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February 18 – Agustín de Iturbide approved Stephen F. Austin's colonization contract. -
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July – Austin establishes the town of San Felipe de Austin as his headquarters.
Mexico passes a law forbidding the sale or purchase of slaves and requiring that the children of slaves be freed when they reached fourteen. Any slave introduced into Mexico by purchase or trade would also be freed. -
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October 4 – The Mexican Constitution of 1824 establishes a federal republic. Texas is combined with the province of Coahuila to form the new province Coahuila y Tejas. -
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green dwit establishes a colony in Texas, west of Austin's.
Haden Edwards establishes a colony in Texas, east of Austin's.
Martín De León establishes a colony in Texas, south of Austin's. -
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December 16 – Empresario Haden Edwards and 30 of his settlers declare themselves the independent Republic of Fredonia. -
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United States President John Quincy Adams offers to purchase Texas for $1 million. Mexican President Guadalupe Victoria declines the offer.
The legislature of Coahuila y Tejas outlawed the introduction of additional slaves into the state and granted freedom at birth to all children born to a slave. The new laws also stated that any slave brought into Texas should be freed within six months. -
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Slavery officially outlawed in Mexico. Fearing that the edict would cause widespread discontent, Austin tries to suppress its publication.
United States President Andrew Jackson again offers to purchase Texas, for $1 million. Mexican President Vicente Guerrero declines. -
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April 6 – Mexican president Anastasio Bustamante signs a series of laws aimed at Texas. Among the actions taken were
an order for Texas to comply with the emancipation proclamation or face military intervention. To circumvent the law, many colonists converted their slaves into indentured servants for life. Others simply called their slaves indentured servants without legally changing their status.
rescinding the property tax law, which had exempted immigrants from paying taxes for ten years. He -
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For protection, the political chief of the region grants Gonzales a small cannon.
Following Mier y Teran's recommendations, three garrisons are established in Texas. The presidio at Anahuac became the first port in Texas to collect customs. A second customs port, Fort Velasco, was established at the mouth of the Brazos River, while a third garrison established Fort Teran on the Neches River below Nacogdoches to combat smuggling and illegal immigration. The presidios are staffed with convicts.
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A new provincial law prohibits worker contracts from lasting more than ten years.
October 1 – 55 political delegates meet at San Felipe de Austin for the Convention of 1832. The delegates drafted three petitions to the Congress of Mexico. They wished for an annulment of Article 11 of the colonization law of 1830, which prohibited foreign settlement as well as customs reform, recognition of squatters as valid immigrants, and a separate state for Texas. -
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March – The capital of Coahuila y Tejas is moved from Saltillo to Monclova, further removed from Texas.
April 1 – Santa Anna is elected president of Mexico.
April 1 – The Convention of 1833, with 56 political delegates, convenes. It appointed a commission to draft a constitution for a new state of Texas and chose Stephen F. Austin to represent Texas before the federal government.
November 21 – At Austin's urging, the Mexican Congress repeals the ban on foreign settlement in Texas -
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January – Stephen F. Austin arrested in Saltillo on suspicion of treason. No charges were ever formally filed against him.
March – Texas was granted more representation in the provincial government. Trial by jury was introduced, and English was authorized as a second language.
Santa Anna rescinds the Mexican Constitution of 1824. As the national congress attempted to centralize the nation, a civil war ensued. Saltillo declared that Monclova had been the capitol illegally and appointed their own -
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Stephen F. Austin published his Exposition to the Public Regarding the Affairs of Texas. In this document he explained that Texas wanted to be a separate [Mexican] state, not an independent nation. -
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25 – Fearing that Santa Anna would march against Coahuila after subduing the rebels in Zacatecas, federalist governor Agustín Viesca disbanded the state legislature in Monclova. Viezca traveled towards Texas, intending to set up a new government in the more remote San Antonio. He was arrested en route. -
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20 – In the second of the Anahuac Disturbances, William Barret Travis led a militia to free colonists who had been arrested in a customs dispute. The Mexican troops surrendered and were expelled from the province. -
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Austin was freed from prison as part of a general amnesty. -
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Austin arrives in Texas and resumes his position as civil head of Anglo-American Texas. -
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8 – Austin reverses himself and calls for war with Mexico to secure the freedom of Texas.
28 – Juan Seguín, Salvador Flores, Manuel Flores and a group of Béxar locals hold a meeting near Floresville, Texas and declare their support and readiness to take up arms in favor of a revolution.[1][2] -
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3 – Santa Anna abolishes all state legislatures.
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The Battle of Gonzales officially begins the Texas Revolution. The Texian settlers retained their cannon; Castañeda and his men retreated.
Cós occupies Goliad and awaits the arrival of 450 reinforcements from the Morelos battalion.
Cós sends Capt. Manuel Sabriego and twenty-five men to Guadalupe Victoria, Texas to seize their cannon and arrest José María Jesús Carbajal. Alcalde Plácido Benavides leads the militia of Victoria; The settlers reta