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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.
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 ...
Mission San Diego de Alcala was established on July 16, 1769. As the first of the presidios and Spanish missions in California, they provided the base of operations for the Spanish colonization of Alta California (the present-day US state of California). On July 14, 1769, an expedition was dispatched from San Diego to find the port of Monterey.
With a population of over 1.3 million residents, the city is the eighth-most populous in the United States and the second-most populous in the state of California after Los Angeles. The city is the county seat of San Diego County, which had a population of nearly 3.3 million people as of 2021. [ 15]
1842 – Second Kumeyaay raid on San Diego. [ 7] 1844 – Kumeyaay- Quechan blockade reaches the Pacific from the Colorado River, halting southbound overland traffic from San Diego until 1846. [ 7] 1846–47 Mexican–American War. Battle of San Pasqual on December 6–7, 1846. Treaty of Cahuenga ceasefire signed January 13, 1847.
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.
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 ...
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 ...