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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 ...
The Garza Revolution, [1] or the Garza War, [2] [3] was an armed conflict fought in the Mexican state of Coahuila and the American state of Texas between 1891 and 1893. It began when the revolutionary Catarino Garza launched a campaign into Mexico from Texas to start an uprising against the dictator Porfirio Diaz.
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]
1890 – Sherman Silver Purchase Act; 1890 – McKinley Tariff; 1890 – Yosemite National Park created; 1890 – Idaho and Wyoming become states; 1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre; 1890 – National American Woman Suffrage Association founded; 1890 - Reporter Nelly Bly circles globe by train and steamship in 72 days; 1891 – Baltimore crisis
1876 – Texas and Pacific Railway began operating. [7] 1882 – Public school established. [4] 1883 – First National Bank of Fort Worth established. [8] 1888 – Fort Worth Cats baseball team formed. 1889 Texas Spring Palace ("hall built of grain") opened. [7] New Trinity Cemetery established. [7] 1890 Fort Worth Union Stockyards began ...
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During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include: the first post office (1836), the first naval base (1836), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order (1840), the first cotton compress (1842), the first parochial school (Ursuline Academy) (1847), the first insurance company (1854), the ...
1916 – East Texas Fair begins. [1] 1918 – Chamber of Commerce incorporated. [9] 1926 – Tyler Junior College founded. [1] 1929 – Tyler Morning Telegraph newspaper begins publication. [14] 1930 East Texas Oil Field discovered in vicinity of Tyler; oil boom begins. [7] Liberty Theatre in business. [15] Population: 17,113. [5]