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"Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" became a battle cry of the Texas Revolution. [117] News of the defeats sparked the Runaway Scrape, where much of the population of Texas and the Texas provisional government fled east, away from the approaching Mexican army. [118] Many settlers rejoined the Texian army, then commanded by General Sam Houston.
The 1500s ran from January 1, 1500, to December 31, 1509. Millennium; 2nd millennium: ... Although Bobadilla receives news of his firing several weeks later, he ...
Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1519 until 1821. Spain claimed ownership of the region in 1519. Slave raids by Spaniards into what became Texas began in the 16th century and created an atmosphere of antagonism with Native Americans (Indians) which would cause endless difficulties for the Spanish in the future.
It also verified that Florida was a peninsula instead of an island. Álvarez de Pineda became the first European to see the coastal areas of what is now western Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, lands he called "Amichel". [1] He also sailed upriver on the Mississippi River, being credited with the discovery of this river. [7]
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1000–1780: Plains Village period on Great Plains, from North Dakota to Texas [3] 1070: Great Serpent Mound built in Ohio. [13] 1100: Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon reaches apex in size at 800 rooms [14] 1100: Hohokam culture reaches apex in present-day Arizona [14] 1000–1200: Early Mississippian culture in the Eastern Woodlands [15]
1500 B.C. – Emergence of Eastern Woodland culture. 1200 B.C. – Emergence of the Olmec culture. 500 B.C. – Emergence of Maya civilization and Adena culture. 300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture.
The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.