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1826 8/24/1826 By decree of the Mexican Federal Congress, the state of Coahuila and Texas is required to raise a force of 868 men to defend the frontier.
1826 12/12/1826 At De Witt's colony, Major James Kerr, the Surveyor-General, commissions Byron Lockhart as a deputy surveyor of the colony.
1826 12/16/1826 The Fredonian Rebellion begins in Nacogdoches.
1828 6/30/1828 Stephen F. Austin decides that Texas needs a territorial organization that is similar to that of the United States, and begins planning a territorial legislature and system of electing delegates.
1828 7/12/1828 Juan Antonio Padilla, only recently appointed General Land Commission for Texas, explains to Stephen F. Austin why he is delayed from reaching San Antonio.
1828 11/2/1828 Elias Wightman leads colonists from New York to settle Matagorda.
1829 2/4/1829 Mexican government changes name of La Bahia Mission to Goliad.
1829 8/25/1829 President Jackson offers to buy Texas from Mexico for $1 million, but the offer is unsuccessful.
1829 9/15/1829 President Guerrero of Mexico abolishes slavery throughout Mexico, which causes much anxiety among Anglo-American colonists in Texas.
1829 9/25/1829 B.B. Cotten establishes the first issue of the 'Texas Gazzette' at San Felipe.
1829 10/21/1829 Sam Houston is admitted to both the privileges and restrictions of the Cherokee Indian Nation.
1829 11/1/1829 Stephen F. Austin addresses his colonists to acquaint them with all the legal acts pertaining to both his father's and his own grants.
1830 4/6/1830 Mexico enacts the Colonization Law to stop American immigration to Texas, which sets the scene for the revolution six years later.
1830 6/15/1830 The Mexican government is concerned about squatters on the Texas-Mexico border. Stephen F. Austin and Commissioner Teran exchange correspondence concerning how to resolve this matter.
1830 9/30/1830 Jim Bowie moves to Texas and becomes a Mexican citizen.
1831 11/2/1831 James Bowie and his brother Rozin, with a company of 'seven Americans and two Negroes', set out to locate the lost silver mines on the San Saba River.
1831 11/21/1831 At daylight, 164 Indians attack captain James Bowie and his company near the San Saba River, where the Americans were searching for the rumored lost silver mines. Fifty Indians are killed, and 35 wounded; but the Americans suffer only the loss of their horses.
1832 6/11/1832 Lucy Pickens ["Lady Lucy, Queen of the Confederacy"] is born near La Grange, Tennessee.
1832 6/13/1832 The Turtle Bayou Resolutions, documents leading to the revolution of 1836, are adopted by settlers at Anahuac.
1832 6/20/1832 Stephen F. Austin writes that the difficulty between the Texas colonists and the Mexican government is caused by neglect of constitutional and legal form by the government, rather than inherent colonist disloyalty to the government.
1832 6/25/1832 112 Texans gather at Velasco to protest the treatment they receive from the Mexican Government. A battle follows in which seven Texans are killed, including Captain Aylette C. Buckner. The battle is considered a victory for the colonists.
1832 6/26/1832 The Battle of Velasco results in the first shed blood of the revolution.
1832 7/13/1832 The Fredonian Rebellion over customs duty takes place at Anahuac.
1832 11/1/1832 Lyne Barret is born. He is the first to hit oil in east Texas.
1832 12/2/1832 Sam Houston first enters Texas at the Jonesboro Crossing on the Red River.