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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 ...
This is a timeline of the Texas Revolution, spanning the time from the earliest independence movements of the area of Texas, over the declaration of independence from Spain, up to the secession of the Republic of Texas from Mexico. The first shot of the Texas Revolution was fired at the Battle of Gonzales on October 2, 1835. This marked the ...
On March 5, 1842, a Mexican force of over 500 men, led by Ráfael Vásquez, invaded Texas for the first time since the revolution. They soon headed back to the Rio Grande after briefly occupying San Antonio. 1,400 Mexican troops, led by the French mercenary general Adrian Woll launched a second attack and captured San Antonio on September 11, 1842.
July 19 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon. September – Henry George self-publishes his major work Progress and Poverty. [2] September 25 – Deadwood, South Dakota fire: 2000 people are left homeless and 300 buildings destroyed; total loss of property is estimated at $3 million.
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]
January 17 – Indian Wars: The first Battle of the Stronghold is fought during the Modoc War. February 20 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco. March – Downers Grove, Illinois is incorporated. March 1 – E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York, start production of the first practical typewriter.
Morgan Bulkeley of the Hartford Dark Blues is selected as the league's first president. February 22 – Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland. February/March – The Harvard Lampoon humor magazine is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. March – Librarian Melvil Dewey first publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system ...
University of Texas at Austin. "San Antonio". Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Austin, TX. Humanities and Social Sciences Division. "Resources for Local History and Genealogy by State: Texas". Bibliographies and Guides. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Journal of the Life and Culture of San Antonio, University of the Incarnate Word, OCLC ...