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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 1824 Constitution of Mexico refers to Alta ... Chan, and Spencer C. Olin, eds. Major Problems in California History (1996), primary and secondary documents; To ...
Below is a list of the governors of early California (1769–1850), before its admission as the 31st U.S. state. First explored by Gaspar de Portolá, with colonies established at San Diego and Monterey, California was a remote, sparsely-settled Spanish province of New Spain. In 1822, following Mexican independence, California became part of ...
The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890 (1966) (ISBN 0-520-01637-8) Alexander Saxton. The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (1971) (ISBN 0-520-02905-4) Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1986) Strobridge, William F. (1994).
William W. Stow (September 13, 1824 – February 20, 1895) was an American politician and member the California State Assembly from the 3rd district between 1854 and 1857; he was Speaker in 1855. Blue Heron Lake in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was formerly named Stow Lake after him.
The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash against the Spanish and Mexican presence in their ancestral lands. The rebellion began in three of the California Missions in Alta California : Mission Santa Inés , Mission Santa Barbara , and Mission La Purisima , and spread to the surrounding villages. [ 1 ]
In 2017, California’s then Secretary of State Alex Padilla thought it was a great idea to move the state’s presidential primary in 2020 from June to March. A March primary — as opposed to ...
The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign during the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta California (modern-day California), then part of Mexico, lasting from 1846 to 1847, and ending with signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga by military leaders from both the Californios and Americans.