February 1

When you consider the six flags that have flown over Texas, it is needless to say that the State of Texas had a bit of a difficult birth. Texas declared its independence of Spain on March 2, 1836 and fought a war to insure that independence; a war that they won on April 21 of the same year. On December 29, 1845, President James K. Polk signed a bill admitting Texas as the 28th state of the United States of America. On February 1, 1861, after being in the United States for less than 16 years, Texas seceded from the Union to become a slave state. Apparently, the State of Texas was then, as it remains today, a state of confusion.
The six flags over Texas were the flags of Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and, for the time being, the United States of America.
Spaniard Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to set foot in Texas when he was shipwrecked on November 6, 1528.