Day by Day Archive Month March
| Texas loses stagecoach mail and passenger service (1861) |
| Nature Conservancy buys Enchanted Rock (1978) |
| First president of Rice Institute retires (1946) |
| Semicentennial of Texas Independence celebrated (1886) |
| Texas declares independence from Mexico (1836) |
| Fifth Military district created by the First Reconstruction Act (1867) |
| Prominent black political leader dies (1898) |
| U.S. appoints its first diplomat to the Republic of Texas (1837) |
| Texas Regiment formed for duty in the Philippines (1899) |
| Texas Catholic history journal established (1987) |
| Black gold gushes in East Texas (1904) |
| Cactus Jack becomes vice president (1933) |
| Mexican Army captures San Antonio; Republic of Texas totters (1842) |
| Hill Country natural history authority dies in England (1929) |
| Richard Henry Boyd born into slavery (1843) |
| Alamo falls to Mexican army (1836) |
| Medal of Honor recipient's plane shot down (1944) |
| A jolly good barbecue (1954) |
| Globe of the Great Southwest groundbreaking (1958) |
| Bluebonnet proclaimed state flower (1901) |
| Earthquake! (1923) |
| Birthday of the "Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution" (1798) |
| Creuzbaur's brave plans for Sea King (1862) |
| Black traildriver born into slavery (1850) |
| Spanish expedition enters Texas (1707) |
| REA begins bringing electricity to rural Texas (1936) |
| State steps into sheep wars (1881) |
| First nursing school in Texas opens (1890) |
| New foundation formed for support of John Sealy Hospital (1922) |
| Explorer promises each Texan a silver mine (1756) |
| Pappy O'Daniel born in Ohio (1890) |
| Students enroll in first Texas college for blacks (1878) |
| New carbon black plant opens in Panhandle (1926) |
| Falvel given command of Flash (1836) |
| Rejected portrait of LBJ draws record crowd to Snyder museum (1967) |
| Galveston longshoremen strike (1920) |
| Future Texas publisher born in Tennessee (1857) |
| Fort Inge established on Texas frontier (1849) |
| Evangelist breaks with Southern Baptist Convention (1956) |
| Ruby found guilty (1964) |
| Wildcatter born in Lithuania (1874) |
| Group forms organization to honor trusty steeds (1940) |
| Big band leader born (1916) |
| Mexican army captures Texas Masonic soldier (1836) |
| Sensational court-martial convenes for Alamo hero's son (1856) |
| Indians attack San Sabá mission (1758) |
| Despite ranchhands' desperate rides, Panhandle cattleman dies of smallpox (1883) |
| Script writer and future Texan born in Chicago (1939) |
| Convention of 1836 breaks up in a hurry (1836) |
| First law school in Texas established (1855) |
| World-famous animal trapper born in Texas (1884) |
| Nearly three hundred die in New London school explosion (1937) |
| Galveston Methodists split along racial lines (1848) |
| Groce's plantation becomes temporary capital of Texas (1836) |
| Scholar Harriet Smither dies (1955) |
| Legendary Texas yodeler silenced (1987) |
| Aguayo expedition enters Texas (1721) |
| Famed mustanger and filibuster killed (1801) |
| First woman elected to state legislature dies (1966) |
| Preservationist and former Indian captive Rebecca Fisher dies (1926) |
| First black state convention meets in Austin (1866) |
| March on Washington falters in desert (1894) |
| Texas Navy schooner seizes mercantile brig; friction with U.S. ensues (1836) |
| Fort Worth Stockyards incorporated (1893) |
| Higher education develops in Beaumont (1923) |
| Texas conductor leads farewell concert in Antwerp (1927) |
| Baylor honors president emeritus (1963) |
| Fort Worth jeweler weds poet (1912) |
| Mexican law invites Anglo colonists (1825) |
| Texas force decimated after black bean lottery (1843) |
| General Land Office gets new seal (1986) |
| Mexican raiders strike Texas ranch (1918) |
| Mexican raiders attack Nuecestown (1875) |
| Veterans found G.I. Forum (1948) |
| Battleship Texas continues outstanding service (1945) |
| Littlefield inaugurates Texas Relays at Memorial Stadium (1925) |
| Infamy at Goliad (1836) |
| Last Spanish governor of Texas appointed (1817) |
| Commander of "Kirby Smith's Confederacy" dies (1893) |
| Texas Confederates whipped in New Mexico (1862) |
| Confederate guerilla leader arrested by own side (1864) |
| Rebels defeat Spanish royalists (1813) |
| East Texas lake completed (1965) |
| Ann Raguet marries Robert Irion instead of Sam Houston (1840) |
| Secessionist paper founded in Marshall (1849) |
| German author of Wild West fiction dies (1912) |
| Congressional Reconstruction ends as Texas readmitted to Union (1870) |
| Cowpunchers' planned strike starts slow, then flops (1883) |
| Texas Mormon leader dies leading followers north (1858) |
| Newsweek chronicles decline of Texas steel town (1986) |
