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In 1891 the city agreed with the association to convert the Academy to a public school and renamed it Santa Paula High School. Fairfax school district; Elsinore High School, in Wildomar, California, was established in 1891. Armijo Union High School, now Armijo High School, opened in 1891 in Fairfield (Solano County).
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.
1855 – First City public school building built. [1] 1859 – Los Angeles County votes to secede from California to form the Territory of Colorado, voting 1,407–441 in favor of secession. [13] [page needed] Congress throws out secession proposal the following year amid the Civil War. [citation needed]
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• The San Francisco Unified School District is established, as the first public school district in California (historic Ida B. Wells High School building pictured, right) • The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance is formed in response to rampant crime and corruption in the municipal government (1851 hanging pictured, left)
Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys (1800 BCE – present) Timeline of the Big Bang (13,700,000,000 BCE – 100,000,000,000,000 CE) Timeline of black hole physics (1640 CE – present) Timeline of planetary exploration; Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology; List of asteroid close approaches to Earth
In 2016, California's K–12 public school per-pupil spending was ranked 22nd in the nation ($11,500/student vs. $11,800 for the US average). [11] For 2012, California's public schools ranked 48th in the number of employees per student, at 0.102 (the US average was 0.137), while paying the 7th most per employee, $49,000 (the US average was ...
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 ...