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18th century. Las Californias is established in 1768 by New Spain, encompassing the Bay Area. Gaspar de Portolà arrives in the Bay Area in 1769. Mission San Francisco de Asís and El Presidio Real de San Francisco are founded in 1776 in Yerba Buena. Baptisms of the Yelamu by Spanish missionaries begin in 1777.
Ralph Maradiaga (1934–1985), silkscreen, one of the co-founders of Galería de la Raza, and part of the San Francisco Bay Area Chicano Art Movement. [122] Jack Stauffacher (1920–2017), letterpress, typographer [123] Beth Van Hoesen (1926–2010), printmaker, painter, and drawer; she was known for her animal artwork and Castro District ...
In April 2023, the National Women's Soccer League, the top level of the women's game in the US, announced that it had awarded a new Bay Area franchise that will start play in 2024. [23] The team revealed its identity as Bay FC on June 1, [ 24 ] and announced on July 21 that it would play its home games at PayPal Park.
List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
Candlestick Park. / 37.71361°N 122.38611°W / 37.71361; -122.38611. Candlestick Park was an outdoor stadium on the West Coast of the United States, located in San Francisco's Hunters Point area. The stadium was originally the home of Major League Baseball 's San Francisco Giants, who played there from 1960 until 1999, after which the ...
April 20 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 255 days remain until the end of the year.
Center for Sex & Culture, 1349 Mission Street; hosted live theater and other events in South of Market [40] The Dark Room Theatre (2008–2015), 2263 Mission Street [41] El Capitan Theatre and Hotel, 2353 Mission Street; Mission District [42] EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street [43] Grand Opera House (San Francisco)
Today, the Bay Area is the home of Silicon Valley, Wine Country, and numerous companies, universities, bridges, airports, and parks. The Bay Area consists of nine counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county.