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San Diego College for Women opens; now the University of San Diego. Miramar Naval Air Station established. [35] Carlsbad is incorporated. 1953 – Urban League established. [25] 1955 General Atomics in business. Journal of San Diego History begins publication. [36] 1956 – Imperial Beach is incorporated. 1957 Fort Rosecrans transferred to U.S ...
San Diego, still little more than a village, was incorporated on March 27 as a city and was named the county seat of the newly established San Diego County. [21] The United States Census reported the population of the town as 650 in 1850 and 731 in 1860. [22] San Diego promptly got into financial trouble by overspending on a poorly designed jail.
Suplente; also Juez de Paz to March 1848 Philip Crosthwaite: 1847: Suplente; possibly appointed with Fitch Thomas Wrightington: 1847 – March 1848: Suplente; 2nd time; possibly served in Crosthwaite's place Juan Bandini: March 29, 1848 – September 27, 1848: Juez de Paz E. L. Brown: April 15, 1848 – 1848: Juan María Marrón: October 3 ...
List of San Diego Historic Landmarks in the Point Loma and Ocean Beach areas; 0–9. 30th Street (San Diego) A. ... Timeline of San Diego; Two Years Before the Mast;
1847, April. 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers, under Colonel Stevenson, arrived in San Francisco by sea. [21] 1847, May 31. Kearny appointed Colonel Mason to succeed him as military governor. 1848, January 24. Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, initiating the California gold rush. 1848, February 2. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war ...
Alta California Territory reestablished when 1824 Constitution of Mexico was restored, 1846–1848; Mexican–American War, 1846–1848 California Republic (25 days), 1846; U.S. military government of California, 1846–1849; Treaty of Cahuenga signed January 13, 1847; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed February 2, 1848 Mexican Cession of 1848
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 ...
On October 12, 1492, three Spanish ships under the command of Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus) landed on the Lucayan island of Guanahani which he names San Salvador (The Savior). On November 14, 1493, a Spanish fleet under the command of Columbus lands on a large inhabited island which he names Santa Cruz (Holy Cross, now Saint Croix).