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Oct 31, 2023 · February 28, 1847 — Mexican-American War. The Battle of the Sacramento River was fought on February 28, 1847, between the United States and Mexico, during the Mexican-American War. The outcome of the battle was an American victory. This painting depicts the fighting at the Battle of the Sacramento River. Image Source: Wikimedia.
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November 2, 1852 On this day in 1852, Sacramento’s great fire, known as the Great Conflagration, burned more than 80 percent of the structures in the city. The structures were mainly made of canvas and wood. It is estimated that the total damages from the fire was around six million dollars. The fire started at the millinery shop of Madame Lanas on...
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September 1, 1849 The California Constitutional Convention was held at Colton Hall in Monterey. Robert Semple presided over the convention. The delegates that represented Sacramento were Jacob R. Snyder, John A. Sutter, John McDougal, Charles E. Pickett, Elisha O. Crosby, Winfield S. Sherwood, William E. Shannon, and Lansford Hastings. Other notabl...
August 1, 1849 Following an election that was held in July at the St. Louis Exchange on 2ndStreet, a city council was organized in Sacramento City. Those elected to the city council were John P. Rodgers, H. E. Robinson, P. B. Cornwall, William Stout, E. F. Gillespie, Thomas F. Chapman, Michael T. McClelland, Albert M. Winn and B. Jennings. William ...
July 31, 1846 On this day in 1846, Sam Brannan arrived in Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) aboard the ship the Brooklyn. Brannan, a 26-year-old elder in the Mormon Church, brought over 200 Mormon voyagers to California looking for a place for freedom of worship. The Brooklyn left New York on February 4, 1846, traveled around Cape Horn, and stopped a...
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Sacramento History Online. 1800-1839 | 1840-1879 | 1880-1899 | 1900-1929. 1800-1839. 1808. Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga and Spanish soldiers from Mission San Jose are the first Europeans to enter the Sacramento Valley. They discover the two rivers (the Sacramento and American) which they name the "Jesus Maria" and the "Sacramento." 1824.
Introduction. A plaque mounted on the corner of the California Fruit Building commemorates the exact location where gunfire broke out between two groups of Sacramento citizens on August 14, 1850. Though the Fruit Building would not be built until 1914, a line of rebellious squatters formed across 4th Street at this intersection and, by most ...
A total of six were wounded. [1] The Squatters' riot was an uprising and conflict that took place between squatting settlers and the government of Sacramento, California (then an unorganized territory annexed after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) in August 1850 concerning the lands that John Sutter controlled in the region and the extremely ...
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The Battle of the Sacramento River took place on February 28, 1847, during the Mexican–American War. About fifteen miles (24 km) north of Chihuahua , Mexico , at the crossing of the Sacramento River , American forces numbering less than 1,000 defeated a superior Mexican army, which led to the occupation of Chihuahua.
The Battle of the Sacramento River took place on February 28, 1847, during the Mexican–American War. About fifteen miles north of Chihuahua, Mexico, at the crossing of the Sacramento River, American forces numbering less than 1,000 defeated a superior Mexican army, which led to the occupation of Chihuahua.: 153
