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The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva (or Gabrieleños) and Chumash Native US tribes thousands of years ago. The first Europeans arrived in 1542 under JoÃ, a Portuguese explorer who claimed the area as the City of God for the Spanish Empire but continued with his voyage and did not establish a settlement. The next contact would not come until 227 years later when Gaspar de Portola, together with Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2, 1769. Crespi noted that the site had the potential to be developed into a large settlement.

New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, and the pueblo continued as a part of Mexico. Mexican rule ended during the Mexican-US War, when USs took control from the Californios after a series of battles, culminating in the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga on January 13, 1847. Later, with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the Mexican government formally ceded Alta California and other territories to the US.

Railroads arrived when the Southern Pacific completed its line to Los Angeles in 1876. Oil was discovered in 1892, and by 1923 Los Angeles was producing one-quarter of the world`s petroleum.

In the 1920s, the motion picture and aviation industries flocked to Los Angeles. In 1932, with populus surpassing one 1,000,000, the city hosted the Summer Olympics. This period also saw the arrival of exiles from the increasing pre-war tension in Europe, including Thomas Mann, Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Schoenberg, and Lion Feuchtwanger.

WW2 and the expansion of defense industries brought new growth and prosperity to the city. Thousands of African USs migrated from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi to work in the enlargeing industries. The state also succumbed to war fears and transported most Japanese-US residents from Los Angeles and other cities to distant internment camps for the duration of the war.

As in other major cities, long-unresolved racial problems erupted in the 1960s and 1970s. Los Angeles grappled with the Watts riots in 1965, the high school walkout by Chicano students in 1968, and the 1970 Chicano Moratorium, as representative of racial strife inside the city. Los Angeles was one of the cities who passed homosexual rights bills during the 1970s (in 1979 after years of pressure from prominent performing arts members, and the first city where AIDS was discovered and centered on during the 1980s. Also in the 1980s, Los Angeles was also the center of the heavy metal scene, especially hair metal bands.