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  2. Harmony, California - Wikipedia

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    Harmony was founded in 1869 around several dairy ranches and a creamery. The operation changed hands repeatedly because of rivalries that led to a killing. In 1907, owners and ranchers agreed to call off their feud and called the town by its present name as a symbol of their truce. The Harmony Valley Dairy Co-op was founded in 1901.

  3. Category:Timelines of cities in California - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Timelines of cities in California" The following 14 pages are in ...

  4. Category:California history-related lists - Wikipedia

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    List of California wildfires; List of fires in San Bernardino National Forest; 2002 California wildfires; 2003 California wildfires; 2004 California wildfires; 2005 California wildfires; List of windmills in California; Timeline of women's suffrage in California; California World War II Army airfields; Chico Army Airfield auxiliary fields

  5. Category:Histories of cities in California - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; ... Timelines of cities in California (14 P) A. ... California; History of Santa Barbara, California;

  6. Territorial evolution of California - Wikipedia

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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).

  7. History of California (1900–present) - Wikipedia

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    The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w) or Richter magnitude (M L) of 7.8; [7] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [8]

  8. History of the mapping of California - Wikipedia

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    In 1841, Cadwalader Ringgold, an officer in the United States Navy, spent twenty days surveying the San Francisco Bay watershed as a member of the United States Exploring Expedition In 1849, Cadwalader Ringgold began a more comprehensive survey the San Francisco Bay region, [11] the Sacramento River, and parts of the American and created several maps which included depth sounding information ...

  9. History of California - Wikipedia

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    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 ...