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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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