Forty-four pobladores found El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de la Reina de los Angeles del Rio Porciuncula in the Las Californias territories of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas in the Castilian Viceroyalty of New Spain.
Jose Vicente Feliz becomes Los Angeles’ first public official
Jose Vanegas becomes the first Alcalde of el Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles in the Las Californias territories of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas in the Castilian Viceroyalty of New Spain.
A chapel was constructed near Buena Vista Street and Bellevue Avenue.
Mission San Fernando founded near Don Francisco’s Reyes Rancho on land that eventually became the Mexican-era ranchos Las Virgenes, Simi, San Francisquito, Tujunga, Caulos, Agua Amargo, Triunfo, Las Calabasas, el Escorpian and los Encinos.
Mariano Verdugo becomes first Alcalde of el Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles in the Alta California territory of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas in the Castilian Viceroyalty of New Spain.
Ground breaking ceremonies held for the Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles plaza church.
A school opens at Maximo Pina’s private home in the pueblo.
Manuel Gutierrez becomes the first alcalde of el Pueblo de los Angeles in the Alta California territory of Mexico.
Dedication of the Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles plaza church.
Pico takes oath at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church on the plaza
Vicente Moraga began a school
Vicente Moraga briefly opens a school on the Plaza.
Guillermo Soto becomes Comisionado of el Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de la Reina de los Angeles del Rio Porciuncula in the Alta California territory of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas in the Castilian Viceroyalty of New Spain.
Mexican Congress ordered Ciudad de los Angeles to replace Monterey as the regional capital for the territory of the United States of Mexico. The arribenos demand General Castro retain power at the Presideo of Monterey. Francisco Alvarado became Alcalde.
A vigilante committee formed up.
Don Ignacio Coronel began a school in his townhouse on plaza.
Don Vicente Lugo constructed the first two-story building that would a few years later become the first home St. Vincent’s College, the pioneer institution of higher education in Los Angeles.
Pope Gregory XVI appointed Mexican Franciscan Friar Francisco Garcia Diego y Moreno Bishop of Two Californias. During his administration the Mission San Inez began a seminary.
Ygnacio Alvarado and Ygnacio Palomares become first Justices of the Peace el Pueblo de los Angeles in the Alta California territory of Mexico.
Governor Micheltorena established a new school in Los Angeles
Stephan Clark Foster becomes first mayor of the town of Los Angeles in the United States Department of California.
The Los Angeles County Sheriffs formed with annual elections for Office of the Sheriff.
Alpheus P. Hodges becomes the first mayor of post-statehood Los Angeles.
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A school of higher education is founded when Saint Vincent’s College began in rented rooms at the pioneer Lugo family’s former townhouse on the plaza at Los Angeles Street. Reverend John Asmuth of the Congregation of the Missions was named first president and succeeded by Reverend James McGill, CM later that year.
Rev. John Asmuth becomes first president of St. Vincent's College.
Rev. James McGill, CM becomes second president of SVC.
St. Vincent’s College benefactor Ozro W. Childs donated the first permanent campus site at 600 N. Hill St.
on Hill Street for the next twenty years.
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The school is chartered by the state of California to convey college degrees and priliveges
Los Angeles' first educational institution is incorporated as the President and Trustees of St. Vincent's College
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Rev. Charles J. Becker, CM becomes the third president of SVC.
Rev. Miguel Rubio, CM becomes fourth president of SVC
Speaking of St. Vincent’s College, a visiting Austrian royal accounted “…is situated in the west end of town in a pleasant garden…it also contains a library and small chapel”.---Ludwig Salvatore, Los Angeles in the Sunny Seventies.
Rev. Michael V. Richardson, CM becomes fifth president of SVC
Miguel Pryor of San Juan Capistrano and Marcus Forster of Las Flores Rancho graduate from St. Vincent's
The Sixth Avenue campus adds a new wing.
Very Rev. Aloysiis J. Meyer, CM becomes the sixth president of SVC
The school buys a lot on the corner of Washington Blvd. and Grand Avenue
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Needing even more space despite the renovation and with booming real-estate speculation St. Vincent’s College moved southwest to a much larger site at Washington Street and Grand Avenue. Designed and constructed by J.V. McNeil Construction, the new campus boasted a modern furnished College Library.
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