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  2. History of Texas (1865–1899) - Wikipedia

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    On February 11, 1858, the Seventh Texas Legislature approved O.B. 102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first publicly funded university [15] (the $100,000 was an allocation from the $10 million the state received pursuant to the Compromise of 1850 ...

  3. Timeline of the Texas Revolution - Wikipedia

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    After a thirteen-day siege, Santa Anna's army defeated the small group of Texians at the Battle of the Alamo and continued east. Many Texians, including the government, fled their homes in the Runaway Scrape. On March 19 the Texas troops marched into an open prairie outside of Goliad during a heavy fog.

  4. History of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Campbell, Randolph B. Gone to Texas: a History of the Lone Star State (Oxford University Press, 2003, 500 pages) De León, Arnoldo, Gregg Cantrell, Robert A. Calvert. The History of Texas (2002); short survey by scholars; Garrison, George P. Texas: A Contest of Civilizations (1903) old textbook by scholar online edition

  5. Timeline of the Republic of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas Declares Independence. Austin and Tanner map of Texas in 1836 Detail of the Republic of Texas from the Lizars map of Mexico and Guatemala, circa 1836. March 2 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is signed by 58 delegates at an assembly at Washington-on-the-Brazos and the Republic of Texas is declared. [1]

  6. List of revolutions and rebellions - Wikipedia

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    Paris Commune, 29 May 1871 The Herzegovina uprising of 1875–1877 was an uprising led by Christian population, mostly Serbs, against the Ottoman Empire Boxer Rebellion fighting Eight-Nation Alliance The current Puerto Rican Flag was flown for the first time in Puerto Rico by Fidel Vélez and his men during the "Intentona de Yauco" revolt

  7. Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899)

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    March 4, 1877 – After only two days as president-elect and vice president-elect, Hayes becomes the 19th president and Wheeler becomes the 19th vice president; 1877 – Reconstruction ends; 1877 – Nez Perce War; 1878 – Bland–Allison Act; 1878 – Morgan silver dollars first minted; 1879 – Thomas Edison creates first commercially viable ...

  8. Timeline of Houston - Wikipedia

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    1900s - Oil is discovered in Texas, from which a new industry will start. 1900. Population: 44,633. [15] Major hurricane strikes nearby Galveston, leading to development shifting north to Houston; 1902 - President Theodore Roosevelt approves a one-million dollar fund for the construction of the Houston Ship Channel.

  9. Texas–Indian wars - Wikipedia

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    The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...