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The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
The 2011–2017 California drought persisted from December 2011 to March 2017 [109] and consisted of the driest period in California's recorded history, late 2011 through 2014. [110] The drought wiped out 102 million trees from 2011 to 2016, 62 million of those during 2016 alone. [ 111 ]
Before 1768: An enlargeable territorial map of California tribal groups and languages prior to European contact within the modern day borders. Before 1768: An enlargeable map of the world showing the dividing lines for; Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera papal bull (1493), the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), and the Treaty of Saragossa (1529).
Present-day Baja California of Mexico was misrepresented in early maps as an island.This example c. 1650. Restored. The first European explorers, flying the flags of Spain and of England, sailed along the coast of California from the early 16th century to the mid-18th century, but no European settlements were established.
This is a timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, events in the nine counties that border on the San Francisco Bay, and the bay itself. An identical list of events, formatted differently, may be found here .
Timelines of cities in California (14 P) A. ... Events in California by city (17 C) F. ... California; History of Santa Monica, California ...
Timeline of Sacramento, California; Timeline of San Bernardino, California history; Timeline of San Diego; Timeline of San Francisco; Timeline of San Jose, California; Timeline of Santa Ana, California
1975 – Chinese Historical Society of Southern California founded. 1976 – Los Angeles City Historical Society founded. [63] 1977 – X (musical group) formed. 1978 L.A. Weekly begins publication. President Carter makes his first visit (May 4) Los Angeles Conservancy founded. 1979 – Sister city relationship established with Taipei, Taiwan. [55]