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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 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 ...
An Act for the Admission of the State of California; State of California becomes 31st state admitted to the United States of America on September 9, 1850 Rail transport in California since 1856; Pony Express, 1860–1861; American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 California in the American Civil War; First Transcontinental Telegraph ...
For the first time since 2020, California's population rose last year as COVID-19-related deaths waned and migration and immigration patterns shifted.
By California's 1852 "special" state census, the population had already increased to about 200,000, of which about 10% or 20,000 were female. [61] Competition by 1852 had decreased the steamship fare via Panama to about $200. Many of the new and successful California residents sent off for their wives, sweethearts and families to join them in ...
The California State Senate voted on June 4, 1965, to divide California into two states, with the Tehachapi Mountains as the boundary. Sponsored by State Senator Richard J. Dolwig (R-San Mateo), the resolution proposed to separate the seven southern counties, with a majority of the state's population, from the 51 other counties, and passed 27 ...