November Timeline
November 1
1836 - The blockade of Matamoros by the Texans ended after more than three months.
1844 - A mass meeting was held in Nacogdoches for the purpose of drafting a petition to the Congress of the Republic for a school of university level.
1851 - Fort Belknap was moved to Young County.
November 2
1812 - The Guiterrez-Magee Expedition marched toward Goliad and entered La Bahia on November 7.
1831 - Jim Bowie, his brother Rezin, seven other Americans and two Negro servants were attacked by over 100 Tehuacana and Caddo Indians near the San Saba Mission.
November 3
1793 - Stephen F. Austin was born in Virginia in the village of Austinville.
1863 - Union forces began the Rio Grande campaign to halt trade from Texas to Mexico.
1936 - The people of Texas approved an amendment increasing the salary of the governor from $4,000 to $12,000 a year.
November 4
1835 - Texas volunteers captured Fort Lipantitlan, dear San Patricio at the Nueces River, from Mexican troops.
1856 - James B. Gillett, Texas Ranger and later El Paso's city marshal, was born in Austin.
November 5
1528 - Alonso Maldonado's ship wrecked on the coast of Texas 24 hours before Cabeza de Vaca's ship wrecked.
1863 - Francis Lubbock left the office of governor.
1867 - Capt. Mifflin Kenedy, friend of Richard King, established the Laurels Ranch.
November 6
1801 - Gail Borden, Jr., newspaper man, inventor and milk processor, was born in New York.
1806 - The Neutral Ground Agreement settled the boundary dispute between Louisiana and Texas.
1891 - The Daughters of the Republic of Texas was established. Its members are and were descendants of Texas pioneers.
November 7
1835 - In the Declaration of November 7, 1835, the Constitution decided to fight for the restoration of Mexican constitutional government instead of independence from Mexico.
1861 - Edward Clark left the office of governor.
1863 - Elisabet Ney, prominent sculptor, married Dr. Montgomery.
November 8
1860 - Abraham Lincoln won as President of the U.S.
1966 - The poll tax was abolished.
November 9
1857 - J. Pinckney Henderson, first governor of Texas, began service as a U.S. senator.
1881 - The capitol caught fire at noon and was destroyed. Important documents and records were lost. Work began on the new capitol in 1883.
November 10
1838 - Mirabeau B. Lamar was elected President of the Republic, David G. Burnet his vice-president.
November 11
1833 - Members of the Beales' Rio Grande Colony embarked from New York on the "Amos Wright" to begin a new life in Texas. Upon arrival they faced Indians, drought and sickness.
1842 - Ben Thompson, gunfighter, was born in England. His family came to America in 1851.
November 12
1835 - Henry Smith was chosen provisional governor of the Mexican state of Texas. He ran against Stephen F. Austin and won.
1866 - The Texas Legislature passed a law that made "mavericking" illegal.
November 13
1827 - "Austin's Little Colony" was established, and a town called Mina grew around it. It would later be re-named Bastrop.
November 14
1835 - The Consultation replacing the Permanent Council met on November 3 and adjourned November 14 to reconvene on March 1, 1836.
1851 - Fort Phantom Hill was established near Abilene.
1857 - Gov. Pease called for Texas Rangers to put down the Cart War.
November 15
1836 - Lorenzo de Zavala died and was buried in the family plot across from the San Jacinto battlefield.
1864 - Excess yards of cloth and thread manufactured by the state penitentiary was to be given out to needy families and dependents of Texas soldiers.
November 16
1867 - The Sutton-Taylor Feud, also known as the Mason County War, began., becoming one of the longest and bloodiest feuds in the state's history. John Wesley Hardin fought in this feud which lasted some fifteen years.
November 17
1863 - The Confederate battery was captured at Port Aransas.
1882 - The cornerstone of the University of Texas at Austin was laid.
November 18
1836 - The Congress of the Republic passed an act providing for the increase of the Navy. In January 1836, the Navy began with four schooners.
November 19
1845 - President Polk tried to buy California and New Mexico from the Mexican government for thirty million dollars. The Mexican government would not negotiate.
November 20
1827 - Stephen F. Austin's third contract was granted by the Mexican government.
1837 - Secretary of State R.A. Irion recommended that patents be granted to inventors of Texas.
1848 - Camp Austin on the Colorado River became a military depot.
November 21
1643 - La Salle was born on this day. He would die on Texas soil, killed by two of his own men.
November 22
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas on this day. His death was timed at one in the afternoon at Parkland Hospital.
November 23
1833 - The earliest known issue of "Advocate of the People's Rights" was published in Brazoria.
November 24
1835 - Stephen F. Austin left the Texas Army to be commissioner to the U.S. Edward Burleson was elected to succeed Austin.
1864 - Kit Carson and his expedition were west of Adobe Walls when the scouts reported that large numbers of hostile Indians were around.
November 25
1821 - The schooner Lively sailed from new Orleans with 18 men and provisions for a new colony.
1850 - Due to the Compromise of 1850, Texas gave up all claims to the upper Rio Grande and what is now eastern New Mexico.
November 26
1835 - The Grass Fight happened when Texans intercepted a Mexican mule train they thought was carrying silver. The mules instead carried grass in the saddlebags.
1864 - Kit Carson and his group were involved in the largest Indian fight of the Civil War, the first battle of Adobe Walls.
November 27
1864 - Kit Carson ordered a retreat to New Mexico.
1924 - Memorial Stadium was dedicated by the University of Texas at Austin.
November 28
1835 - Groups of men were organizing across the country to fight in the Texas Revolution. The Red Rovers and the Mobile Grays formed in Alabama and were eventually executed at Goliad.
November 29
1829 - Sam Houston, nicknamed the Raven, was admitted to citizenship among the Cherokees with whom he had lived with for three years.
November 30
1837 - Erastus "Deaf" Smith passed over on this date. He was one of Houston's right hand men.