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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Francisco, California, United States.

Contents

Prior to 1800s

  • 1776 - Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asís established by colonists from Spain.
  • 1791 - Mission San Francisco de Asís building dedicated.

    • 1800s

  • 1847
  • Yerba Buena renamed "San Francisco."
  • City hotel built.
  • 1848
  • Territory ceded from Mexico to the United States per Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
  • California Gold Rush begins.
  • 1849
  • St. Francis hotel built.
  • Boudin Bakery, Olympic Amphitheatre, and Union Iron Works in business.
  • West Indian Benevolent Association established.
  • 1850
  • April 15: City of San Francisco incorporated.
  • May 1: John W. Geary becomes mayor.
  • October 29: San Francisco becomes part of the new U.S. State of California.
  • Chamber of Commerce Society of California Pioneers, and Jenny Lind Theatre established.
  • Population: 34,000.
  • 1851
  • May 3–4: Fire.
  • 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.
  • The Golden Era newspaper begins publication.
  • 1853 - California Academy of Sciences, Young Men's Christian Association, and Russ garden established.
  • 1854 - San Francisco Mechanics' Institute established.
  • 1855 - Hebrew Young Men's Literary Assoc. active.
  • 1856 - Mirror of the Times and Daily Morning Call newspapers begin publication.
  • 1857 - State Convention of Colored People held in city.
  • 1858 - Italian Benevolent Society organized.
  • 1859 - San Francisco Schuetzen-Verein founded.
  • 1860
  • March 27: Japanese embassy arrives.
  • Olympic Club founded.
  • Population: 56,802.
  • 1861
  • Overland Telegraph Company begins operating (New York-San Francisco).
  • Fraternitas Rosae Crucis lodge established.
  • 1862 - Heald's Business College and Franchise League established.
  • 1863
  • San Francisco and San Jose Railroad begins operating soon.
  • St. Andrew's Society founded.
  • Cliff House rebuilt.
  • Charlotte L. Brown sues a racially segregated San Francisco streetcar company and wins.
  • 1864 - Concordia-Argonaut Club founded.
  • 1865 - Daily Examiner and Daily Dramatic Chronicle newspapers begin publication.
  • 1866 - Merchants' Exchange Association, Caledonian Club, and Woodward's Gardens established.
  • 1867
  • Street begging ban effected.
  • San Francisco City and County Almshouse opens.
  • 1868 - San Francisco County Medical Society and Women’s Co-operative Printing Office [1] established.
  • 1869
  • California Theatre opens.
  • San Francisco Yacht Club founded.
  • Grand hotel built.
  • 1870
  • Golden Gate Park and San Francisco Microscopical Society established.
  • Population: 149,473.
  • 1871 - San Francisco Art Association and St. Luke's Hospital established.
  • 1872 - Bohemian Club and Bar Association of San Francisco founded.
  • 1873
  • Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating.
  • Polish Society of California organized.
  • 1874 - California School of Design, and Territorial Pioneers of California established.
  • 1875
  • Palace Hotel in business.
  • Fire patrol established.
  • 1876 - Pioneer Park, Pacific Homeopathic Dispensary Association, and Ligue Nationale Francaise established.
  • 1877
  • Board of Trade, Spanish Mutual Benevolent Society, and Workingmen's Party of California established.
  • Anti-Chinese sentiment leads to riots against Chinatown residents and businesses.
  • Baldwin hotel built.
  • 1878 - San Francisco Public Library, Pacific Yacht Club, and Young Women's Christian Association founded.
  • 1879 - Golden Gate Kindergarten Association organized.
  • 1881 - Geographical Society of the Pacific organized.
  • 1883 - Pacific Coast Amateur Photographic Association headquartered in city.
  • 1887 - Cogswell Polytechnical College established.
  • 1888 - Associated Charities and San Francisco Business College established.
  • 1889 - Pacific-Union Club formed.
  • 1890
  • California Camera Club and University Club of San Francisco established.
  • Population: 298,997.
  • 1891 - Gregg Shorthand school established.
  • 1892
  • Hibernia Bank built.
  • Trocadero Hotel opens.
  • 1893 - Mark Hopkins Institute of Art established.
  • 1894
  • Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts established.
  • California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 held; Japanese Tea Garden built.
  • 1895
  • California School of Mechanical Arts established.
  • M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opens as Golden Gate Park Museum.
  • 1896 - Sutro Baths open.
  • 1898
  • San Francisco Ferry Building opens.
  • City rechartered.
  • League of California Municipalities headquartered in city.
  • Buddhist temple founded.
  • 1899
  • San Francisco State Normal School established.
  • City Hall built.

    • 1900s–1940s

  • 1900 - Population: 342,782.
  • 1901
  • Labor strike of restaurant workers.
  • San Francisco Architectural Club organized.
  • 1902 - Eugene Schmitz becomes mayor.
  • 1905 - 1908: San Francisco graft trials
  • 1906 - April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
  • 1907
  • July: Mayor Eugene Schmitz imprisoned.
  • International Hotel built.
  • A. Mutt comic strip begins publication in the San Francisco Chronicle.
  • 1908 - South San Francisco incorporated near city.
  • 1910
  • San Francisco Housing Association organized.
  • Population: 416,912.
  • 1911
  • San Francisco Symphony founded.
  • Cort theatre opens.
  • 1912
  • Lux School for Industrial Training for Girls opens.
  • Book Club of California established.
  • James Rolph becomes mayor.
  • Tadich Grill in business.
  • 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.
  • Legal Aid Society established.
  • Buena Vista Cafe in business.
  • 1917 - Strand Theater built.
  • 1922 - Golden Gate Theatre and Castro Theatre built.
  • 1923
  • January: Mae Nolan becomes U.S. representative for California's 5th congressional district.
  • August 2: US President Harding dies in the Palace Hotel.
  • 1924 - California Palace of the Legion of Honor opens.
  • 1925
  • Fleishhacker Pool built.
  • Florence Prag Kahn becomes U.S. representative for California's 4th congressional district.
  • 1926 - Playland at the Beach in business.
  • 1927 - San Francisco Municipal Airport dedicated.
  • 1928 - Amazon Theater opens.
  • 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.
  • 1933
  • San Francisco Opera Ballet founded.
  • Coit Tower built.
  • 1934
  • May 9: General Strike begins.
  • 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.
  • 1937 - May 27: Golden Gate Bridge opens.
  • 1940 - Holly Courts housing project built.
  • 1944 - Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples established.
  • 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 and Marines' Memorial Club established.
  • 1949 - Presidio Theatre built.

    • 1950s–1990s

  • 1952 - The Purple Onion nightclub in business.
  • 1953 - City Lights Bookstore in business.
  • 1955 - City Lights Pocket Poets Series begins publication.
  • Allen Ginsberg reads his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery
  • 1957
  • San Francisco International Film Festival founded.
  • Caffe Trieste in business.
  • Sister city relationship established with Osaka, Japan.
  • 1959 - Embarcadero Freeway opens.
  • 1960 - Mandarin restaurant in business.
  • 1963- The Reverend Cecil Williams becomes pastor at Glide Memorial Church, shifting the church's politics to the left.
  • 1964 - City's "San Francisco History Center" established.[2][3]
  • 1965 - Intersection for the Arts incorporated.
  • The musical group the Jefferson Airplane is created.
  • 1966- The Compton's Cafeteria riot breaks out when transgender patrons become angry over police harassment.
  • 1967 - Summer of Love.
  • January: The The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate park, a prelude to the Summer of Love.
  • The anarchist group The Diggers is founded, and begins distributing free food.
  • 1968 - Sister city relationship established with Sydney, Australia.
  • The Church of John Coltrane is established, and continues religious services until 2016.
  • 1969
  • 555 California Street built.
  • Sister city relationships established with Assisi, Italy; and Taipei, Taiwan.
  • The San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner receive their first letters from The Zodiac Killer.
  • 1970 - Regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission established.
  • 1971 - Peoples Temple in San Francisco and Church of the Tree of Life established.
  • 1972
  • San Francisco Pride begins.
  • Golden Gate National Recreation Area established.
  • Transamerica Pyramid built.
  • 1973
  • October: Zebra murders begin.
  • Church of the Gentle Brothers and Sisters incorporated.
  • Sister city relationship established with Haifa, Israel.
  • 1974
  • People's Food System active (approximate date).
  • Southern Exposure (art space) and San Francisco Cable Car Museum established.
  • April 15: Hibernia Bank robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
  • 1975
  • Rainbow Grocery Cooperative opens.
  • Sister city relationship established with Seoul, South Korea.
  • 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
  • The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make their first appearance on Castro Street.
  • May 21: White Night riots.
  • Sister city relationship established with Shanghai, China.
  • 1980 - Davies Symphony Hall opens.
  • 1981
  • San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and Hansberry Theatre established.
  • Sister city relationship established with Manila, Philippines.
  • 1982 - City/county handgun ban approved; later struck down by state court.
  • 1983 - San Francisco General Hospital AIDS clinic established.
  • 1984 - Sister city relationship established with Cork, Ireland.
  • 1986
  • Cacophony Society formed.
  • A bonfire of a wooden man is held on Baker Beach which evolves into the Burning Man event.
  • Sister city relationship established with Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
  • 1987 - Luggage Store (arts organization) established.
  • 1988 - San Francisco Museum and Historical Society founded.
  • 1989
  • October 17: Loma Prieta earthquake.
  • San Francisco becomes a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants.
  • 1990
  • Population: 723,959.
  • Sister city relationship established with Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • 1991 - Museum of the City of San Francisco opens.
  • 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.
  • 1994 - Santarchy begins.
  • 1995
  • Craigslist founded.
  • Sister city relationship established with Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
  • 1996
  • City website online (approximate date).
  • Willie Brown becomes mayor.
  • Internet Archive headquartered in city.
  • Long Now Foundation established.
  • 1997
  • Sister city relationship established with Paris, France.
  • Pinecrest Diner, a popular all-night diner-style restaurant in San Francisco, becomes notorious for a murder over an order of eggs.
  • 1998 - Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts founded.

    • 2000s

  • 2000 - Population: 776,733.
  • 2003
  • Bernal Heights Preservation established.
  • U.S. National Security Agency/AT&T Room 641A in operation.
  • Sister city relationship established with Zürich, Switzerland.
  • 2004 - Gavin Newsom becomes mayor.
  • 2005 - November: Gun control ordinance San Francisco Proposition H (2005) passes; later struck down.
  • 2007
  • Twitter Inc. in business.
  • Noisebridge founded.
  • 2008
  • Edible Schoolyard established at San Francisco Boys and Girls Club.
  • One Rincon Hill (apartment building) constructed.
  • Airbnb in business.
  • 2009
  • Uber (company) in business.
  • FailCon begins.[5]
  • San Francisco Appeal begins publication.
  • Sister city relationships established with Bangalore, India; and Kraków, Poland.
  • 2010
  • The Bay Citizen and Ocean Beach Bulletin begin publication.
  • Population: 805,235; metro 4,335,391.
  • Sister city relationships established with Amman, Jordan; and Barcelona, Spain.
  • 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.
  • 2014 - San Francisco Giants baseball team win World Series contest.
  • 2015 - Shooting of Kathryn Steinle.

    • References

    Timeline of San Francisco Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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