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Complete Texas History Timeline - Free download as Word Doc (.doc / .docx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or view presentation slides online. This document provides a timeline of key events in Texas history from 1820 to 1842.
The Handbook consists of overview, general, and biographical entries focused on the entire history of Texas from the indigenous Native Americans and the Prehistoric Era to the state's diverse population and the Modern Age. These entries emphasize the role Texans played in state, national, and world history.
- Early Exploration and Development
- The Revolution and The Republic
- Statehood and Beyond
Before 1500 – Prior to the arrival of the first European explorers, numerous tribes of the Indians of Texasoccupied the region between the Rio Grande to the south and the Red River to the north. Mid-1519– Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, a Spanish adventurer, sailed from a base in Jamaica to become the first known European to explore and map the Texas coa...
October 2, 1835 – Texans drove back troops of the Mexican cavalry at the Battle of Gonzales. The revolution began. October 9, 1835 – The Goliad Campaign of 1835ended when George Collingsworth, Ben Milam, and forty-nine other Texans stormed the presidio at Goliad and a small troop of Mexican defenders. October 28, 1835 – Jim Bowie, James Fannin, and...
December 29, 1845 – U. S. President James Polkfollowed through on a campaign platform promising to annex Texas and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States. April 25, 1846 – The Mexican-American War ignited as a result of disputes over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war fixed Texas’ southern boundary at th...
The Timeline of Texas History spans diverse people, nations, experiences, and geographies dating back from pre-Columbian era to the present.
The text offers fresh perspectives on Texas history, including discussions of the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, the Second World War and post-war modernization, and the states transition during the 1960s and into the 1980s.
TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 3 As Mexican soldiers laid siege to the Alamo, Texan delegates met March 2, 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos to draft a formal Declaration of Independence. Texas living history reenactors spark their cannon in mock battle to recall Col. James W. Fannin’s March 1836 defeat near Goliad. 1836
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This document provides instructions for students to create a timeline of 6 important dates in Texas history. For each date, students are asked to write down the date, provide a one-sentence description of the event, and draw a simple illustration representing that event in the corresponding box.
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