The term " chicano " may have come from Mexican immigrants to the U. S. during the 1920s and 1930s, but by those originated from Chihuahua ( not the term " Chi -" hua-hua " when they came into Texas where the locals made fun of the way the Chihuahuan Mexicans, primarily indigenous rural peasants, spoke a " less common " dialect of Spanish ).

* 1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.

After the acquisition by Spain of the French territory of Louisiana in 1763, the capital of the Spanish province of Texas was established on the east side of the river, near present-day Robeline, Louisiana.

* Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo, and thus the affairs of Texas were decided at a great distance from the province and in the Spanish language.

* March 29 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Rosillo Creek: The Republican Army of the North defeats the Spanish Royalist Army in present-day Bexar County, Texas.

** Blas María de la Garza Falcón, Spanish settler of Texas ( b. 1712 )

* November 6 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of what is present-day Texas.

In 2008, Democrats tapped Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to give a response in English ; Texas state Senator Leticia Van de Putte did the same in Spanish.

The former province of Spanish Texas became part of a newly created state, Coahuila y Tejas, whose capital was at Saltillo, hundreds of miles from the former Texas capital, San Antonio de Bexar ( now San Antonio, Texas, USA ).

* U. S. Route 90, Jacksonville, Florida to Van Horn, Texas, ( where it met US 80 ): Old Spanish Trail

A group of Cherokee traditionalists led by Di ' wali moved to Spanish Texas in 1819.

They moved to Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, areas of Spanish rule, which they thought more favorable than the British.

Tejano music may be categorized as a blend of country music, rock, and R & B born in Texas and performed in both Spanish and English with a variety of cultural influences.

Originally about in the center of Carbon County were once part of the Spanish Empire, then part of the Republic of Texas ( 1835-1845 ) and part of the State of Texas until 1852 when the northern most part of that state was ceded to the U. S. government.

According to a list of Spanish and Mexican grants in Texas ( found in the Book, " With All Arms ," by Carl Laurence Duaine, New Santander Press, Edinberg, TX, 1987 ), Pedro Aguirre owned 51, 296 acres in Zavala County, while Antonio Aguirre had 34, 552.

The hundred-year-old core ranch was originally owned by California-based Elsinore Land & Cattle Company, but in 1992 was acquired by Gerald Lyda of San Antonio, Texas who renamed the property La Escalera Ranch ( Spanish for " The Ladder ").

Domingo Terán de los Ríos, the first Governor of Spanish Texas, led an expedition through the county in 1691.

Spanish Texas Governor Martín de Alarcón crossed the county in 1718 on the expedition that resulted in the founding of San Antonio.

Governor of the Mexican provinces of Coahuila and Texas, Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo, in 1720 passed through on an expedition that brought goats, 2800 horses and 6400 sheep that was the onset of Spanish ranching in Texas.

They headed in that direction and, at San Juan Capistrano By-the-Sea came upon Barco sitting in the quaint old Spanish Mission Drive-in, eating a hot tamale.

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

The Puerto Rican activist Julio Vizcarrondo had moved the Spanish Abolitionist Society from San Juan de Puerto Rico to Madrid at the request of premier Miguel Prim, himself a former Puerto Rico governor.

On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII abdicated his rights to the Spanish throne in favour of his third ( of four ), but second-surviving, son Juan, father of the current King, Juan Carlos.

* 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida.

* 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

* 1892 – Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter ( d. 1962 )

* 1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.

* 2010 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports administrator ( b. 1920 )

* 1658 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic ( b. 1595 )

* 1881 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

Diego de Almagro was born in the Spanish city signified by his last name, being the illegitimate son of Juan de Montenegro and Elvira Gutiérrez.

Meanwhile, Francisco Pizarro's brother, Juan Pizarro, had arrested Inca Manco Inca Yupanqui, further complicating Almagro's plans as it heavily increased the dissatisfaction of the Indians submitted to Spanish rule.

* Spanish foreign minister Juan Valera's Pepita Jimenez ( 1874 ) is writing in three sections, with the first and third being a series of letters, while the middle part is a narration by an unknown observer.

* 1568 – Juan Bautista Comes, Spanish composer ( d. 1643 )

Coincidentally, " Giancarlo " translates from Italian to Spanish as " Juan Carlos.

The Spanish commander, Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra, was very cordial and he and Vancouver exchanged the maps they had made, but no agreement was reached ; they decided to await further instructions.

The detachment proved very effective supporting the advance of American forces at the Battle of San Juan Hill, where three of the Gatlings with swivel mountings were used with great success against the Spanish defenders.

During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle Hills, the three guns fired a total of 18, 000. 30 Army rounds in eight and one-half minutes ( an average of over 700 rpm per gun ) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.

* 1980 – Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player

* 2006 – Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor ( b. 1911 )

* 1806 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer ( d. 1826 )

* 1468 – Juan del Encina, Spanish composer, poet, and playwright ( d. 1530 )