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1833 4/1/1833 Santa Anna is inaugurated president of Mexico.
1833 7/8/1833 Stephen Austin reaches Mexico City with a plan to separate Texas from the Mexican state of Coahuila.
1833 8/28/1833 Sara Ann Horn, who later loses her husband and sons to Comanche Indians raids in Texas, moves east to New York City.
1834 1/3/1834 Mexican government imprisons Stephen F. Austin for trying to start a revolution against Mexico.
1835 5/17/1835 A. B. Dodson marries Sarah Bradley, who later gives him a flag for his army company, which is a red, white and blue banner with a lone star.
1835 6/22/1835 Although an amnesty law was passed on May 3, Stephen F. Austin is not freed from Mexico City until June 22, 1835. On this same day, back in Texas, a war-party assembles to discuss the current political situation.
1835 6/30/1835 Mexicans put down an uprising of colonists at Anahuac.
1835 8/7/1835 An address to the people of Texas from the exiled Lorenzo de Zavala urges the assembly of a general consultation in San Felipe.
1835 9/13/1835 Second lieutenant John Browne writes to Albert Sidney Johnston concerning a band of cattle thieves. Calling themselves the 'Band of Brothers' the thieves boast that they can defend themselves against any government force.
1835 9/19/1835 Stephen F. Austin issues a circular to the effect that conciliatory measures toward Mexico are useless. "War is our only recourse," says Austin.
1835 9/28/1835 150 men with the Mexican Army march from San Antonio to Gonzales to take possession of the town and the cannon, which it originally been given to De Witt's colony by The Mexican government for Indian defense. However, a flag waving "Come and Take it" and a shot from the cannon sends the Mexicans into retreat.
1835 10/2/1835 The Battle of Gonzales begins as the first shots of the Revolution are fired.
1835 10/6/1835 Sam Houston is chosen as Commander in Chief of the Department of Nacogdoches, and he immediately takes charge.
1835 10/7/1835 Greenberry Logan, a free Negro, joins the Texas army, and later fights in the battle at Concepcion, and is wounded in the siege of the Bexar.
1835 10/8/1835 Sam Houston, General-in-Chief of the Department of Nacogdoches, issues and appeal to all patriots to rally to the call of Texas Liberty: "the morning of glory has dawned upon us." he writes.
1835 10/9/1835 Texan forces, led by Ben Milam, capture the entire Mexican garrison at Goliad, with a total of one killed and three wounded between the two forces.
1835 10/10/1835 The first issue of 'Telegraph and Texas Register,' the official organ of the provincial government of Texas, is published in Houston.
1835 10/12/1835 Field officers are elected to complete the military organization which was begun yesterday with the election of Stephen F. Austin as General, in Gonzalez. John H. Moore is elected Colonel, Edward Burleson is elected Lieutenant Colonel, and Alexander Summerveil is elected Major.
1835 10/15/1835 Texas General Stephen F. Austin orders his small army to march from Gonzales towards San Antonio.
1835 10/17/1835 The Texas Rangers are created.
1835 10/28/1835 Jim Bowie and James Fannin plus 90 Texans defeat hundreds of Mexicans at the Battle of Concepcion.
1835 11/5/1835 In a daring and successful engagement at the west bank of the Nueces River, Texas Adjutant Ira Westover captures the Mexican fort, Lipantitlen, with 40 hand-picked men; only one Texan is wounded.