Enlightenment · North America · Exploration

1776

San Francisco Founded

1776

Spanish soldiers and Franciscan friars under Juan Bautista de Anza chose a windy sand-swept bluff above a great bay and founded the Presidio and Mission Dolores. It was a sleepy outpost for sixty years. Gold and American annexation lay in a distant future; for now the wolves outnumbered the colonists.

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Before and after in North America

Before: June 17, 1775: Battle of Bunker Hill
After: January 2, 1777: Battle of Princeton

Before and after in Exploration

Before: 1772: Daniel Boone Crosses Cumberland Gap
After: January 18, 1778: Cook Reaches Hawaii

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: San Francisco