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;State of California
;capital: Sacramento
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TYP=Holy
12.2.  =Lincoln Day*
31.3.>1994 =César Chávez's Day     ;Note=1st 1995, birthd. 1927 {d}
09.9.  =California Admission Day, proclaimed Flag Flying Day ;Note=1850 {d}
01.9.+4Fr>1997 =Native American Day ;Note=1st state holiday 1998, 4th Friday September {m}

TYP=HolyHalf
Es-2Dy =Good Friday (12:00 >15:00)*

TYP=Local
01.5.+3Sa>1978 =Berkeley, Malcolm X Day ;Note=1st 1979
01.10.+2Mo =Berkeley, Indigenous Peoples Day ;Note=celebrated in lieu of Columbus Day (2nd Monday October) {m}



TYP=Normal

;yearly days - observances

24.1.  =Coloma, Gold Discovery Day*       ;Note=1848 {d}
30.1.>2010 =#2010th Fred Korematsu Day*   ;Note=1st 2011, bill AB 1775 (Sept. 23, 2010) {d}
04.2.>1999 =#1999th Rosa Parks Day        ;Note=1st 2000, Bill Number ACR 116 (Jan. 24, 2000) {d}
05.2.>2004 =#2004th California Western Monarch Day* ;Note=1st 2005, Bill SCR 66 (state Assembly, April 12, 2004 & Senate April 29, 2004) {d}
06.2.>2001<2011 =Ronald Reagan Day*       ;Note=1st 2002, by proclamation, 1st by law 2010 {d}
06.2.>2010      =Ronald Reagan Day*       ;Note=1st by law 2011, law signed July 19, 2010, already 2002-2010 by proclamation {d}
19.2.  =Day of Remembrance, Japanese American Evacuation*
07.3.  =California, Bird & Arbor Day*     ;Note=Luther Burbank's birthday {d}
19.3.  =San Juan Capistrano, Swallows Day ;Note=on or around St Joseph's Day (March 19) {d}
06.4.>2004 =#2004th Drowsy Driver Awareness Day* ;Note=1st 2005 {d}
21.4.>1988 =#1988th John Muir Day**       ;Note=1st 1989, Assembly Bill 476 (1989) {d}
24.4.>1996 =#1996th Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923 ;Note=and for the victims of the Sumgait Pogroms of 1988 and Baku Riots of 1990, 1st 1997, California State Assembly {n}
;25.4.>1996 =Los Angeles, Día de Thalía    ;Note=1st 1997
22.5.>2009 =#2009th Harvey Milk Day*      ;Note=birthday Harvel Milk, bill SB 572 signed Oct. 11, 2009 {d}
05.7.  =San Francisco, Bloody Thursday*   ;Note=1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike {d}
01.9. =Los Angeles CA, Chicken Boy's Day ;Note=Chicken Boys Birthday {d}
28.9.>1934 =California, #1934th Cabrillo Day ;Note=1st 1935, Sep. 28, 1542 Cabrillo sailed into the (San Diego) bay {d}
28.9.>2005 =California, #2005th Freedom from Hunger Day ;Note=1st 2006 {d}
01.10.+1Su =Stepparent's Day*             ;Note=1st Sunday September
23.10. =San Juan Capistrano, Swallows Departure Day (traditional date) ;Note={d}
07.12. =Pearl Harbor Day*

;local events

01.4.>1978 =San Francisco, #1978th Saint Stupid's Day Parade* ;Note=1st 1979 {d}
;18.5.  =San Francisco, Martin Garrix Day
01.10.+1Sa =San Francisco, Madonna del Lume Celebration ;Note=North Beach area of San Francisco, blessing of the fleet, .. {m}


;(remembrance) dates by year
;(New Spain 1521–1821, Mexico 1821-1846, Republic 1846-1848) territory contained all of present-day California (Las Californias, 1769/1804 Alta California)

28.9.  =Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo landed at San Diego Bay #1542 years ago ;Note=1542 {d}
16.7.  =1st mission established, Mission San Diego de Alcalá #1769 years ago* ;Note=1769 {d}
02.11. =1st documented discovery Golden Gate/San Francisco Bay #1769 years ago* ;Note=1769, Spanish exploration party, led by Don Gaspar de Portolà {d}
08.9.  =San Gabriel Arcangel founded #1771 years ago (>San Gabriel)* ;Note=1771, Fathers Pedro Cambron & Angel Somera, 4th mission {d}
05.8.  =1st European enters San Francisco Bay #1775 years ago* ;Note=1775, Juan de Ayala passed through the Golden Gate {d}
28.3.  =San Francisco Bay, Spanish est. a fort #1776 years ago* ;Note=1776, followed by a mission June 29, 1776 {d}
29.6.  =actual founding Mission San Francisco de Asis #1776 years ago (>San Francisco)* ;Note=1776, Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga & Father Francisco Palóu, off. 09.10.1776 {d}
09.10. =off. founding Mission San Francisco de Asis #1776 years ago (>San Francisco)* ;Note=1776, required church documents arrived, actual June 29, 1776, 6th mission {d}
01.11. =San Juan Capistrano Mission (2nd) founded #1776 years ago* ;Note=1776, 1st Oct. 30, 1775 {d}
29.11. =Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe (>San José) founded #1777 years ago* ;Note=1777, 1st civil settlement in Alta California {d}
04.9.  =Los Angeles founded #1781 years ago ;Note=1781, Spanish settlers, El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (Valley of Smokes) {d}
13.6.  =Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded #1798 years ago (>Oceanside)* ;Note=1798 {d}
30.8.  =(OS) Rumyantsev Bay (Bodega Bay), dedication Russian settlement Fortress Ross #1812 years ago (>Fort Ross)* ;Note=1812, Ivan Kuskov, southernmost Russian settlements in North America, 11.9.1812 Greg. cal. (NS), >01.1.1842 {d}
11.9.  =(NS) Rumyantsev Bay (Bodega Bay), dedication Russian settlement Fortress Ross #1812 years ago (>Fort Ross)* ;Note=1812, Ivan Kuskov, southernmost Russian settlements in North America, 30.8.1812 Jul. cal. (OS), >01.1.1842 {d-08-30}
;1835 town named Yerba Buena outside the immediate vicinity of the Mission Dolores (Mission San Francisco de Asis) together with Mission Alcalde Francisco de Haro
04.11. =1st migrant wagon train from Missouri reached California #1841 years ago* ;Note=1841, forty-seven emigrants, left Independence MO May 1, 1841 {d}
14.6.  =California Republic independent from Mexico #1846 years ago* ;Note=1846 {d}
14.6.  =Sonoma, Bear Flag 1st raised #1846 years ago* ;Note=1846 {d}
09.7.  =California claimed & annexed by the United States #1846 years ago* ;Note=1846, Commodore John Drake Sloat {d}
30.1.  =Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco #1847 years ago* ;Note=1847 {d}
24.1.  =Sutter's Mill near Coloma, 1st gold discovered #1848 years ago** ;Note=1848, James W. Marshall {d}
02.2.  =Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico gave up California #1848 years ago* ;Note=1848 {d}
28.2.  =San Francisco, arrival 1st regular steamship service from west >east coast #1849 years ago (10:00)* ;Note=1849, SS California, left New York Harbor Oct. 6, 1848 {d}
23.2.  =California, functional equivalent of an Enabling Act #1850 years ago* ;Note=1850, President Zachary Taylor, submitting the State's new Constitution {d}
27.2.  =Sacramento incorporated #1850 years ago* ;Note=1850, 1st incorporated city in the state {d}
27.3.  =San José incorporated #1850 years ago* ;Note=1850, 2nd incorporated city in the state, 1st Sacramento Feb. 27, 1850 {d}
04.4.  =Los Angeles incorporated #1850 years ago*  ;Note=1850, est. Sept. 4, 1781 {d}
15.4.  =City of San Francisco incorporated #1850 years ago* ;Note=1850 {d}
09.9.  =California off. admitted to the Union #1850 years ago (31th state) ;Note=1850, Act of Congress {d}
30.6.  =Yo-Semite Valley >1st State Park (in the USA) #1864 years ago* ;Note=1864, Oct. 1, 1890 >Yosemite National Park {d}
19.12. =California ratifies 13th Amendment #1865 years ago (abolishing slavery)* ;Note=1865, 29th state {d}
23.3.  =law signed establishing University of California #1868 years ago* ;Note=1868, Governor of California Henry Huntly Haight {d}
18.3.  =1st off. US wildlife refuge #1870 years ago (Lake Merritt )* ;Note=1870, County of Alameda {d}
01.9.  =San Francisco, 1st cable-operated street railway in service #1873 years ago* ;Note=1873, Clay Street Hill Railroad, 1st testrun Aug. 2, 1873, 1st London 06.7.1840, 1st New York City 01.7.1868 {d}
07.5.  =ratification 2nd constitution #1879 years ago* ;Note=1879, adopted 03.3.1879, 1st const. .11.1850
03.7.  =San Diego, 1st horse-drawn open-air streetcar #1886 years ago* ;Note=1886, 5th Street, San Diego Street Car Company {d}
01.2.  =deed for subdivision purposes for a town called Hollywood #1887 years ago* ;Note=1887, >municipality Nov. 14, 1903, >Los Angeles 1910 {d}
19.11. =San Diego, inaug. 1st electric-powered streetcar #1887 years ago (2nd US)* ;Note=1887, San Diego & Old Town Street Railway, test run Nov. 9, 1887 {d}
23.11. =San Francisco, 1st coin-operated phonograph #1889 years ago* ;Note=1889, Palais Royale Saloon, nickel-in-the-slot phonograph >nickelodeon >jukebox {d}
01.10. =Act creating Yosemite National Park #1890 years ago* ;Note=1890 {d}
01.10. =Stanford University opens #1891 years ago (Leland Stanford Junior University)* ;Note=1891 {d}
21.9.  =San Diego, inaug. 1st electric double-decker streetcar #1892 years ago (1st US)* ;Note=1892, San Diego Electric Railway Co. {d}
14.11. =Hollywood incorporated as a municipality #1903 years ago* ;Note=1903, >Los Angeles 1910 {d}
22.3.  =California issued 1st licence plates #1905 years ago* ;Note=1905, state only assigned numbers {d}
;1910, Hollywood annexed into the City of Los Angeles
27.10. =Hollywood, open. 1st movie studio #1911 years ago* ;Note=1911, Nestor studios behind the Blondeau Tavern building {d}
13.7.  =Los Angeles, off. dedication sign 'HOLLYWOODLAND' #1923 years ago* ;Note=1923, 'LAND' is removed end 40s {d}
16.5.  =Hollywood, 1st Academy Awards (Oscars) #1929 years ago ;Note=Hollywood, Roosevelt Hotel, 1929, name 'Oscar' from 1931 {d}
01.1.  =California Old-age Pension Law eff. #1930 years ago* ;Note=1930, mandatory & Statewide {d}
05.1.  =San Francisco, construction of the Golden Gate bridge began #1933 years ago ;Note=1933, ended April 19, 1937, openend May 27, 1937 {d}
12.11. =San Francisco, open. 'James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Bridge' (San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge) #1936 years ago* ;Note=1936, begin constr. July 9, 1933 {d}
20.11. =San Francisco-Golden Gate bridge, main span joined #1936 years ago* ;Note=1936, began January 5, 1933, construction ended April 19, 1937, openend May 27, 1937 {d}
19.4.  =San Francisco, construction of the Golden Gate bridge ended #1937 years ago* ;Note=1937, began January 5, 1933, openend May 27, 1937 {d}
27.4.  =San Francisco-Golden Gate bridge, Last Rivet Ceremony #1937 years ago* ;Note=1937, began January 5, 1933, construction ended April 19, 1937, openend May 27, 1937 {d}
;26.5.  =San Francisco, off. opening Golden Gate bridge #1937 years ago* ;Note=1937 {d} >May 27, 1937
27.5.  =San Francisco, Golden Gate bridge opened to pedestrians #1937 years ago (06:00)* ;Note=1937, pedestrian day {d}
28.5.  =San Francisco, Golden Gate bridge opened to vehicles #1937 years ago (12:00)** ;Note=1937 {d}
17.7.  =Anaheim, off. open. Disneyland #1955 years ago ;Note=1955, public July 18, 1955 {d}
18.7.  =Anaheim, Disneyland opened to the public #1955 years ago ;Note=1955, off. open. July 17, 1955 {d}
09.2.  =Los Angeles, 1st star on Hollywood Walk of Fame #1960 years ago* ;Note=1960, Joanne Woodward {d}
23.7.  =California State Tartan created #2001 years ago* ;Note=2001 {d}


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