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The Californian was first published in Monterey, California on August 15, 1846, [1] by Alcalde Walter Colton and his friend Robert B. Semple, from a well-used Ramage printing press that Agustín V. Zamorano brought from Hawaii to Monterey in 1834. [2] Zamorano used it to print books, letterheads and proclamations, but not a newspaper. [3]
The non-Indian population of California in 1840 was about 8,000, as confirmed by the California 1850 U.S. census, which asked everyone their place of birth. The Indian population is unknown but has been variously estimated at 30,000 to 150,000 in 1840.
William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. (1810 – May 18, 1848) was an Afro-Caribbean settler in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco.A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he is thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United States.
John Alfred "Jack" Swan (November 22, 1817 – January 6, 1896), also known as Jack Swan, was a prominent California pioneer who arrived in Monterey in 1843. He is credited with founding the First theater in California, around 1845, and helping Commodore John Drake Sloat raise the American flag over the Custom House, declaring California as part of the United States during the American ...
Stockton Street from Union Square, looking toward Market Street. Arnold Genthe's famous photograph, looking toward the fire on Sacramento Street. The intensity of the earthquake. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the city (then the largest in California) and nearby communities at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. [5]
The present name of Fort Ross [5] appears first on a French chart published in 1842 by Eugène Duflot de Mofras, who visited California in 1840. [6] The name of the fort is said to derive from the Russian word rus or ros, the same root as the word "Russia" (Pоссия, Rossiya) (Fort Ross (Russian: Форт-Росс, Kashaya mé·ṭiʔni), originally Fortress Ross (pre-reformed Russian ...
Louis Rubidoux was born in St. Louis ... New Mexicans had established a colony of over 150 families between 1840 and 1850. California ranchers Lugo and later ...
Edmund C. Hinde (1830–1909), American participant in the 1850s California Gold Rush; Anna Maria Hinel ... Francis Kilvert (1840–1879), English country cleric;