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- The first European settlement was established in 1681, along the upper Rio Grande river, near modern El Paso. The settlers were exiled Spaniards and Native Americans from the Pueblo of Isleta after the Pueblo Revolt, from Santa Fe de Nuevo México (the northern part of present-day New Mexico).
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Their arrival marks the beginning of the Paleolithic Era in Texas – the first of three time periods between the arrival of those first people and the arrival of European explorers: The Paleolithic Era (until about 6000 B.C.), the Archaic Era (6000 B.C. to A.D. 700), and the Late Prehistoric Period (A.D. 700-A.D. 1500).The earliest Texans ...
Franciscan missionaries led by Antonio de San Buenaventura Olivares begin three missions: Los Adaes, La Bahia, and Mission San Antonio de Valero. 1731. Settlers arrive from the Canary Islands to...
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The earliest confirmed evidence indicates that humans were in Texas sometime between 10,000 and 13,000 years ago. Paleo-Indians were successful big-game hunters. Artifacts from this period are found across the state but not in great number, indicating that they were a small, nomadic population.
Texas First Early Inhabitants Timeline. 225 million BC to 65 million BC - At least 16 types of dinosaurs roamed Texas from 225 million years ago to about 65 million years ago, at which time dinosaurs disappeared. Before 11,000-8000 BC. The first immigrants drift into the area now called Texas.
Indigenous people lived in what is now Texas more than 10,000 years ago, as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady. In 1519, the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas found the region occupied by numerous Native American tribes.
The first Texans were nomadic hunters. Between approximately 12,000 to 8,000 years ago, small bands of hunters were living in Texas. These Paleoindians, known as the Folsom, Clovis, and Plainview cultures from the places in Texas and New Mexico where their sites were first found, shared a number of characteristics.
Moses Austin, a once-prosperous entrepreneur reduced to poverty by the Panic of 1819, requested permission to settle three hundred English-speaking American residents in Texas. Spain agreed on the condition that the resettled people convert to Roman Catholicism.
