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Pawel WOJCIK

Pawel WOJCIK

Male 1778 -

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   Date  Event(s)
1779 
  • 1779: Casimir Pulaski, a brigadier general in George Washington's Continental Army, dies in the battle at Savannah.
1791 
  • 1791: Polish parliament votes Constitution
1793 
  • 1793: Prussia and Russia seize additional territory in western and eastern Poland
1795 
  • 1795: The third partition of Poland by Prussia, Austria and Russia
1818 
  • 1818: Polish veterans who had served under Napoleon sail up the Trinity River and found the military camp of Champ d'Asileqv north of Galveston, near what is now Liberty, Texas.
1836 
  • 2 Mar 1836: The Texas Declaration of Independence is adopted at Washington-on-the-Brazos.
  • 22 Oct 1836: Sam Houston is inaugurated president of the republic
1845 
  • 29 Dec 1845: Texas enters the union as the 28th state
1846 
  • 1846: Polish uprising in Austrian partition of Poland fails.
1850 
  • 1850: Texas's first railroad, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado, is chartered.
10 1854 
  • 1854: One hundred Polish families arrive in Galveston, an event marking the start of major Polish immigration to Texas. The first organized settlement of Polish immigrants in America is founded at Panna Maria in Karnes County, Texas
11 1861 
  • 12 Apr 1861: The United States Civil War begins
12 1863 
  • 1863: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
  • 1 Jan 1863: The Confederates win the Battle of Galveston.
13 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.
14 1866 
  • 19 Sep 1866: Texas cotton planters meet and organize the Waverly Emigration Society.
15 1867 
  • 23 Apr 1867: Meyer Levy and twenty-nine Polish families arrive in Galveston and head to New Waverly, Texas.
16 1875 
  • 1875: Joseph Bartula becomes the first Polish immigrant to settle in Bremond, Texas
17 1876 
  • 4 Oct 1876: Texas A&M opens with 40 students and a faculty of six men.






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