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1839 10/6/1839 Reuben Ross wounds Ben McCullough in his right arm in a duel, after years of feuding. McCullough would kill Ross a few months later.
1839 10/17/1839 The City of Austin is dedicated as the new capital city of Texas government under President Mirabeau B. Lamar.
1839 10/30/1839 The 'Austin City Gazette' makes its appearance - it is the first newspaper to be published at the new capital.
1840 3/19/1840 Peace talks between the Comanches and the Texas government turn into a fight at the Council House in San Antonio.
1840 4/2/1840 Slave smuggler and forger of letters of New Orleans cotton brokers, Monroe Edwards is convicted of forgery.
1840 5/9/1840 Sam Houston marries Margaret Lea.
1840 6/24/1840 Col. Henry Karnes calls for a volunteer army to fight Indians, Mexicans and lawless elements on the frontier, as Texas Rangers.
1840 8/12/1840 The Battle of Plum Creek (near Lockhart) marks the place where white men defeat the Comanche Indians, pushing them farther west.
1840 12/15/1840 The Houston Medical and Surgical Society expels Dr. J. Henry Price for 'unprofessional conduct.' He had refused to conform to the Society's scale of fees to be charged, claiming that they were exorbitant.
1841 4/22/1841 Houston city council passes an ordinance which prohibits public bathing in Buffalo Bayou.
1841 6/21/1841 Under the command of Brigadier-General Hugh McLeod, the Santa Fe Expedition with 270 soldiers leaves from Brushy Creek, near Austin.
1841 7/21/1841 Stephen F. Austin leaves Nacogdoches, heading for San Antonio to meet with Governor Martinez.
1841 12/13/1841 General Sam Houston is inaugurated as President of the Republic of Texas for a second term. With debts of millions, and an empty Treasury and no credit, the government is almost bankrupt. So the people look to Sam Houston to save the Republic from ruin.
1842 2/11/1842 The crew of the "San Antonio" ship stages the only mutiny in the history of the Texas Navy.
1842 3/2/1842 Robert Potter, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, is murdered in the Regulator-Moderator War.
1842 3/10/1842 President Sam Houston orders The Archives of the Republic of Texas moved to the city of Houston for safety, thus beginning the 'Archives War'.
1842 4/11/1842 Texas's oldest business institution, the 'Galveston News,' is formed.
1842 4/18/1842 Juan Seguin resigns as the Mayor of San Antonio, and flees to Mexico.
1842 4/20/1842 The Society for the Protection of German immigrants is organized to aid German immigration.
1842 7/7/1842 Texan forces under General Davis route the Mexicans under General Antonio Canales on the Nueces River.
1842 9/11/1842 Using 400 calvary and over 1000 infantry and two pieces of artillery, Mexican General Andrian Woll captures San Antonio.
1842 9/14/1842 Under the live oak tree on the Public Square in La Grange, Dawson's men meet and organize themselves to go to the aid of Captain Caldwell in San Antonio.
1842 9/18/1842 Forty-two people are killed by Indians at the Battle of Salado Creek.