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1880 12/1/1880 Missouri Pacific Railway Company enters Texas, brought by Jay Gould.
1881 3/15/1881 With the completion of the Texas-Pacific railway the town of Abilene is born.
1881 7/11/1881 William Buckley, Sr. is born at Washington-on-the-Brazos; he becomes rich as an oil speculator. He had ten children; his son James becomes a senator from New York, and his son William Jr. is famous as a writer, magazine editor and television talk show host.
1881 9/6/1881 Elections are held in the towns of Austin, Waco, Tyler, Thorp Springs, Lampasas, Williams Ranch, Albany, Grapevine, Matagorda, Caddo, Grove Peak, Houston and Galveston in order to determine the location of the University of Texas.
1881 12/15/1881 America's second transcontinental railroad links up at Sierra Blanca in Hudspeth County connecting the Texas & Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads.
1882 1/2/1882 Jay Gould, railroad magnate, predicts the "end of Jefferson" after the town refuses to give his railroad right-of-way because they were a river port.
1882 1/6/1882 Future legislature and U.S. Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, is born in Tennessee.
1882 6/10/1882 Ima Hogg, noted philanthropist and daughter governor James Hogg, is born in Mineola.
1882 6/30/1882 African-American West Point Graduate, Henry Flipper, though serving with distinction, is dismissed from the Army. After his death, President Clinton pardoned him.
1882 7/10/1882 Ima Hogg is born in Mineola, and was to become "The first Lady of Texas," as society leader and philanthropist.
1882 7/15/1882 Sixty-nine lawyers meet in Galveston, and the Texas Bar Association is organized.
1882 7/25/1882 Judge Roy Bean opens his first saloon west of the Pecos, 200 miles from Fort Stockton.
1882 8/2/1882 Judge Roy Bean, who would become famous as "the law west of the Pecos", is appointed Justice of the Peace in Pecos County, Texas.
1882 8/24/1882 Four miles south of San Angelo in Tom Green County, the town of Ben Ficklin is washed away by flooding, and becomes a ghost town.
1882 11/17/1882 The cornerstone is laid for the first building at the University of Texas in the capitol city of Austin.
1882 11/28/1882 A labor-union-called "holiday" on the Galveston docks protesting African-American laborers begins a segregation battle that lasts for years.
1882 12/21/1882 Edith Wilmans is born. In 1922 she is the first woman elected to serve in the Texas House.
1883 3/24/1883 The first cowboys strike in Texas begins in the Panhandle.
1883 3/31/1883 In Tascosa some 300 cowboys go on a two-month strike when open range ranching is closed.
1883 7/4/1883 The first recorded rodeo in Texas is held at Pecos, Texas.
1883 9/15/1883 The University of Texas at Austin opens its doors.
1883 10/7/1883 Alamo survivor Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson died in Austin at 68 years.
1883 10/23/1883 Abilene, named for three brothers who died at the Alamo, becomes the county seat of Taylor County.
1883 11/12/1883 Cattlemen meet in Gainesville to work out an end between farmers and cattlemen to the "Fence Cutting Wars."