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1529 ✔✔Spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda maps Texas Coast
1528-34 ✔✔Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca explores Texas for trade
1685 ✔✔LaSalle established Ft. St. Louis @ Matagorda Bay, providing the basis of French
claim to Texas territory
1688 ✔✔The French colony is massacred
1689 ✔✔The French continue to claim Texas but no longer physically occupies any part of the
territory
1690 ✔✔Alonso de Leon established Catholic missions throughout Texas
1762 ✔✔The French give up their claims to Texas and cede Louisiana to Spain until 1800
,1800 ✔✔Much of north Texas is returned to France and later sold to the U.S. in the Louisiana
Purchase
1823 ✔✔Stephen F. Austin begins a colony known as the Old Three Hundred along the Brazos
River
1832 ✔✔Battle of Velasco-first casualties of Texas Revolution
1832-33 ✔✔"The Conventions" responded to unrest over the Policies of the Mexican
government
1835 ✔✔The Texas Revolution officially began in an effort to obtain freedom from Mexico
1836 ✔✔The "Convention of 1836" signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. The Battle
of the Alamo. Santa Anna executed nearly 400 Texans @ the Massacre @ Goliad. Sam Houston
leads an army of 800 to victory by capturing the entire Mexican army @ the Battle of San
Jacinto. The Treaty of Velasco is signed by Santa Anna and Republic of Texas officials
1837 ✔✔Sam Houston moves the capital of Texas five times ending in Houston
, 1839 ✔✔Austin becomes the capital of the Republic of Texas
1842 ✔✔Mexican forces twice capture San Antonio and retreat
1845 ✔✔Texas admitted to the Union as a state
1850 ✔✔The Compromise of 1850 adjusts the state boundary assumes Texas' debt
1861 ✔✔Texas secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy
1865 ✔✔Union troops landed in Galveston and put the Emancipation Proclamation into effect in
Texas ending slavery
1870 ✔✔Texas is readmitted to the Union
1900 ✔✔Galveston is destroyed and 8000 people are killed by a category 4 hurricane