Texas Independence Day is the celebration of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836. With this document, signed by 59 delegates, settlers in Mexican Texas officially declared independence from Mexico and created the Republic of Texas.

It is not, however, an official state holiday whereby offices are closed, but instead a "partial staffing holiday": state offices are required to be open on that day but with reduced staffing.

Texas Independence Day

See also

Timeline of the Texas Revolution

San Jacinto Day

References

External links

Washington on the Brazos

Official Texas State Holidays

Texas Declaration of Independence

Handbook of Texas Online

A True and Unexaggerated Summary of Texas Heroics

Texas state holidays

Texas Revolution

State holidays in the United States

March observances

Texas Independence Day