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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Drake, Sir Francis, -1595 (search)
erected a wooden post, placed upon it a copper plate, with an inscription, on which was asserted the right of Queen Elizabeth and her successors to the kingdom, with the time of his arrival there, and a statement of the voluntary resignation of the country to the English by the king and people. On the same plate were engraved the portrait and arms of the Queen and the navigator. Then he sailed for the Molucca Islands. It is believed that Sir Francis Drake entered the Golden Gate of San Francisco Bay, and that near its shores the ceremony of his coronation took place. Fearing encounters with the Spaniards on his return with his treasure-laden vessels, Drake sought a northeast passage to England. Met by severe cold, he turned back, crossed the Pacific to the Spice Islands, thence over the Indian Ocean, and, doubling the Cape of Good Hope, reached England in November, 1580. The delighted Queen knighted Drake, who afterwards plundered Spanish towns on the Atlantic coasts of Ame
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
ransiscan fathers, by sea and land; two vessels reach San Diego......April 11 and May 1, 1769 Portola, with land expedition, reaches San Diego, July 9; leaves five days later, arrives at San Pedro, Oct. 30., and thence proceeds nearly to San Francisco Bay, but, provisions being exhausted, returns to San Diego......Nov. 11, 1769 Portola's second expedition from San Diego reaches Monterey Bay......May 24, 1770 Mission and presidio of San Carlos at Monterey founded......June 3, 1770 Mily 16, 1873 Assassins are captured June 1, tried, and Captain Jack and two associates are hanged......Oct. 3, 1873 Central Pacific Railroad attempts to obtain from Congress a grant of Goat Island, the property of the United States, on San Francisco Bay, opposite Oakland; an independent party in opposition is formed, and Newton Booth, its candidate, elected for the long term to Congress, with Judge Johnson S. Hayes, anti-railroad Democrat, for the short term......Dec. 20, 1873 Law empow