Chronology of Events Events cited include events in the history of California, County of Alameda, and City of Oakland that affected the lives of the Peralta family. Personal events in the lives of the Peraltas are in bold type. 1759 - Luís Marí Peralta born in Sonora, New Spain (Mexico) 1769 - Mission San Diego founded - First mission in Alta California 1775 - Anza expedition to colonize Alta California bringing Gabriel Peralta and his wife, Francisca Valenzuela, with their 4 children, including 17-year-old Luís María to California 1776 - Mission San Francisco de Asís and Presidio founded 1777 - Mission Santa Clara founded 1777 - Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe founded 1777 - Gabriel Peralta family one of founding families of Pueblo de San José 1781 - Luís María Peralta enlists as soldier at Monterey Presidio 1783 - Luís María Peralta transfers to the San Francisco Presidio 2/23/1784 - Luís María Peralta marries 13-year-old María Loreto Alviso at Mission Santa Clara. They go on to have 17 children, 9 of whom live to adulthood (Only those children living to adulthood will be included in rest of chronology) 1786 - María Teodora Peralta, first child of Luís and María Peralta born, baptized Mission Dolores (San Francisco) 1789 - María Trinidad Peralta born, bap. Mission Santa Clara 1791- Hermenegildo Ignacio Peralta born, bap. Mission Dolores 1793 - María Joséfa Peralta born, bap. Mission Santa Clara 1795 - José Domingo Peralta born, bap. Mission Santa Clara 1797 - María Guadalupe Peralta born, San José pueblo 1797 - Mission San José founded 8/16/1801 - Antonio María Peralta born, bap. Mission Santa Clara 1807-1822 - Luís María Peralta becomes comisionado at Pueblo of San José 1808 - Luís María Peralta builds adobe in San José pueblo, still standing today 1812 - José Vicente Peralta born, San José pueblo 8/20/1820 - Rancho San Antonio granted to Luís María Peralta for services rendered to the Crown of Spain, consists of 11 leagues or about 44,800 acres, first crude structure of logs and dirt erected near Peralta Creek to house vaqueros during first winter 1821 - Cattle driven to rancho and first 42 x 18 ft. adobe structure built. This structure survives earthquakes in 1856 and 1868 and stands until 1897 when it was razed by developers. Antonio is mayordomo of rancho 1822 - Mexico gains independence from Spain and Alta California comes under its jurisdiction 6/30/1823 - Mexico confirms grant of rancho to Luís María Peralta 12/19/1827 - Luís María Peralta visits rancho and writes report giving description of rancho at governor's request. Rancho now has 1,300 head of cattle 6/30/1823 - Mexico confirms grant of rancho to Luís María Peralta 5/22/1828 - Antonio Peralta marries María Antonia Galindo at Mission Santa Clara. Now living permanently on rancho 1828 - Census of San José indicates fourteen people residing at Rancho San Antonio 1834 - Both Vicente and Domingo Peralta now living on rancho with Antonio 1834 - Decree of secularization of the missions by Mexico 1835 - Ignacio Peralta builds his first adobe, 42 x 18 ft. in southern portion of rancho. He lives in it only a few years before giving it to his son Francisco Peralta and moving either back to San José or into the 1821 adobe with Antonio. 1836 - María Alviso Peralta dies, buried at Mission Santa Clara 1836 - Vicente Peralta builds first adobe (40 x 40 ft.) at Temescal portion of the rancho and he and Domingo move in. This house was removed in the latter part of the 1880s. 1840 - Antonio Peralta builds a larger adobe 40 x 60 ft. near first adobe. He also builds a 6 to 8 foot tall adobe wall enclosing approximately 2 ½ acres around his garden and a number of one-story lean-to houses along the inside of the wall to accommodate visitors and laborers 1840-1842 - First foreigners start cutting redwood trees in the hills above Rancho San Antonio 1841 or 1842 - Domingo builds own adobe (30 x 18 ft.) on Codornices Creek in present-day Berkeley, this structure removed as a result of 1868 earthquake 1842 - 83-year-old Luís María Peralta divides the Rancho San Antonio between his four sons as follows: 9,416 acres from San Leandro Creek to approximately Seminary Avenue to Hermenegildo Ignacio Peralta (1791-1874); 15,206 acres from Seminary Avenue to Lake Merritt and including the peninsula of Alameda to Antonio María Peralta (1801-1879); - North and west of Lake Merritt to approximately Alcatraz Avenue to José Vicente Peralta (1812-1871); Northwestern portion including present Berkeley and Albany to El Cerrito Creek to José Domingo Peralta (1795-1865); Combined acreage of Vicente and Domingo is 18,848 1842 - Ignacio Peralta builds second larger adobe (80 x 40 ft.) facing San Leandro Creek and begins his permanent residency on the rancho, adobe removed sometime between 1874 and 1878 1846 - U.S. War with Mexico - U.S. annexes California 1846 - First commercial sawmills set up in the San Antonio redwoods, (price of redwood went from $30 per 1000 board feet in 1847 to $350 to $650 per 1000 board feet in 1849) 1847-1848 - Last adobe dwelling built by Vicente Peralta in Temescal. Eventually had three wings and a chapel that served all the Peraltas. Building burned in 1866, removed in 1880s. 1/24/1848 - Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill 2/2/1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed 9/9/1850 - California becomes 31st state 1849-1850 - Moses Chase pitches tent east side of Lake Merritt, first known squatter on Rancho San Antonio 1850 - Robert, William, and Edward Patten come to Oakland (These men, along with Moses Chase, lease and then purchase 600 acres of land from Antonio Peralta and found the town of Clinton on the eastern side of Lake Merritt to Thirteenth Avenue) 2/18/1850 - California divided into 27 counties, Rancho San Antonio included in Contra Costa County 5/1850 - Horace W. Carpentier, Andrew Moon, and Edson Adams arrive in Oakland 1850 - Carpentier and partners lease land from Vicente Peralta, each claim 160 acres and begin selling lots 1851 - Antonio Peralta builds more lean-to houses, bringing the total to about twenty-seven and plants Spanish Pine tree 10/1851- Antonio Peralta sells Alameda peninsula for $14,000 1851 - Domingo builds first Peralta frame house. House is moved to Schmidt Tract in 1872, torn down in 1933 1851 - U.S. Federal Land Act calling for a land commission to decide the fate of Spanish and Mexican land grants in California 8/26/1851 - Luís María Peralta dies in San José 1851- Town of San Antonio grows up around foot of Thirteenth Ave. 1852 - Claims filed with U.S. Land Commission by all the Peralta brothers 5/4/1852 - Town of Oakland incorporated 3/25/1852 - Alameda County incorporated, Rancho San Antonio becomes part of Alameda County 1852-1853 - Vicente Peralta sells all but 700 acres for $110,000 1853 - Domingo Peralta sells all but 300 acres for $82,000 1853-1854 - Fire and police services established in Oakland;first newspaper published in Oakland, Alameda County Express est. March, 1854 and Contra Costa and Oakland Herald est. Sept. 1854 1854 - City of Oakland incorporated 1854 -Oakland passes ordinance prohibiting bull fights 2/8/1854 - Land Commission confirms a portion of Rancho San Antonio to Domingo and Vicente Peralta. Commission confirms all of the claims of Antonio and Ignacio Peralta 1/30/1855 - U.S. District Court confirms whole portion of Rancho San Antonio claimed by Vicente & Domingo Peralta 1856 - Towns of Clinton and San Antonio consolidated under name of Brooklyn 12/1856 - U.S. Supreme Court confirms title to entire claim made by Vicente & Domingo Peralta, overruling the U.S. Land Commission's decision to confirm only a portion of rancho 3/30/1857 - U.S. Supreme Court dismisses the government's appeal of the land commission's decision on Antonio Peralta's claim 1860 - Ignacio moves into brick house built by son-in-law William P. Toler. This house still stands today in San Leandro and is known as the Alta Mira Club 1862-1864 - Major drought in California, severely damages cattle industry 4/3/1865 - Domingo Peralta dies in Berkeley 1867 - Vicente builds frame house because adobe burned in 1866. This house was moved in 1892 and burned in 1932 1867 - Town of Lynn established northeast of Clinton 10/1868 - Earthquake on the Hayward fault destroys Antonio's 1840 adobe, family moves back into 1821 adobe 1868-1869 - Oakland establishes commission to settle land title confusion, has all land deeded to city as trustee and then re-deeds it to the owners 11/8/1869 - First Central Pacific train arrives in Oakland 1868-1879 - Severe, prolonged economic depression in California 1870 - Antonio Peralta builds Italianate Victorian farmhouse 1870 - Brooklyn and Lynn incorporated into town of Brooklyn 6/30/1871 - Vicente Peralta dies in Fruitvale 1872 - Brooklyn annexed by city of Oakland 1872 - Domingo's widow, María Eduviges Garcia, and family move out of the frame house because they can no longer afford it. House sold to J.C. Schmidt in 1876, who has the house moved. House sold in 1924 to University of California 5/9/1874 - Ignacio Peralta dies in San Leandro 6/17/1874 - Patent issued to Antonio Peralta for his portion of the Rancho San Antonio (16,067 acres) 2/10/1877 - Domingo & Vicente Peralta heirs receive patent for land from U.S. 2/22/1879 - Antonio María Peralta dies at Fruitvale. 1880 - Population of Oakland, 34,555 8/9/1881 - Petition for probate of Estate of Antonio Peralta filed by Fernando Peralta, executor 1878 or 1881 1870 Antonio Peralta house and 23 acres deeded to Francisco Galindo in payment of a $5,000 debt 1892-1897 - Agustin Casselli lives in 1870 Peralta House 3/5/1897 - Inez Peralta Galindo sells 1870 house and last 18 acres to Henry Z. Jones, a housing developer, house is moved across the street from original location 5/20/1897 - Map of Galindo Tract filed, includes 33 lots connected to sewer on Peralta Avenue (now Coolidge Avenue)