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