Sam's California History Timeline By tarae1204 10,800 BCE Approximate year Santa Rosa pygmy mammoth died https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/historyculture/pygmymammoth.htm 8000 BCE The pleistocene epoch ends 1769 BCE Years of the Sacred Expedition - 1769-1782 1769 San Diego de Alcalá,1769 Date and location of first mission 1821 Date Spain accepts Mexican independence1821 1823 San Francisco Solano,1823 Date and location of last mission. 1834 Year the missions closed 1834 1835 Year the Nicoleno Indians left San Nicolas Island Jun 14, 1846 Date of the Bear Flag Revolt 1848 Year Mexico lost California Jan 24, 1848 Gold Discovered by John Marshall on American River 1850 Year California became a state 1853 Lone Woman Brought to Santa Barbara 1894 Pigeon Express operates between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina 1894-1898 https://racingnelliebly.com/natural-wonders/catalina-pigeons-delivered-big-news/ Apr 18, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 5:11 AM, magnitude 8.25 1923 Hetch Hetchy Dam Opens 1929 Year of the Deportation Act 1930 Decade of the Dust Bowl 1994 Year mammoth skeleton was discovered 2018 Memory of 7-11 in Mountainside, NJ 2019 Sam moves from Mountainside, NJ to Long Beach, CA May 31, 2024 Sam completed #4 grade