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Pablo De La Portillà
Pablo de la Portilla was a soldier and pioneer in nineteenth-century California. Biography Capt. Portilla served in the frontier Spanish army. He arrived in 1819 with his troops on the ''Cossack'' from Mazatlán, Mexico. These were reinforcements to protect Mission San Buenaventura against Mohave (Colorado River) Indians. They were attached to the Presidio of Santa Barbara. Capt. Portilla took part in the 1831 Mexican Revolution. Capt. Portilla was nominally Commandant of the Presidio of San Diego whenever he was present there, during the years 1835–1838, although he was not stationed there. He was there during campaigns of varying success to protect against Kumeyaay Indian attacks. He also led a punitive expedition against the Chumash Revolt in Santa Barbara in 1824, traveling to the southern San Joaquin Valley. For his efforts Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, when secularized by the Mexican Government in 1834, was turned over to Portilla, along with future Governor Pí ...
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List Of Pre-statehood Mayors Of San Diego, California
This is a list of pre-statehood alcaldes and mayors of San Diego, from 1770 to 1850, during the Spanish, Mexican, and early American periods, prior to California's admission to statehood. Commandants of the Presidio of San Diego From 1770 San Diego was ruled by a commandant from the Presidio of San Diego under the Spanish and (from 1822) Mexican governments. When San Diego became a Pueblo in 1835, an alcalde (mayor) of San Diego served under the Mexican and pre-statehood United States governments. Alcaldes of the Pueblo of San Diego San Diego became a pueblo in 1834, after a petition to Governor José Figueroa endorsed by Commandant Santiago Arguello. The first Alcalde (mayor) Juan María Osuna was elected, defeating Pío Pico by 13 votes. By 1838, the population shrank enough to lose its pueblo status and was ruled by a Juez de Paz as a partition of the Los Angeles District until San Diego was incorporated as a city under U.S. rule. The following are the Jueces d ...
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San Joaquin Valley
The San Joaquin Valley ( ; Spanish language in California, Spanish: ''Valle de San Joaquín'') is the southern half of California's Central Valley (California), Central Valley. Famed as a major breadbasket, the San Joaquin Valley is an important source of food, producing a significant part of California's agricultural output. San Joaquin Valley draws from nine counties of Northern California, Northern and Central California, including all of San Joaquin County, San Joaquin and Kings County, California, Kings counties, most of Stanislaus County, Stanislaus, Merced County, Merced, and Fresno County, California, Fresno counties, and parts of Madera County, California, Madera and Tulare County, California, Tulare counties, along with a majority of Kern County, California, Kern County. Although the valley is predominantly rural, it has three densely populated urban centers: Stockton, California, Stockton/Modesto, California, Modesto, Fresno, California, Fresno/Visalia, California, ...
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Year Of Death Missing
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are ...
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Spanish Colonization Of The Americas
The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoa, Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile. These overseas territories of the Spanish Empire were under the jurisdiction of Crown of Castile until the last territory was lost in Spanish–American War, 1898. Spaniards saw the dense populations of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples as an important economic resource and the territory claimed as potentially producing great wealth for individual Spaniards and the crown. Religion played an important role in the Spanish conquest and incorporation of indigenous peoples, bringing them into the Catholic Church peacefully or by force. The crown created civil and religious structures to administer the vast territory. Spanish men and women settled in greatest numbers where there were dense indigenous populations ...
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Mexican War Of Independence
The Mexican War of Independence (, 16 September 1810 – 27 September 1821) was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from the Spanish Empire. It was not a single, coherent event, but local and regional struggles that occurred within the same period, and can be considered a List of wars of independence, revolutionary civil war. It culminated with the drafting of the Declaration of Independence (Mexico), Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire in Mexico City on September 28, 1821, following the collapse of royal government and the military triumph of forces for independence. Mexican independence from Spain was not an inevitable outcome of the relationship between the Spanish Empire and its most valuable overseas possession, but events in Spain had a direct impact on the outbreak of the armed insurgency in 1810 and the course of warfare through the end of the conflict. Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte's Peninsular War, invasion of Spa ...
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San Antonio De Pala Asistencia
The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, or the Pala Mission, was founded on June 13, 1816, as an asistencia or "sub-mission" to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the latter mission on the San Luis Rey River. Pala Mission was part of the Spanish missions, asistencias, and estancias system in Las Californias—Alta California. Today it is located in the Pala Indian Reservation located in northern San Diego County, with the official name of Mission San Antonio de Pala.Carillo, p. 7 It is the only historic mission facility still serving a Mission Indian tribe. Pala (a derivation of the native term ''Pale'', meaning water) was essentially a small ''rancho'' surrounded by large fields and herds. The Pala site had been noted by Father Juan Mariner and Captain Juan Pablo Grijalva on an exploratory trip in 1795, when they went up the San Diego River, and then through Sycamore Canyon to the Santa Maria Valley (or Pamó Valley) and into what they name ...
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Las Flores Estancia
The Las Flores Estancia (also known as Las Flores Asistencia) was established in 1823 as an ''estancia'' ("station"). It was part of the Spanish missions, asistencias, and estancias system in Las Californias—Alta California. Las Flores Estancia was situated approximately halfway between Mission San Luis Rey de Francia and Mission San Juan Capistrano. It is located near Bell Canyon on the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base ten miles south of the City of San Clemente in northern San Diego County, California. The estancia is also home to the architecturally significant National Historic Landmark Las Flores Adobe, completed in 1868. History The first recorded baptisms in upper Las Californias took place on July 22, 1769, on the banks of a nearby stream, dubbed ''Los Cristianos'' by the Spanish soldiers who accompanied the missionaries northward during the Portolà expedition. Today, the site (referred to more commonly as ''La Cañada de los Bautismos'', literally "The Gorge ...
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Buenaventura Fortuna
Buenaventura (Spanish for 'good fortune', and the name of Saint Bonaventure) or Buena Ventura may refer to: People *Buenaventura Báez (1812–1884), president of the Dominican Republic for five terms * Buenaventura Bagaria (1882–1947), Spanish sports shooter *Buenaventura Carlos Aribau (1798–1862), Spanish economist, writer and politician *Buenaventura Cousiño Jorquera (1808–1855), Chilean politician *Buenaventura de Abarzuza y Ferrer (1843–1910), Spanish diplomat *Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936), Spanish anarchist and hero of the Spanish Civil War * Buenaventura Ferreira (born 1960), Paraguayan footballer *Buenaventura Fernández de Córdoba Spínola (1724–1777), Spanish aristocrat and priest * Buenaventura García de Paredes (1866–1936), Dominican priest *Buenaventura Marcó del Pont (1738–1818), Spanish businessman * Buenaventura S. Medina Jr. (born 1928), Filipino author * Buenaventura Rodriguez (1893–1940), Filipino playwright and politician *Buenaventura ...
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Pío Pico
Don (honorific), Don Pío de Jesús Pico IV (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) was a California politician, ranchero, and entrepreneur, famous for serving as the List of governors of California before 1850, last governor of Alta California under Mexican rule from 1845 to 1846. He briefly held the governorship during a disputed period in 1832. A member of the prominent Pico family of California, he was one of the wealthiest men in California at the time and a hugely influential figure in Californian society, continuing as a citizen of the nascent U.S. state of California. His legacy can be seen in the numerous places named after him, such as the city of Pico Rivera, California, Pico Rivera, Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, Pio Pico State Historic Park, and numerous schools that bear his name. Early years Ancestry Pío Pico was of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native American, Spaniards, Spanish, Italians, Italian, and Africans, African ancestry. His earliest known ancesto ...
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Mission San Luis Rey De Francia
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia () is a former Spanish mission in San Luis Rey, a neighborhood in Oceanside, California. This Mission lent its name to the Luiseño tribe of Mission Indians. At its prime, Mission San Luis Rey's structures and services compound covered almost , making it the largest of the Californian missions, along with its surrounding agricultural land. Multiple outposts were built in support of Mission San Luis Rey and placed under its supervision, including the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia in 1816 and the Las Flores Estancia in 1823. Spanish era The full name of the mission is ''La Misión de San Luis, Rey de Francia'' (The Mission of Saint Louis, King of France). It was named for King Louis IX of France. Its nickname is "King of the Missions". It was founded by padre Fermín Lasuén on June 12, 1798, the eighteenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions built in the Alta California Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.Yenne, p. 156 In 1800, Miss ...
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