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1579: Sir Francis Drake anchors at Drake's Bay, Point Reyes 1603: Sebastian Vizcaino charts California coast; misses San Francisco Bay   1769:Don Gaspar de 1806: Russian aristocrat Ni- 1848: James Marshall finds 1855: James King of 1865: Charles and 1873: University of 1879: Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty 1895: Fremont Older 1895: Fremont Older 1898: Ferry Building opens 1906, April 17th: Enrico 1908: Intense campaign of 1913: Legislature passes Red Light Abatement Act; Barbaby Coast brothels close 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 Mooney and Warren Billings charged with murder 1918: Twin Peaks Tunnel connects Parkside district with downtown
  Portola finds San kolai Rezanov meets Concha gold in Sutter's Fort. Gold William starts M.H. de Young California Medical becomes editor of old becomes editor of old Caruso sings role of Don education and rat extermina-
  Francisco Bay Arguello, Spanish Governor's Rush changes California evening Bulletin start Chronicle School begins   San Francisco Bulletin San Francisco Bulletin   Jose in Carmen   tion by Dr. Rupert Blue ends
  daughter; they fall in love.         1880: Eadweard Muybridge's   1899: Frank Norris bubonic plague in city.    
  1776: Mission Do-     1849: Thousands of 1856: Morning Call 1869: Transconti-nental railroad connects San Francisco to U.S. 1874: New Mint on "Zoöpraxiscope" projects the 1895: James D. Phelan 1895: James D. Phelan publishes McTeague 1906, April 18th: Massive earthquake   1913: Bulletin is the first jour- 1918: Fremont Older leaves Bulletin, becomes editor of Hearst's Call; exposes District Attorney Fickert in Mooney case.
    lores founded   1833: Missions   immigrants overwhelm begins Fifth Street opens world's first moving pictures elected mayor. elected Mayor   strikes at 5:12 a.m. City Hall and other 1908: Graft prosecutor Heney nal to print word "jazz."
      secularized   city. Prices skyrocket.         1900: First case of buildings destroyed. Fires burn almost shot in court. His assailant  
    1776: Presidio     1856: James King of 1875: Palace Hotel 1882: Oscar Wilde visits and lectures in San Francisco.   1895: Arnold Genthe bubonic plague all of commercial and much of residential shot dead in cell. Police Chief 1914: Board of Supervisors or-
    founded     1835: William Rich-   1849: Stephen Massett William shot by Su-   opens begins photographing   areas. Over 3,000 dead, 200,000 homeless. Biggy disappears in bay; his ders all cemeteries vacated, ex-
      ardson builds first   gives city's first theatri- pervisor Casey. 2nd 1870: State legisla-     Chinatown 1901: Teamster- The Graft Prosecution: L-R Francis Heney, William Burns, Fremont Older, Rudolph Spreckels body found two weeks later. cept Mission Dolores & Presi-  
      house in town   cal performance Committee of Vigi- ture designates por- 1877: Anti-Chinese 1882: U.S. Congress passes Chinese Exclusion Act Waterfront strike
  dio. Thousands of remains go 1919: Ina Coolbrith made Poet Laureate of California