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Jozef POLKA

Jozef POLKA

Male 1856 - 1936  (80 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1861 
  • 12 Apr 1861: The United States Civil War begins
1863 
  • 1863: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
  • 1 Jan 1863: The Confederates win the Battle of Galveston.
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.
1866 
  • 19 Sep 1866: Texas cotton planters meet and organize the Waverly Emigration Society.
1867 
  • 23 Apr 1867: Meyer Levy and twenty-nine Polish families arrive in Galveston and head to New Waverly, Texas.
1875 
  • 1875: Joseph Bartula becomes the first Polish immigrant to settle in Bremond, Texas
1876 
  • 4 Oct 1876: Texas A&M opens with 40 students and a faculty of six men.
1895 
  • 14 Feb 1895: A rare Gulf Coast snowstorm dumps up to 20 inches of snow on the Houston-Galveston area.
1899 
  • 20 Jun 1899: A severe flood on the Brazos River in Texas kills nearly 300.
10 1900 
  • 8 Sep 1900: The Great Galveston Storm destroys half the city and kills thousands.
11 1909 
  • 1909: Stefan Nesterowicz visits the major Polish communities in Texas.
12 1914 
  • 1914: World War I begins
13 1918 
  • 28 Feb 1918: Texas ratifies the Prohibition Amendment.
  • 7 Oct 1918: Poland declares independence
  • 11 Nov 1918: World War I ends.
14 1920 
  • 18 May 1920: Karol Jozef Wojtyla, later to become Pope John Paul II, is born in Wadowice, Poland.
15 1929 
  • 29 Oct 1929: "Black Tuesday". The stock market crashes and America is plunged into the Great Depression.
16 1930 
  • 1930: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia






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