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
November 23:
Cabrillo on his return trip Anchors and Lands in
Catalina Island to overwinter and make repairs. The Party of Explorers departed a short time later.
Jean-Louis Vignes bought 104 acres (0.42 km2) of land located between the original Pueblo and the banks of the
Los Angeles River. He planted a vineyard and prepared to make wine.[6]
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.
1835 – The Mexican Congress declared Los Angeles a city, making it the official capital of Alta California. It was now
Alta California's leading city.[1]
1836 – The Indian village of
Yaanga was relocated near the future corner of Commercial and Alameda Streets.
October 6: U.S. troops under
William Mervine land in San Pedro to attempt to recapture Los Angeles.
October 8–9:
Battle of Dominguez Rancho, US Marines engage in a battle with the Mexican Californios, the Mexicans defeated the United States Military forces. causing them to retreat once again.
1847
January 8–9:
Battle of Río San Gabriel, Mexican's block path into Los Angeles at
Pico Rivera. American Troops are Victorious and the Mexicans Retreat.
1849 – Lieutenant
Edward Ord surveyed Los Angeles to confirm and extend the streets of the city. His survey put the city into the real-estate business, creating its first real-estate boom and filling its treasury.[9] Street names were changed from Spanish to English.
William Rosecrans Buys Rosecrans Tract a very large portion of land in
South Los Angeles an investment in which he subdivides and sells developing lots eventually beginning settlement in the area.
July 3:
Crosby, Stills and Nash first harmonize during an impromptu meeting at the home of
Joni Mitchell in
Laurel Canyon. The group will come to epitomize the Laurel Canyon sound identified with L.A. into the 1970s.
Sister city relationship established with
Lusaka, Zambia.[52]
1981 – Sister city relationship established with
Guangzhou, China.[52]
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) publishes the first report from here of
symptoms of what would be later known as
AIDS, with Los Angeles at least second or third highest reporting city for it after New York's #1 and San Francisco's # 2.
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^"Mentryville Path to Be Repaired". Daily News (Los Angeles). June 17, 2007. ("Mentryville was established in 1876 after workers drilled what became the first commercially successful oil well in the West.")
^Judy Raphael (October 8, 1998). "Boomtown Bash: Tiny town of Mentryville, site of 1876 oil rush, will hold festival fund-raiser". Los Angeles Times. ("The well, known as Pico No. 4, was the first commercially successful oil well in the western U.S.")
^Nicholas Grudin (August 3, 2003). "Ghosts of an Era: Mentryville Is a Monument to Both the Start and Decline of the Area's Oil Drilling Industry". Daily News (Los Angeles). ("Scofield formed California Star Oil Works, and with skilled oil man Alex Mentry, tapped the first commercial oil well in California – Pico No. 4.")
^Jonathan Gaw (February 21, 1993). "Oil in a Day's Work The Boom May Be Over, but a Few Wells Pump On". Los Angeles Times. ("Oil men had been groping around the canyons of the area since 1876, when the first commercially successful oil well west of Pennsylvania was built several miles south of Lechler's ranch in Pico Canyon.")
^Jeffrey M. Pilcher (2008). "Was the Taco Invented in Southern California?". Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies. 8: 26–38.
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