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Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900–1954. Burchell, R. A. (1980). The San Francisco Irish, 1848–1880. Chen, Yong (2002). Chinese San Francisco, 1850–1943: A Trans-Pacific Community. Cordova, Cary (2017). The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco. Daniels, Douglas Henry (1980).
San Francisco, [23] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [14] San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the state of California and the 17th-most populous in the United States.
Golden Gate Park [9] and San Francisco Microscopical Society [24] established. Population: 149,473. [17] 1871 – San Francisco Art Association and St. Luke's Hospital [14] [25] established. 1872 – Bohemian Club and Bar Association of San Francisco founded. [8] 1873 Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating. Polish Society of California ...
Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...
Founding date: July 4, 1823 [1] Founding priest(s) ... Mission Guadalupe - the final Dominican mission to be founded, June 1834; San Francisco Solano de Sonoma ...
The United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO), commonly known as the San Francisco Conference, was a convention of delegates from 50 Allied nations that took place from 25 April 1945 to 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, California, United States.
The company dates back to 1913, when five California businessmen staked $100 apiece (about $3,000 today) to build a factory making bleach out of salt extracted from San Francisco Bay.
William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. (1810 – May 18, 1848) was an Afro-Caribbean settler in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco.A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he is thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United States.