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Timeline

By helloCSULB
  • Period: 1540 to

    Spanish Period

  • 1542

    First Spanish Landing

    Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, first European explorer to land on CA's coast

  • Mission San Diego Established

    Spanish set up their first mission in San Diego

  • Native Resistance

    In reaction to the harsh treatment and declining conditions under mission life, hundred of Natives attacked the San Diego mission

  • Tongva Uprising

    A native woman led a revolt again Spanish control and the San Gabrial mission

  • Mexican Independence

    After gaining independence from Spain, Mexico takes over the governance in CA

  • Collapse of Spain

  • Mission Secularized

    California missions were taken apart under Mexican rule

  • Land Claim Began

    US Preemption Act allowed settlers claim land, encouraging more Americans to move west into CA territory.

  • California Genocide

  • Treaty of Cahuenga

  • Gold Discovery

    Gold is found at Sutter's Mill

  • Guadalupe Hidalga Treaty

  • Period: to

    Gold Rush

  • Indian Indenture Act

  • CA became a state

  • Second Foreign Miners Tax

  • Railroad Complete

  • LA Massacre

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Alien Land Act

  • Hoovervilles

  • Great Depression

  • Dust Bowl

  • WWII

  • Japanese Internment

  • Mendez vs Westinster

  • Nimby

  • Watts Uprising

  • Rodney King Verdict Riots

  • BLM

  • Covid Pandemic

  • BLM Protests

    Sparked more because of George Floyd

  • Anti Asian Hate Protests