Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/162

1853

Monarch the bear at the Academy of Sciences

Levi Strauss

 • 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