https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_California
Timeline Indigenous & territorial claims prior to 1768. First people on the west coast of North America, about 13,000 years BCE; Indigenous peoples of California, see map circa 1492; Early European edicts and claims that included the yet unknown land of California . Inter caetera papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI, 1493; Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494; Vasco Núñez de Balboa …