Timeline of San Francisco
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Francisco, California, United States.
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Prior to 19th century
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- 1776 - Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asís established by colonists from Spain.
- 1791 - Mission San Francisco de Asís building dedicated.
19th century
- 1847
- Yerba Buena renamed "San Francisco."
- City hotel built.[1]
- 1848
- Territory ceded from Mexico to the United States per Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
- California Gold Rush begins.
- 1849
- St. Francis hotel built.[1]
- Boudin Bakery, Olympic Amphitheatre,[2] and Union Iron Works[3] in business.
- West Indian Benevolent Association established.[4]
- 1850
- April 15: City of San Francisco incorporated.[5]
- May 1: John W. Geary becomes mayor.
- October 29: San Francisco becomes part of the new U.S. State of California.
- Chamber of Commerce[6] Society of California Pioneers,[7] and Jenny Lind Theatre[2] established.
- Population: 34,000.[8]
- 1851
- May 3–4: Fire.[9]
- San Francisco Committee of Vigilance organized.
- Pioneer Race Course opens.
- 1852
- Ghirardelli in business.
- Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco, Sons of the Emerald Isle, and San Francisco Turn Verein established.[7]
- The Golden Era newspaper begins publication.
- 1853 - California Academy of Sciences, Young Men's Christian Association,[7] and Russ garden[1] established.
- 1854 - San Francisco Mechanics' Institute established.
- 1855 - Hebrew Young Men's Literary Assoc. active.[10]
- 1856 - Mirror of the Times[4] and Daily Morning Call[11] newspapers begin publication.
- 1857 - State Convention of Colored People held in city.[12]
- 1858 - Italian Benevolent Society organized.[7]
- 1859 - San Francisco Schuetzen-Verein founded.[13]
- 1860
- March 27: Japanese embassy arrives.[14]
- Olympic Club founded.[15]
- Population: 56,802.[16]
- 1861
- Overland Telegraph Company begins operating (New York-San Francisco).[9]
- Fraternitas Rosae Crucis lodge established.[17]
- 1862 - Heald's Business College[18] and Franchise League[4] established.
- 1863
- San Francisco and San Jose Railroad begins operating.
- St. Andrew's Society founded.[7]
- Cliff House rebuilt.
- 1864 - Concordia-Argonaut Club founded.
- 1865 - Daily Examiner and Daily Dramatic Chronicle newspapers begin publication.[11]
- 1866 - Merchants' Exchange Association, Caledonian Club,[7] and Woodward's Gardens[1] established.
- 1867 - San Francisco City and County Almshouse opens.[19]
- 1868 - San Francisco County Medical Society[7] and Women’s Co-operative Printing Office [1] established.
- 1869
- California Theatre opens.
- San Francisco Yacht Club founded.[7]
- Grand hotel built.[1]
- 1870
- Golden Gate Park[9] and San Francisco Microscopical Society[20] established.
- Population: 149,473.[16]
- 1871 - San Francisco Art Association and St. Luke's Hospital[13][21] established.
- 1872 - Bohemian Club and Bar Association of San Francisco founded.[7]
- 1873
- Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating.
- Polish Society of California organized.[7]
- 1874 - California School of Design, and Territorial Pioneers of California[7] established.
- 1875
- Palace Hotel in business.[1]
- Fire patrol established.[13]
- 1876 - Pioneer Park, Pacific Homeopathic Dispensary Association, and Ligue Nationale Francaise established.[7]
- 1877
- Board of Trade, Spanish Mutual Benevolent Society,[7] and Workingmen's Party of California[22] established.
- Baldwin hotel built.[1]
- 1878 - San Francisco Public Library,[23][24] Pacific Yacht Club, and Young Women's Christian Association founded.[7]
- 1879 - Golden Gate Kindergarten Association organized.[13]
- 1881 - Geographical Society of the Pacific organized.[7]
- 1883 - Pacific Coast Amateur Photographic Association headquartered in city.[25]
- 1887 - Cogswell Polytechnical College established.[18]
- 1888 - Associated Charities[13] and San Francisco Business College[18] established.
- 1889 - Pacific-Union Club formed.
- 1890
- California Camera Club[26] and University Club of San Francisco established.
- Population: 298,997.[8]
- 1891 - Gregg Shorthand school established.[18]
- 1892
- Hibernia Bank built.[27]
- Trocadero Hotel opens.
- 1893 - Mark Hopkins Institute of Art established.[28]
- 1894
- Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts established.[29]
- California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 held; Japanese Tea Garden built.
- 1895
- California School of Mechanical Arts established.[29]
- M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opens as Golden Gate Park Museum.[30]
- 1896 - Sutro Baths open.
- 1898
- San Francisco Ferry Building opens.
- City rechartered.[9]
- League of California Municipalities headquartered in city.[31]
- Buddhist temple founded.[32][33]
- 1899
- San Francisco State Normal School established.
- City Hall built.
20th century
1900s–1940s
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- 1900 - Population: 342,782.[34]
- 1901 - San Francisco Architectural Club organized.[30]
- 1902 - Eugene Schmitz becomes mayor.
- 1905 - 1908: San Francisco graft trials
- 1906 - April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[35]
- 1907
- July: Mayor Eugene Schmitz imprisoned.[9]
- International Hotel built.
- A. Mutt comic strip begins publication in the San Francisco Chronicle.
- 1908 - South San Francisco incorporated near city.[36]
- 1910
- 1911
- San Francisco Symphony founded.
- Cort theatre opens.[38]
- 1912
- Lux School for Industrial Training for Girls opens.
- Book Club of California established.[39]
- James Rolph becomes mayor.
- Tadich Grill in business.[40]
- 1914 - San Francisco National Guard Armory and Arsenal built.
- 1915
- January 25: First transcontinental telephone call occurs (San Francisco-New York).
- February 20: Panama–Pacific International Exposition opens; Tower of Jewels built.
- San Francisco Labor Temple built.
- San Francisco City Hall rebuilt.
- Veterans Auditorium opens.
- 1916
- Preparedness Day Bombing.[41]
- Legal Aid Society established.[citation needed]
- Buena Vista Cafe in business.
- 1917 - Strand Theater built.[38][27]
- 1922 - Golden Gate Theatre and Castro Theatre built.[42]
- 1923
- January: Mae Nolan becomes U.S. representative for California's 5th congressional district.[43]
- August 2: US President Harding dies in the Palace Hotel.[35]
- 1924 - California Palace of the Legion of Honor opens.
- 1925
- 1926 - Playland at the Beach in business.
- 1927 - San Francisco Municipal Airport dedicated.[9]
- 1928 - Amazon Theater opens.[38]
- 1929
- Fleishhacker Zoo established.
- Topsy’s Roost (restaurant) in business.
- 1930 - Pacific Stock Exchange Lunch Club formed.
- 1931 - Stern Grove opens as city park.
- 1932
- War Memorial Opera House opens.
- Photographers' Group f/64 founded.[45]
- 1933
- San Francisco Opera Ballet founded.
- Coit Tower built.
- 1934
- May 9: General Strike begins.[41]
- U.S. Penitentiary established on Alcatraz Island.
- Golden Grain Macaroni Company in business.
- 1935 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens as San Francisco Museum of Art in Veterans Memorial Building.
- 1936 - Bay Bridge opens.[46]
- 1937 - May 27: Golden Gate Bridge opens.[9]
- 1940 - Holly Courts housing project built.[9]
- 1944 - Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples established.[47]
- 1945
- Tonga Room in business.
- April 25: United Nations Conference on International Organization begins.
- June 26: United Nations Charter signed.
- 1946 - National Urban League branch[48] and Marines' Memorial Club established.
- 1949 - Presidio Theatre built.[42]
1950s–1990s
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- 1952 - The Purple Onion nightclub in business.
- 1953 - City Lights Bookstore in business.[41]
- 1955 - City Lights Pocket Poets Series begins publication.
- 1957
- San Francisco International Film Festival founded.
- Caffe Trieste in business.[49]
- Sister city relationship established with Osaka, Japan.[50]
- 1959 - Embarcadero Freeway opens.
- 1964 - City's "San Francisco History Center" established.[2][3]
- 1965 - Intersection for the Arts incorporated.
- 1967 - Summer of Love.
- 1968 - Sister city relationship established with Sydney, Australia.[50]
- 1969
- 555 California Street built.
- Sister city relationships established with Assisi, Italy; and Taipei, Taiwan.[50]
- 1971 - Peoples Temple in San Francisco and Church of the Tree of Life[17] established.
- 1972
- San Francisco Pride begins.
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area established.
- Transamerica Pyramid built.
- 1973
- October: Zebra murders begin.[51]
- Church of the Gentle Brothers and Sisters incorporated.[17]
- Sister city relationship established with Haifa, Israel.[50]
- 1974
- People's Food System active (approximate date).[52]
- Southern Exposure (art space)[53] and San Francisco Cable Car Museum established.
- April 15: Hibernia Bank robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
- 1975
- Rainbow Grocery Cooperative opens.[52]
- Sister city relationship established with Seoul, South Korea.[50]
- 1976 - Bay Area Video Coalition founded.
- 1977 - Theatre Rhinoceros and Suicide Club founded.
- 1977 - Golden Dragon massacre
- 1978
- November 18: Jonestown mass murder-suicide at the People's Temple Guyana compound.
- November 27: Moscone–Milk assassinations.
- December 4: Dianne Feinstein becomes mayor.
- 1979
- May 21: White Night riots.
- Sister city relationship established with Shanghai, China.[50]
- 1980 - Davies Symphony Hall opens.
- 1981
- San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and Hansberry Theatre established.
- Sister city relationship established with Manila, Philippines.[50]
- 1982 - City/county handgun ban approved; later struck down by state court.[51]
- 1983 - San Francisco General Hospital AIDS clinic established.[54]
- 1984 - Sister city relationship established with Cork, Ireland.[50]
- 1986
- Cacophony Society formed.
- Sister city relationship established with Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.[50]
- 1987 - Luggage Store (arts organization) established.[53]
- 1988 - San Francisco Museum and Historical Society founded.
- 1989
- October 17: Loma Prieta earthquake.
- San Francisco becomes a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants.[55]
- 1990
- Population: 723,959.[16]
- Sister city relationship established with Thessaloniki, Greece.[50]
- 1991 - Museum of the City of San Francisco opens.[56]
- 1992
- Critical Mass (bicycle event) began.
- Clarion Alley Mural Project organized.
- Latino Coalition for a Healthy California headquartered in city.[4]
- 1993 - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts opens.
- 1993 - 101 California Street shooting occurs.[51]
- 1994 - Santarchy begins.
- 1995
- Craigslist founded.
- Sister city relationship established with Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.[50]
- 1996
- City website online (approximate date).[57][chronology citation needed]
- Willie Brown becomes mayor.
- Internet Archive headquartered in city.[58]
- Long Now Foundation established.
- 1997 - Sister city relationship established with Paris, France.[50]
- 1998 - Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts founded.[53]
21st century
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- 2000 - Population: 776,733.[34]
- 2003
- 2004 - Gavin Newsom becomes mayor.
- 2005 - November: Gun control ordinance San Francisco Proposition H (2005) passes; later struck down.
- 2007
- Twitter Inc. in business.[60]
- Noisebridge founded.[61]
- 2008
- Edible Schoolyard established at San Francisco Boys and Girls Club.
- One Rincon Hill (apartment building) constructed.
- Airbnb in business.
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- January 11: Ed Lee becomes mayor.
- November 8: San Francisco mayoral election, 2011.
- TechCrunch Disrupt conference begins.
- 2013
- Google bus protests begin.
- Civic Industries in business.[64]
- 2014 - San Francisco Giants baseball team win World Series contest.
- 2015 - Shooting of Kathryn Steinle.
See also
- History of San Francisco
- National Register of Historic Places listings in San Francisco, California
- List of pre-statehood mayors of San Francisco
- List of mayors of San Francisco (since 1850)
- Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Other cities in California
- Timeline of Fresno, California
- Timeline of Los Angeles
- Timeline of Mountain View, California
- Timeline of Oakland, California
- Timeline of Riverside, California
- Timeline of Sacramento, California
- Timeline of San Bernardino, California
- Timeline of San Diego
- Timeline of San Jose, California
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Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
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- San Francisco (article) (1870) The Overland Monthly, January 1870 Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 9–23. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co., Publishers
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- Solnit, Rebecca. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (University of California Press, 2010). 144 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-26250-8
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