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1821 6/26/1821 Stephen F. Austin receives confirmation of his father's (Moses Austin's) land grant from the Spanish government.
1821 7/9/1821 Stephen F. Austin employees two hunters for his company, their pay to be by being allowed to enter the colony on the basis of equal with that of other settlers.
1821 7/10/1821 Stephen F. Austin learns of his father's death in Missouri.
1821 10/13/1821 Jacob Brodbeck is born in Wurttemberg, Germany. Later, as a Texan, he invents an airplane 40 years before the Wright Brothers.
1821 11/10/1821 Stephen F. Austin purchases the ill-fated vessel, the 'Lively', and makes arrangements for its sailing with people and supplies from New Orleans to Texas
1821 11/23/1821 Andrew Johnson and members of his family are the first immigrant family to cross the Brazos River
1821 12/21/1821 Jane Long gives birth to the first Anglo child born in Texas, who is a girl named Mary James Long.
1822 1/24/1822 Jared E. Groce arrives on the banks of the Brazos to set up a home, bringing with him a supply of cottonseed, which is the first in Texas.
1822 8/17/1822 Jose Felix Trespalacios becomes the first Mexican governor of Coahuila y Texas, as part of the United Mexican States.
1822 10/21/1822 Texas' first bank, the Texas National Bank, is established in San Antonio.
1823 1/3/1823 Stephen F. Austin receives a grant land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1823 4/14/1823 The Mexican Congress gives Stephen F. Austin final confirmation for his Texas land grant.
1823 7/27/1823 By official order of Mexican Governor Garcia, it is decreed that the prospective capital of the Austin colony is to be named San Felipe de Austin.
1823 8/4/1823 Colonel Bastrop issues a proclamation giving Stephen F. Austin supreme military, as well as civil and judicial authority in his colony.
1823 8/11/1823 Stephen F. Austin writes to General Garcia, the letter stressing the need for settler protection against hostile Indians.
1823 10/31/1823 A public notice is posted stating that newcomers into the Austin colony must report immediately to the nearest alcalde and must bring evidence of good character with them if they wanted to obtain land in the colony.
1823 12/2/1823 By proclamation, Stephen F. Austin subdivides the Brazos District, making a third district which he names the San Felipe District.
1824 6/22/1824 Battle of Jones Creek was fought between colonists and Karankawa Indians.
1824 7/10/1824 Richard King, founder of the 825,000 acre King Ranch, is born in New York City.
1824 8/18/1824 The central Mexican government passes the law which governs the issuance of colonizing contracts in Texas.
1825 3/24/1825 Mexican legislature passes State Colonization Law offering settlers land in the Texas area.
1825 4/15/1825 Mexican government issues 'empresario' contracts, encouraging settlement of Texas.
1825 9/16/1825 The Republic of Mexico declares this date its 'National Independence Day'.
1826 3/19/1826 Cherokee leader, John Dunn Hunter, arrives in Mexico City to negotiate a settlement in Texas.
1826 7/31/1826 Representatives from the six militia districts of Austin colony call a meeting to discuss frontier protection from Indians.