** Blessed Fray Junípero Serra

* 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

* 1771 – Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.

* 1713 – Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary ( d. 1784 )

* June 3 – Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777 – 1822, United Mexican States 1824 – 1846, until the California Republic.

* August 28 – Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary ( b. 1713 )

* July 16 – Father Junípero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions.

Visitador General José de Gálvez engaged the Franciscans, under the leadership of Fray Junípero Serra, to take charge of those outposts on March 12, 1768.

On July 14, 1769 Gálvez sent the expedition of Junípero Serra and Gaspar de Portolà to found a mission at San Diego and presidio at Monterey, respectively.

The mission planning was begun in 1767 under the leadership of Fray Junípero Serra, O. F. M.

* Father Junípero Serra ( 1769 – 1784 )

It was founded on July 14, 1771 and was the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is a Spanish mission founded in 1772 by Father Junípero Serra in the present-day city of San Luis Obispo, California.

In 1772, when food supplies started to dwindle, Father Junípero Serra remembered the " Valley of the Bears.

The huge success of the hunting expedition caused Father Junípero Serra to consider building a mission in fertile soil San Luis Obispo.

The mission became the fifth in the mission chain constructed by Father Junípero Serra.

On September 1, 1772 a cross was erected near San Luis Obispo Creek and Father Junípero Serra celebrated the first mass, marking the site as the destination for yet another mission.

However, briefly following the first mass, Father Junípero Serra returned to San Diego and left the responsibility of the mission's construction to Father Jose Cavaller.

A statue of Fray Junípero Serra stands outside the church.

The Mission chapel, along with " Father Serra's Church " at Mission San Juan Capistrano, is one of only two surviving buildings where Father Junípero Serra is known to have officiated ( although " Dolores " was still under construction at the time of Serra's visit ).

Founded on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California, and the last to be established by Father Junípero Serra.

* California Historical Landmark # 113 — Site of " Junípero Serra's Cross " ( the first cross on the hill known as La Loma de la Cruz, or the " Hill of the Cross ") can be found in Grant Park, and was erected by Junípero Serra upon the Mission's founding

A statue of Father Junípero Serra and a native child at Mission San Fernando.

He was appointed the second Presidente of the missions in California in 1785, replacing Junípero Serra, and transferred to the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo.

Blessed Junípero Serra (; ), known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue, () ( November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784 ) was a Majorcan Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain — present day California, United States.

Junípero Serra was a Majorcan Franciscan who founded the first the Alta California Spanish missions.

In the 1970s, a site in the Santa Lucia Mountains at Junípero Serra Peak, southeast of Monterey, was evaluated for possible relocation of many of the telescopes.

Mission San Antonio de Padua was founded on July 14, 1771, the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra, and site of the first Christian marriage and first use of fired-tile roofing in Upper California.

On May 9, 1775, Junípero Serra baptized what appears to be the first Esselen, Pach-hepas, who was the 40-year-old chief of the Excelen.

A right-handed batter, Fregosi is one of many notable alumni of Junípero Serra High School of San Mateo, California, and was signed by the Boston Red Sox in.

As a youth, Swann was raised in neighboring Foster City and attended Junípero Serra High School, where in addition to playing football he was a track star, leaping 24 ' 10 " in the long jump.

Another popular stop is the Old Mission Dam, which was built to supply irrigation water to the Mission San Diego de Alcala, the first of the chain of missions established by Junípero Serra in California.

Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded by Father Junípero Serra the same year.

Monterey, California was established in 1770 by Father Junípero Serra and Gaspar de Portolà ( governor of Baja and Alta California ( 1767 – 1770 ), explorer and founder of San Diego and Monterey ).

It was the headquarters of the original upper Las Californias Province missions headed by Father-President Junípero Serra from 1770 until his death in 1784 — he is buried there.

Mission San Francisco de Asís, or Mission Dolores, the sixth Spanish Mission, was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu ( a companion of Junípero Serra ), both members of the 1775 – 1776 de Anza Expedition.

finding that Junípero Serra was familiar with the Santa Lucia Mountains, but in all likelihood he had never encountered the Sierra Nevada.

Fages quarreled with Father Junípero Serra, president of the Alta California missions, and was replaced in 1774 by Fernando Rivera y Moncada.

* The Humanity of Junípero Serra, an article by Thomas Davis at the Serra International official website

After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Father Junípero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana ( Valley of Saint Anne ).

The expedition led by Portolà, which included Father Junípero Serra, the President of the Missions, along with a combination of missionaries, settlers, and leather-jacket soldiers, including José Raimundo Carrillo, left Velicata on May 15.

From 1769 to 1823, the Franciscan order led by Junípero Serra and later by Fermín de Francisco Lasuén established twenty-one missions between present-day San Diego and Sonoma, six of which were located in the present-day territory of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

" Two years later, a small expedition led by captain Gaspar de Portolá and Father Junípero Serra officially took possession for the upper Las Californias Province, what is now central California, via the establishment of El Presidio Real de San Carlos de Monterey ( the Royal Presidio of Saint Charles of Monterey ) and the nearby Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo.

The fort's original mission, the Royal Presidio Chapel, has remained in constant use since its founding in 1770 by Junípero Serra, who arrived with Portola's party.

* A life-sized statue of Father Junípero Serra, a Roman Catholic missionary sent by Spain to help colonize California.

The property is currently occupied by the gymnasium, athletic fields and performing arts complex of Junípero Serra High School.