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The office of viceroy was established when Don Antonio de Mendoza was sent to Mexico as the embodiment of the Spanish king, thereby curbing the power of Cortes and the conquistadors and preserving the authority of the monarch in the New World.
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First european, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo visits coast of California
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Sir Francis Drake claims California for Great Britain
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Sebastian Vizcaino goes to Monterey Bay
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"Sacred Expedition" which founded Monterey and "discovered" San Francisco Bay, provides a horrendous documentation of death, desertion, and shipwreck.
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Friar Junipero Serra establishes first mission at San Diego
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The establishment of the San Carlos De Borromeo Mission
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Mission San Antonio was the third mission established in California, established by Junipero Serra
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Some eight hundred neophyte and non Christian Kumeyaays, fed up with sexual assaults and chafing under missionary supervision, attacked Mission San Diego.
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The establishment of the city of Los Angeles
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The constitution of the United States was signed
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Families received land title from the newly independent Mexico to encourage settlement in what was known as Alta California.
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Proclamation of Emancipation
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Secularization of Missions
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Abolishment of California missions
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Mexican-American war started
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Bear Flag Revolt
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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The start of the gold rush, gold was discovered
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Mexican-American war ended
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The constitutional convention of California
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US government passed the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, which outlawed intentional burning in California even before it was a state.
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California becomes a state.
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Government and Protection of Indians Act
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The capital of California becomes Sacramento
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Central Pacific Railroad
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Transcontinental Railroad
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The poet Joaquin Miller wrote one of the first elegies “Life Amongst the Modocs,” to California’s disappearing salmon
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President Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act
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The Sherman Antitrust Act
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The establishment of Yosemite National Park
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The great San Francisco Earthquake
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Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
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Built the Owens River aqueduct
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Commencement of operating Angel Island Immigration Station
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World War l
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World War l ends
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The Great Depression
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The Great Depression Ends
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Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
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The National Housing Act
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"Golden Land" was published
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San Franciscos "The Golden Gate Bridge" is inaugurated
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World War ll
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End of operating Angel Island Immigration Station
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The Chinese exclusion act ended
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The GI Bill of Rights becomes law
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World War ll ends
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California had an unemployment rate of 8.8% compared to a national average of 3.9%
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Over 400,000 Californians remained unemployed and 767,000 claimed unemployment benefits
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The release of "Gidget", the film that marketed Californias pop culture lifestyle
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Los Angeles plaza contains the cities first reservoir filled with river water
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California becomes the most populous state in the union
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"Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds, song inspired by the suburb Daly City that became iconic in American culture
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Watts Riot
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MLK is assassinated
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The Fair Housing Act
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Kindergarten becomes universal
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Dan Walters book release of "The New California: Facing the 21st Century"
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The market crash
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Half of Californias aerospace workers are laid off
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Rodney King Riots
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Impact of Defense Cuts on California
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Long Beach naval station closing
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Latinos exceeded whites as the states single largest ethic group
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No race or ethnic group constitutes a majority of Californias population
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California is the nations most populous state