Sacramento, California
Sacramento, the capital city of California, was discovered by Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga during the expedition of 1806-1808. While documenting the journey, a traveling writer with the expedition recorded: "Canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, many festooned with grapevines, overhung both sides of the blue current, birds chattered in the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths. The air was like champagne, and (the Spaniards) drank deep of it, drank in the beauty around them. Es como el sagrado sacramento! (This is like the Holy Sacrament.)” The Sacramento Valley and the Sacramento River were both then christened after "the Most Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ,” referring to the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist.
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january
- California International Marathon
- Dine Downtown Restaurant Week
- Martin Luther King Celebration
- New Year’s Day
february
- Sacramento Museum Day
march
- Sacramento Jewish Film Festival
april
- Feast for the Streets
- Festival de la Familia
- Sacramento International Film Festival
may
- Pacific Rim Street Fest
- Sacramento Music Festival
- Sacramento Wine & Dine
june
- Croatian Extravaganza
- Juneteenth Celebration
- Raley’s Grape Escape
- Sacramento French Film Festival
- Sacramento Pride Festival
july
- California State Fair
- Elk Grove Run
- Fourth of July Celebration
august
- Festa Italiana
- Japanese Food and Cultural Bazaar
- Sacramento Film & Music Festival
september
- California Capital Air Show
- Chalk It Up
- Gold Rush Days
- Greek Food Festival
october
- Halloween
- Sacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
- Sacramento World Music & Dance Festival
november
- Sacramento Arts Festival
- Thanksgiving
december
- California International Marathon
- Christmas Day
- New Year's Eve Sky Spectacular
