Texas Adopts the Lone Star Flag
On January 25, 1839, the congress of the Republic of Texas adopted the Lone Star...
Domingo Terán de los Rios becomes First Governor of Spanish Texas
On 23 January 1691, the Count of Galvez (as in Galveston) appointed Domingo Terán de...
Waterloo Chosen as Capital of Texas
Did you know that Austin was not always the capital of Texas? Several cities can...
Moses Austin Gets His Grant
On January 17, 1821 the government of New Spain finally granted Moses Austin’s request...
Did You Know…Popeye the Sailor was a Texan?
Cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar may have been born in Illinois, but Popeye the Sailor,...
The Luckiest Man in Texas
If you asked me to name the luckiest man in Texas, I’d put my...
Texas Ushers the World into the Petroleum Age
On January 10, 1901 drillers struck oil just south of Beaumont, TX. The discovery at...
Juan de Padilla – Texas Martyr
It’s interesting to notice the things history remembers about someone who lived 500 years...
Don Juan de Onate Day?
Taking nothing from the Pilgrims, the first Thanksgiving in the New World took place...
Empresario Martín De León
Born in 1765 in Nuevo Santander (now the Mexican state of Tamaulipas), Martín De...