, This was the first hurricane and probly started our "great" luck with hurricane's
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Moses Austin dies, his son, Stephen F. Austin, receives authority to continue the colonizing effort, He leads the battle of the Alamo later in life
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Mexican government stops legal immigration into Texas from the United States except in special cases. Relations between Anglo settlers and the Mexican government deteriorate
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First bloodshed of the Texas Revolution takes place at Velasco when Texans, transporting a cannon from Brazoria to Anahuac, are challenged by Mexican forces at Velasco. The Mexicans surrender on June 29
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About 350 Texan prisoners, including their commander James Fannin, are executed at Goliad by order of Santa Anna. An estimated 30 Texans escape
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The Texas Rangers organization is officially established by Texas' provisional government. Although Stephen F. Austin had hired 10 frontiersmen as "rangers" to help protect his colonists against Indian raids in 1823, not until 1835 was the law-enforcement group formally organized
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Texas Declaration of Independence is adopted at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Then we had Independence, We were happy :)
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In a battle lasting 18 minutes, Texan troops led by Sam Houston defeat the Mexican army commanded by Santa Anna at San Jacinto near present-day Houston. Houston reports that 630 Mexican troops were killed and 730 were taken prisoner. Of the Texas troops, nine of a force of 910 were killed or mortally wounded, and 30 were less seriously wounded
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Republic of Texas is officially recognized by the United States, and later by France, England, the Netherlands and Belgium
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Comanches, led by a dozen chiefs, meet with officials of Texas government to negotiate a peace treaty. Believing the Comanches to have reneged on a promise to release all white prisoners, the Texans take the chiefs prisoner. During the Council House fight that follows, 35 Comanches are killed, as are seven Texans
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The Santa Fé Expedition, launched without Texas Congressional authorization by Pres. Mirabeau B. Lamar, leaves Central Texas on its way west to establish trade with and solidify Texas' claims to territory around Santa Fé. Members of group are taken prisoner by Mexican troops, marched to Mexico City and imprisoned. They are finally released in 1842
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Baylor University is founded, It is the starter of the chain hospitals known only as Baylor
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The Texas Constitutional Convention votes to accept the United States annexation proposal; it drafts an Annexation Ordinance and State Constitution to submit to the voters of Texas
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The US Congress approves, and President James K. Polk signs, the "Joint Resolution for the Admission of the State of Texas into the Union." Texas becomes the 28th state
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The first railroad to actually begin operation in Texas is chartered by the state government. The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado begins operation in 1853
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Col. Robert E. Lee arrives in San Antonio. He serves at Camp Cooper on the Comanche reservation beginning April 9. He returns to Washington for a short time, coming back to San Antonio and Fort Mason in February 1860
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About 68 Union loyalists, mostly German immigrants from the area of Comfort, in Central Texas, start for Mexico in an attempt to reach US troops; 19 are killed by Confederates on the Nueces River. Eight others are killed on Oct. 18 at the Rio Grande. Others drown attempting to swim the river. Their deaths are commemorated in Comfort by the Treue der Union (True to the Union) monument.
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Former Texas Gov. George W. Bush elected President of the United States, The best President the nation has ever seen
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Obama was inogerated into office as our new president, The first black man to ever be elected
