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Alta California
Alta California
Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain; (1804–1821); Province of the First Mexican Empire; (1821–1824); Federal Territory of Mexico; (1824–1836)
1804–1836
	;
Capital	Monterey (1804–1836)
Demonym	Californio
History
Government
Governor
• 1804–1814	José Joaquín de Arrillaga; (First Spanish governor)
• 1815–1822	Pablo Vicente de Solá; (Last Spanish governor)
• 1822–1825	Luis Antonio Argüello; (First Mexican governor)
• 1836	Nicolás Gutiérrez; (Last Alta California governor)
Historical era	Spanish colonial era
• Las Californias	1769
• Established	1804
• Treaty of Córdoba	August 24, 1821
• Disestablished	1836
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Province of the Californias
Department of the Californias
Today part of	United States Arizona; California; Colorado; Nevada; Utah; Wyoming;

Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names,^[a] was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula, it had previously comprised the province of Las Californias, but was made a separate province in 1804 (named Nueva California).^[1] Following the Mexican War of Independence, it became a territory of Mexico in April 1822^[2] and was renamed Alta California in 1824.

The territory included all of the U.S. states of California, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Arizona, Wyoming, and Colorado. The territory was re-combined with Baja California (as a single departamento) in Mexico's 1836 Siete Leyes (Seven Laws) constitutional reform, granting it more autonomy.^[3]^[4] That change was undone in 1846, but rendered moot by the outcome of the Mexican–American War in 1848, when most of the areas formerly comprising Alta California were ceded to the U.S. in the treaty which ended the war. In 1850, California joined the union as the 31st state.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1884). History of California. The History company. p. 68. without any uniformity of usage, the upper country began to be known as California Septentrional, California del Norte, Nueva California, or California Superior. But gradually Alta California became more common than the others, both in private and official communications, though from the date of the separation of the provinces in 1804, Nueva California became the legal name, as did Alta California after 1824.
↑ Williams, Mary Floyd (July 1922). "Mission, presidio and pueblo: Notes on California local institutions under Spain and Mexico". California Historical Society Quarterly. 1 (1): 23–35. doi:10.2307/25613566. JSTOR 25613566. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
↑ Robinson, William Wilcox (1979). Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads. Chronicles of California, Volume 419: Management of public lands in the United States. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pp. 29. ISBN 0520038754. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
↑ Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press. pp. 18f. ISBN 1592233198.

Footnotes

↑ California Septentrional ('Northern California'), California del Norte ('North California') or California Superior ('Upper California') were unofficial names.^[1]