California Admission Day

California Admission Day
Observed by	California, United States
Date	September 9
Next time	September 9, 2025 (2025-09-09)
Frequency	annual

California Admission Day is a legal holiday in the state of California in the United States. It is celebrated annually on September 9 to commemorate the anniversary of the 1850 admission of California into the Union as the thirty-first state.

California was admitted to the Union as part of the Compromise of 1850 as a free state after being ceded to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican–American War in 1848.

First bear flag

External links

• Governor Schwarzenegger Proclaims September 9 "Admission Day"(link broken, unable to find functioning links on www.bearflagmuseum.org)
• California Admission Day September 9, 1850
• California Legal Holidays Laws