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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Francisco, California, United States. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
It was during the 1860s to the 1880s when San Francisco began to transform into a major city, starting with massive expansion in all directions, creating new neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, the Haight-Ashbury, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887.
18th century. Las Californias is established in 1768 by New Spain, encompassing the Bay Area. Gaspar de Portolà arrives in the Bay Area in 1769. Mission San Francisco de Asís and El Presidio Real de San Francisco are founded in 1776 in Yerba Buena. Baptisms of the Yelamu by Spanish missionaries begin in 1777.
San Francisco, [24] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, [25] San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose.
1906 San Francisco earthquake. / 37.75; -122.55. At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ( Extreme ). High-intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the ...
The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area . It had been a fortified location since September 17 ...
0–9. 1838 San Andreas earthquake. 1868 Hayward earthquake. 1898 Mare Island earthquake. 1957 San Francisco earthquake. 1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill. 1979 Coyote Lake earthquake. 1980 Livermore earthquake.
Hetch Hetchy Railroad. William Sturgis Hinckley. Historic bars and saloons in San Francisco. History of Chinese Americans in San Francisco. History of the Japanese in San Francisco. History of the Movement from 1854 to 1890. Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District. Art Hoppe.