Day by Day Archive Month January
| Texas governor shocks nation, appoints all-woman court (1925) |
| Farmer sows tent colony (1906) |
| Confederates attack Union forces in Galveston (1863) |
| Western crooner Tex Ritter succumbs in country-music capital (1974) |
| Roger Miller born (1936) |
| Bonnie sculptor born (1890) |
| General Kiddoo nixes Contract Law (1867) |
| Presidio County established (1850) |
| Orphans get new home (1874) |
| Another bad day for A. J. Dorn (1884) |
| Versatile writer dies (1992) |
| Landscape artist Ida Weisselberg Hadra born in Castroville (1861) |
| Texas radio station sets country music standard (1923) |
| Black cowboy Bose Ikard dies (1929) |
| Nazareth Academy opens (1867) |
| Big Brazos bridge opens in Waco (1870) |
| James Moreau Brown buys future site of Ashton Villa (1859) |
| Frontier icon Crockett loses election, heads for Alamo (1836) |
| Texas Academy of Science organized (1892) |
| Anson Jones commits suicide (1858) |
| Frank X. Tolbert dies (1984) |
| Houston honors philanthropist (1964) |
| Texas aviation leaders die in plane crash (1954) |
| Spindletop oilfield discovered (1901) |
| Black physician and civil rights leader born in Waskom (1894) |
| Black veteran honored for war bond sales (1945) |
| Texas troops captured at Arkansas Post (1863) |
| Confederate Navy sinks Yankee ship (1863) |
| Ambitious French colonization scheme fizzles (1841) |
| Unionist paper closes down (1861) |
| Vigilantes hang horse thief in Denison (1874) |
| Crusading El Paso newspaper folds (1886) |
| Former governor Alan Shivers dies (1985) |
| War effort proceeds as huge Texas base is activated (1942) |
| Governor urges Texans to make sacrifices (1865) |
| Alianza Hispano-Americana founded (1894) |
| Prussian mapmaker retires from General Land Office (1899) |
| Historian Joe B. Frantz born (1917) |
| Church organized in Swedish community (1897) |
| A Prussian lens on South Tejas (1860) |
| Mexican Federalists declare independence at Laredo convention (1840) |
| First appearance of Popeye (1929) |
| Barbara Jordan dies (1996) |
| A Connecticut Yankee in Texas (1821) |
| German school chartered in Austin (1858) |
| Huge state park opened to public (1991) |
| Mosqueda robs railroad, becomes hero (1891) |
| Waterloo approved as new capital of Texas (1839) |
| Sid Richardson Hall dedicated (1971) |
| Charitable foundation begins bumpy journey (1960) |
| Mason County courthouse burns (1877) |
| "Know-Nothings" abandon secrecy, meet in Austin (1856) |
| Fifty Cent Act repealed (1883) |
| Supreme Court legalizes abortion (1973) |
| First steamboat reaches Houston (1837) |
| State supreme court rules new school funding system unconstitutional (1991) |
| Domingo Terán de los Ríos appointed first governor of Texas (1691) |
| Ill-fated Spanish mission established (1762) |
| Confederates hang former Texas senator as traitor (1863) |
| "Tri-Cities" finally unite as Baytown (1948) |
| Reformist Freedmen's Bureau superintendent replaced (1867) |
| Famous former slave dies at the hands of Indians (1871) |
| Death of "Cattle King" touches off family financial scandal (1919) |
| First church meeting in Texas (1834) |
| Lone Star heraldry (1839) |
| Isleño leader dies (1779) |
| Lightnin' Hopkins dies (1982) |
| Englishman and future critic arrives in Texas (1840) |
| United States consul arrives in Matamoros (1862) |
| Carl Venth, violinist and composer dies (1938) |
