Timeline of Genocide Incidents in the Bay Area and Central Coast Region
CONTENT WARNING: Many of the primary sources linked on this timeline contain racist language or sentiment and graphic accounts of settler-colonial violence against indigenous people.
| Appx.* | Date | Number killed | Location | Source | Source files |
| II | April (?), 1852 | 1 | San Antonio, near San Jose | Los Angeles Star in SDU, April 28, 1852, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0191a.jpg |
| II | August 20, 1852 | 1 | Martinez, Contra Costa County | DAC, July 15, 1852, 2 | |
| II | August 23, 1852 | 1 | Santa Clara, on “the west side of Market Square” | Santa Clara Register, August 26, 1852 in SDU, August 29, 1852, 3 | |
| II | December, 1852 | 1 | San Jose | DAC, December 19, 1852, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0223a.jpg |
| II | February 6, 1856 | 1 | Monterey | Monterey Sentinel in SDU, February 15, 1856, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0318a.jpg |
| II | May 11, 1856 | 1 | Monterey, Monterey County | Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West, 217 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0325a.pdf |
| II | January 11, 1858 | 1 | Monterey, Monterey County | Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West, 218 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0374a.pdf |
| II | Wounded on June 20; died of wounds June 27, 1859 | 1 | “a short distance from Santa Cruz” | SDU, July 8, 1859, 4 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0425.pdf |
| II | On or about December 3, 1859 | 1 | Alameda County | SDU, December 14, 1859, 4 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0439.pdf |
| II | October 21, 1861 | 1 | 9 miles from San Jose on the Monterey Road | SDU, October 21, 1861, 3 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0496.pdf |
| II | August 24, 1863 | 1 | Gilroy, Santa Clara County | Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West, 220 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0556a.pdf |
| II | Before September 16, 1863 | 2 | Near Santa Cruz | SDU, September 16, 1863, 2 | http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0558.pdf |
TOTAL ESTIMATED NUMBER KILLED IN REGION: 14
*Appendix (Appx.) refers to the reference’s location in:
Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016.
For full bibliographical references please refer to the text or Atlas credits & references
Abbreviations used in timeline:
DAC: Daily Alta Californian newspaper (San Francisco)
SDU Sacramento Daily Union newspaper