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History of California
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Time Lines
Spanish California
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1767 Portola named first Governor of
Baja California, capital in Loreto
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1768 the Jesuits banned from New Spain
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1768 Fr. Serra named President of Missions in Baja California
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1771 Mission San Gabriel Arcangel founded
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1774 First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia
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1774 Juan Bautista de Anza's first expedition to California
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1775 Battles at Lexington & Concord
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1775 Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia
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1775 - 1776 Juan Bautista de Anza's second expedition to California
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1776 Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia
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1776 Father Francisco Garces Colorado Exploration
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1776 Fathers Escalante and Dominguez Utah exploration
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1777 Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded
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1781 Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown
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1782 United States and England signed
preliminaryTreaty of Peace
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1783 United States, England, France, Spain
and the Netherlands signed the Treaty of Paris
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1789 French Revolutionaries captured the Bastille
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1791 Mission Santa Cruz founded
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1792-1793 Captain George VanCouver surveyed
the California Coast for Great Britain
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1793 Alexander MacKenzie explored from
Lake Athabasca across Canada to the Pacific Ocean
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1796-1802 Spain Alligned with
France at war with England
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1797 Mission San Miguel Arcangel founded
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1801 Thomas Jefferson elected President
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1801 Spain retroceeded Louisiana Territory to France
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1803 the United States purchased the Louisianna Territory
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1803 - 1806 Lewis & Clark exploration
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1805-1808 Spain Allied with Napoleon Bonaparte
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1807 Manuel Lisa organized his first fur trapping venture
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1808 Joseph Bonaparte on Spanish Throne
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War of 1808-1813 Spanish War of Independence
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1810 - Miguel Hidalgo's Cry of Dolores
Initiates Mexican Revolution
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1811 - Miguel Hidalgo Captured and Executed
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1811 - Jose Maria Morelos takes over
command of the Mexican Revolution
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1812 Robert Stuart discovered South Pass
through the Rocky Mountains
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1813 Fort Astoria sold to North West Company
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War of 1813 Wellington defeated Joseph Bonaparte in Spain
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1814 John Gilroy arrived in California
Gilroy (AKA Chapman) a Scotish sailor, was the first
non-Spanish Anglo-European to settle in California
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1815 Moreles Captured and Executed
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1816 - 1819 Donald McKenzie explored
between Rockies and Cascades
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1819 Spain and the United States agreed that the 42nd Parallel
would be the boundry between Oregon and Upper California
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1821 Moses Austin received a grant to settle
American Colonists in Texas
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1821 Plan of Iguala proclaimed
Mexican Independence
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* Dates marked with an asterisk are estimated
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