Category:Years in Alta California


 * Years in Alta California (1768—1848) — the years in California history before the U.S. territorial and statehood eras.
 * California was within the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México) from 1542 to 1822, and within independent Mexico from 1822 to 1848.
 * California was the northern part of the Spanish Las Californias Province ("the Californias") from 1768—1804; and the Spanish, then Mexican, Alta California Territory ("upper California") from 1804—1848.