• February 18 – Agustín de Iturbide approvedStephen F. Austin'scolonization contract.
• July – Austin establishes the town ofSan Felipe de Austin as his headquarters.
• Mexico passes a law forbidding sale or purchase of slaves and requiring that the children of slaves be freed when they reached fourteen. Any slave introduced into Mexico by purchase or trade would also be freed.

• October 4 – TheMexican Constitution of 1824 establishes a federal republic.Texas is combined with the province ofCoahuila to form the new provinceCoahuila y Tejas.

• Green DeWitt establishes a newcolony in Texas, west of Austin's.
• Haden Edwards establishes acolony in Texas, east of Austin's.
• Martín De León establishes acolony in Texas, south of Austin's.

• December 16 – EmpresarioHaden Edwards and 30 of his settlers declare themselves to be the independentRepublic of Fredonia.

• July – Comanches burnDeWitt's town to the ground.

• United States PresidentJohn Quincy Adams offers to purchase Texas for$1 million. Mexican PresidentGuadalupe Victoria declines the offer.
• The legislature of Coahuila y Tejas outlawed the introduction of additional slaves into the state and granted freedom at birth to all children born to a slave. The new laws also stated that any slave brought into Texas should be freed within six months.

• January 31 – Mexican forces and militiamen from the other colonies combined to drive Edwards from Texas.
• DeWitt and his settlers rebuild their town,Gonzales.

• Slavery officially outlawed in Mexico. Fearing that the edict would cause widespread discontent, Austin tries to suppress its publication.
• United States PresidentAndrew Jackson again offers to purchase Texas, for $1 million. Mexican PresidentVicente Guerrero declines.

• Mexican GeneralManuel Mier y Teran issues a report on the outcome of the colonization laws in Texas. It concluded that most Anglo Americans refused to be naturalized and tried to isolate themselves from Mexicans. He also noted that slave reforms passed by the state were being ignored. The report recommended new garrisons in Texas which could oversee the Anglo colonists and encourage Mexicans to resettle in the area.
• July – Yucatan governorAntonio López de Santa Anna leads Mexican troops to repel an invasion by Spanish GeneralIsidro Barradas. During the invasion, the Mexican Congress had granted war powers toVicente Guerrero, making him essentially a dictator.

• April 6 – Mexican presidentAnastasio Bustamante signs a series of laws aimed at Texas. Among the actions taken were
  • an order for Texas to comply with the emancipation proclamation or face military intervention. To circumvent the law, many colonists converted their slaves into indentured servants for life. Others simply called their slaves indentured servants without legally changing their status.
  • rescinding the property tax law, which had exempted immigrants from paying taxes for ten years. He further increased tariffs on goods entering Mexico from the United States, causing their prices to rise.
  • Settlement contracts were brought under federal rather than state control. Colonies that did not have at least 150 inhabitants would be canceled.
  • Prohibited immigration from the United States to Texas. This measure was widely ignored; by 1834, it was estimated that over 30,000 Anglos lived in Texas, compared to only 7,800 Mexicans.

• For protection, the political chief of the region grants Gonzales a small cannon.
• Following Mier y Teran's recommendations, three garrisons are established in Texas. Thepresidio atAnahuac became the first port in Texas to collect customs. A second customs port,Fort Velasco, was established at the mouth of the Brazos River, while a third garrison establishedFort Teran on the Neches River belowNacogdoches to combat smuggling and illegal immigration. The presidios are staffed with convicts.

• A new provincial law prohibits worker contracts from lasting more than ten years.
• October 1 – 55 political delegates meet at San Felipe de Austin for theConvention of 1832. The delegates drafted three petitions to the Congress of Mexico. They wished for an annulment of Article 11 of the colonization law of 1830, which prohibited foreign settlement as well as customs reform, recognition of squatters as valid immigrants, and a separate state for Texas.

• June – The commander of the Anahuac garrison,Juan Davis Bradburn, angers the settlers by strictly enforcing the 1830 laws. The settlers elect Johnson as their commander. In the first of theAnahuac Disturbances, angry colonists attacked Bradburn's garrison to free imprisoned lawyersWilliam Barret Travis and Patrick Churchill Jack.
• June 26 – ColonelDomingo de Ugartechea, commander of the forces at Velasco, attempts to stop colonists from bringing a cannon up the Brazos River to assist in the attack on Anahuac. This begins the overnightBattle of Velasco, followed by the surrender of the Mexican troops the next day, and then several days of negotiation.
• June 29 – Ugartechea signs a capitulation agreement with the Brazoria militia at Velasco.
• July – Colonel Jose de las Piedras arrives in Anahuac with the garrison from Nacogdoches. As a result of negotiations with the settlers, theTurtle Bayou Resolutions were created, and Bradburn was removed from his post, ending the Disturbances.
• August 2 – TheBattle of Nacogdoches, All Mexican soldiers are driven from east Texas.

• March – The capital of Coahuila y Tejas is moved fromSaltillo toMonclova, further removed from Texas.
• April 1 – Santa Anna is elected president of Mexico.
• April 1 – TheConvention of 1833, with 56 political delegates, convenes. It appointed a commission to draft a constitution for a new state of Texas and chose Stephen F. Austin to represent Texas before the federal government.
• November 21 – At Austin's urging, the Mexican Congress repeals the ban on foreign settlement in Texas.

• January – Stephen F. Austin arrested in Saltillo on suspicion of treason. No charges were ever formally filed against him.
• March – Texas was granted more representation in the provincial government.Trial by jury was introduced, and English was authorized as a second language.
• Santa Anna rescinds theMexican Constitution of 1824. As the national congress attempted to centralize the nation, a civil war ensued. Saltillo declared that Monclova had been the capitol illegally and appointed their own governor.

• Stephen F. Austin published hisExposition to the Public Regarding the Affairs of Texas. In this document he explained that Texas wanted to be a separate [Mexican] state, not an independent nation.

• 25 – Fearing that Santa Anna would march against Coahuila after subduing the rebels in Zacatecas, federalist governorAgustín Viesca disbanded the state legislature in Monclova. Viezca traveled towards Texas, intending to set up a new government in the more remoteSan Antonio. He was arrested en route.

• Centralist elements of the Mexican army invaded the capital, Saltillo, and dissolved the state government.

• 20 – In the second of the Anahuac Disturbances,William Barret Travis led a militia to free colonists who had been arrested in a customs dispute. The Mexican troops surrendered and were expelled from the province.

• The political chief of the Nacogdoches region told the militias to take arms against the Mexican troops.
• "Texas Committees" in the United States organized to send money and volunteers to Texas.

• Austin arrives in Texas and resumes his position as civil head of Anglo-American Texas.

• 8 – Austin reverses himself and calls for war with Mexico to secure the freedom of Texas.
• 28 – Juan Seguín,Salvador Flores,Manuel Flores and a group of Béxar locals hold a meeting nearFloresville, Texas and declare their support and readiness to take up arms in favor of a revolution.^[1][2]

• 1 – Correo-San Felipe affair. Texas armed schoonerSan Felipe exchanges fire with and captures Mexican Navy armed schoonerCorreo de Majica with help of small steamerLaura. Arguably the first shots in the conflict.^[3]
• 20 – GeneralMartin Perfecto de Cós, lands at Copano with an advance force of 300 troops and marches toward Goliad.
• 28 – Albert Martin is selected as Captain of the Gonzales "Old 18" defenders.
• 29 – Mexican LieutenantFrancisco de Castañeda and 100dragoons arrive nearGonzales to force the settlers to return the cannon they had been given in 1831.

• 3 – Santa Anna abolishes all state legislatures.

• 2 –
  • TheBattle of Gonzales officially begins the Texas Revolution. The Texian settlers retained their cannon; Castañeda and his men retreated.
  • Cós occupies Goliad and awaits the arrival of 450 reinforcements from the Morelos battalion.
  • Cós sends Capt. Manuel Sabriego and twenty-five men to GuadalupeVictoria, Texas to seize their cannon and arrestJosé María Jesús Carbajal. AlcaldePlácido Benavides leads the militia of Victoria; The settlers retained their cannon.
• 5 – Cós departs for San Antonio, leaving a residual force of about 30 men in Goliad.
• 10 – TheBattle of Goliad, afterwards Texians occupy thepresidio at Goliad.
• 11 – Austin is elected commander of the Texian volunteers. The army begins marching towards San Antonio.
• 14 – Philip Dimmitt takes command of the militia that remain to guardPresidio La Bahia.
• 27 – Austin sendsJames Bowie, James Fannin and Juan Seguín with 90 men to scout for a base of operations from which to launch a siege. Despite orders to return that day, Bowie and his men camp overnight on the grounds ofMission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña.
• 28 – 400 Mexican troops attack Bowie and his men. TheBattle of Concepcion ended with a Mexican retreat.

• 3 – TheConsultation meets in San Felipe de Austin to decide the overall goals of the revolution that was underway. The group does not declare independence, and affirms their intention of restoring the Constitution of 1824.
• 7 – TheConsultation declares the right to form a new independent state and government as long as the1824 Constitution of Mexico was not valid in Mexico.
• 14 – Henry Smith is named Governor.
• 14 – The new provisional government elects Austin,William H. Wharton andBranch T. Archer, to serve as commissioners to the United States.

• 1 – The Texians begin theSiege of Bexar.
• 3 – Texianscapture Fort Lipantitlan.
• 14 – TheConsultation namesSam Houston commander-in-chief of a regularTexas Army, with no authority over Huston's volunteers.
• 15 – José Antonio Mexía attacksTampico. When expected help does not arrive from federalists in Matamoros, he retreats to Texas and promotes an attack on Matamoros.
• 24 The Texas Army volunteers elect ColonelEdward Burleson as commander in chief to replace departing Stephen F. Austin
• 26 – Bowie leads Texians in theGrass Fight.
• 28 – Santa Anna leavesMexico City with a 6,000-strong Mexican Army, marching northward to take back Texas from the rebels.

• 30 – Santa Anna receives declaration fromMexican Congress that all foreigners taken in arms against the government should be treated as pirates and shot.

• 1 – Edward Burleson commissioned as commander of the volunteer army by the provisional government.
• 5 – UnderBen Milam and Frank Johnson, Texians launch an assault on San Antonio.
• 7 – Fannin commissioned as a colonel in the regular army by Houston. Neill commissioned as a lieutenant colonel of artillery in the regular army by the provisional government.
• 8 – ColonelDomingo Ugartechea returns to San Antonio with over 500 reinforcements to aid General Cós.
• 10 – General Cós surrenders over 1,000 Mexican troops and theAlamo to Texian forces atSan Antonio. Cós and his men are paroled to Mexico under a promise to not fight against the Texians again.
• 12 – Houston issues a proclamation to recruit a Regular Texas Army.
• 15 – Edward Burleson resigns command. Most volunteers return home for Christmas.Frank W. Johnson assumes command of remaining militia.
• 17 – Sam Houston is ordered by the Texas GovernorHenry Smith to attackMatamoros. Houston delegates the orders toJames Bowie for the attack ofMatamoros.
• 29 – James Bowie's order to attackMatamoros is confirmed by the U.S.General Council.1835 the Texas revolution

• Sam Houston arrives atGoliad to seize control of the Matamoros expedition.
• J.C. Neill, commander of 78 men at the Alamo, pleads for supplies.
• Philip Dimmitt, commandant atPresidio La Bahia, resigns his post and heads for Gonzales, afterJames Grant strips Goliad of its supplies.Peyton S. Wyatt assumes command.

Houston ordersFrancis W. Thornton to command at Goliad.

• Sam Houston arrives at Refugio to control the Matamoros expedition.

Fannin arrives with troops atCopano, Texas to aid theMatamoros Expedition.

Fannin receives information of a Mexican advance upon Texas and an awaiting ambush at Matamoros. He abandons a Matamoros expedition.

• Santa Anna and his army reach the city ofGuerrero.
• Urrea reinforces Matamoros and marches toward San Patricio and South Texas.

• Travis and Bowie agree upon joint command of the Alamo's forces.

GeneralJosé de Urrea crosses the Rio Grande.

• Santa Anna entersSan Antonio with generalsSesma,Amador andCastrillón and the Vanguard Brigade.
• TheAlamo fort comes under artillery fire fromMexican troops.
• Thesiege of the Alamo begins.

• Travis writes his famous "To the People of Texas & all Americans in the world" letter.
• Bowie becomes ill.

• TheConvention of 1836 of elected delegates convenes atWashington-on-the-Brazos.

• Thirty-two to sixty men from Gonzales of the "Gonzales Company of Mounted Volunteers" enter the Alamo at 1:00 A.M.

• Texas Declaration of Independence is signed and theRepublic of Texas is declared.
• David G. Burnet is elected at interim president by the delegates.

• Texians withJames Grant are defeated at theBattle of Agua Dulce.
• Cos arrives at the Alamo, just ahead of the First Brigade.

• James B. Bonham arrives back at the Alamo telling Travis that Fannin was not coming.
• Mexican Aldama, Toluca and Zapadores battalions arrive in San Antonio.

• Sam Houston is appointed commander of all Texas forces.

• Santa Anna holds a council of war with generalsJoaquín Ramírez y Sesma,Martín Perfecto de Cos,Manuel F. Castrillón and ColonelsJuan Almonte,Agustín Amat, Francisco Duque and Manuel Romero to plan the final assault.

• Mexican artillery stops shelling the Alamo.
• GeneralJuan Valentín Amador formulates the plan to assault the Alamo.
• Neill at Gonzales in command of 375 troops gathering there.

• Travis's March 3 plea reaches Washington on the Brazos. Houston and his staff head for Gonzales.

• Battle of the Alamo: the Alamo falls. Approximately 180-250 Texians, Tejanos, and Anglos die. The thirteen-day siege resulted in the deaths ofall of its defenders, includingWilliam B. Travis,David Crockett, andJim Bowie.Several civilians survived.

• Fannin receives the news of theTexas Declaration of Independence.

• Mexican GeneralsAntonio Gaona,Adrián Woll,Vicente Filisola, andJuan Arago arrive with artillery and the remainder of the First Brigade at the Alamo.
• Houston orders Fannin with his command at Goliad and Neill with his command at Gonzales to go aid the Alamo defenders.

• Mexican GeneralAndrade arrives at the Alamo in San Antonio.
• Edward Burleson at Gonzales is elected as an infantry colonel.

• Houston arrives, takes command and begins his retreat from Gonzales precipitating theRunaway Scrape.
• Houston orders Fannin to fall back from Goliad and to relocate atVictoria.
• General Sesma departs for Gonzales.

• Amon King and 14 men are executed.
• GeneralEugenio Tolosa and the 2nd Brigade arrive near the Alamo in San Antonio.

• Fannin's command departs for Victoria.
• Urrea learns of Fannin's departure and pursues.
• Battle of Coleto: GeneralUrrea halts ColonelJames Fannin nearGoliad.

• Goliad Massacre:James Fannin and nearly 400 Texians are executed by order ofSanta Anna.
• Houston and his army camp nearSan Felipe de Austin.

• Santa Anna finally departs San Antonio de Bexar.
• General Andrade is left in command with 1000 troops at Bexar.

• David G. Burnet and his cabinet barely escape the arriving Mexican army. Colonel Almonte decides not to shoot the fleeing party.

• Santa Anna crossesFort Bend on theBrazos River.
• Houston uses the boatYellow Stone to cross theBrazos River.

• Texian and Mexican patrols clash atNew Washington.
• Houston moves his army toBuffalo Bayou
• J.C. Neill is wounded and replaced byG.W. Hockley.
• A cavalry attack led bySidney Sherman engages the Mexican army.

• Martín Perfecto de Cos arrives with 500 reinforcements to aid Santa Anna.
• Battle of San Jacinto: Texian army underSam Houston overwhelmingly defeats Mexican force underSanta Anna, securing Texas independence.