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San Diego, still little more than a village, was incorporated on March 27 as a city and was named the county seat of the newly established San Diego County. [21] The United States Census reported the population of the town as 650 in 1850 and 731 in 1860. [22] San Diego promptly got into financial trouble by overspending on a poorly designed jail.
On September 28, he landed in what is now San Diego Bay and named it "San Miguel". [21] A little over a week later he reached Santa Catalina Island (October 7), which he named "San Salvador", after his flagship. [22] On sending a boat to the island "a great crowd of armed Indians appeared" – whom, however, they later "befriended".
San Diego (/ ˌ s æ n d i ˈ eɪ ɡ oʊ / ⓘ SAN dee-AY-goh, Spanish: [san ˈdjeɣo]) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a population of over 1.3 million, it is the eighth-most populous city in the United States and the second-most populous in the state of California.
The shield is red for Artillery. The six pallets couped produce a diminished bordure effect on the shield and represent the six batteries comprising the Regiment at the time of its organization. The ship is a representation of the ship of Don Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo, a Portuguese, who discovered San Diego Harbor.
On November 10, 1602, Vizcaíno entered and named San Diego Bay. Sailing up the coast, Vizcaíno named many prominent features such as the Santa Barbara Channel Islands , Point Conception , the Santa Lucia Mountains , Point Lobos , Carmel River and Monterey Bay [ 3 ] (obliterating some of the names given these same features by Cabrillo in 1542).
San Diego Bay is a natural harbor and deepwater port in San Diego County, California, near the Mexico–United States border. The bay, which is 12 miles (19 km) long and 1 to 3 miles (1.6 to 4.8 km) wide, is the third largest of the three large, protected natural bays on California's 840 miles (1,350 km) of coastline, after San Francisco Bay ...
Establishment of a colony at San Diego achieved the first of the expedition's two primary objectives. After the several land and sea groups reassembled at San Diego (where there was much suffering and death among the sea-borne legs, from scurvy), Rivera continued north with Portolá in the search for Monterey Bay, second objective of the ...
San Diego Historical Society founded; now the San Diego History Center. [28] 1929 – Fox Theatre dedicated. [5] 1930 – Population: 147,995; county 209,659. 1931 San Diego State College dedicated; formerly San Diego State Normal School, now San Diego State University. New city charter adopted under a council–manager form of government [29]