texas a&m Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/texas-am Sun, 05 Jun 2016 14:37:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Texas http://toursmaps.com/texas.html http://toursmaps.com/texas.html#respond Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:30:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=205327 Constance Cortez Texas CHRONOLOGY 1519 Spanish cartographer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explores and maps the Texas coastline. 1528-1532 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the Spanish king’s treasurer, shipwrecks on Galveston Island and explores Texas’s interior. 1540-1542 The Francisco Vasquez de Coronado expedition from Spain explores the southwestern United States, the plains of the Texas panhandle, and parts of Oklahoma and Kansas. 1682 The first Franciscan mission, Corpus Christi de la Isleta, is established outside El Paso. 1685 French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, establishes Fort St. Louis in present-day Victoria County. 1718 Franciscans found Mission San Antonio de

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