Article Archive

March

1

Texas loses stagecoach mail and passenger service
(1861)

First president of Rice Institute retires
(1946)

Nature Conservancy buys Enchanted Rock
(1978)

2

Texas declares independence from Mexico
(1836)

Semicentennial of Texas Independence celebrated
(1886)

Fifth Military district created by the First Reconstruction Act
(1867)

3

Texas Regiment formed for duty in the Philippines
(1899)

U.S. appoints its first diplomat to the Republic of Texas
(1837)

Prominent black political leader dies
(1898)

4

Black gold gushes in East Texas
(1904)

Texas Catholic history journal established
(1987)

Cactus Jack becomes vice president
(1933)

5

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)

6

Medal of Honor recipient's plane shot down
(1944)

Alamo falls to Mexican army
(1836)

A jolly good barbecue
(1954)

7

Bluebonnet proclaimed state flower
(1901)

Globe of the Great Southwest groundbreaking
(1958)

Earthquake!
(1923)

8

Birthday of the "Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution"
(1798)

Black traildriver born into slavery
(1850)

Creuzbaur's brave plans for Sea King
(1862)

9

Spanish expedition enters Texas
(1707)

REA begins bringing electricity to rural Texas
(1936)

State steps into sheep wars
(1881)

10

New foundation formed for support of John Sealy Hospital
(1922)

First nursing school in Texas opens
(1890)

Explorer promises each Texan a silver mine
(1756)

11

Students enroll in first Texas college for blacks
(1878)

Pappy O'Daniel born in Ohio
(1890)

New carbon black plant opens in Panhandle
(1926)

12

Falvel given command of Flash
(1836)

Rejected portrait of LBJ draws record crowd to Snyder museum
(1967)

Galveston longshoremen strike
(1920)

13

Future Texas publisher born in Tennessee
(1857)

Evangelist breaks with Southern Baptist Convention
(1956)

Fort Inge established on Texas frontier
(1849)

14

Ruby found guilty
(1964)

Wildcatter born in Lithuania
(1874)

Group forms organization to honor trusty steeds
(1940)

15

Mexican army captures Texas Masonic soldier
(1836)

Big band leader born
(1916)

Sensational court-martial convenes for Alamo hero's son
(1856)

16

Script writer and future Texan born in Chicago
(1939)

Indians attack San Sabá mission
(1758)

Despite ranchhands' desperate rides, Panhandle cattleman dies of smallpox
(1883)

17

World-famous animal trapper born in Texas
(1884)

Convention of 1836 breaks up in a hurry
(1836)

First law school in Texas established
(1855)

18

Groce's plantation becomes temporary capital of Texas
(1836)

Nearly three hundred die in New London school explosion
(1937)

Galveston Methodists split along racial lines
(1848)

19

Spanish priest and chronicler of Texas enters Franciscan order
(1697)

Council House Fight irreparably damages Comanche-white relations
(1840)

Cherokee leader arrives in Mexico City seeking tribal land grant
(1826)

20

Scholar Harriet Smither dies
(1955)

Aguayo expedition enters Texas
(1721)

Legendary Texas yodeler silenced
(1987)

21

Famed mustanger and filibuster killed
(1801)

First woman elected to state legislature dies
(1966)

Preservationist and former Indian captive Rebecca Fisher dies
(1926)

22

March on Washington falters in desert
(1894)

First black state convention meets in Austin
(1866)

Texas Navy schooner seizes mercantile brig; friction with U.S. ensues
(1836)

23

Higher education develops in Beaumont
(1923)

Texas conductor leads farewell concert in Antwerp
(1927)

Fort Worth Stockyards incorporated
(1893)

24

Mexican law invites Anglo colonists
(1825)

Fort Worth jeweler weds poet
(1912)

Baylor honors president emeritus
(1963)

25

Texas force decimated after black bean lottery
(1843)

Mexican raiders strike Texas ranch
(1918)

General Land Office gets new seal
(1986)

26

Battleship Texas continues outstanding service
(1945)

Veterans found G.I. Forum
(1948)

Mexican raiders attack Nuecestown
(1875)

27

Infamy at Goliad
(1836)

Last Spanish governor of Texas appointed
(1817)

Littlefield inaugurates Texas Relays at Memorial Stadium
(1925)

28

Texas Confederates whipped in New Mexico
(1862)

Confederate guerilla leader arrested by own side
(1864)

Commander of "Kirby Smith's Confederacy" dies
(1893)

29

East Texas lake completed
(1965)

Ann Raguet marries Robert Irion instead of Sam Houston
(1840)

Rebels defeat Spanish royalists
(1813)

30

German author of Wild West fiction dies
(1912)

Secessionist paper founded in Marshall
(1849)

Congressional Reconstruction ends as Texas readmitted to Union
(1870)

31

Cowpunchers' planned strike starts slow, then flops
(1883)

Texas Mormon leader dies leading followers north
(1858)

Newsweek chronicles decline of Texas steel town
(1986)

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