Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá ( Spanish: Misión San Diego de Alcalá) was the second Franciscan founded mission in The Californias (after San Fernando de Velicata ), a province of New Spain. Located in present-day San Diego, California, it was founded on July 16, 1769, by Spanish friar Junípero Serra, in an area long inhabited by the ...
A fort and mission were established in 1769, which gradually expanded into a settlement under first Spanish and then Mexican rule. San Diego officially became part of the U.S. in 1848, and the town was named the county seat of San Diego County when California was granted statehood in 1850.
The Mission has earned a reputation as the "Loveliest of the Franciscan Ruins." [ 1] The Spanish missions in California ( Spanish: Misiones españolas en California) formed a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California.
1855 – Point Loma Lighthouse built. [ 5] 1858 – October: Hurricane. 1859 – San Diego County votes to secede from California to form the Territory of Colorado, voting 207–24 in favor of secession [ 8] 1862 – 6.0 magnitude Earthquake. 1866 – Louis Rose lays out town of Roseville, later incorporated into San Diego.
Point of San Francisco Bay Discovery. The Portolá expedition was a Spanish voyage of exploration in 1769–1770 that was the first recorded European exploration of the interior of the present-day California. It was led by Gaspar de Portolá, governor of Las Californias, the Spanish colonial province that included California, Baja California ...
e. The architecture of the California missions was influenced by several factors, those being the limitations in the construction materials that were on hand, an overall lack of skilled labor, and a desire on the part of the founding priests to emulate notable structures in their Spanish homeland. While no two mission complexes are identical ...
Crespí names the river San Lorenzo – still its name today. The campsite was in what is now downtown Santa Cruz, California. 18 – Starting out west-northwest along the coast, the party finds a creek after "500 steps", which Crespí names Santa Cruz. The creek gave its name to Mission Santa Cruz in 1791, and still later to the county and ...
The San Carlos Mission circa 1893. Mission Carmel ( a.k.a. The Carmel Mission) was the second mission built by Franciscan missionaries in Upper California. It was first established as Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Monterey, California near the native village of Tamo on June 3, 1770, by Father Junípero Serra.