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The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w) or Richter magnitude (M L) of 7.8; [7] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [8]
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Before 1768: An enlargeable territorial map of California tribal groups and languages prior to European contact within the modern day borders. Before 1768: An enlargeable map of the world showing the dividing lines for; Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera papal bull (1493), the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), and the Treaty of Saragossa (1529).
Below is a timeline of key events from before the first blaze broke out. Early warning signs A residence burns as a firefighter battles the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of ...
This is a timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, events in the nine counties that border on the San Francisco Bay, and the bay itself. An identical list of events, formatted differently, may be found here .
Present-day Baja California of Mexico was misrepresented in early maps as an island.This example c. 1650. Restored. The first European explorers, flying the flags of Spain and of England, sailed along the coast of California from the early 16th century to the mid-18th century, but no European settlements were established.
List of California wildfires; List of fires in San Bernardino National Forest; 2002 California wildfires; 2003 California wildfires; 2004 California wildfires; 2005 California wildfires; List of windmills in California; Timeline of women's suffrage in California; California World War II Army airfields; Chico Army Airfield auxiliary fields
The following is a general historical timeline of the city of Los Angeles, California in the United States of America. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.