Request a brochure Civil War Encyclopedia Blue and Gray Trail Civil War in Georgia On the Blue and Gray Trail Civil War by state Today in the Civil War Battles Images Places Feature Stories Links Search Who we are	The Civil War in California January 24, 1848 Discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California California   Compromise of 1850 December 13, 1848 A bill introduced in the House calls for the admission of California and New Mexico as free states. California June 3, 1849 California Provincial Governor Bennett Riley calls for a convention on statehood to convene in Monterey in September. California September 1, 1849 Statehood convention meets in Monterey, California California November 13, 1849 Peter H. Burnett and and John McDougal are elected the first Governor and Lieutenant Governor of California under the Constitution created at the statehood convention California September 9, 1850 California is admitted to the United States. For the first time the number of free states (16) exceeds the number of slave states (15) California   Compromise of 1850 January 15, 1861 Albert Sidney Johnston assumes command of the Department of the Pacific. California   Albert Sidney Johnston April 25, 1861 General Edwin Vose Sumner relieves Albert Sidney Johnston as Commander, Department of the Pacific California   Albert Sidney Johnston   Edwin Vose Sumner May 6, 1959 California ratifies the 14th Amendment California   14th Amendment
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