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The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
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 ...
The ad hoc territorial legislature, which would become the first legislature of the State of California after admission, first met on December 15, 1849, at San Jose, California. The first American governor of California was Peter Hardeman Burnett , who was inaugurated as the first civilian governor on December 20, 1849, prior to statehood, and ...
American period: An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since 1959. The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of California, the thirty-first state admitted to the United States of America, including the process of removing Indigenous Peoples from their native lands, or restricting them to reservations.
The last major international change was the acquisition in 1904, and return to Panama in 1979, of the Panama Canal Zone, an unincorporated US territory which controlled the Panama Canal. The final cession of formal control over the region was made to Panama in 1999. States have generally retained their initial borders once established.
John Marsh was the first doctor in California. His letters prompted the first wagon train to California (the Bartleson-Bidwell Party), which came to his ranch. His large, stone house still stands, and is now part of Marsh Creek State Park. General Mariano G. Vallejo reviewing his troops in the Sonoma Plaza, 1846
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Colton Hall in Monterey, site of the 1849 Constitutional Convention. The Monterey Convention of 1849 was the first California Constitutional Convention to take place. [1] [8] [9] Bvt. Brig. Gen. Bennett C. Riley, ex officio Governor of California, issued a proclamation on June 3, 1849 calling for a convention and a special election on August 1 where delegates to the convention would be elected.