March 4 - Sam Houston named Commander-in-Chief Texas Army
March 6 - Fall of the Alamo (after a seige of 13 days)
March 11 - Runaway Scrape begins (settlers fleeing Santa Anna's army)
March 13 -Town of Gonzales burned
March 16 - Burnet elected president of interim government of Texas
March 17 - Constituition of the Republic of Texas adopted
March 27 - Col. Fannin's Texans captured at Goliad
March 29 - Town of San Felipe burned
April 21 - Battle of San Jacinto, Texas Indepedence won
August26 - City of Houston established by the Allen brothers
Sept. 5 - Sam Houston elected President of Republic of Texas
Sept. 9 - Capitol of Texas moved from Houston to Austin
Oct. 3 - Congress of the new Republic convened
Oct. 22 - Sam Houston took oath as first elected President