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Timeline of Los Angeles

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The following is a general historical timeline of the city of Los Angeles, California in the United States of America.

Pre-Columbian era

  • 8,000 BCE – Chumash and Tongva Tribes inhabited the Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans in the area.
  • 2,000 BCE to 700 CE, the Uto-Aztecan (formerly known as Shoshonean) peoples entered the LA basin, absorbing or displacing the previous Hokan-speaking peoples
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15th century

English exploration

17th century

18th century

Spanish colonization

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19th century

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1800 to 1825

MEXICAN PERIOD

1825 to 1850

AMERICAN INVASION

AMERICAN PERIOD

  • 1848
  • 1849 – Lieutenant Edward Ord surveyed Los Angeles to confirm and extend the streets of the city. His survey put the city into the real-estate business, creating its first real-estate boom and filling its treasury.[11] Street names were changed from Spanish to English.

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

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Map submitted to Post Office Department showing rail lines and river (c.1885)

1890s

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20th century

1900s

1910s

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1910-1915

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

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Hollywood Walk of Fame established in 1960

1970s

1980s

1990s

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21st century

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Disney Concert Hall at night

2000s

2010s

2020s

Future events

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