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History of Nevada City, California (10 P) O. History of Oakland, California (11 C, 78 P) History of Oxnard, California (9 P) P. History of Pasadena, California (4 C ...
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
Whitney organized the first comprehensive survey of California, and the first complete topographic maps of the state were completed under him. Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in California is named after him. The State Mining Bureau was established in 1880, and the position of State Geologist was changed to State Mineralogist.
A typical installation of insulated glass windows with uPVC frames. Possibly the earliest use of double glazing was in Siberia, where it was observed by Henry Seebohm in 1877 as an established necessity in the Yeniseysk area where the bitterly cold winter temperatures regularly fall below -50 °C, indicating how the concept may have started: [2]
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 ...
American period: An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since 1959. The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of California, the thirty-first state admitted to the United States of America, including the process of removing Indigenous Peoples from their native lands, or restricting them to reservations.
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 ]
Lucile E. Dickson (1919). "Founding and Early History of Anaheim, California". Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California. 11. hdl:2027/wu.89067327122. Margaret Miller Rocq (1976). "Anaheim". California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0908-8.