Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain formally established...

Alta (Spanish for "Upper") is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States, about 30...

of California. Soon after, California was admitted as a state. Governor of California List of governors of California since 1850 The Californias Alta California...

the expansion and settlement of New Spain through the formation of Alta California, expanding the empire into the most northern and western parts of Spanish...

indigenous peoples in the California genocide. The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state in 1850, as a free...

Alta Sierra (Spanish for "Upper Range") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Nevada County, California, United States. The population was 6,911 at the...

Empire, administration was split into Baja California (Lower California) and Alta California (Upper California) following the Mexican War of Independence...

The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign of the Mexican–American...

Look up Alta or alta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alta or ALTA may refer to: Alt-A, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of US mortgage American...

claimed the area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded...

up Alta California in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alta California was a province of New Spain. Alta California may also refer to: The Daily Alta California...

coast of Alta (Upper) California, beginning with the Mission San Diego de Alcala near the location of the modern day city of San Diego, California. During...

The Alta California or Daily Alta California (often miswritten Alta Californian or Daily Alta Californian) was a 19th-century San Francisco newspaper...

provinces of Alta California and Baja California as territories. With the establishment of a republican government in 1823, Alta California, like many northern...

time Alta California and the Baja California peninsula were administered together as Province of the Californias (Spanish: Provincia de las Californias)....

nearby Rockaway Quarry. In 1804 Las Californias province was split into Alta California province (upper) and Baja California province (lower), both still within...

Spaniards gave the name Las Californias to the peninsula and lands to the north, including both Baja California and Alta California, the region that became...

contain highlighting. In 1836, a coup led by Juan Alvarado declared Alta California's independence from Mexico. Declaring himself governor, Alvarado recruited...

In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments...

Nueva or New California, subsequently more commonly called Alta or Upper California. At the same time the old plural name of The Californias was revived...

Diego, California where Alta California started. After the establishment of Missions in Alta California after 1769, the Spanish treated Baja California and...

around what is now Sonoma County in California. In June 1846, thirty-three American immigrants in Alta California who had entered without official permission...

conquest continued on in the rest of California. Following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, Alta California was ceded from Mexico to the United...

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Palóu Line. In 1804, the Spanish crown divided California into Alta ('Upper') and Baja ('Lower') California at the line separating the Franciscan missions...

established by Spanish explorers in what is now California. It functioned as the capital of Alta California under both Spain (1804–1821) and Mexico (1822–1846)...

Blessed Sacrament. In 1839, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Mexican governor of Alta California, granted the responsibility of colonizing the Sacramento Valley to...

had been considered the Mexican territory and province of Alta California (Upper California), while a southeastern strip on the river Rio Grande had been...

These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals...

which came to be known across Alta California for its lawlessness. With the Mexican secularization of the Californian missions in 1833, the former mission...