10,000 yrs ago - people arrived in California from the north -
La Brea Tarpits (look for indian village museum)
500 - Tongya people arrive in Long Beach - find out if the
El Dorado Nature Center has a Native American program for 4th graders - (562) 570-1745 -
Natural History Museum - New Dinosaur Hall - setup field trip for August -
Gene Autry Museum
1492 - Columbus arrived in the New World
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabillo landed at San Pedro - first exploration of CA coastline
Los Angeles - remote outpost of the Spanish Empire
1683-1834: El Camino Real - the 600-mile (966-kilometer) California Mission Trail, connecting the former Alta California's 21 missions (along with a number of support sites), 4 presidios, and several pueblos, stretching from Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego in the south to Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma in the north.
1769 - Gaspar de Portola established the Presidio in San Diego & Father Serra starts the first Mission -
Mission San Juan Capistrano - Father Serra program at Rancho Dominguez
1774 - Juan Bautista de Anza crossed the Colorado River at Yuma, Anza's party trekked through the Sonoran Desert and discovered the first inland gateway to the Southern California coast: San Carlos Pass, which bisects the San Jacinto Mountains -
Audio -
Trail guide
1776 - US War for Independence
1777 - 44 colonists known as Los Pobladores followed Anza's trail on their way to settling the new pueblo of Los Angeles
1784 - Los Angeles is founded: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de Los Angeles Sobre El Rio Porciuncula -
Olvera Street -
Mexican-American Museum - Manuel Nieto received a 300,000 acre land grant from Spain called Los Coyotes
1829 to 1850 -
Old Spanish Trail - Led from Los Angeles to Santa Fe, NM -
Old Spanish Trail Association
1834: Los Coyotes was subdivided into five great ranchos
1846: The Battle of Dominguez Hill; Mexico won
1846-1848: Mexican-American War after US took Texas; Mexico sold California, New Mexico, Arizona, & Texas to the US
1849 - gold is discovered at Sutter Mill -
Ghiradelli arrived to make his fortune -
LA County Fair Heritage Square -
Irvine Park Railroad 4th Grade Program -
Riley's Farm
1850 - California becomes a state -
Sacramento - Ranchos -
Rancho Los Cerritos -
Rancho Los Alamitos is the largest cattle ranch in America
1860 - Civil War
1864 -
Banning Museum
1868 - Transcontinental Railroad - Connected San Francisco to Chicago
1888 - Long Beach is incorporated as a city
1890 - First Rose Parade in Pasadena - go to parade? - January 1st, 2012 -
help decorate floats?
1900 - Agriculture -
Central Valley
1902 - First Rose Bowl game - Pasadena - Ford Motor Co. -
oil
1906 -
The Bembridge House is a magnificent and highly ornate example of late Queen Anne Victorian architecture, and both the exterior and interior exemplify the finest accomplishments of turn-of-the-century architectural designers and craftsmen
1920 - Wright Brothers - movies -
studio tour -
Academy Museum
1930 - Empire State Building - migrant labor
1937 -
Golden Gate Bridge - US Naval Base in Long Beach
1940 - Bugs Bunny cartoon -
Douglas Aircraft - first freeway
1947 - Studebaker car - Jackson Pollock - Spruce Goose - test pilots (Yeager) -
Mojave
1949 -
CSULB founded
1953 - Our house was built - TV (I Love Lucy) -
Paley Museum of TV
1955 -
Disneyland -
McDonald's
1964 - The Beatles arrive in the US
1969 - First moom landing -
JPL 9/16 -
Northrop Grumman tour
1970 - First Earth Day -
Yosemite - Redwoods
1975 - Microsoft was founded - Microsoft store
1980 - Reagan elected President -
Library in Simi Valley
1981 - Space Shuttle - Columbia Memorial Museum
2000 - Internet - Apple store
