Events in Texas history /
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Dallas, Tex. :
Republic National Bank and Trust,
[1935-1936]
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Table of Contents:
- 1519, Pineda maps the Texas coast
- 1519-1521, Cortes conquers Mexico
- 1528-1536, Cabeza de Vaca traverses Texas
- 1541, Coronado's expedition into the staked plains
- 1680-1684, Ysleta and the El Paso district
- 1685, La Salle lands in Texas
- 1714-1719, St. Denis and the Spanish re-occupation of Texas
- 1720, Mission San Jose at San Antonio
- 1779 (?), the "old stone fort" at Nacogdoches
- 1791-1801, Philip Nolan and Texas mustangs
- 1816-1820, Lafitte on Galveston Island
- 1820-1821, Moses Austin contracts to colonize Texas
- 1821-1823, Austin and "the first three hundred"
- 1822-1836, Jared E. Groce and King cotton in Texas
- March 2, 1836, Declaration of Independence at Washington on the Brazos
- March 6, 1836, the Alamo enters into immortality
- March-April 1836, "Farewell, Gonzales!" . . the runaway scrape
- March 7, 1836, the Goliad massacre
- April 21, 1836, San Jacinto: "the sixteenth decisive battle"
- 1836, San Houston elected President of Texas
- 1841, the Santa Fe expedition
- 1842, the expedition
- called Mier
- of the black beans
- 1842-1844, the Texas Rangers introduce six-shooters
- 1839 and 1845, Texas gives the world the homestead law
- February 16, 1846, annexation of Texas to the United States
- 1846-1850, the Mexican War and the boundaries of Texas
- 1853, the first operating railroad in Texas
- 1839, 1854, 1884, establishment of the public school system of Texas
- 1858, the great overland mail crosses Texas
- 1836 and 1860, the captures of Cynthia Ann Parker
- March 1861, Texas joins "the lost cause"
- 1867, the Chisholm trail is beat out
- 1874, 1878, the buffalo's end on the staked plains
- 1879, Texas begins to be civilized towards wild life.