History of Los Angeles

Agriculture, oil, movies, aerospace
4. 600-800 Native Americans
5. 800-1000
6. 1000-1200
7. 1200-1400
8. 1400-1600 1542 Juan Cabrillo arrives in San Pedro
9. 1600-1800
10. 1800-2020

1776 Father Serra builds missions
1780s Indian revolt -  Toypurina
1784 Los Angeles is founded - Olvera Street
1. 1800-1820
2. 1820-1840 Mexico gained independence from Spain
3. 1840-1860
4. 1860-1880
5. 1880-1900
6. 1900-1920
7. 1920-1940
1931: Landscape Ranho Los Cerritos http://tclf.org/news/features/ralph-cornell-southern-california-dean-landscape-architecture
8. 1940-1960
9. 1960-1980
10. 1980-2020

When the settlers arrived, the river joined Ballona Creek to discharge in Santa Monica Bay. A fierce storm in 1835 diverted its course to Long Beach, where it stays today.
1846 Battle of Dominguez Hill - Mexican American war
1850 California becomes a state
1871 F&M Bank, first bank in CA
1871 Phineas Banning created the harbor in Wilmington - Banning Museum
1883 Ramona - see the play
1885 Completed Santa Fe railroad between Chicago & LA
1892 Oil discovered at Dodger stadium - tour Signal Hill?
1. 1900-1910
2. 1910-1920
1923 Upton Sinclair was arrested at Liberty Hill in San Pedro for reading the United States Bill of Rights on the private property of a strike supporter (the arresting officer told him "we'll have none of 'that Constitution stuff'")
3. 1920-1930 Movies

	Angels Flight Railway

1932 1932 Summer Olympics. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum,
4. 1930-1940 Immigration
During World War II, hostility toward Mexican-Americans took a different form, as local newspapers portrayed Chicano youths, who sometimes called themselves "pachucos", as barely civilized gangsters. Anglo servicemen attacked young Chicanos dressed in the pachuco uniform of the day: long coats with wide shoulders and pleated, high-waisted, pegged pants, or zoot suits. In 1943, twenty-two young Chicanos were convicted of a murder of another youth at a party held at a swimming hole southeast of Los Angeles known as the "sleepy lagoon" on a warm night in August 1942; they were eventually freed after an appeal that demonstrated both their innocence and the racism of the judge conducting the trial. Today, the event is known as the Zoot Suit Riots.^[97]
5. 1940-1950 Aircraft industry
6. 1950-1960 Rock n Roll Ricky Valens Watch "La Bamba"
1964
While conservatives such as Cardinal McIntyre of Los Angeles argued that blacks are "better off in Los Angeles than anywhere else", blacks knew that they were kept out of participating in the city's prosperity. On May 26, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told a crowd of 35,000 at Wrigley Field, "We want to be free whether we're in Birmingham or in Los Angeles."
In November, 1964, California voters passed Proposition 14 by a wide margin.

1965 Watts riots
7. 1960-1970 Space race - rise of aerospace industry Watch "The Right Stuff"
8. 1970-1980 Traffic, freeways
9. 1980-1990
10. 1990-2020