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May 21, 2019 · A decade later, as the Depression began, UCLA moved from Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles to a new place on the map, Westwood — on the leading edge of a population explosion that pushed the city’s destiny toward the ocean. The first UCLA century is remarkable on any scale.
Los Angeles’ balmy climate, plentiful natural resources and wealth of opportunity saw the population rise from an estimated 100,000 in 1900 to over one million by the 1920s. The University of California was established in 1868, with the first campus at Berkeley.
UCLA was founded in 1919, its origins in a two-year teachers college in the orange groves of Hollywood. It would take an ambitious transformation to convert the Los Angeles Normal School into the vast educational enterprise that would become UCLA — and creating the College of Letters and Science in 1923 was the major milestone in that process.
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- Why Did Spanish Explorers Come to California?
- First Spanish Contacts
- What Were The Reasons For Spanish Exploration of California?
- Who Discovered California First?
- The English Plant A Flag
- Sebastián Vizcaíno and Monterey Bay
- A Pause in Exploration
- Early Exploration of California Timeline
Spanish mariners began exploring the Pacific coast of North America in the early 16th century in hopes of finding new civilizations to join their empire. It was a time when powers such as Spain, England, France and Ottoman Empire competed for control of land and trade in Europe, the Near East and Africa. Seeking to outflank her rivals in Europe, Sp...
In Mexico, Hernán Cortez harnessed the resentment of neighboring peoples against the Aztecs. In 1521 he led several hundred Spaniards and thousands of native warriors to topple one of the most powerful empires in the Americas.
Spanish experience in central Mexico kindled the hope for finding other wealthy civilizations. Knowing that Vasco Nuñez de Balboahad reached Pacific Ocean in 1513, Spanish ships, sailing north in search of “otro Méjico” or “another Mexico” encountered the peninsula of Baja California in 1533. They anchored in a peaceful bay which they named “La Paz...
The difficulty of traveling north along the Pacific coast did not deter Spanish sea captains from exploring further up the Pacific Coast. In 1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillowas the first European to arrive in what is today California. Cabrillo sailed into the Bay of Ensenada, Baja California, and later entered what is today San Diego Bay. By mid-Novemb...
News of Spanish discoveries in the Pacific also reached her rivals. Queen Elizabeth I of England, the enemy of King Philip II’s Spain, did everything she could to damage Spanish interests. England fomented revolt against Spanish power in Netherlands and encouraged English privateers to target Spanish ships abroad. One such privateer was Francis Dra...
Although Spain had to guard against English harassment, it never constituted more than an occasional threat. It was the creation of the British East India Company in 1600, followed shortly after by the Dutch East India Company, that intensified Spanish interest in finding safe places to land ships along the north Pacific coast. In 1602 the Spanish ...
Vizcaíno’s glowing reports about the quality this northern bay impressed the count, but Monterrey was soon replaced by another viceroy who had different priorities. Spanish officials found other ways of protecting and resupplying the Manila galleons that followed the Pacific currents south to Mexico, while the difficulty of fighting those same curr...
1533: Spanish ships reach the tip of Baja California. 1535: Hernán Cortez reaches Baja California. 1539: Francisco de Ulloa confirms that Baja California is a peninsula. 1542: Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo arrives in San Diego Bay. He later sails as far as the Oregon coast. 1579: Francis Drake lands near San Francisco. 1602: Sebastián Vizcaíno sails into...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San José State University .
May 30, 2019 · May 30, 2019. T wo small but formative events in 1927 accelerated the creation of the university that became UCLA. First, the official name became University of California at Los Angeles. Southern Branch was dropped from the original Vermont Avenue campus.
In the fall of 1929, 10 years after students enrolled at the Southern Branch of the University of California, the first students entered the halls of the University of California, Los Angeles. The UCLA of the 1920s shared the energy and ambition of the time — always with an eye on the future.
