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Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynez) was a Spanish mission in present-day Solvang, California, United States, and named after St. Agnes of Rome.Founded on September 17, 1804, by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding ...
Chumash revolt of 1824. 19th century painting ( by Alexander Harmer) depicting Mexican soldiers under fire by Chumash forces as they advance towards La Purísima Mission. Date. February 21, 1824 – June 1824. Location. Mission Santa Inés, Mission Santa Barbara, La Purisima Mission. The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash ...
Esteban Tápis. Father Esteve Tapis, O.F.M. (25 August 1754 – 3 November 1825) was a Spanish missionary to the Americas . Tapis was born in Santa Coloma de Farners in the Catalan Province of Girona, and entered the novitiate of the Order of Friars Minor at Girona on 22 January 1778. [1] He was sent to New Spain in 1786, where he attended the ...
The Mission has earned a reputation as the "Loveliest of the Franciscan Ruins." [1] The Spanish missions in California ( Spanish: Misiones españolas en California) formed a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California.
The 1812 Ventura earthquake (also known as the Santa Barbara earthquake) occurred on the morning of December 21 at 11:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST).The 7.1–7.5 magnitude earthquake, with a Modified Mercalli intensity scale rating of X (Extreme), along with its resulting tsunami, caused considerable damage to present-day Santa Barbara and Ventura County, California, which was at the time a ...
Joseph John "Jose Juan" Chapman (1784–1849) was an American merchant sailor, then a crew member under the privateer Hippolyte Bouchard (Letter of Marque 116 signed by Juan Martín de Pueyrredon), [1] then one of the earliest English-speaking settlers and builders of Mexican Alta California. Chapman was one of the first known American-born ...
Rancho Ex-Mission la Purísima. Rancho Ex-Mission la Purísima (also called Rancho Purísima) was a 14,736-acre (59.63 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Jonathan Temple. [1] The rancho derives its name from the secularized Mission La Purísima, but was called ex ...
Mission Santa Barbara (Spanish: Misión de Santa Bárbara) is a Spanish mission in Santa Barbara, California, United States.Often referred to as the 'Queen of the Missions', it was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén for the Franciscan order on December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission of what would later become 21 missions in Alta California.