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History. The Ohlone, an indigenous Californian people, have lived in the Bay Area for thousands of years. The Coyote Hills Shell Mound, the earliest known archaeological evidence of human habitation of the Bay Area estuaries, dates to around 10,000 BCE, with evidence pointing to even earlier settlement in Point Reyes in Marin County. [19] .
European visitors to the San Francisco Bay Area were preceded at least 8,000 years earlier by Native Americans. According to one anthropologist, the indigenous name for San Francisco was Ahwaste, meaning, "place at the bay".
18 gru 2009 · Originally a Spanish (later Mexican) mission and pueblo, it was conquered by the United States in 1846 and by an invading army of prospectors following the 1848 discovery of gold in its...
This is a timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, events in the nine counties that border on the San Francisco Bay, and the bay itself. An identical list of events, formatted differently, may be found here.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of San Francisco, California, United States. 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. 1800s. 1847. Yerba Buena renamed "San Francisco." City hotel built.
1 dzień temu · San Francisco, city and port, coextensive with San Francisco county, northern California, U.S., located on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It is a cultural and financial centre of the western United States and one of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities. Area 46 square miles (120 square km). Pop.
20 paź 2016 · From tremendous earthquakes to devastating world wars, San Francisco has long remained one of the most important cities along the Pacific coast. In this short list you will travel through time and look at the twelve most important events that helped make San Francisco the city it is today.
