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Texas:
Spanish explorers crossed the Rio Grande River, and built the first of many missions in Texas (near El Paso) in the late 1600s. After Mexico gained its independence from Spain, Texas became a part of Mexico.

Settlers arrived and conflicts over land arose. Subsequently the Texas Revolution began in 1835.

After a series of battles, including the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, this land became the Republic of Texas, and later, the 28th state in 1845.

The Lone Star State is a proud, historic place, with a very close relationship with Mexico, its culture, and its people.

Besides its enormous size (second only to Alaska), it's a significant agricultural and industrial power, and as a separate country, would rank 10th in the world in overall wealth.

Famed for the Alamo, cattle drives, cowboy boots and hats, rodeos, oil and gas production, NASA, a high-tech industry second-to-none, the largest U.S capital city (Austin), and so much more, it can truly be said that, "Texas...It's like a whole other country."

Texas

The Lone Star Flag was adopted on January 24, 1839 as the national flag of the Republic of Texas.

The flag was later adopted as the official state flag when Texas became the 28th state in 1845.

Like the flag of the United States, the blue represents loyalty, the white represents strength, and the red is for bravery.

Official name: Texas
Capital: Austin
Statehood: Dec. 29, 1845 the 28th state
State nickname: The Lone Star State
Name for residents: Texans
State motto: Friendship
Abbreviation: TX

Texas's Historical Event's:

13,000 bc The earliest inhabitants in Texas appear near Midlands.
1000 bc Anasazi people live in caves and adobe huts west of the Pecos River.
ad 1519 Alonzo Álvarez de Pińeda maps the Texas Gulf Coast.
1528-1536 Álvar Núńez Cabeza de Vaca and three others wander through Texas after being shipwrecked near present-day Galveston.
1541 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado leads a Spanish expedition through western Texas.
1682 The first mission settlement in Texas is established at Ysleta, near El Paso.
1685 A small French force under René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, builds Fort St. Louis on the Texas coast.
1690 Spanish monks found the first missions in eastern Texas.
1714 A French expedition travels across Texas.
1718 San Antonio is founded, and the Spanish revive the mission settlements.
1819 James Long captures Nacogdoches, proclaims a republic, and is driven out by the Spanish.
1821 Stephen F. Austin begins to settle Texas under an agreement with the Mexican government.
1835 The Texas Revolution begins.
1836 Texas wins its independence from Mexico.
1839 All Native Americans are ordered out of Texas and into the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
1844 Texas and Mexico sign an armistice.
1845 Texas officially joins the Union as the 28th state (December 29).
1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War and confirms the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas.
1861 Texas secedes from the Union and joins the Confederate States of America.
1865 The Union Army lands at Galveston and announces emancipation of blacks.
1866 The first major cattle drive to Kansas takes place, and the cattle boom begins in Texas.
1876 The present state constitution is ratified.
1891 Texas's first antitrust law is passed. The Texas railroad commission is established.
1900 Galveston is devastated by a hurricane.
1901 The first big oil strike in Texas occurs at Spindletop, near Beaumont.
1924 Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas becomes the second woman to be elected a United States state governor.
1928 Texas votes for Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover; it is the first time Texas chooses a Republican presidential candidate.
1947 Texas City is almost totally destroyed by an explosion and fire.
1948 The League of United Latin American Citizens and the Mexican American Legal Fund win lawsuits ending official discrimination in public facilities in Texas.
1963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas becomes president.
1966 Barbara Jordan is the first black person elected to the Texas State Senate; she becomes a U.S. representative in 1972.
1978 Texas elects a Republican governor for the first time since the Reconstruction era.
1988 Texan George Bush is elected president of the United States.

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