California Background
1776 - The first Spanish
Franciscan set-up Christian missions.
1812 - Russian fur
traders established Fort Ross, north of San Francisco.
1821 - Mexico wins its
independence from Spain, becoming California's new ruler.
1848 - The United
States invades Mexico from the east, reaching San Diego in December.
- James
Marshall discovered gold, kicking off the famous Gold Rush called the
"49ers" because everybody from all over the world went to California
to get rich.
1850 - California was admitted into the Union as
the 31st state on September 9, 1850.
1853 - California
Academy of Sciences is founded.
1856 - Following the
cleanup of crime by the Committee of Vigilance, on June 11, 1856, the City of San
Francisco was established.
1860 - California's famous Pony
Express from Missouri and to Sacramento, California. The trips, lasting more
than ten days, depending on weather conditions, were the first to connect the Midwest to California. Riders
changed mounts at postal stations which were 15 miles apart. The fastest
delivery was a trip in six days, delivering the news of President Abraham
Lincoln's assassination.
1869 - First Transcontinental Railroad was completed. The system included tracks throughout
California's Sierra Nevada region as well as connecting New Mexico, Colorado,
Arizona, Mexico, Utah, and Nevada for traveling and mining transportation.
1870 - San Francisco
had become the tenth largest city in the United States.
1878 - The first telephone
service in California.
1883 - "Black
Bart", a gentleman bandit who has been robbing Wells Fargo stages
throughout northern California, turns out to be respectable bank clerk Charles
Bolton.
1900 - Oil discovered
along the Kern River.
1901 – President McKinley
assassinated and Vice President Roosevelt becomes president.
1906 - April 18, a
massive earthquake hit San Francisco and caused a 3-day fire that burned the
city to ash.
1909 – The last
Indian-manhunt.
1912 - April 15 -
Titanic sinks.
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