Texas Historical Documents

Texas Timeline - 1821

Texas Timeline Index

1821 January 17 The Mexican government gives Austin permission to settle 300 families in Texas.
1821 May 04 Jean Lafitte abandons Galveston.
1821 June 10 Moses Austin dies in Missouri before he can start his Texas colonization plan.
1821 October 13 Jacob Brodbeck is born in Wurttemberg, Germany. Later, as a Texan, he invents an airplane 40 years before the Wright Brothers.
1821 December 21 Jane Long gives birth to the first Anglo child born in Texas, a girl named Mary James.