Industrial Age · North America · War

1835

Texas Revolution Begins

1835

American settlers in Mexican Texas, alarmed by Santa Anna's centralist turn and his abolition of state legislatures, began refusing orders and raising militias. By October shots had been fired at Gonzales over a small cannon the Mexicans had given them and now wanted back. The Lone Star republic was coming.

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Before and after in North America

Before: August 1, 1834: Emancipation in the British Empire
After: March 6, 1836: Fall of the Alamo

Before and after in War

Before: 1833: Ottoman Egypt Crisis
After: March 6, 1836: Fall of the Alamo

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.