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January 12 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís founded in what is now Santa Clara, California. January 15 – Vermont declares its independence from New York, becoming the Vermont Republic, an independent country, a status it retains until it joins the United States as the 14th state in 1791.
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).
The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 ... of California who named the settlement. In 1777, ... growth in both the state of California and the city of Los ...
The State of Pennsylvania enacted a constitution, renaming itself the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [31] no change to map: December 20, 1776 To avoid British forces who were advancing on Philadelphia, the Continental Congress began meeting in Baltimore. [25] [26] January 15, 1777
Colonists began arriving in 1774. Monterey, California was established in ... as the capital of California from 1777 to 1849. ... serve as the California state ...
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 ...
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The seat of government for California under Spanish and later Mexican rule had been located in Monterey from 1777 ... the state began to ... state, California culture ...