June Timeline
June 1
1690 - The first Spanish mission was consecrated in East Texas and called San Francisco de los Tejas.
1836 - President Burnet allowed Santa Anna to board the Texas warship Invincible.
June 2
1836 - ’The Horse Marines’ of the Texas Revolution captured a ship with supplies for Mexico in Copano Bay.
1875 - The Quahadis (Kahadis) Comanche Indians under the leadership of Quanah Parker, surrendered to Federal troops over a year after the Battle of Adobe Walls.
June 3
1836 - James P. Henderson came to Texas to help fight in the Texas Revolution. He arrived too late to fight in the Battle of San Jacinto.
1836 - Gen. Thomas J. Rusk reportedly collected the bones of Col. Fannin’s men, who had been killed in March of that year, from the field east of Goliad, and buried them on this day.
June 4
1825 - Stephen F. Austin’s second contract for colonizing 500 hundred families was granted.
1836 - Sam Houston wrote a letter to Mirabeau B. Lamar telling him his leg was much better. Houston’s right leg, shattered above the ankle by a bullet at San Jacinto, was healing after surgery.
June 5
1837 - Two new schools were chartered on this day as interest for establishing schools in the Republic of Texas began.
1875 - Fort Elliott was established in Wheeler County.
June 6
1794 - Philip Nolan was given permission to capture wild mustangs in the Nacogdoches area by Christopher Cordoba. The mustangs were for the Louisiana Regiment.
1849 - The city of Fort Worth was established.
June 7
1842 - The Republic of Texas issued the Fisher-Miller Land Grant which allowed all Europeans to settle in Texas.
1849 - Fort Lincoln was established in Medina County.
June 8
1819 - Part of the Long Expedition entered Texas from Louisiana by crossing the Sabine River.
1841 - The port of Houston was established.
1844 - The U.S. Senate rejected the annexation of Texas into the United States.
June 9
1902 - The Texas Library Association was organized at Austin to expand the Texas State Library. The State Library burned when the capitol burned in 1881.
June 10
1821 - Moses Austin died in Missouri on this day. Cause of death was lingering pneumonia.
June 11
1838 - The first road show to come to Texas performed ’The Hunchback’ at a new theater in Houston. It is believed to be the first theater in Texas.
1859 - Orders were issued to remove the Indians from the Brazos Indian Reservation to the area north of the Red River. The reservation was deserted July 1, 1859.
June 12
1684 - The San Francisco de los Julimes Mission was established near present Presidio by Juan Dominquez de Mendoza. The town of Presidio got its name from the presidio of this original Spanish settlement.
June 13
1722 - A recommendation was made to the King of Spain by Marquis de Aguayo to populate the province of Texas with families from the Canary Islands.
1832 - The Turtle Bayou Resolutions were approved, stating that the Texans would support the constitutional government established in 1824 and those fighting for civil liberty.
June 14
1875 - Jefferson Davis was offered the presidency of Texas A & M University. The school opened in 1876 and was the first state supported college in Texas. Davis refused the offer.
June 15
1835 - Mirabeau Lamar boarded a stagecoach in Columbus, GA, bound for the Republic of Texas.
1846 - The Texas Navy became part of the U.S. Navy.
June 16
1823 - Luciano Garcia was appointed as ad interim governor of Texas.
1845 - The Texas Congress voted to accept the offer from the United States for annexation.
1857 - Twenty-five of the camels originally brought to Camp Verde were taken to California.
June 17
1836 - The Horse Marines captured two more vessels.
1865 - Pendleton Murrah’s term as governor ended with the arrival of U.S. troops headed by Gen. Gordon Granger.
June 18
1829 - The Ariel, the first steamship used in Texas, arrived at the mouth of the Rio Grande River. Henry Austin owned the vessel and planned to do experimental navigation with it.
June 19
1841 - The Santa Fe Expedition set out for Santa Fe, New Mexico to establish trade and enforce the Texas claim to the New Mexico territory.
1865 - Gen. Gordon Granger declared all slaves in Texas to be free. This celebration marked what is called ’Juneteenth’.
June 20
1924 - Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in World War II, was born in Hunt County, Texas.
June 21
1819 - The Long Expedition arrived in Texas to incorporate it into the territory of the U.S. Dr. Long’s men occupied Nacogdoches on June 21, and on June 23 declared Texas free of Spain’s rule. However, while Dr. Long was away four months later, an army of about 500 soldiers marched from San Antonio and drove the expedition back to Louisiana.
June 22
1857 - The San Antonio-San Diego Mail Route was planned. It is said to be the first transcontinental mail and passenger line.
June 23
1820 - Dr. James Long and his wife Jane (who would later be known as the ’Mother of Texas’) visited with pirate Jean Lafitte on Galveston Island.
1919 - The Legislature ratified the federal’s Women’s Suffrage Amendment.
June 24
1851 - Fort Belknap was established near Newcastle. At one time it was a stop for the Butterfield Overland Mail Route.
1869 - The Buffalo Bayou Ship Channel was organized to build a ship channel to Houston.
June 25
1961 - Miriam ’Ma’ Ferguson passed away. She was the first woman governor of Texas.
June 26
1832 - The Battle of Velasco happened. It was the first clash between Texas and Mexico and some historians view this as the real first battle of the Texas Revolution.
June 27
1686 - Alonso de Leon led the first expedition to find La Salle, but with no luck.
1874 - The second Battle of Adobe Wells was fought when Comanches led by Quanah Parker attacked buffalo hunters. The hunters held off the Comanches, but they were surrounded and knew that they could not last much longer.
June 28
1874 - On the second day of the second Battle of Adobe Walls, Billy Dixon fired a shot that was to become famous. Dixon, while in the stockade, shot a Comanche from his horse at a distance of nearly a mile. The Comanches were scared away by the expert shooting and the buffalo hunters were safe.
June 29
1835 - William B. Travis led a group of 25 men and demanded the surrender of Anahuac. The surrender happened the next day.
1880 - The Texas State Teachers Association was formed in Mexia.
June 30
1893 - Frank Jones was killed in Mexico during a shootout with Mexican rustlers. He was the commander of Company D of the Texas Rangers.