Early Texans DNA Project

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Female 1810 - Yes, date unknown


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   Date  Event(s)
1812 
  • 1812: Gutierrez-Magee Expedition
    Fighting Spanish rule in Texas
  • 1812: Magee-Gutierrez Expedition
    Expedition crossed the Sabine from Louisiana in a rebel movement against Spanish rule in Texas
1817 
  • 1817—1820: Jean Laffite
    Pirate Jean Laffite occupied Galveston Island
1821 
  • 24 Aug 1821: Mexican Independence
    Mexico obtains independence from Spanish rule
1826 
  • 21 Dec 1826—31 Jan 1827: Fredonia Rebellion
    Declaration of Independence of the republic of Fredonia is signed at Nacogdoches; Rebellion led by Haden Edwards
1829 
  • Oct 1829: Irish Immigration
    First Irish immigrants arrive in South Texas
1830 
  • 6 Apr 1830: Emigration becomes illegal
    Mexican government stops legal immigration into Texas
1835 
  • 1835: Battle of Gonzales
    Texians fight for Independence from Mexico
1836 
  • 1836—1845: Texas Republic
    Texas is a country
  • 2 Mar 1836: Texas Independence
    Texas declares independence from Mexico
  • 6 Mar 1836—9 Mar 1836: Battle of the Alamo
    Texians fight at the Alamo for Independence from Mexico
  • 27 Mar 1836: Goliad Massacre
    Commander James Fanning and 350 Texan prisoners are executed at Goliad by order of Santa Anna
  • 21 Apr 1836: Battle of San Jacinto
    Texians fight for Independence from Mexico - Santa Anna captured
  • 19 May 1836: Fort Parker Massacre
    A large party of Native Americans (Comanches, Kiowas, Caddos, and Wichitas) attacked the inhabitants of Fort Parker killing many and taking as captives Cynthia Ann Parker, er brother John Richard Parker, Rachel Plummer, her son James Pratt Plummer, and Elizabeth Duty Kellogg
1842 
  • 1842: German Immigration - Adelsverein
    German nobles organized the Adelsverein, banding together to buy land in central Texas to enable German settlement
10 1846 
  • 19 Feb 1846: Texas statehood
    Texas becomes the 45th state of the United States of America (admitted as a slave-holding state)
  • 25 Apr 1846: Mexican-American War begins
    Thornton Affair, battle between Mexican cavalry and an American patrol
11 1848 
  • 2 Feb 1848: Mexican-American War ends
    Signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
12 1851 
  • 19 Aug 1851: Czech Immigration
    Jozef Šilar leads immigrants to the rich farmland of Central Texas
13 1861 
  • 1861—1865: US Civil War
    The Confederate States of America rebel against the US government
14 1898 
  • 22 Apr 1898—13 Aug 1898: Spanish-American War
    US and Spain at war - revolutions in Cuba and The Phillipines affected
15 1914 
  • 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
    WWI rages in Europe