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California Timeline History - Indicates a link to books -
1533: Two ships
landed at Baja in La Paz Harbor, local residents
killed 20 and ships
retreated
1535: Hernando Cortes led expedition to La
Paz, established small
colony
1540: Sea expedition
led by Hernando de Alarcon
up Gulf of California to
mouth of Colorado River,
became first Europeans on
California soil
1542: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo became the first
European to explore
California, landed at San
Diego, discovered Catalina
Islands, sites of San Pedro
and Santa Monica and Santa
Barbara Channel Islands
1579: Sir Francis
Drake landed north of San
Francisco Bay, claimed the
territory for England
1669: Gaspar de
Portolb, governor of the
Californias, led an
expedition up the Pacific
coast, established
California's first mission
on San Diego Bay
1769: Sargent Jose
Ortega discovered entrance
to San Francisco Bay
1776: Presidio of
San Francisco and Mission
Dolores founded
1812: Russian fur
traders established Fort
Ross
1812: Mexico won
independence from Spain,
became California's new
ruler
1826: Native
Americans attacked Mission
San Francisco Solano
1848: Gold
discovered at Sutter's
sawmill in Coloma
1849: California
Gold Rush began; California
became U. S. property with
Treaty of Guadalupe
1849: Fire
devastated San Francisco
1850: California
became 31st state
1869: First
westbound train arrived in
San Francisco
1882: Congress
passed the Chinese Exclusion
Act, barring all Chinese
immigration
1900: Oil discovered
along Kern River
1906: San Francisco
earthquake killed more than
3,000, left 225,000 homeless
1910: Angel Island
opened, entry point to U. S.
for immigrants
1911: Women won
right to vote
1928: California
Hockey League created
1928: Great Highway
and Ocean Beach Esplanade in
San Francisco completed
1933: Long Beach
earthquake caused widespread
damage throughout southern
California; Alcatraz made a
prison
1934: Bloody
Thursday riots took place in
San Francisco
1936: San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
opened
1936: Golden Gate Bridge completed
1936: Parker Dam
completed
1942: Japanese
Americans relocated to U.S.
concentration camps;
Japanese submarine shelled
an oil field near Goleta.
1945: United Nations
Charter signed in San
Francisco
1952: Bakersfield
hit by earthquake, caused
over $50 million in property
damage
1969: Native
Americans occupied Alcatraz
Island
1969: Mayor George
Moscone and Supervisor
Harvey Milk shot and killed
1989: 7.1 magnitude
earthquake hit Bay Area
1992: California
became first state to elect
two women to U.S. Senate -
Barbara Boxer and Dianne
Feinstein
2000: Electricity
crisis caused blackouts and
large rate increases
2003: Governor Davis
recalled; Arnold
Schwarzenegger elected
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