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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps the Texas coast.
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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 of the Jumano Indians in Texas.
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Juan de Onate 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 Cavalier, 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 Marquez de Rubi expedition begins.
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Antonio Gil Ybarbo founds the town of Nacodoches in East Texas.
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Spanish priest Juan Agustin Morfi, author of the "History of Texas" dies.
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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 its 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 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 settles families on 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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An American Indian attack on the Green DeWitt colony forces settlers to flee Gonzales.
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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 Meir 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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Tomas 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 makes Texas an exception.
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On April 6, Mexico issues a law that changes the rules on immigration and trade in Texas.
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The town of Gonzales receives a canon from the Mexican government to defend citizens against American Indian attacks.
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Mary Austin Holley's letters, describing early life in Texas are published.
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Texas farmers export some 7,000 bales of cotton worth about $315,000 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 troops push Mexican troops out of San Antonio, capturing the city.
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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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Texas becomes concerned when the Mexican government officially abolishes the Constitution of 1824.
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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 flag is adopted by the Texas Congress.
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Sam Houston becomes the first popularly elected president of the United 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 hose 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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Repeated attacks and discrimination force more than 100 Tejano families to flee Nacadoches.
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...France became the first European nation to recognize Texas as an independent nation.
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Austin, the new capital, has 850 residents.
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The first college chartered 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 as 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 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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General Adrian Woll and about 1,400 Mexican soldiers capture San Antonio.
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The Tehuacana Creek Councils lead to peace between Texas 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 to be the 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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Fighting breaks out between Mexican troops and U.S. forces at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
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Texas signs a treaty with the Penateka Comanches.
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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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George T. Wood is elected govoner 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 population at more than 142,000.
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The Population of Texas grows to 200,000 people.
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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 seen from 16 miles away.
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U.S. Army troops abandon Ft. Worth after settlers move farther west beyond the fort.
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After many false starts, track is finally laid out for the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railways.
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The American, or know-nothing party becomes active in Texas.
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The governors 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 it could have begun.
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The Butterfield Overland Mail begins taking passengers and mail by stagecoach from Missouri, through Texas, and on to California.
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Sam Houston easily defeats incumbent Harden Runnels in the election for Texas governor.
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A series of clashes occurs Texas Rangers and Mexican Americans near Brownsville.
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Texas produces a record crop of more the 400,000 bales of cotton.
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Texans vote by more than tree to one to Secede from the United States.
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Troops leave San Antonio for New Mexico, planning to capture the southwest for the Confederacy.
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The Texas Frontier Regiment is established.
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Galveston is captured by Union forces.
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
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A Union attempt to invade Texas is turned back at Sabine Pass.
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Union troops capture Brownsville.
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The Texas cattle population increases rapidly during the civil war.
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Confederate forces stop a Union invasion of northeastern Texas in a battle near Mansfield, Luisiana.
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Colonel Christopher Carson leads an attack against Plains Indians in the Panhandle.
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The last land battle of the war is fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas.
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The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect in Texas, freeing the state'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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Near Jacksburo, Fort Richardson is established.
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Republican Edward J. Davis is elected governor of Texas
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The Texas cowboys move a herd of 15,000 cattle to market. It was the single largest herd in the erea.
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Texas has 583 miles of train tracks.
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A public school system is created in Texas.
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Ranchers begin 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 the state government.
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Plains Indians attack a group of Buffalo hunters in the battle of Adobe Walls.
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The Red River War ended when comanche leader Quanah Parker surrendered.
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As an all-male istitution, Texas A&M University opens.
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Texas adopts a new constitution.
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About 2,700 animals die during a cattle stampede near the Brazos River.
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The Texas legislature passes a law the allows the state to fund railroads with land grants.
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Raids across the Texas-Mexican border were launched by Apache leader Victorio.
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Forming the first Transcontinental railroad through Texas, the Texas and Pacific Railway meets the Southern Pacific Railroad line near El Paso.
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A ranch in the Panhandle purchases enough barbed wire to fence in 250,000 acres.
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The University of Texas formally opens.
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A major strike against Jay Gould's railroad company is started by the Knights of Labor.
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The Texas legislature passes the Antitrust Act.
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There are more than 8,000 miles of railroad tracks throughout Texas.
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Texas Normal College and Teacher's Institute now called the University of North Texas opens in Denton.
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the Texas RailRoad Commission is Established to regulate railroads in Texas.
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The Populist party is endorsed by a leading association of farmers.
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In Corsicana drillers strike oil.
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University of Texas, and Texas A&M play their first football game.
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The Rough Riders get trained and organized in San Antonio by Teddy Roosevelt.
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Galveston gets hit by a hurricane killing about 7,000 people.
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Texas has more than 350,000 farms, and almost half of all farmers are tenant farmers.
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More than 17 million barrels of oil came from the Spindletop well strikes oil.
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A baseball record is set by the Corsicana Oilers for defeating the Texarkana team 53 to 1.
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The Humble oil field in Harris county makes a large oils stike.
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The department store Neiman Marcus opens in Dallas.
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Along Galveston Bay, oil is discovered at Goose creek.
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The League of Mexican Women elects their first president Jovita Idar.
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Houston became an important oil refining center after the Houston Ship Channel opens.
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Texas endorses the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the sale or making of alcohol.
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To fight in World War I, Texas troops are sent to France.
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An application is filed to drill for oil on state-owned land in West Texas. And a few years later the Santa Rita No. 1 strikes oil.
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The Rio Grande, which runs from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, and forms the Texas-Mexico border, is 1,896 miles long.
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The town of Wink Texas got just 1.76 inches of rain in 1956.
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The town of Clarksville Texas got 109.4 inches of rain in 1873.
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The highest place in Texas is Guadalupe Peak at 8,749 feet above sea level.
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In 1899 at Tulia and in 1933 at Seminole, the temperature reached a chilling -23F!
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In 1936 at Seymour and in 1994 at Monahans the temperature reached 120F !
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Texas Produced 730 million barrels of crude oil in 2012 worth about $55 billion
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C. 10,000 b.c. Proto-Indians live at the Gault site.
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it is estimated that Texas has 23 billion tons of a type of coal called ignite.
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6 million acres of Texas land are irrigated.
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There were more than 244,700 farms in Texas as of 2012.
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The largest underground water source in texas is the Ogallala Aquifer.
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In 2012, Agriculture brought some $36 billion dollars to the Texas economy.
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The Toledo Bend Reservoir is located on the Sabine River and holds more than 5.5billion cubic meters of water.
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The largest natural lake in Texas is Caddo Lake, which covers 39 square miles in Texas and Luisiana.
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In 2007,the Texas timber industry earned more than $1.9 billion.
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There are more than 60 million acres of forests and woodlands in Texas.
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Texas cotton production value reached over $1.5 billion in 2011.
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The largest national park in Texas is Big Bend which covers more the 800,000 acres of land.
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In 2007, the total sales of live stock reached $10.8 billion
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In 2012, Texas' exports of computers and electronics was worth $45 billion.
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Europeans arrived in A.D.1528 in Texas and met the Karankawas.
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Proto-Indians live on the Gault site.
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Costal American Indians made knives and scrapers from stone around 1500 B.C.
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American Indians living near Galveston Bay begin making pottery around A.D. 100.
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The Caddo Indians grew many different crops in East Texas somewhere around A.D. 1,000.
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Leading to the growth in the Houston erea, the Houston Ship Channel is completed.
