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The following is a general historical timeline of the city of Los Angeles, California in the United States of America.

Pre-Columbian era

  • 8,000 BCE – Chumash and Tongva Tribes inhabited the Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans in the area.
  • 2,000 BCE to 700 CE, the Uto-Aztecan (formerly known as Shoshonean) peoples entered the LA basin, absorbing or displacing the previous Hokan-speaking peoples

15th century

English exploration

17th century

18th century

Spanish colonization

19th century

Mexican period

  • 1821
  • 1822
    • Joseph John Chapman an Anglo-American then one of the earliest English-speaking settlers and builders of Mexican Alta California. Chapman Helps to build the roof of La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles .[6]: 393 
    • April 9: A junta in Monterey headed by governor De Solá swear an oath allegiance of the Alta California Province to the Mexican Empire; in the following days, public oaths were taken in the pueblos and missions of Alta California.[5]
    • May: José Palomares goes to Monterey as the elector selected to represent the pueblo de Los Ángeles in the election of a deputy from the province to the Congress.[5]
  • 1823
  • 1826
  • 1827 – Jonathan Temple and John Rice opened the first general store in the pueblo, soon followed by J. D. Leandry.[7]
  • 1828 - Rancho La Brea, Land Granted to Antonio Jose Rocha and Nemisio Dominguez, by LA Mayor.
  • 1830 – Los Angeles Pueblo Population: 730.[1]
  • 1831
  • 1833 – Los Angeles Trade and commerce further increased with the secularization of the California missions by the Mexican Congress. Extensive mission lands suddenly became available to government officials, ranchers, and land speculators. The governor made more than 800 land grants during this period to wealthy Californios.
  • 1834
    • Governor Pico married Maria Ignacio Alvarado in the Plaza church. It was attended by the entire population of the pueblo, 800 people, plus hundreds from elsewhere in Alta California.
    • Rancho San Pascual, Land Granted to Juan Marine, by CA Governor.
  • 1835
    • May 23: On the advice of the territory's deputy, José Carrillo, Los Angeles, is given the title of Ciudad and was declared the capital of the Alta California Territory by the Mexican Congress.[1] The de facto capital remained in Monterey until decades later and the decision furthered political tensions in the territory.
  • 1836 – The Indian village of Yaanga was relocated near the future corner of Commercial and Alameda Streets.
  • 1839 – Francisco Sepúlveda is granted land Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica which later developed as the west side of Los Angeles.[9]
  • 1841 – Los Angeles City Population: 1,680 [4]
  • 1845 – The Indian village of Yaanga was relocated again to present-day Boyle Heights.

American invasion

American period

1860s

1870s

1880s

Map submitted to Post Office Department showing rail lines and river (c. 1885)

1890s

La Grande Station c. 1911

20th century

1900s

1910s

1910-1915

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

Hollywood Walk of Fame established in 1960

1970s

Formation of the Bloods

1980s

1990s

21st century

Disney Concert Hall at night

2000s

2010s

2020s

Future events

See also

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