1853
![Monarch the bear at the Academy of Sciences](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Monarch_the_bear.jpg/100px-Monarch_the_bear.jpg)
![Levi Strauss](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Levi_Strauss_1.jpg/70px-Levi_Strauss_1.jpg)
• The California Academy of Natural Sciences (modern display pictured, left) is founded in San Francisco
• Levi Strauss & Co. is established when Levi Strauss (pictured, right) arrives from Buttenheim, Bavaria, in San Francisco to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business
• Alameda County is incorporated