1829 Centralist revolt overthrows
Federalist government, touching
off civil war
1830 Mexico tries to stop
immigration from the United States
1832 Santa
Anna backs a Federalist counter revolution
Colonists in Texas confront Centralist garrison at Anahuac
Colonists adopt Turtle
Bayou Resolutions supporting Santa
Anna
Colonists meet to discuss their concerns over lack of input on
government
1833 Mexican Congress elects
Santa Anna president
Santa Anna retires to his estate and allows his vice-president
to govern
Colonists reconvene and send Austin to
Mexico City to ask for
statehood
Austin is arrested for anti-government activities and
jailed C.
y T. legislators vote to move state's capitol from
Saltillo to Monclova
1834 Santa Anna returns
to office to stop V.P.
Gómez Farías' liberal
reforms
C. y T. legislators split Texas into 3 departments increasing
Federalist control
Austin released from jailed but not allowed to leave Mexico
City
Santa Anna disbands the existing Mexican Congress and forms
a new one
C. y T. declares Santa Anna's action illegal, announcing
its
opposition to him
Federalists and Centralists in C. y T. divide into armed
camps
1835 Federalist revolts
break out in several Mexican states
Santa Anna and Cos crush revolt in Zacatecas
Colonists in Texas confront Centralist garrison at Anahuac
once more
Santa Anna sends Cos to
put down revolt in Coahuila y Tejas Governor
of C. y T. changes capitol to Béxar but is captured
by
Cos
Austin is allowed to return to Texas and calls for revolt against
Centralists
Cos issues arrest warrants for rebel leaders and tries to
disarm Texans
Fighting breaks out on October 2 at Gonzales over "Come &
Take It" gun
Centralist Congress announce plan to convert states into
"departments" and produce a new constitution along the
Centralist model
Austin leads "Army of the People" to San
Antonio de Béxar
The Consultation calls for restoration of Federal Constitution
of 1824
Cos and his garrison under siege throughout November
Texans force Cos to surrender Béxar but allow him and his
army to leave
1836 Santa Anna organizes
an army to crush the revolt in Texas
Texans are undecided on what to do next and break into
factions
Feb. 23 Santa Anna enters Béxar as rebels withdraw to the
Alamo Constitutional
Convention at Washington opened
deliberations
on March 1
Texas declares independence on March 2
Santa Anna attacks and captures the Alamo on March 6
News of the Alamo's fall sets off the "Runaway
Scrape" Houston withdraws
his forces eastward Fannin's command
is massacred on March 27
Provisional government of Texas caught up in the exodus to
the east
Houston defeats the Mexican vanguard at San
Jacinto on
April 21
Santa Anna is captured on April 22
Santa Anna and Texas officials sign the Treaty
of Velaso on
May 14
