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1st: 1833, Santa Anna was inaugurated as president of Mexico.
6th: 1830, Law passed by Mexican government prohibiting further colonization from
the United States and any importation of blacks into Mexican territory.
8th: 1864, Battle of Mansfield, Civil War.
9th: 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union army at Appomattox.
13th: 1839, Commissioners for the permanent capital city of the Republic of Texas
selected the village of Waterloo (present-day Austin).
16th: 1836, Mexican troops burned Harrisburg (present-day Houston).
1947, French freighter Grandcamp exploded 500 yards from Monsanto Plant in
Texas City; resulting fires caused a freighter--High Flyer--loaded with
ammonium nitrate to explode on April 17th.
17th: 1837, Texan Schooner Independence captured off Galveston by two Mexican
brigs.
1861, Star of the West captured off the coast of Indianola by Texas volunteers.
20th: 1836, First skirmishes fought between Texans and Santa Anna’s army at San
Jacinto.
21st: 1836, Texan forces defeated Santa Anna’s army at San Jacinto.
22nd: 1836, Santa Anna Captured by Texans, war with Mexico effectively ended.
25th: 1843, TS San Antonio mutineers hanged.