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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).
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Government during that period was essentially martial law. The second phase began with the 1848 cession. The area that is now the U.S. state of California became part of a U.S. territory, and the Baja peninsula was returned to Mexico. In the U.S. California, existing local government structures were largely left in place, but the military ...
The 2011–2017 California drought persisted from December 2011 to March 2017 [109] and consisted of the driest period in California's recorded history, late 2011 through 2014. [110] The drought wiped out 102 million trees from 2011 to 2016, 62 million of those during 2016 alone. [ 111 ]
Californication is a portmanteau of California and fornication, appearing in Time on May 6, 1966 [1] and written about on August 21, 1972, additionally seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. states of Idaho, [2] Washington, [3] Colorado, Oregon, Oklahoma, [4] [5] and Texas.
Sinclair on the cover of Time magazine, October 22, 1934. After two previous unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Congress as a member of the Socialist Party, Sinclair was encouraged by the election of President Roosevelt in 1932 to switch his affiliation to the Democratic Party in September 1933.
The San Andreas fault is capable of magnitude 7.8 earthquakes. Two have occurred twice in recent times: the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and one in 1857 in Southern California.
This was before land developers and US Armed Forces purchased what was tribal land from the Montoya family—part of the "Desert Cahuilla" in present-day Indian Wells, and from the San Cayetano band—part of "Desert Cahuilla" in Rancho San Cayetano during the Spanish-Mexican-1850s California period (now the city of Rancho Mirage). The number ...