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The following is a timeline of the history of San Diego, ... 1848) transfers San Diego and mostly all of Alta California to the ... at the time the deadliest ...
San Diego, still little more than a village, was incorporated on March 27 as a city and was named the county seat of the newly established San Diego County. [21] The United States Census reported the population of the town as 650 in 1850 and 731 in 1860. [22] San Diego promptly got into financial trouble by overspending on a poorly designed jail.
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 ...
By 1820 Spanish influence was marked by the chain of missions reaching from Loreto, north to San Diego, to just north of today's San Francisco Bay Area, and extended inland approximately 25 to 50 miles (40 to 80 km) from the missions. Outside of this zone, perhaps 200,000 to 250,000 Native Americans were continuing to lead traditional lives.
1847, April. 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers, under Colonel Stevenson, arrived in San Francisco by sea. [21] 1847, May 31. Kearny appointed Colonel Mason to succeed him as military governor. 1848, January 24. Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, initiating the California gold rush. 1848, February 2. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war ...
The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign during the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta California (modern-day California), then part of Mexico, lasting from 1846 to 1847, and ending with signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga by military leaders from both the Californios and Americans.
Throughout January 1848, Trist regularly met with Mexican officials in Guadalupe Hidalgo, a small town north of Mexico City. [132] Trist was willing to allow Mexico to keep Lower California, but successfully haggled for the inclusion of the important harbor of San Diego in a cession of Upper California. [132]
List of San Diego Historic Landmarks in the Point Loma and Ocean Beach areas; 0–9. 30th Street (San Diego) A. ... Timeline of San Diego; Two Years Before the Mast;