1846 - John B. Montgomery raises U.S. flag at Portsmouth Square
1848 - John Marshall discovers gold at Sutters Mill
1849-1914 - The Heyday of the Barbary Coast
1849 - Affair of The Hounds
1851 - First Vigilante Committee
1856 - Second Vigilante Committee
1858 - Terry shoots Broderick
1860s - First Transpacific Railroad - The Octopus, The Robber
Barons
1870s - Crocker's spite fence
1880s - Chris Buckley, Black Bart, Shanghai Kelly, - King of the Crimps
1890s - Shanghai Kelly, Highbinders/Hatchet Men, Little Pete
1896 - San Franciscan George Washington Carmack discovers gold in Alaska's
Yukon Territory
1914 - Redlite Abatement Act (end of the Barbary Coast)
1906 - Boss Reuf
1920s - Fatty Arbuckle
1930s - The McDonough Brothers
1967 - The Summer of Love
1968-72 - The Zodiac Killer
1974 - Patty Hearst and the SLA
1974-5 The Zebra Killer
1976 - Sara Jane Moore takes a shot at President Gerald Ford
1977 - Dan White kills Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in
City Hall
1977 - San Franciscan Jim Jones leads mass suicide in Guyana
1977 - Golden Dragon Massacre
1992 - Porn King Jim Mitchell shoots brother Artie
1993 - 101 California Street Killings
2000 - Marjorie Knoller Dog Mauling