Jacinto, and took General Santa Anna prisoner.
6/3/1836, The siege of the Alamo ended.
2/3/1836. Texas was proclaimed a republic, by a group of 59 citizens, independent of Mexico.
23/2/1836. The Mexican Army, with 5,000 soldiers, under Antonio de Lopez Santa Anna, laid siege to the Alamo, a fortified mission station defended by 187 Texans, in San Antonio, Texas. Santa Anna had invaded Texas after Texas had declared itself independent of the USA and elected its own President. The Mexicans captured the Alamo on 6/3/1836, slaughtering all 187 defenders. Deaths included William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davey Crockett. Only 2 women survived, who had sheltered behind the sacristy. The Mexicans told one of them, Susanna Dickinson, a blacksmith’s wife, to pass the message on to other Texans that further fighting was hopeless.
22/10/1835, Sam Houston was sworn in as President of Texas.
2/10/1835, Texan-Americans started their campaign for independence from Mexico by starting an armed rebellion against the government of Antonio de Santa Anna in the town of Gonzales. Americans had settled the area from 1825, when Texas was largely undeveloped and there was little interference from the Mexican Government. However the current administration was changing Mexico from a federation of states into a centralised state.
27/3/1835, Texan rebels were massacred by the Mexican Army at Gohad.
31/1/1835, An assassination attempt on US President Andrew Jackson failed when the gun of Richard Lawson, house painter, jammed twice. Lawrence claimed to be the rightful heir to the British throne.
20/3/1834, Charles William Eliot, US educator, was born in Boston, Massachusetts (died in Maine, 22/8/1926).
24/5/1833, Brooklyn Bridge in New York was opened.
13/7/1832. An expedition led by Henry Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi River.
26/6/1832, Mexico began to assert a more authoritarian rule over the US colonists in its territory of Texas. On this day the US colonists rebelled, and captured the Mexican Army fort of Velasco.
1/5/1832, Captain Benjamin de Bourneville started on a 3-year expedition to explore the Rocky Mountains.
25/1/1832, The State of Virginia rejected the abolition of slavery.
See also Mexico for events with USA at this time
21/4/1831, Texans defeated the Mexicans at the Battle of San Jacinto.
27/6/1829, James Smithson, British scientist whose bequest established the Smithsonian Institute at Washington to encourage scientific research, died in Genoa.
15/5/1829, US Congress declared the slave trade to be piracy.
21/4/1828, The American Dictionary of the English language was published. This both standardised American English and put cultural difference between it and British English.
26/10/1825. The Erie Canal, linking New York with the Great Lakes via Niagara and the Hudson River, begun 4/7/1817, was completed. Influenced by Governor DeWitt Clinton the New York state legislature agreed to fund the US$ 7 million project. The canal, 363 miles long, 40 foot wide, 4 foot deep, with 82 locks, would make New York the principal port of America.
21/1/1824, Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, the General who commanded Confederate forces in the American Civil War, was born.
2/12/1823. President Monroe of the USA declared that no part of the Americas is now ‘res nullius’, or open to further European colonisation, although existing European influences would be tolerated. This was the basis of the Monroe Doctrine.
27/4/1822, Ulysses Grant, General in the Union Army, Democrat, and 18th President, was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, the son of a tanner.
10/8/1821, Missouri became the 24th State of the Union.
26/9/1820, Death of US frontiersman Daniel Boone. He explored the Kentucky area.
15/5/1820. Congress in the USA designated the slave trade as a form of piracy.
15/3/1820. Congress reached a compromise on the slavery issue by admitting Maine (23rd state of the Union) to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. This measure was to keep the number of slave and non-slave states equal.
9/3/1820. The USA passed the Land Act, paving th