LAW OF APRIL 6, 1830. The Law of April 6, 1830, said to be the same type of stimulus to the Texas Revolutionqv that the Stamp Act was to the American Revolution, was initiated by Lucas Alamán y Escalada,qv Mexican minister of foreign relations, and was designed to stop the flood of Immigration from the United States to Texas. The law came as a result of the warning and communications of Manuel de Mier y Terán,qv who made fourteen
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April 6 1830 was a Tuesday.
The effect is... It increased tensions between Texas and Mexico.
1832: "the Texans imagined that a memorial setting forth their grievances would cause a feeling of pride and sympathy to swell in the bosom of Santa Anna, Mexico's ruler." -Sam Houston Dixon in romance and tragedy of Texas history. 1833: proposed consultation…..an independent state of Texas in the federal Mexican union….call for repeal of the eleventh article of the decree of April 6, 1830 forbidding north American immigration into Texas…..reduced tariffs on essential goods
4/6/1830- Joseph Smith and 5 others organize what would become the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 12/27/1831- Charles Darwin embarks on his famous journey on the HMS Beagle. 4/6/1832- The Black Hawk War begins in the US.
The Battle of Shiloh started on April 6, 1862 and ended on April 7, 1862.