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An Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union was the formal title given to the Congressional legislation passed by the 31st Congress, and signed by President Millard Fillmore on September 9, 1850, which admitted California as the 31st state to the Union.
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
The Act of Congress establishing California as the 31st state was part of the Compromise of 1850. [27] West Virginia, admitted June 20, 1863, during the Civil War, was set off from Virginia (previously its northwestern trans-Allegheny region).
As agreed to in the Compromise of 1850, Congress passed the California Statehood Act on September 9, 1850. [65] Thirty-eight days later the Pacific Mail Steamship SS Oregon brought word to San Francisco on October 18, 1850, that California was now the 31st state. There was a celebration that lasted for weeks.
April 4 - Los Angeles is incorporated as a city in California. April 15 - San Francisco is incorporated as a city in California. September 9 - California is admitted to the Union as the 31st state as a result of the California Statehood Act. [1] [2] [3]
California brought a lawsuit against the federal government in the 1990s claiming it was failing to protect the state from an invasion of individuals crossing the southern border illegally.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is traveling to Washington D.C. this week to meet with the Trump administration and members of Congress to advocate for disaster aid for the deadly wildfires in Los ...
The 1,600-acre (648-hectare) Dos Rios tract in the state's crop-rich Central Valley is set to open June 12 as California's 281st state park. California announces first new state park in a decade ...