LOS ANGELES HISTORY

Los Angeles is the second largest city in United States. It is well known for its heritage and culture. This city has rainy cool winters and hot dry summers. It is an economical stable city and is shopping hub for many outsiders. The perfect place for entertainment and a holiday spot. The history of Los Angeles states that there lived two kinds of tribes in this area before the Europeans invaded them in the year 1542. Los Angeles was officially found on September 4, 1781, by a group of forty four settlers known as “Los Pobladores”.

Pobladores meaning “towns people”. After 1848, there was a remarkable change in Los Angeles. Europeans visited Los Angeles region when Captain Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo had his healthy crew. They were sailing up the coast looking for a new passage to Asia and they accidentally landed up in this place. In 1602, Captain Sebastian Vizcaino dropped anchor at Santa Catalina Island and near San Pedro.

A Spanish general by name José de Galvez was interested in further expedition into places of Alta California. The other important person responsible for the discovery of Los Angeles was the new Governor of California, Felipe de Neve. He then identified Santa Barbara, San Jose, and Los Angeles as sites for his new pueblos. Los Angeles got a new status of its own only when California was transferred to the United States as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War.