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State flag of California Location of California on the U.S. map. This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in California, or for whom California is a significant part of their identity.
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 ...
Devastating fires broke out in the city that lasted for several days, destroying about 28,000 buildings. As a result of the quake and fires, over 3,000 people died [6] and over 80% of San Francisco was destroyed. 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 commonly accepted model of migration to the New World is that people from Asia crossed the Bering land bridge to the Americas some 16,500 years ago. The remains of Arlington Springs Man on Santa Rosa Island are among the traces of a very early habitation, dated to the Wisconsin glaciation (the most recent ice age) about 13,000 years ago.
Alta California, Viceroyalty of New Spain (now California, U.S.) politician, journalist three-term Mayor of Los Angeles [15] Juan Bautista Alvarado: 1809–1882 Monterey, Alta California, Viceroyalty of New Spain (now California, U.S.) politician served as Governor of Alta California from 1837 to 1842 [16] José María Alviso: 1798–1853
The exact year is lost to history: The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco set off a fire that burned up reams of naturalization records — and also allowed many people to add extra “relatives ...
This category is for people from the United States state of California Classification : People : By nationality : American : By state : California Also: Countries : United States : States : California : People
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