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The Discovery of San Francisco Bay: The Portolá Expedition of 1769–1770 / El Descubrimiento de la Bahía de San Francisco: La Expedición de Portolá de 1769–1770 (in English and Spanish). Translated by Maria L. Wait. Lafayette, California: Great West Books. ISBN 978-0944220061. (The Diary of Miguel Costansó)
Statue of Gaspar de Portolá in Pacifica, California, near the expedition's November 1 camp. This timeline of the Portolá expedition tracks the progress during 1769 and 1770 of the first European exploration-by-land of north-western coastal areas in what became Las Californias, a province of Spanish colonial New Spain.
The San Francisco Bay Discovery Site is a marker commemorating the first recorded European sighting of San Francisco Bay. In 1769, the Portola expedition traveled north by land from San Diego, seeking to establish a base at the Port of Monterey described by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602. When they reached Monterey, however, they were not sure it ...
Pedro Prat, who was a member of the navy, served as crew doctor, and Hernando Patron was the ship's chaplain. [6] [5] The San Antonio ship arrived in San Diego Bay landing on April 11, 1769, and the San Carlos on April 29. Many crew members on both ships were ill, mostly from scurvy. On the San Carlos most of the crew died, and only two men ...
After establishing a base at San Diego on July 14, 1769, the expedition headed northbound. The expedition made camp in San Pedro Valley and on November 1, 1769, Portola made Ortega the chief scout and sent him along with other men north to locate San Francisco Bay within three days. The following day on November 2, some of the troops were out ...
Date: 1927: Source: Original publication: Bolton, Herbert E. "Fray Juan Crespi: Missionary Explorer on the Pacific Coast, 1769-1774", p.127. publisher=HathiTrust ...
The expedition led to the founding of the first mission in the Los Angeles Basin, the Mission Vieja, on September 8, 1771, and of Alta California. The expedition arrived at Portolá Trail Campsite No. 1 from the San Gabriel Valley, were the Mission San Gabriel would be built later in 1776.
The 1772 Fages expedition saw the Golden Gate, but from the opposite side of the bay, in the vicinity of modern Oakland. Also on the 1774 trip, Palóu named a long valley formed (unknown to the explorers) by coastal California's largest earthquake fault, just south of modern San Francisco. Palou's name, Cañada de San Andrés later became "San ...