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Some History about Los Angeles, California.

Circa 38,000 BC - Los Angeles has been pulling in visitors for tens of thousands ofyears, as a future fossil is trapped inside what are now the historical La Brea Tar

Pits.

Circa 300 BC - The Tataviam (later Fernandeno) people inhabit what is now the

San Fernando Valley.

Circa 500 AD - Tongva Indians settle in the Los Angeles basin. Some accounts say

they displaced the Chumash. By the 16th century, the regions main village will be

called Yang-Na, near present-day Los Angeles City Hall.

1542 - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo navigates the coast of

California. He calls present day San Pedro Bay theBay of Smokes.


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Sabed que a la diestra mano de las Indias existe una isla llamada Californiamuy cerca de un

costado del Paraso Terrenal; y estaba poblada por mujeres negras, sin que existiera all un

hombre, pues vivan a la manera de las amazonas. Eran de bellos y robustos cuerpos, fogoso

valor y gran fuerza. Su isla era la ms fuerte de todo el mundo, con sus escarpados farallones

y sus ptreas costas. Sus armas eran todas de oro y del mismo metal eran los arneses de las

bestias salvajes que ellas acostumbraban domar para montarlas, porque en toda la isla no

haba otro metal que el oro.

And maybe they werent complete wrong, because some years after the discovery we will know

about the famous gold-rush(1842)

1602 - Sebastian Vizcaino of Spain explores the California coast and meets some

of the locals.

1769 - Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola explores the area to open up a land

route to the port of Monterey and establishes the first Spanish settlement in the

area. The settlers name the local river Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los

Angeles de Porciuncula (River of Our Lady Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula).


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1781 - A group of 11 families comprising 44 Mexicans settles by the river. Felipede Neve, Governor of Spanish California, names the settlement El Pueblo Sobre el

Rio de Nuestra Seora la Reina de los Angeles del Ro de Porcincula. The name

is shortened rather quickly.


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1841 - History of Los Angeles first census shows a population of 141 .

1842 - Californias first discovery of gold is made at PlaceritaCanyon, near Mission

San Fernando, prompting LAs first population boom.

1846 - Pio Pico is sworn in as governor of the California, in Los Angeles. Out-of-

towners begin to mispronounce his name (its PEE-koh). the last Mexican governor

During the MexicanAmerican War, arguing for Mexican troops to defend California:


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What are we to do then? Shall we remain supine, while these daring strangers are

overrunning our fertile plains, and gradually outnumbering and displacing us?

Shall these incursions go on unchecked, until we shall become strangers in our

own land?[10]

On being invited to appear at theColumbian Exposition:

If thosegringosimagine for a moment they can take me back there and show me in a side

tent at two bits a head they are very mistaken.

1847 - Battle of Rio San Gabriel. The United States takes control of Los Angeles.

Treaty of Cahuenga is signed in the pass between Los Angeles and the San

Fernando Valley.

1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico formally cedes California to the UnitedStates, and all residents are made U.S. citizens.

1849 - That other California Gold Rush. Settlers flood the state, creating great

demand for beef from Los Angeles-area ranchos.
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1850 - Los Angeles is incorporated as a municipality, and California becomes the

31th state in the union.

1865 - Civil War ends. African Americans begin heading to Los Angeles in

significant numbers.

1868 - The beginning of the famous nighttime view of Los Angeles, with the arrival

of streetlights.

1870 - Whites outnumber Hispanics and Native Americans for the fist time in Los

Angeles.

1873 - The first trolley line in the city opens.

1880 - Founding of the University of Southern California. Its sports teams are

known as the Methodists or the Wesleyans until 1912, when a columnist wrote that

they fought like Trojans. The name sticks.

1892 - Edward Doheny discovers oil at Greasy Gulch, near Westlake Park. Soon

oil is discovered all over the Los Angeles area.


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1910D.W. Griffith becomes the first director to shoot film in Los Angeles. His

acting company includes Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford.

1910 - Dominguez Field in Los Angeles is host to the worlds first air meet.


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1911 - The first Hollywood production company, Nestor Film Company opens in an

abandoned tavern. Soon, neighbors erect signs reading, No dogs, no actors.


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1928 - Walt Disney finds his first lasting success with the release of the animated

talking pictureSteamboat Willie, starring a mouse named Mickey.

1930 - The area of the original Pueblo of Los Angeles is renovated and opens as

Olvera Street.

Population, 2013 estimate 10,017,068

White alone, percent, 2013 (a) 71.5% 73.5%

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