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History
- 1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sails up the California coast.
- 1579 Sir Francis Drake lands near San Francisco, missing the entrance to the bay.
- 1769 Members of the Spanish expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá become the first Europeans to see San Francisco Bay.
- 1775 The San Carlos is the first European ship to sail into San Francisco Bay.
- 1776 Captain Juan Bautista de Anza establishes a presidio (military fort); San Francisco de Asis Mission opens.
- 1821 Mexico wins independence from Spain and annexes California.
- 1835 The town of Yerba Buena develops around the port; the United States tries unsuccessfully to purchase San Francisco Bay from Mexico.
- 1846-48 War between the United States and Mexico.
- 1848 Americans annex Yerba Buena and rename it San Francisco. Also, gold is discovered in Coloma, near Sacramento. San Francisco's population swells from about 900 to 26,000.
- 1851 Lawlessness becomes acute before attempts to curb it.
- 1869 The transcontinental railroad reaches San Francisco.
- 1873 Andrew S. Hallidie invents the cable car.
- 1906 The Great Earthquake strikes, and the resulting fire levels the city.
- 1915 The Panama-Pacific International Exposition celebrates San Francisco's restoration and the completion of the Panama Canal.
- 1936 The Bay Bridge is completed.
- 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge is completed.
- 1945 The United Nations Charter is drafted in San Francisco and adopted by the representatives of 50 countries.
- 1950 The Beat Generation moves into the bars and cafes of North Beach.
- 1967 A free concert in Golden Gate Park attracts 20,000 people, ushering in the Summer of Love and the hippie era.
- 1974 BART's high-speed transit system opens a tunnel linking San Francisco with the East Bay.
- 1978 Harvey Milk, a city supervisor and America's first openly gay politician, is assassinated, along with Mayor George Moscone, by political rival Dan White.
- 1989 An earthquake registering 7.1 on the Richter scale hits San Francisco just before a World Series baseball game, as 100 million watch on TV; the city quickly rebuilds.
- 1991 Fire rages through the Berkeley and Oakland hills, destroying 2,800 homes.
- 1993 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts opens.
- 1995 The new San Francisco MOMA opens.
- 1996 Former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown is elected mayor of San Francisco.
- 1998 El Niño deluges San Francisco with its second-highest rainfall in history.
- 2000 Pacific Bell Park (later renamed SBC Park) opens as the new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team with an exhibition game against the Milwaukee Brewers.
- 2003 Debonair Gavin Newsome is elected mayor of San Francisco.
- 2004 Mayor Newsome's permission of gay marriages garners national attention before it's stopped by governmental higher-ups.
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