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Polish Texans Website
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 1856 - 1942 (85 years)
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| 1 | 1861 | - 12 Apr 1861: The United States Civil War begins
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| 2 | 1863 | - 1863: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
- 1 Jan 1863: The Confederates win the Battle of Galveston.
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| 3 | 1865 | - 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
- May 1865: The Civil War ends
- 19 Jun 1865: Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrives in Galveston with word that slavery has been abolished.
- 18 Dec 1865: The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified; slavery is abolished.
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| 4 | 1866 | - 19 Sep 1866: Texas cotton planters meet and organize the Waverly Emigration Society.
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| 5 | 1867 | - 23 Apr 1867: Meyer Levy and twenty-nine Polish families arrive in Galveston and head to New Waverly, Texas.
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| 6 | 1875 | - 1875: Joseph Bartula becomes the first Polish immigrant to settle in Bremond, Texas
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| 7 | 1876 | - 4 Oct 1876: Texas A&M opens with 40 students and a faculty of six men.
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| 8 | 1895 | - 14 Feb 1895: A rare Gulf Coast snowstorm dumps up to 20 inches of snow on the Houston-Galveston area.
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| 9 | 1899 | - 20 Jun 1899: A severe flood on the Brazos River in Texas kills nearly 300.
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| 10 | 1900 | - 8 Sep 1900: The Great Galveston Storm destroys half the city and kills thousands.
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| 11 | 1909 | - 1909: Stefan Nesterowicz visits the major Polish communities in Texas.
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| 13 | 1918 | - 28 Feb 1918: Texas ratifies the Prohibition Amendment.
- 7 Oct 1918: Poland declares independence
- 11 Nov 1918: World War I ends.
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| 14 | 1920 | - 18 May 1920: Karol Jozef Wojtyla, later to become Pope John Paul II, is born in Wadowice, Poland.
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| 15 | 1929 | - 29 Oct 1929: "Black Tuesday". The stock market crashes and America is plunged into the Great Depression.
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| 16 | 1930 | - 1930: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
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| 17 | 1939 | - 1939: Germany and the Soviet Union invade and partition Poland
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| 18 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941: The bombing of Pearl Harbor plunges the U.S. into World War II.
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