An Evidentiary Timeline on the History of Sacramento's Chinatown

499 - The Chinese Discover America Almost A Thousand Years Before Columbus

1848 - Coming to America, The Diaspora of the Chinese to California

1850 - The Beginnings of Sacramento's Chinatown at China Slough

1882 - American Sinophobia, The Chinese Exclusion Act and "The Driving Out"

1900 - Forbidden Worker, the Chinese Question, and American Labor

1910-30 - Sacramento's Chinatown in the Twentieth Century