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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 ...
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.
February 1: The Texas convention approves secession but provides for a popular vote on February 23. [242] [285] [286] [291] [306] On February 11, the Texas convention approves formation of a Southern Confederacy. Seven Texas delegates to the Montgomery convention are elected. [307] On February 23, Texans vote for secession by a 3 to 1 margin. [299]
July 2 – Robert H. Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1830 (born 1792) August 6 – David Walker, African American abolitionist and writer (born 1796) August 9 – James Armistead Lafayette, African American slave, Continental Army double agent (born 1748 or 1760) September 24 – Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (born 1768)
Most in Texas assumed the Mexican army would return quickly. [279] So many American volunteers flocked to the Texian army in the months after the victory at San Jacinto that the Texian government was unable to maintain an accurate list of enlistments. [280] Out of caution, Béxar remained under martial law throughout 1836.
Major events in the western movement of the U.S. population were the Homestead Act, a law by which, for a nominal price, a settler was given title to 160 acres (65 ha) of land to farm; the opening of the Oregon Territory to settlement; the Texas Revolution; the opening of the Oregon Trail; the Mormon Emigration to Utah in 1846–47; the ...
In October 1830, Bradburn established a post atop a 30 feet (9.1 m) bluff at the entrance to the Trinity River. The post became known as Anahuac. Bradburn was unpopular from the beginning of his tenure with those seeking to expand the Anglo-American presence in Texas.
In 1845, the Republic of Texas was annexed to the United States of America, becoming the 28th U.S. state.Border disputes between the new state and Mexico, which had never recognized Texas independence and still considered the area a renegade Mexican state, led to the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).