{"id":393447,"date":"2026-07-10T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393447\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:45:26","slug":"july-9-1846-u-s-takes-san-francisco-from-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393447\/","title":{"rendered":"July 9, 1846 &#8211; U.S. takes San Francisco from Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; On this day, July 9, 1846, the United States took San Francisco away from Mexico. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Europeans didn\u2019t come across the San Francisco Bay until 1769, although they had sailed by it before in earlier centuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When Spanish explorers found the bay that year, they immediately recognized its strategic value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 1776, the Spanish built a military post on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and quickly founded the Mission of San Francisco De Asis nearby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When the U.S. attempted to buy the bay in 1835, the Mexicans did not want to sell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than ten years later, U.S. Captain John Montgomery sailed his warship into the Bay, anchoring just off the settlement while the two countries were at war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Montgomery led a party of Marines and sailors ashore, where they were met with no resistance, and claimed the settlement for the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They raised the American flag in the central plaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The following year, the area was officially named San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/page\/find-nbc15-news-wherever-you-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download the WMTV15 News app or our WMTV15 First Alert weather app.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; On this day, July 9, 1846, the United States took San Francisco away from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,158293,158291,2457,14663,101,1914,103,102,104,106,105,136302,435,67962,158292],"class_list":["post-393447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-california","tag-charlie-shortino","tag-john-montgomery","tag-mexico","tag-san-fran","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-bay","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-this-day-in-history","tag-united-states","tag-we-the-people","tag-wmtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}