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Buenos Ayres (Arizona, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
, having settled the vicinity in 1807-10......Sept. 30, 1812 Gov. Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga dies at Soledad mission; Capt. Jose Arquello succeeds......July 24, 1814 Rumors of revolutions in South America; proclamation from Gov. Pablo Vincente de Sola, and preparations for defence......June 23, 1816 Mission of San Rafael founded......Dec. 14, 1817 French Capt. Hippolyte Bouchard ( the pirate Buchar ) appears with two vessels of thirty-eight and twenty-six guns under the flag of Buenos Ayres; his real purpose is unknown, but, after summoning Monterey and other places on the coast to surrender, and pillaging the towns, he sails away......December, 1818 From 1767 up to 1821, California being under Spanish rule, ten governors were appointed by that power. Prom 1822 until 1845, being under Mexican domination, her governors (twelve) were appointed from Mexico. California becomes a province of Mexico under the regency of Don Augustin Iturbide, 1821, and Governor Sola is el
China (China) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
oloma on Col. John Sutter's land, by James Wilson Marshall......Jan. 19, 1848 California and New Mexico ceded to the United States by treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Feb. 2, 1848; proclaimed in California......August, 1848 First emigrants from China, two men and one woman, arrive in the bark Eagle......1848 First gold from California, 1,804.59 ounces, deposited in the United States mint by David Carter......Dec. 8, 1848 Brig.-Gen. Bennett Riley, instructed by the Secretary of War to aOct. 17, 1853 United States branch mint opened at San Francisco......April, 1854 Panama Railroad opened, facilitating immigration to California......Jan. 23, 1855 Law excluding from the courts negro and Indian evidence amended by adding Chinese......1855 James King, of William, editor of the San Francisco Evening bulletin, a champion of reform, is shot in the street by James Casey, editor of the Sunday times, a noted politician, May 14, 1856; dies May 20. The vigilance committee
Nevada City (California, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
months imprisonment and a fine of $1,000......March 15, 1880 State viticultural commission founded......1880 University of Southern California chartered and opened at Los Angeles......1880 Young debris relief bill passed, imposing, with a general tax, a special tax on miners, to repair damage done to agriculture by debris washed into the valleys by hydraulic mining; such debris, it is estimated, has destroyed 43,500 acres of good farming land......1880 Convention of miners in Nevada City, July 22, 1882, to consider the debris question; anti-debris convention of 110 delegates, residents, and property-holders in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, at Sacramento......Sept. 26, 1882 Acts passed creating a horticultural, sericultural, and forestry commission, and a bureau of labor statistics......1885 California home for the care and training of feeble-minded children opened at Santa Clara......1885 Thirty-six-inch lenses for the great refractor of the Lick Observ
Woodland, Yolo County, California (California, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
diana State University, accepts the presidency of Leland Stanford, Jr., University......March 23, 1891 Chilian insurgent transport, the Itata, seized at San Diego......May 6, 1891 First shipment of block-tin (seven tons) from the Temescal mines, in San Bernardino county, received in San Francisco......June 15, 1891 Australian ballot law takes effect......July 1, 1891 Leland Stanford, Jr., University at Palo Alto opened......Oct. 1, 1891 Earthquake; slight elsewhere; damage at Woodland, $50,000......April 19-21, 1892 Train guarded by United States soldiers, with $20,000,000 of government gold, leaves San Francisco for New York; has the right of way......Aug. 5, 1892 Three-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of San Diego Bay......Sept. 28, 1892 Hydraulic mining permitted under restrictions......March, 1893 Leland Stanford, governor, 1862, United States Senator, 1893, and founder of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, dies......June 20, 1893 Midw
Nevada (Nevada, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
California (Spanish, calida formax, meaning a hot furnace), a Pacific coast State, lies between lat. 32° 28′ and 42° N., and long. 114° 30′ and 124° 45′ W., having a coast line of over 700 miles. It is bounded on the north by Oregon, east by Nevada and Arizona, south by Mexico, and west by the Pacific Ocean. Population in 1890, 1,208,130; 1900, 1,485,053; area, 158,360 square miles, in fifty-four counties. Capital, Sacramento. Hernando d'alarcon sails to the head of the Gulf of California, and sends boats up the Colorado River......May, 1540 Juan Cabrillo, sailing north, discovers a harbor, supposed to be San Diego Bay, Sept. 28, 1542, and reaches Monterey......Nov. 14, 1542 After Cabrillo's death at San Miguel, Jan. 3, 1543, Farallo, his pilot, reaches a point recorded as 44° N., but now believed to have been Cape Mendocino, 40° 30′ N......March 10, 1543 English explorer Sir Francis Drake touches the coast at lat. 43° N., June, 1579; sailing south, he lands
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
une 20, 1893 Midwinter exposition at San Francisco inaugurated Aug. 24, 1893; opened January, 1894; closed......July 31, 1894 The first Chinamen deported from San Francisco for non-registration......Aug. 10, 1893 Irrigation Congress meets at Los Angeles......Oct. 10, 1893 Serious earthquake in California......March 31, 1898 Adolph Sutro dies at San Francisco......Aug. 8, 1898 Contract made for the San Pedro breakwater......1900 The first through passenger train on the Santa Fe Railroad from Chicago to San Francisco......June 30, 1900 Collis P. Huntington dies at Pine Knot Lodge, N. Y.......Aug. 13, 1900 Semi-centennial of California's admission as a State......Sept. 9-12, 1900 Steamship City of Rio de Janeiro sunk off the Golden Gate in a fog, 128 lives lost......Feb. 22, 1901 International convention of the Epworth League meets at San Francisco......July 18, 1901 Great strike of longshoremen at San Francisco begins......July 30, 1901 Colorado
Salt Lake (Utah, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
ix months......Oct. 21, 1822 Iturbide surrenders his crown, March, 1823, and is banished from America, May, 1823; California is substantially independent until the new constitution of the Mexican Republic is ratified by the Junta of California......May 26, 1825 Electors, summoned by Gov. Jose Maria Escheandia, choose Capt. Jose de la Guerra y Noriega delegate to Mexican Congress......Feb. 18, 1826 Jedediah S. Smith, a trapper from the United States, the first to make the trip from Salt Lake, reaches San Gabriel......Dec. 26, 1826 Territorial committee, seven members and three substitutes chosen by the junta of electors at San Diego in February, meets at Monterey......June 14, 1827 Joaquin Solis, a convict ranchero, instigates the troops to revolt against the governor, with a view to give all offices to Californians; soldiers at Monterey seize the presidio, Nov. 12-13, and later meet no opposition at San Francisco......1829 Governor Escheandia by proclamation calls on
California (California, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
..May 18, 1822 Russians warned to abandon California within six months......Oct. 21, 1822 Itur..1834 Los Angeles made a city—capital of California......May 23, 1835 After various attempts o watch the Mexican and British relations in California, May 9, 1846. Returning to California, he fCalifornia, he finds General De Castro prepared to resist American invasion. American settlers begin the socalled brom Washington to proceed from New Mexico to California and establish a provisional government, arrirnor......May 31, 1847 First steamboat in California waters leaves San Francisco, reaching Sacramion; to be inalienable......June 30, 1864 California ratifies the constitutional amendment abolisKlamath......April 11, 1873 University of California permanently located at Berkeley......July 16trustees to the regents of the University of California......June 1, 1888 Monument erected in Gol Fortieth anniversary of the admission of California into the Union, celebrated Sept. 6, 8, and 9[27 more...]
San Gabriel (California, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
70 Mission and presidio of San Carlos at Monterey founded......June 3, 1770 Missions of San Antonio de Padua and San Gabriel founded......1771 Don Pedro Fages, successor to Portola, sent by viceroy of Mexico, from Monterey, March 27, 1772, return to Monterey......April 4, 1772 First interior expedition from Sonora, under Juan Bautista de Anza, reaches San Gabriel......March 22, 1774 Fernando Javier de Rivera y Moncada appointed lieutenant-governor of California......May 25, 17b. 18, 1826 Jedediah S. Smith, a trapper from the United States, the first to make the trip from Salt Lake, reaches San Gabriel......Dec. 26, 1826 Territorial committee, seven members and three substitutes chosen by the junta of electors at Saof them, on the bark Volunteer, for San Blas......May 9, 1830 Decree for secularization of missions; San Carlos and San Gabriel to be organized as towns, surplus property, after distribution to neophytes, passing to secular administrators; other
Fort Klamath (Oregon, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-california
nalienable......June 30, 1864 California ratifies the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery......Dec. 18, 1865 University opened at Berkeley, near San Francisco......Sept. 23, 1869 Riot in Los Angeles; fifteen Chinamen hanged and six shot by a mob......Oct. 24, 1871 Gen. E. R. S. Canby and Commissioner Thomas, while negotiating under a flag of truce for the removal of the Modoc Indians to a reservation, are massacred by Captain Jack and his warriors in the lava beds near Fort Klamath......April 11, 1873 University of California permanently located at Berkeley......July 16, 1873 Assassins are captured June 1, tried, and Captain Jack and two associates are hanged......Oct. 3, 1873 Central Pacific Railroad attempts to obtain from Congress a grant of Goat Island, the property of the United States, on San Francisco Bay, opposite Oakland; an independent party in opposition is formed, and Newton Booth, its candidate, elected for the long term to Congress, with Judge
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