A Southern California Chronology
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This chronology always will be a "work in progress."  We invite your additions and corrections. E-mail us at socalhis@earthlink.net.  In compiling this list of significant dates in the history of Southern California, with occasional references to events in the United States and the world at large, we gratefully acknowledge the following sources:
   Carruth, Gordon, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, Harper & Row, 1989  






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Clark, David L., Los Angeles: A City Apart, Winsor Publications, Inc., 1981
Longstreet, Stephen, All Star Cast: An Anecdotal History of Los Angeles, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977
Engstrand, Iris H.W., San Diego: Gateway to the Pacific, Pioneer Publications, 1992
Los Angeles Business Journal, July 19, 1999
Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 10, 1999
Newmark, Harris, My Sixty Years in Southern California, Houghton-Mifflin, 1916
Pitt, Leonard and Dale Pitt, Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County, University of California Press, 1997
Robinson, W.W., Los Angeles: From the Days of the Pueblo, California Historical Society, 1981