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1579: Sir Francis
Drake anchors at Drake's Bay, Point Reyes |
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1895: Fremont Older |
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Legislature passes Red Light Abatement Act; Barbaby Coast brothels close |
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1916:
Preparedness Day Bombing. After a bitter waterfront strike, a bomb explodes
during a great parade, killing 10 people and wounding 40; Labor figures Tom
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Portola finds San |
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kolai Rezanov meets Concha |
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gold in Sutter's Fort. Gold |
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William starts |
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M.H. de Young |
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California Medical |
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Caruso sings role of Don |
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education and rat extermina- |
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Francisco Bay |
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Arguello, Spanish Governor's |
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Rush changes California |
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evening Bulletin |
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start Chronicle |
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School begins |
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San Francisco Bulletin |
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San Francisco Bulletin |
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Jose in Carmen |
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1899: Frank Norris |
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bubonic plague in city. |
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1776: Mission Do- |
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1849: Thousands of |
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1856: Morning Call |
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Transconti-nental railroad connects San Francisco to U.S. |
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1895: James D. Phelan |
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1918:
Fremont Older leaves Bulletin, becomes editor of Hearst's Call; exposes District Attorney Fickert in Mooney case. |
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lores founded |
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Fifth Street opens |
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first moving pictures |
elected mayor. |
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to print word "jazz." |
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secularized |
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1856: James King of |
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1875: Palace Hotel |
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1882: Oscar Wilde visits and lectures in San Francisco. |
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bubonic plague |
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all of commercial and much of residential |
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begins photographing |
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Graft Prosecution: L-R Francis Heney, William Burns, Fremont Older, Rudolph
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house in town |
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dio. Thousands of remains go |
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1919:
Ina Coolbrith made Poet Laureate of California |
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lance hangs Casey. |
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San Francisco Seals win first league championship |
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to Colma. |
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1846: Captain Montgomery of the Portsmouth raises American flag, claims city for the United States |
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Golden Gate Park |
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sinesses burned |
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1901: Eugene Schmitz |
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1907:
Strike by Car Men's Union against the United Railroads; one of the most
violent urban strikes in history; United Railroads President Patrick Calhoun,
facing trial for bribing Supervisors, is considered a hero; acquitted |
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fires destroy San Fran- |
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stage begins between San Francisco and East |
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1886:
Construction unions |
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elected Mayor |
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1915:
Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens; one of the most successful
fairs in history in spite of war in Europe; Mayor Rolph goes every day;
Palace of Fine Arts, temporary like other buildings, remains after all others
are torn down |
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Dashiell Hammett marries, begins writing in San Francisco |
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cisco almost faster than |
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1873: Hallidie's
cable car tested, begins service |
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form
Building Trades Council. |
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1909: P.H. McCarthy elected |
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it can be rebuilt. |
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"Pacific Base Ball |
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10,000
workingman parade |
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1902: Frank Norris |
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Mayor; Graft
Prosecution |
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Steuart
Street, July 22nd, 1916: Preparedness Day bombing; two bodies lie under
sheet, right, as bystander looks at bomb damage in wall. |
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League" |
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publishes The Octopus |
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ends. |
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1851:
Authorities over-whelmed by crime; 1st Committee of Vigilance hangs and
expels criminals |
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1859: Justice David |
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1887: William Randolph Hearst becomes owner of San Francisco Examiner |
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1921:
Movie star "Fatty" Arbuckle charged with murder after girl dies in
wild St. Francisco Hotel party |
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Drake's Golden Hindat Point Reyes |
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1846: Ship Brooklyn ar- |
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Terry kills Senator Da- |
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1903: Pacific Coast |
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April 18, 1906:Sacramento Street looking east
at fire. |
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1910:
San Francisco voters pass bond issue to dam river in Sierra Nevada Mountains
for water supply; John Muir, Sierra Club, oppose it |
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February
1917: After Billings is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, Tom
Mooney is convicted and sentenced to hang. |
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rives with Sam
Brannan |
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vid Broderick in duel |
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League formed |
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and 230 Mormon settlers |
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1906:
Board of Education creates segregated Oriental schools; President Roosevelt
intervenes, order is rescinded |
1907:
Albert Michelson, graduate of city's Lowell High, is first American Nobel
Prize winner, for Physics |
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Mission Dolores |
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1862:
Telegraph line connects New York and San Francisco |
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1888: Examiner publishes E.L. |
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1904: A.P. Giannini |
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1846: Washington Bartlett elected first alcalde (Mayor) |
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Thayer's Casey At The Bat |
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Genthe photo of Chinese boys |
starts Bank of America |
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1922:
Radio station KPO begins broadcasting |
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1851: La Sonnambula performed; first
opera in California |
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April
1917: Bulletinreports that
chief prosecution witness in the Mooney trial suborned perjury. Billings and
Mooney draw international attention. |
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1890: John McLaren becomes Superintendent of Golden Gate Park;
stays 53 years. |
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1895: Donaldina
Cameron joins Presbyterian Mission, 920 Sacramento Street; rescues Chinese
girls from prostitution |
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1905: Architect Daniel |
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1906: Graft Prosecution indicts Mayor |
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1911: Abraham Ruef goes to |
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Palace Hotel |
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Burnham proposes |
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Schmitz
and Boss Abraham Ruef for |
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San Quentin. Fremont Older |
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1922:
Helen Wills wins U.S. women's singles championship; first of thirty-one major
titles, including eight at Wimbledon |
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Exploration,Travel |
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Romance |
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1847: San Brannan begins California Star, city's first newspaper; later merges with Alta |
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Exploration |
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Romance |
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redesign of city |
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extortion. |
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campaigns to get Ruef out. |
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Commerce |
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Literature |
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Journalism |
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Commerce |
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Literature |
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Journalism |
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1892: Sierra Club founded in San Francisco; John Muir is first
president |
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1907:
Board of Supervisors implicates Ruef in briberies; Ruef pleads guilty to
extortion; Schmitz convicted; Edward R. Taylor appointed Mayor |
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Panama-Pacific
International Exposition: Avenue of Palms, left; Horticulture Palace,
distance; Tower of Jewels, right. |
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Disaster, Violence |
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Medicine, Science |
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Disaster, Violence |
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Music |
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Medicine,
Science |
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1911: James Rolph ("Sunny |
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1917:
San Francisco Conservatory of Music founded by Ada Clement |
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1923:
President Warren G. Harding dies in Palace Hotel, lies in state |
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Politics, Law |
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Race |
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Sports |
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Politics, Law |
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Race |
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Sports |
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Jim") elected Mayor. |
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1846:
Under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico cedes California to the United
States |
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Environment |
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Labor |
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Transportation |
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Environment |
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Labor |
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Transportation |
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1896: First
automobile in San Francisco |
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Exploration, Travel |
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Art |
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Romance |
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1894: Midwinter Exposition, Golden Gate Park |
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Physicist
Albert Michelson |
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1911:
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra plays first season |
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Entertainment |
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Commerce |
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1924:
Palace of the Legion of Honor, gift of Adolph and Alma Spreckels, opens in
Lincoln Park |
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View of San Francisco c. 1846 |
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1851 photo of San Francisco |
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Indeed,
although in my travels I saw very good sites and beautiful country, I saw
none which pleased me so much as this. And I think that if it could be well
settled like Europe there would not be anything more beautiful in all the
world, for it has the best advantages for founding in it a most beautiful
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Francisco was never a village. It had the atmosphere of a city when it was
only a tented town. It has been a city ever since. |
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I'd
rather be a busted lamp post on Battery Street (San Francisco) than the
Waldorf-Astoria. |
Cool,
Grey, City of Love |
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Municipal Railway begins service; first public transportation system in the
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Serene,
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Mayor Eugene E.
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Willie Britt |
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Fr. Francisco
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Bret Harte |
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