San Francisco grew quickly from a late start. Europeans only reached the Bay Area in 1769, and the first permanent, civilian, non-Native American settlement dates only to 1835.

San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776. It was incorporated on April 15, 1850. I've always considered June 29 to be San Francisco's birthday ...

Henry Mayo Newhall, future namesake of the city of Newhall, arrived in San Francisco at the age of 25, hoping to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – San Francisco has seen less rainfall to start the year since before the Civil War. KPIX 5 Chief Meteorologist Paul Deanno reports that only 1.34 inches of rainfall has ...

On the morning of March 5, 1858, San Francisco's black community was on high alert. For days, organized groups had been patrolling the waterfront. On March 5, word went out that the two men they ...

The exhibition, up through March 10 at San Francisco’s California Historical Society, documents how California (which became a state in 1850) and photography grew up together, and how photos ...

Titled OldSF, this new project lets you zoom in on certain parts of the City by the Bay, whereupon you’ll be able to access photos as far back as 1850, and as recent as 2000. In total, Vanderkam ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft is cutting 1,850 jobs and will book a $950 million writedown as the company continues its attempts to salvage a rocky entrance into the smartphone market. The company ...

↯ FREE with museum admission ↯"Looking East: How Japan Influenced Monet, Van Gogh, and other Western Artists" surveys the phenomenon known as japonisme, a craze ...

This paper codifies in a systematic and transparent way a historical chronology of business cycle turning points for Spain reaching back to 1850 at annual frequency, and 1939 at monthly frequency.

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