{"id":10272,"date":"2016-10-27T17:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T23:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loscabosguide.com\/blog\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2016-12-09T13:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:10:19","slug":"timeline-of-los-cabos-history-13000-bce-to-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loscabosguide.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/timeline-of-los-cabos-history-13000-bce-to-1900\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of Los Cabos History, 13,000 BCE to 1900"},"content":{"rendered":"

13,000 BCE<\/strong> \u2013 Estimated arrival date for the Peric\u00faes<\/a> in present day Baja California Sur. It is believed that Cape Region’s first inhabitants came by raft from Melanesia.<\/p>\n

1492<\/strong> \u2013 Crist\u00f3bal Col\u00f3n \u201cdiscovers\u201d the Americas, coming ashore at San Salvador in the Bahamas on October 12.<\/p>\n

\"Timeline<\/a>

The Spanish chivalric romance Las Sergas de Esplandi\u00e1n is the source of the name California.<\/p><\/div>\n

1510 <\/strong>\u2013 The first known edition of\u00a0 Garci Rodr\u00edguez de Montalvo\u2019s chivalric romance Las Sergas de Esplandi\u00e1n <\/em>is published in Seville. This novel is the source of the word California<\/a>, imagined in the book as a fictional island solely inhabited by women, and ruled by a queen named Calafia.<\/p>\n

1519<\/strong> \u2013 An expeditionary force of 11 ships and 500 men under the command of Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s makes landfall at Cozumel, an island off the eastern coast of the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula.<\/p>\n

1521<\/strong> \u2013 Tenochtitl\u00e1n, island capital of the Aztecs, falls after a long siege. Cort\u00e9s and his conquistadores<\/em> claim M\u00e9xico for Spain (calling it Nueva Espa\u00f1a), thus beginning three centuries of colonial rule.<\/p>\n

1533 <\/strong>\u2013 Mutineers led by navigator Fort\u00fan Xim\u00e9nez become the first Europeans to set foot on the Baja California peninsula.<\/p>\n

1535<\/strong> \u2013 Hernan Cort\u00e9s arrives in present day La Paz on May 3, naming it Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n

1539<\/strong> \u2013 Cortes dispatches Francisco de Ulloa on a voyage to seek the \u201cSeven Cities of Cibola.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Ulloa\u2019s ships explore the entire east coast of the Baja California peninsula, and the west coast as far north as Isla Cedros. He is credited as the first European to sight Cabo San Lucas.<\/p>\n

1541<\/strong>– Cabo San Lucas is named by Francisco de Bola\u00f1os on October 18, according to the Catholic calendar. Another version, recounted by Gustavo de la Pe\u00f1a Avil\u00e9s in his book Las Memorias del Vig\u00eda<\/em>, is that \u201cwhile anchored in the bay, the crew were surprised by a waterspout. They implored protection from a statue of that saint kept in the captain\u2019s cabin, and then a wind dragged the boat safely to the beach. In gratitude the crew christened the place with the name of their protector. In almost all maps prior to this date San Lucas appeared under the name Ballenas (Whales).\u201d<\/p>\n

1542<\/strong> \u2013 Juan Rodr\u00edguez Cabrillo leads a maritime expedition along the Pacific Coast, venturing as far north as the Russian River in what is now the state of California.<\/p>\n

1565<\/strong> \u2013 Spanish navigators Alonso de Arellano\u00a0and\u00a0Andr\u00e9s de Urdaneta find the necessary westerly winds for a trade route from Manila at the 38th parallel, thus clearing the way for the lucrative Manila\u2013Acapulco Galleon Trade.<\/p>\n

1587<\/strong> \u2013 Ships commanded by English privateer Thomas Cavendish sink the Spanish galleon<\/a> Santa Ana <\/em>off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, taking a fortune in treasure in the process.<\/p>\n

1596<\/strong> \u2013 Sebasti\u00e1n Vizca\u00edno is granted a concession to the pearl beds of La Paz, the first to receive such permission since Cort\u00e9s. Like Cort\u00e9s, however, Vizca\u00edno\u2019s attempted settlement is abandoned in less than a year due to inhospitable conditions, inadequate supplies and continual attacks from belligerent natives.<\/p>\n

1602<\/strong> \u2013 Vizca\u00edno undertakes a voyage on behalf of King Felipe III of Spain, seeking a safe harbor for the Manila\u2013Acapulco Galleon Trade. Vizca\u00edno visits many of the same places as Cabrillo in 1542, but gives them new names. Thus, he is credited with naming San Diego, Santa Barbara and Monterey, among other locales. In fact, it was Vizca\u00edno who gave San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo the name by which it and its bay were known for well over 100 years: San Bernab\u00e9. His ship anchored off the coast on June 11, and he named it according to Catholic custom.<\/p>\n

1683<\/strong> \u2013 One of the most notable early attempts at a permanent settlement on the peninsula is the expedition led by Admiral Isidro de Atondo y Antill\u00f3n. This expedition is responsible for several California firsts\u2013the first mission at San Bruno, the first serious attempt at agriculture, and the first coast to coast exploration of the interior\u2013but was ultimately abandoned at enormous cost in 1685.<\/p>\n

\"Timeline<\/a>

Mural of the Jesuits converting the Peric\u00faes, the original inhabitants of the Capes Region.<\/p><\/div>\n

1697<\/strong> \u2013 Juan Mar\u00eda Salvatierra and nine others land at Loreto, which will be the beachhead for over 70 years of Jesuit mission building<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1709<\/strong> \u2013 English privateer Woodes Rogers captures the Spanish galleon Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Encarnaci\u00f3n y Desenga\u00f1o <\/em>off the coast of Cabo San Lucas. Rogers is accompanied by Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor whom he rescued from an otherwise uninhabited island off the coast of Chile. Selkirk\u2019s four years as a castaway were reputedly the inspiration for Daniel Dafoe\u2019s classic novel Robinson Crusoe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

1730<\/strong> \u2013 Misi\u00f3n San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo A\u00f1uit\u00ed is established by Nicol\u00e1s Tamaral. Over 1,000 Peric\u00faes are baptized during the first year.<\/p>\n

1734<\/strong> \u2013Tamaral is beheaded and the mission at San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo destroyed when the Peric\u00faes revolt<\/a>, incensed by a ban on polygamy.<\/p>\n

1735<\/strong> \u2013 Peric\u00faes attack a shore party from the annual Manila galleon, killing 13 Spaniards. The captain of the ship San Crist\u00f3bal, little knowing what was happening ashore, was obliged by adverse winds to move its anchorage to Cabo San Lucas. The next day 600 Peric\u00faes led by Ger\u00f3nimo attacked, but were repulsed with minimal casualties on both sides. Ger\u00f3nimo was one of four rebels clapped into irons after being induced to board the ship.<\/p>\n

1748<\/strong> \u2013 Manuel de Ocio, former soldier and pearl fishing entrepreneur, founds the first peninsular mine, Real de Santa Ana. In addition to mining for silver, Ocio also founds a successful cattle ranching operation, and with his partner, Guadalajaran merchant Antonio Ignacio de Mena, opens a general store that sells goods from the mainland. Santa Ana is the first secular community in the Californias, and Ocio the first settler to amass considerable wealth.<\/p>\n

1756<\/strong> \u2013 A former Ocio assistant, Gaspar Pis\u00f3n y Guzm\u00e1n, opens a new mine called Santa Gertrudis 10 miles north of Santa Ana. Ocio\u2019s brother-in-law, Sim\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez, founds a community for the mine workers at a nearby spring called San Antonio, which becomes the second non-mission town on the peninsula. Since Santa Ana was later abandoned, San Antonio stands as the longest continually occupied community in the Californias.<\/p>\n

1767<\/strong> \u2013 The suppression of the Jesuits begins in Spain, when secret orders stripping them of their goods and expelling them from all Spanish domains are issued by the authority of King Carlos III.<\/p>\n

The first governor of California, Don Gaspar de Portol\u00e1, arrives at San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo, after his Loreto bound ship is blown south by adverse winds. Portol\u00e1\u2019s mandate is to oversee the expulsion of the Jesuits, inventory their missions, and establish a new secular order on the peninsula.<\/p>\n

1768<\/strong> \u2013 The final Jesuit missionaries depart from Loreto on February 3.<\/p>\n

Jun\u00edpero Serra and 16 other Franciscan missionaries<\/a> land in Loreto on April 1.<\/p>\n

Visitador general<\/em> Don Jos\u00e9 de G\u00e1lvez arrives on the peninsula in July, establishing his headquarters at Real de Santa Ana. G\u00e1lvez in his one year in residence issues a series of sweeping reforms,\u00a0 promotes civil settlements through land grants and concessions, and organizes land and sea expeditions to explore and settle what would soon be called Nueva California, later Alta California, and ultimately the U.S. state of California.<\/p>\n

1769<\/strong> \u2013 A group of scientists led by Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Chapp\u00e9 d\u2019Auteroche journey to San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo and then Real de Santa Ana to make observations during a rare Transit of Venus.<\/p>\n

1772<\/strong> \u2013 The first 10 Dominican missionaries arrive at Loreto, following a geographic agreement that grants them authority over the peninsular missions. The Franciscans, meanwhile, retain religious responsibility for Alta California.<\/p>\n

1777<\/strong> \u2013 Monterey becomes the capital of Las Californias, replacing Loreto.<\/p>\n

1793<\/strong> \u2013 The mission at San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo is severely damaged by flooding, necessitating relocation and rebuilding. The new mission is completed in 1799.<\/p>\n

1799<\/strong> \u2013 The population of San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo stands at 389 inhabitants, up 107 people from the previous year.<\/p>\n

1804<\/strong> \u2013 Alta and Baja California are officially separated, and each is given its own government.<\/p>\n

1807<\/strong> \u2013 Thomas Smith, a sailor aboard the American merchant ship Maryland<\/em> deserts at San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo, becoming the first expatriate in Los Cabos.<\/p>\n

1810<\/strong> \u2013 Priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla issues his famed grito,<\/em> a call for revolution proclaimed in the small town of Dolores in Guanajuato, M\u00e9xico. This was the precipitating act for the Mexican War of Independence., and its date, September 16, is now celebrated at Mexican Independence Day.<\/p>\n

1815<\/strong> \u2013 The Manila\u2013Acapulco Galleon Trade ends after 250 years.<\/p>\n

\"Timeline<\/a>

Illustrious Sudcaliforniano General Manuel M\u00e1rquez de Le\u00f3n was born in the mining community of San Antonio in 1822.<\/p><\/div>\n

1822<\/strong> \u2013 Two ships of the Chilean navy commanded by Vice Admiral Thomas Cochrane\u2013Independencia<\/em> under Captain William Wilkinson and Araucano<\/em> under Captain Robert Simpson\u2013sack San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo, ostensibly for refusing to recognize Mexican independence.<\/p>\n

Future general and peninsular hero Manuel M\u00e1rquez de Le\u00f3n is born on March 5 in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

1829<\/strong> \u2013 The mining town of San Antonio is briefly named capital of the Baja California peninsula after a hurricane devastates Loreto. The next year La Paz becomes the capital, which it remains for present day Baja California Sur.<\/p>\n

1830 <\/strong>\u2013 Ildefonso Cipriano Green Cese\u00f1a is born in Cabo San Lucas on January 23 to parents Stephen Green, a deserter from a whaling ship, and Mar\u00eda de Jes\u00fas Cese\u00f1a. There is some dispute over the year of Green\u2019s birth. Historian Pablo L. Martinez\u2019s records it in his Gu\u00eda Familiar de Baja California<\/em> as 1836, although the chronology of Green\u2019s remarkable life suggests the earlier date is correct.<\/p>\n

1835<\/strong> \u2013 English surgeon and naturalist Frederick Debell Bennett visits the small community of Cabo San Lucas<\/a>, which has eight dwellings and approximately 30 inhabitants.<\/p>\n

1840 <\/strong>\u2013 The mission at San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo is abandoned.<\/p>\n

1842<\/strong> \u2013 Nine Japanese sailors blown out to sea are picked up after months of drifting and put ashore in Cabo San Lucas.<\/p>\n

1846 <\/strong>\u2013 The Mexican\u2013American War<\/a> begins in May with several battles along the Rio Grande. The U.S. Congress passed an official declaration of war on May 13; its Mexican counterpart on July 7.<\/p>\n

1847<\/strong> \u2013 In February, at a territorial deputation in Santa Anita, Mauricio Castro Cota is named provisional jefe politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On March 29, the U.S. sloop Portsmouth<\/em> visits San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo, with Commodore Montgomery demanding surrender, and obliging local authorities to agree to remain neutral during the war.<\/p>\n

In September, forces under U.S. General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City.<\/p>\n

On October 23, after hearing of Mexican resistance at Muleg\u00e9, residents of San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo tear down the American flag and expel foreign visitors. In response, Commodore William Shubrick issues a proclamation that the U.S. has no intention of returning Baja California to M\u00e9xico; he also installs a detachment of 24 men plus artillery under the command of Lt. Charles Heywood.<\/p>\n

Lt. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Mijares is fatally wounded during the Battle of San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo on November 20, and dies the following day. A monument is now located on the spot where he fell.<\/p>\n

1848<\/strong> \u2013 On February 2, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

On February 15, 100 men from the sloop Cyane<\/em> come to the assistance of beleaguered U.S. forces, ending the three-week long Siege of San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo.<\/p>\n

On March 6, a truce is signed between the U.S. and M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n

On March 30, remaining peninsular forces under Mauricio Castro are defeated at the Skirmish of Todos Santos.<\/p>\n

1849<\/strong> \u2013 By presidential decree, the Baja California peninsula is divided into Northern and Southern territories.<\/p>\n

1850<\/strong> \u2013 The ports of Cabo San Lucas, La Paz, Loreto, Muleg\u00e9 and San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo are opened to foreign trade.<\/p>\n

\"Timeline<\/a>

William Walker led a filibustering attempt on Baja California in 1853, in an attempt to establish a slave state called the Republic of Sonora.<\/p><\/div>\n

1851<\/strong> \u2013 In the aftermath of the Mexican\u2013American War, the population of the Baja California peninsula is estimated to be only 7,000 people.<\/p>\n

1852<\/strong> \u2013 Impoverished French aristocrat Count Gaston Raoulx de Raousset-Boulbon leads a filibustering expedition to the Mexican state of Sonora. Despite a notable victory at Hermosillo, the expedition ends in failure. He makes another attempt in May 1854, sailing from San Francisco aboard the schooner Belle<\/em>. After being repulsed when trying to land at San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo, Raousset-Boulbon and his men return to Sonora, where they are again defeated. The Count is executed by firing squad in Guaymas on August 12, 1854.<\/p>\n

1853<\/strong> \u2013 American filibustero<\/em> William Walker departs San Francisco with 45 armed men aboard the Caroline<\/em>, intent on establishing a new \u201cRepublic of Sonora\u201d as a slave state. After a brief stop at Cabo San Lucas, Walker lands at La Paz on November 3, seizes both the current and future jefe pol\u00edticos, and proclaims his republic under the Code of Louisiana. Under duress from local patriots led by General Manuel M\u00e1rquez de Le\u00f3n, Walker and his men flee to Ensenada. There, bolstered by the arrival of 150 reinforcements aboard the brig Anita<\/em>, Walker holds power for several months, establishing his headquarters at a ranch belonging to the Gastelum family. Resistance, desertion and supply shortages sap the strength of the would-be conquerors, and Walker and his \u201carmy\u201d of 33 bedraggled soldiers of fortune are forced to cross the border at Tijuana on May 8, 1854. Walker later attempts another filibuster in Nicaragua, where he serves as president for nearly a year. He is shot by a firing squad in Honduras on September 12, 1860.<\/p>\n

1855<\/strong> \u2013 On March 23, Monsignor Juan Francisco Escalante y Moreno is named first apostolic vicar of Baja California by Pope Pius IX.<\/p>\n

On November 13, a fleet of three ships under the command of self-styled Admiral Juan Napole\u00f3n Zerman sails into La Paz flying Mexican colors. Zerman\u2019s uniform consists of mismatched English and Mexican military articles, topped off with a sombrero bedizened with two chicken feathers. Although he insists he is not a filibuster, the Frenchman is arrested by General Manuel M\u00e1rquez de Le\u00f3n when he comes ashore, and turned over to jefe pol\u00edtico Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Blancarte. Zerman and his men are ultimately released without harm.<\/p>\n

1857<\/strong> \u2013 A former California State Senator named Henry Crabbe leads approximately 100 men on a filibustering expedition to Sonora. After an eight-day battle at Caborca, the surviving Americans, including Crabbe himself, are executed by firing squad. Crabbe\u2019s head is subsequently severed and exhibited for a time in a jar of vinegar.<\/p>\n

The liberal Constitution of 1857 is ratified in M\u00e9xico on February 5, granting among other rights, the right to free speech and the right to bear arms. It also grants freedom of religion, abolishes slavery, and, most importantly, curtails the power of the Catholic Church, thus setting the stage for the country\u2019s War of Reform. The three year civil war ends when conservatives surrender in December 1860.<\/p>\n

1858<\/strong> \u2013 Peninsular patriots led by General Manuel M\u00e1rquez de Le\u00f3n, Ildefonso Green and former wartime jefe pol\u00edtico Mauricio Castro march on La Paz. There, they defeat troops under Colonel Diego Castilla, who were refusing to recognize the Constitution of 1857, in adherence to the recently formulated Plan of Tacubaya. A legislative assembly convenes and affirms that the Constitution of 1857 is the only law of the land, and that although Baja California is part of M\u00e9xico, it will govern itself independently until such time as the Reform War is ended and legal order reestablished. M\u00e1rquez continues to fight, fitting out four ships for liberal forces, and later leading a successful attack on the mainland port of San Blas.<\/p>\n

1860<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Hungarian naturalist J\u00e1nos X\u00e1ntus is stationed for two years at Land’s End in Cabo San Lucas taking tidal observations and collecting specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. Nearly 40 species are now named for him, including Basilinna xantusii, a rare hummingbird endemic to Baja California Sur.<\/p>\n

\"Timeline<\/a>

The smelting stack Ramona in El Triunfo was designed by none other than Gustave Eiffel, although he was not yet famous for his towers.<\/p><\/div>\n

1861<\/strong> \u2013 President Benito Ju\u00e1rez appoints Teodoro Riveroll as jefe pol\u00edtico of El Territorio Sur in Baja California.<\/p>\n

France intervenes militarily in M\u00e9xico, on the order of Emperor Napoleon III. Although Mexican forces famously win the Battle of Publa on May 5, 1862 (origin of the holiday Cinco de Mayo), the French forces persist and are able to install puppet monarch Maximilian and his wife Carlota on April 10, 1864. Two years of fierce fighting later, on May 31, 1866, Napoleon III aggress to withdraw troops. Emperor Maximilian is captured and executed on June 19, 1867, and Benito Ju\u00e1rez resumes his presidency.<\/p>\n

1862<\/strong> \u2013 New gold and silver deposits are discovered in the mining communities of San Antonio and El Triunfo, setting off a peninsular \u201cgold rush.\u201d Almost overnight, the population of El Triunfo swells from a few hundred to 10,000.<\/p>\n

1864<\/strong> \u2013 On March 30, Mexican president Benito Ju\u00e1rez grants the Leese Concession to San Francisco businessman Jacob P. Leese. This grant comprises an enormous amount of land equivalent to almost two-thirds of the peninsula:\u00a0 46,800 square miles between latitudes of 24.20 and 31 (basically Bah\u00eda Magdalena to San Felipe). Ju\u00e1rez was much criticized for \u201cgiving away\u201d much of Baja California, but the cash considerations were very helpful to the largely insolvent government, and the president\u2019s insistence on 18 strict provisions in the contract ultimately let to the forfeiture of the lands by the Lower California Company (who bought the concession from Leese), when they were unable to provide 200 colonizing families within the stipulated five year period.<\/p>\n

1865<\/strong> \u2013 Antonio Pedr\u00edn takes office as jefe pol\u00edtico on November 27. His role usurped by Pedro Navarette, Pedr\u00edn is briefly exiled, but is able to return the following year with the assistance of Ildefonso Green and Pablo Gastelum, and governs until 1868.<\/p>\n

1866<\/strong> \u2013 Port officials seize the American merchant ship John L. Stephens<\/em> in Cabo San Lucas. Bound for Mazatl\u00e1n, the ship is carrying arms and ammunition to French forces under Emperor Maximilian. The impounded vessel is taken to La Paz, and its cargo rerouted to Mexican partisans.<\/p>\n

A scientific commission consisting of journalist J. Ross Browne, geologist William Gaab and mining engineer F. Von Lohr, among others, arrives in Cabo San Lucas. The commission\u2019s ostensible purpose is to make recommendations to the Lower California Company regarding the Leese Concession, but it is thought that Browne, a former treasury agent, was also asked to make recommendations to the U.S. government on the potential annexation of the peninsula. Browne thought Baja California\u2019s only value lay in its strategic position, but his travelogue of the group\u2019s journey from Cabo San Lucas to Bah\u00eda Magdalena, published in three consecutive installments in Harper\u2019s New Monthly<\/em> magazine in 1868, provides one of the most evocative portraits of life in Baja California Sur during the latter part of the 19th century.<\/p>\n

1868 <\/strong>\u2013 Dominican missionary and Mexican\u2013American War hero Gabriel Gonz\u00e1lez dies in Todos Santos.<\/p>\n

1871 <\/strong>\u2013 After an inspection reveals only 21 American families, the Mexican government officially rescinds the Leese Concession held by the Lower California Company. Legal claims from this action persist for decades.<\/p>\n

\"Timeline<\/a>

Ildefonso Green is one of the most heroic figures in the history of Los Cabos, fighting for the constitutional cause on numerous occasions, as well as the rights of fellow cabe\u00f1os.<\/p><\/div>\n

1872<\/strong> \u2013 President of M\u00e9xico Sebasti\u00e1n Lerdo de Tejada subdivides the peninsula into three territories:\u00a0 Norte, Bah\u00eda Magdalena and La Paz.<\/p>\n

Early Cabo San Lucas citizen Thomas Ritchie dies on November 29, at the age of 61.<\/p>\n

1874 <\/strong>\u2013 El Triunfo mining companies like El Progreso are shipping approximately $50,000 a month in silver to La Paz, equivalent to over a million dollars a month in modern dollars.<\/p>\n

Ildefonso Green triumphs in a duel to the death in Cabo San Lucas on October 6 with a politically connected bandit, Ram\u00f3n Vald\u00e9s, who has been terrorizing and extorting citizenry in the area.<\/p>\n

1879<\/strong> \u2013 General Manuel M\u00e1rquez de Le\u00f3n leads an uprising against the dictatorial reign of Porfirio D\u00edaz, disillusioned by the Plan of Tuxtepec and a recent massacre in Veracruz (the occasion of D\u00edaz\u2019s famous order:\u00a0 \u00a1M\u00e1talos en caliente!). M\u00e1rquez and his rebels seize La Paz, he appoints his nephew Clodomiro Cota as jefe pol\u00edtico, and on November 22 he issues his revolutionary Plan of El Triunfo to the nation. \u00a0After the rebellion is quelled in 1880, M\u00e1rquez is exiled to San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n

1882<\/strong> \u2013 The peninsula\u2019s first library, named in honor of Melchor Ocampo, opens its doors in La Paz.<\/p>\n

1885<\/strong> \u2013 The Rothschild funded copper mining company El Boleo is founded in Santa Rosal\u00eda.<\/p>\n

1890<\/strong> \u2013 Gast\u00f3n S. Vives Gorieux and his brother Edmund found the pearling company Perlifera del Mar de Cort\u00e9s in La Paz.<\/p>\n

The last Baja California filibuster plot of the century is exposed by the San Diego Union<\/em>, naming several well-known conspirators, including a certain Mr. McQuilter, treasurer of the English owned Mexican Land and Colonization Company; Walter Gifford Smith, editor of the San Diego Sun<\/em>; B.A. Stephens, editor of the San Diego Informant<\/em>; and Captain John F. Janes, who publishes the San Pedro Shipping Gazette<\/em> and lives in a house made from shipwrecks. The conspirators\u2019 erstwhile plan is for men aboard the steamers Manuel Dublan<\/em> and Carlos Pacheco<\/em> to capture the Mexican warship Democrata<\/em>, come ashore during a fandango at the Hotel Iturbide in Ensenada, and overpower the presumably drunken officials. The attempt is doomed by disparaging national news coverage.<\/p>\n

General Manuel M\u00e1rquez de Le\u00f3n dies on July 27. He is remembered today by the international airport in La Paz, and the historic theater in Todos Santos, both of which are named in his honor.<\/p>\n

1894<\/strong> \u2013 Salvatierra Hospital opens in La Paz.<\/p>\n

1900<\/strong> \u2013 The peninsular population reaches 47,624.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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