When was California found?

Answer 1

California was never found and remains lost to this day. Joao Rodrigez Cabrilho is a Portuguese explorer credited with being the first European to "find" California. While the Portuguese were insisting they found California the natives started complaining how they lost California, in a manner of speaking. The lost and found department has never been kept busier by any other state than that of California. The United States that had found California then lost California to the Confederacy but found it again after the civil war. Oddly enough, Pio Pico, the last Mexican Governor of California who lost California to the American invasion was a supporter of the Union. After the war, the Union that finally found the lost California eventually lost it to the socialists and filmmakers who created a mystical haze over the borders of California and hid her from all the world to see, and now she is lost and gone for ever just like darling Clementine.

Answer 2

California became the 31st state in our union on September 9th, 1850.