California - Los Angeles - Long Beach History

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