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

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Prior to the 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.
 
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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.
 
 - The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange was founded.
 - 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.
 - Hugh Toland found the Toland Medical College, which would later become the University of California, San Francisco
 
 - 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.
 
 

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1900s
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.
 - The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange (formed in 1882) and the Los Angeles Oil Exchange (formed in 1899) merge to create the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
 
 - 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 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.
 - Golden Dragon massacre
 - San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association active.
 
 - 1978  
- June 25: Rainbow flag (LGBT movement) introduced.
 - 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.
 

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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.
 
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