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1837 8/14/1837 The city of Houston holds its first city elections.
1837 8/26/1837 Alamo survivor and slave of William B. Travis, named Joe, is one of few left living after the Alamo falls.
1837 10/1/1837 Texas General Land Office opens in Houston, holding land grant records and maps, which today contains over 35 million records.
1837 10/10/1837 Lt. A. H. Miles, who captured Santa Anna at San Jacinto, is killed by Indians.
1837 11/4/1837 The Congress of the Republic of Texas passes an act to enlarge the naval Force - twelve vessels furnished with munitions and provisions are ordered from Frederic Dawson of Baltimore, Maryland.
1837 11/10/1837 The Battle of Stone Houses is fought, killing 10 Rangers and 50 Indians in Archer County.
1837 11/19/1837 The Reverend Littelton Fowler preaches to a large assembly in Houston, where he finds much "vice, gaming, profanity, and drunkenness."
1837 12/20/1837 The Masonic Lodge of Texas is organized in Houston, Texas.
1838 4/25/1838 Convention of Limits is signed by United States and Republic of Texas, establishing boundaries between them.
1838 5/6/1838 Oldest Missionary Baptist Church in Texas is organized just north of Nacogdoches.
1838 8/5/1838 Samuel D. Parr becomes first permanent settler at Point Bolivar.
1838 9/3/1838 The second Texas national elections are held, with Mirabeau B. Lamar elected President of the Republic.
1838 10/20/1838 Moses Lapham, who helped destroy Vince's Bridge at San Jacinto to cut off Santa Anna's Mexican escape, is killed by Indians.
1838 11/29/1838 Circuit Rider Jesse Hord, the founder of Methodism in East Texas, enters Texas, crossing at Gaines Ferry, near present-day Toledo Bend.
1838 12/9/1838 President Mirabeau B. Lamar is inaugurated to his new office.
1839 1/16/1839 The Texas senate votes to buy captured Mexican ships from the French to start a new Texas Navy.
1839 1/24/1839 The Library of the Republic of Texas is established by the third Congress of the Republic.
1839 1/25/1839 The Republic of Texas adopts its new flag.
1839 5/27/1839 Captain John Bird and five other Texans are killed in an Indian skirmish, while in route from Fort Milam to Fort Smith. The Indians are forced to retreat after an hour's fighting, leaving thirty of their own dead at the scene.
1839 6/2/1839 Texas president Mirabeau B. Lamar appoints Edwin Waller as agent to lay out the City of Austin, conduct land sales, and erect public buildings.
1839 7/15/1839 When the Cherokee Indians refuse to be moved from their land, General Kelsey H. Douglas is directed to take his troops against them.
1839 7/16/1839 Cherokee Chief Bowles is killed at the Battle of the Neches, ending a series of Indian skirmishes.
1839 8/29/1839 The Colt-Walker pistol is patented.
1839 9/9/1839 The capital of the Republic of Texas moves from Houston to Austin.
1839 9/25/1839 France recognizes the independence of Texas.
1839 9/30/1839 The capital of Texas is moved from Houston to 'Waterloo', which was later named 'Austin'.