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  Texas, United States  

 


State/Province : Latitude: 31.308594308886896, Longitude: -98.80859374999999


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Texas, United States Timeline

1687
19 Mar:  French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is murdered by mutinous settlers.AJ TXL&L
1762
3 Dec:  By a secret treaty, France cedes Upper Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to Spain.GoogleBooks
1803
30 Apr:  The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France.Avalon OurDocs
30 Nov:  Louisiana Territory is officially transferred from Spain to France.Avalon LSM
20 Dec:  In a military ceremony, the French turn over the Louisiana Purchase to the United States.GNO LoC
1835
2 Oct:  The first shots are fired in Texas Revolutionary War.TSHA History.com
1836
23 Feb:  A group Texians and Tejanos fight to defend the Alamo against superior Mexican forces under General Santa Anna.TheAlamo UIW
6 Mar:  The Alamo defenders are overwhelmed by Santa Anna's troops.TheAlamo LoC
1837
5 Jun:  Houston, Texas is incorporated as a city.TSHA HPOU
1845
29 Dec:  Texas becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
1846
25 Apr:  Mexican-American War 1846-1848.AHC PBS
13 May:  President James K. Polk signs a declaration of war against Mexico.UVA USState
1860
20 Dec:  Confederate States begin to secede from the Union.Tulane SI
1861
4 Feb:  The Confederate States of America is formed.CWH LoVA
18 Feb:  Jefferson Davis becomes the President of the Confederate States of America.ACW LoC
1865
2 Jun:  Confederate forces west of the Mississippi sign the terms of surrender, officially ending the Civil War.NPS DC
19 Jun:  Union soldiers land at Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War was over and that the enslaved were now free.SI PBS
1885
1 Dec:  Dr Pepper® is served for the first time at a drugstore in Waco, Texas.WH BH
1891
17 Aug:  U.S. Government rainmaking experiments begin in Texas.SIMag
1900
8 Sep:  A hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing over 6000 people.1900Storm NPS
1901
10 Jan:  The oil industry gets underway in Texas with the Spindletop well.TXAlmanac TSHA
1917
24 Feb:  The Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers United States western territory to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the U. S., is presented to Woodrow Wilson, effectively bringing America into the war.USNA OurDocs
1947
16 Apr:  A French ship loaded with fertilizer explodes, killing almost 600 people in Texas City, Texas.Chron TSHA
1954
18 Oct:  The first transistor radio, the Regency TR1, is introduced to the world.PBS EDN
1959
6 Feb:  Texas Instruments patents the integrated circuit.EarthSky PBS
1962
12 Sep:  President John F. Kennedy, speaking at Rice University, challenges America to reach the Moon within the decade.NASA USNA
1963
22 Nov:  President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.JFKLib USNA
22 Nov:  Lyndon Baines Johnson, Vice President, is sworn in as the 36th president of the United States of America aboard Air Force One upon the death of President John F. Kennedy, 1963 - 1969. Whitehouse UVA
24 Nov:  Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald during a live television broadcast.LoC UNT
1981
25 Sep:  Sandra Day O'Connor takes her seat as U. S. Supreme Court Justice - the first woman to do so.CULaw SI
1986
25 May:  Hands Across America takes place.ABCNews GoogleMaps
2003
1 Feb:  Space Shuttle Columbia is destroyed upon reentry killing all on board.FBI Space
2017
25 Aug:  Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Houston, Texas and drops between 40 and 61 inches of rain across the area.HHMag Weather