Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/146

1869

Hermes Avitor Jr. replica

Meek Mansion (pictured) in the East Bay is completed
The first Japanese immigrants arrive in San Francisco
The California Theatre in San Francisco opens
Frederick Marriott's unmanned, lighter-than-air craft the Hermes Avitor Jr. (replica pictured) takes to the air at the Shellmound Park racetrack in Emeryville, flying at about 5 miles per hour
Laurentine Hamilton is charged with heresy and resigns from his ordination in the Presbyterian church, with most of his parishioners joining him in forming the First Independent Presbyterian Church in Oakland