El Presidio Real de San Diego (Royal Presidio of San Diego) is a historic fort in San Diego, California. It was established on May 14, 1769, by Gaspar...

San Diego and is the site of the first European settlement in present-day California. It contains Old Town San Diego State Historic Park and Presidio...

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villages of Nipaquay (Nipawai), Haiir, and Cosoy (Kosa'aay). The first Spanish settlement in present-day California was the Presidio of San Diego and Mission...

sent the expedition of Junípero Serra and Gaspar de Portolà to found missions and presidios at San Diego and Monterey (see Timeline of the Portolà expedition)...

forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California, 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769, formed the...

Presidio Park is a city historic park in San Diego, California. It is the site where the San Diego Presidio and the San Diego Mission, the first European...

Celaya. The Presidio de León, founded in 1576 in León. The Hacienda San Cristóbal, founded in 1614 in San Cristóbal by the Viceroy Diego Fernández de...

From 1770 San Diego was ruled by a commandant from the Presidio of San Diego under the Spanish and (from 1822) Mexican governments. When San Diego became...

The Presidio and Mission were originally built on a bluff above the San Diego River, Presidio Hill, which is now the site of the city-owned Presidio Park...

persido of Monterey. Other California-based installations were founded in San Diego (El Presidio Real de San Diego) in 1769, in San Francisco (El Presidio Real...

of San Diego, and commandant of the Presidio of San Diego. José María Estudillo is the founder of the family. He was one of the first settlers of San Diego...

joining the company at the Presidio of San Diego. He later served as corporal and then sergeant of the guard at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, until...

Verdugo (1751 – 1831) was a soldier from the Presidio of San Diego who was assigned to the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel at the time his land was granted...

of present-day San Diego County. In 1823, one league (4,243 acres; 17 km2) was awarded to Captain Francisco María Ruiz, a Commandant of the Presidio of...

after the first presidio and mission, the Presidio of San Diego and Mission San Diego de Alcalá (1769). The original settlement consisted of forty-four people...

Portolá's Presidio of San Diego were built overlooking the Pueblo of San Diego. Ships coming to the Pueblo of San Diego sailed into San Diego Bay. The...

Gaspar de Portolà and his expedition founded the Presidio of San Diego (military post) above the village of Cosoy, and on July 16, Franciscan friars Junípero...

in present-day California, the Presidio of San Diego, and was the second European (after Francis Drake) to see the San Francisco Bay. Fronteras was originally...

y Moncada, former Governor of the Californias. Subsequently, he settled in San Diego, serving at the Presidio of San Diego from 1781 to 1786. After retiring...

1978), Spanish cyclist José María Verdugo (1751–1831), soldier of the Presidio of San Diego Kevin Verdugo (born 1968), American football player and coach...

in San Diego, California, in San Diego County, is the oldest residence in San Diego. The Casa de Carrillo House was built in 1821 by Presidio of San Diego...

settler of San Diego. He is the founder of the Estudillo family of California and served as Commandant of the Presidio of San Diego. Commandant of the Presidio...

of Presidio San Diego, and would in 1809 succeed don Raimundo in that position. Francisco's brother was Jose Manuel Ruiz Carrillo, the commander of La...

of their parent missions. Presidios in chronological order: El Presidio Real de San Diego (Presidio of San Diego), founded July 16, 1769 El Presidio Real...

founder of the prominent Guerra family of California. He served as the Commandant of the Presidio of Santa Barbara and the Presidio of San Diego. José de...

San Diego de Alcalá and the Presidio of San Diego, the first religious and military settlements founded by the Spanish in California. By the end of the...

granddaughter of José Francisco Ortega - Commandant of the Presidios of San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and Loreto. Also Mayor of Pueblo de San Diego. They...

known as San Diego. European settlement in what is now San Diego County began with the founding of the San Diego Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá...

Manuel Nieto (1734–1804) was a soldier from the Presidio of San Diego who was assigned to the Mission San Gabriel at the time his land was granted by the...