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General Vallejo is born into an upper-class family.
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At age fifteen, Vallejo becomes a cadet in the Mexican army.
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Vallejo leads a victorious Mexican and Indian expedition against an Indian revolt at the San José mission.
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General Vallejo is excommunicated from his Catholic church.
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He supports a short rebellion with his nephew Juan Batista Alvarado that leads to the proclamation of California as a free state.
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General John C. Fremont imprisons Vallejo and his younger brother in Sutter’s Fort, causing a big money damage to their estates.
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The gold rush took place and Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo lost all but two acres of his land, of which he had named “Lachryma Montis”.
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The treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe was passed, which protected Mexican rights and property.
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He becomes one of the eight Californians to be served in California’s constitutional invention. He also is elected to the first state senate.
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He died of old age in his home “ Lachryma Montis” is Sonoma California.
