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Oakland suffered a disproportionate human toll from the Covid-pandemic within the San Francisco Bay Area, and between 2019 and 2023, Oakland became the first city in U.S. history to lose three professional major league sports teams to other cities within a span of five years.
In 1912, there was a movement to create a Greater San Francisco in which southern Marin County, the part of Alameda County which includes Oakland, Piedmont and Berkeley, and northern San Mateo County from San Bruno northwards would have become outer Boroughs of San Francisco, with the City and County of San Francisco functioning as Manhattan ...
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1852: The village of Contra Costa ("opposite shore") becomes Oakland, thanks to Horace Carpentier. 1854: By the Act entitled “An Act to Incorporate the City of Oakland,” approved March 25, 1854, Oakland changed from a “town” to a “city.” Its boundaries were described this way: “Northerly, by a straight line drawn at right angles with Broadway, form...
At various times Oakland attempted to annex Berkeley, Alameda and Piedmont. And at least once, San Francisco wanted to annex Oakland and much of the East Bay. 15
1877 map excerpt The original charterspecified the northern boundary of Oakland as: ...a straight line drawn at right angles with Broadway, formerly Main Street, in said city, crossing the extended line of Broadway at a point three hundred and sixty rods (1.125 miles) northerly from where stood the "Oakland House," on the northwest comer of Broadwa...
“City Extension.” [San Jose] Evening News, November 30, 1894Oakland Tribune, August 26, 1910“COURTS MAY SETTLE CONSOLIDATION LAW.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 1910; pg. 8“BERKELEYANS WANT IMMEDIATE UNION.” San Francisco Chronicle, December 7, 1909; pg. 8Abigail Rhim explores the departure of the Golden State Warriors from Oakland to San Francisco, arguing that media discourses circulated by the team, fans, and residents of both cities following the move demonstrate the significance of the team to Oakland’s sense of place-based identity.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Feb 4, 2014 · The pre-automobile urban form familiar in San Francisco and central Oakland simply does not exist in San Jose. Even attempts to pretend the pre-war urban form has returned have been famously unsuccessful.
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Mar 19, 2017 · Without geographic limitations, Oakland was able to absorb many of its tinier neighbors, and by 1909 had annexed nearly a dozen East Bay cities, including Claremont, Fruitvale, and Temescal. By...
