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bullet 2,400 BC - People of the Early Horizon Period
bullet 1,000 BC Penutian Language Stock People - Yokuts, Miwoks, Wintons
bullet 1533: Two ships landed at Baja in La Paz Harbor, local residents killed 20 and ships retreated
bullet 1535: Hernando Cortes led expedition to La Paz, established small colony
bullet 1540: Sea expedition led by Hernando de Alarcon up Gulf of California to mouth of Colorado River, became first Europeans on California soil
bullet 1542: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo became the first European to explore California, landed at San Diego, discovered Catalina Islands, sites of San Pedro and Santa Monica and Santa Barbara Channel Islands
bullet 1579: Sir Francis Drake landed north of San Francisco Bay, claimed the territory for England
bullet 1669: Gaspar de Portolb, governor of the Californias, led an expedition up the Pacific coast, established California's first mission on San Diego Bay
bullet 1769: Sargeant Jose Ortega discovered entrance to San Francisco Bay
bullet 1772: First Spanish Explorers
bullet 1776: Presidio of San Francisco and Mission Dolores founded
bullet 1811: Padre Narcisco Duncan trip to the delta
bullet 1812: Russian fur traders established Fort Ross
bullet 1812: Mexico won independence from Spain, became California's new ruler
bullet 1822: California officials recognized a Mexican government
bullet 1826: Native Americans attacked Mission San Francisco Solano
bullet 1826: Jedediah Strong Smith
bullet 1827: Jedediah Smith
bullet 1832: John Work
bullet 1839: John Sutter
bullet 1841: Charles Weber visits present day Stockton
bullet 1844: Weber granted citizenship
bullet 1846: Stockton name first heard
bullet 1847: Weber had a village site surveyed
bullet 1848: Gold discovered at Sutter's sawmill in Coloma
bullet 1848: Weber built first store in Stockton
bullet 1849: California Gold Rush began; California became U. S. property with Treaty of Guadalupe
bullet 1849: Fire devastated San Francisco
bullet 1849: First steamer arrives in Stockton
bullet 1849: Entire block of Stockton business district burned
bullet 1850: California became 31st state
bullet 1850: First Stockton newspaper published; Stockton Times
bullet 1850: Town council finalized
bullet 1850: July, 23 Stockton is incorporated
bullet 1851: First theatre performance
bullet 1851: Fire department organized; Weber Engine Company
bullet 1852: State insane asylum constructed
bullet 1852: Telegraph lines completed
bullet 1854: First San Joaquin County Courthouse completed
bullet 1869: First Western Pacific train arrived
bullet 1893: San Joaquin County jail built
bullet 1906: Holt built first gasoline engine tractor
bullet 1906: Bank of Stockton high rise building completed
bullet 1910: Hotel Stockton completed
bullet 1911: Stockton diverting canal completed
bullet 1912: Fire department purchased firs truck
bullet 1916: El Dorado school constructed
bullet 1898: First Railroad depot built
bullet 1891: Second San Joaquin County Courthouse completed
bullet 1901: Stockton Chamber of Commerce organized
bullet 1921: KWG Radio started
bullet 1924: Santa Clara's College of The Pacific started
bullet 1928 Stockton population; 56,000
bullet 1925: Civic Memorial Auditorium
bullet 1927: City Hall added to the new Stockton Civic Center
bullet 1933: First ocean vessel, the S.S. Daisy Gray arrived at the port of Stockton
bullet 1942: All local Japanese sent to Rohor Arkansas
bullet 1960: College of the Pacific changed its name to the University of the Pacific
bullet 1972: New Delta College constructed
bullet 1983 Downtown Stockton became the headquarters of the nations largest savings and loan institution