California History Timeline, May 8 to May 15

May 8 Estanislao Rebellion in 1829 Mexican soldiers battled hundreds of Cosumnes warriors who fled Bay Area missions. The Indians, lead by a man called Estasnislao in the greatest uprising of the mission period, had built a natural fortification in a bend of today’s Stanislaus River and repeatedly fought off the soldiers.   Dana in 1836 Richard Henry […]