Timeline of Sacramento, California

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Sacramento, California, United States.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

19th century

• 1843 – Sutter's Fort built.
• 1849
  • Sacramento City founded by John Sutter, Jr. and Sam Brannan.[1]
  • William Stout becomes mayor.
  • City Cemetery established.
• 1850
  • August: Squatters' Riot.
  • October–November: Cholera outbreak[2]
  • Population: 6,820.[3]
  • Daily California Republican newspaper begins publication.[4]
• 1852
  • Congregation B'nai Israel synagogue established.
  • Big Four Building constructed.
• 1854 – State legislature relocates to Sacramento.[5]
• 1855 – State Convention of Colored Citizens held in Sacramento.[6]
• 1857
  • Daily Bee newspaper begins publication.
  • Sacramento Library Association founded.[7]
• 1860 – Ground broken for California State Capitol building.[5]
• 1874 – Capitol building completed.[5]
• 1877 – Muybridge photographs galloping horse at Union Park Racetrack.
• 1879 – Sacramento Free Public Library founded.[8]
• 1889 – Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament built.
• 1890 – Population: 26,386.[3]
• 1891 – Brighton School rebuilt.
• 1898 – Ruhstaller Building constructed.

20th century

• 1910 – Population: 44,696.[3]
• 1912 – Empress Theatre opens.
• 1915 – Zoological park established.[9]
• 1919 – Business and Professional Women's Club founded.[10]
• 1923 – Sacramento Municipal Utility District established.
• 1924 – Senator Hotel in business.
• 1927
  • Westminster Presbyterian Church built.
  • William Land Park Zoo opens.
• 1931 – Blue Anchor Building constructed.
• 1933 – Federal Building constructed.
• 1935
  • Tower Bridge opens.
  • McClellan Air Force Base established near city.

1937 - Sacramento Sheriff’s Posse organized.

• 1937 – Sacramento Movie Forum organized.[11]
• 1939 – Sacred Heart Parish School constructed.
• 1941 – Sacramento Army Depot activated.

1942 - Sacramento Horsemen’s Association organized.

• 1947
  • Sacramento Opera Guild founded.[12]
  • Vic's Ice Cream in business.
• 1948
  • Sacramento Symphony formed.[13]
  • Belle Cooledge elected mayor.[14]
• 1954 – Sacramento Ballet founded.
• 1955 – KCRA-TV begins broadcasting.
• 1956 – Sacramento Youth Symphony founded.
• 1957 – Arden Fair Mall in business.
• 1959 - KVIE-TV begins broadcasting.
• 1960 – Tower Records in business.
• 1961
  • Sacramento Peace Center established.[15]
  • Sacramento Book Collectors Club active.[16]
• 1962 – The Sacramento Observer newspaper begins publication.[17]
• 1966 – From March to April, farmworkers march to Sacramento from Delano.[18]
• 1968 – Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society formed.[19]
• 1974 – Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee first held.[20]
• 1975
  • Phil Isenberg becomes mayor.
  • September 5: Gerald Ford assassination attempt.
• 1977 – Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission established.
• 1979
  • November 28: Anti-nuclear sit-in at State Capitol.[18]
  • Local Government Commission headquartered in city.[21]
• 1982 – California State Capitol building restored.
• 1983 – Anne Rudin becomes mayor.
• 1985
  • Sacramento Kings basketball team active.
  • Sacramento History Center established.
• 1989 – Renaissance Tower built.
• 1990 – Population: 369,365.[22]
• 1991
  • April 4: 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis.
  • U.S. Bank Plaza built.
• 1992 – Wells Fargo Center built.
• 1993 – Joe Serna, Jr. becomes mayor.
• 1995
  • City website online.[23]
  • Sacramento Festival of Cinema begins.
• 1996 – Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre founded.
• 1997 – Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra established.
• 1998 – Al-Arqam Islamic School established.
• 1999 – Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse and Esquire Tower built.
• 2000
  • Sacramento Film and Music Festival begins.
  • Heather Fargo becomes mayor.

21st century

• 2008
  • Kevin Johnson becomes mayor.
  • Sacramento Press and Natomas Buzz begin publication.[24]
  • U.S. Bank Tower built.
• 2009 – Bank of the West Tower built.
• 2010 – Population: 466,488.
• 2014 - Golden 1 Center breaks ground as the new home of the Sacramento Kings and opens in 2016.
• 2016 - Darrell Steinberg becomes mayor.

See also

• History of Sacramento, California
• List of mayors of Sacramento, California
• California Historical Landmarks in Sacramento County, California
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Sacramento County, California
• Timelines of other cities in the Northern California area of California: Fresno, Mountain View, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose

References

1. Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center; Historic Old Sacramento Foundation (2006). Old Sacramento and Downtown. Arcadia. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-3123-6.
2. Charles E. Nagel (October 1957). "Sacramento Cholera Epidemic of 1850" (PDF). Golden Notes. Sacramento County Historical Society. 4 (1). Retrieved November 4, 2016.
3. Britannica 1910.
4. "About Daily California Republican. (Sacramento, Calif.) 1850-1863". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
5. "California State Capitol History Part One". California State Capitol Museum. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
6. "Proceedings of the First State Convention of the Colored Citizens of the State of California". Sacramento: Democratic State Journal Print. 1855. Retrieved November 4, 2016 – via Colored Conventions.
7. G. Walter Reed (1923). History of Sacramento County, California. Los Angeles: Historic Record Company. p. 163. ISBN 978-5-88230-133-9.
8. American Library Annual, 1917–1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. p. 274. hdl:2027/mdp.39015013751220.
9. Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). Zoo and Aquarium History: Ancient Animal Collections To Zoological Gardens. CRC Press. p. 376. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
10. "Guide to the Sacramento Business and Professional Women's Club Records". Collection Guide. Online Archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
11. "Guide to the Sacramento Amateur Movie Makers Club Records". Collection Guide. Online Archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
12. "Sacramento Opera History". Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
13. Phaedra Hise (May 1, 1997). "Labor-Union Disharmony Silences Symphony". Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
14. Doris Weatherford (2012). Women in American Politics: History and Milestones. CQ Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-1-60871-007-2.
15. "Guide to the Sacramento Peace Center records, 1960–1987". Collection Guide. Online Archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
16. Margaret Miller Rocq (1976). California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0908-8.
17. David Covin (2009). Black Politics After the Civil Rights Movement: Activity and Beliefs in Sacramento, 1970–2000. McFarland. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-7864-5298-9.
18. "Cases: United States". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Pennsylvania: Swarthmore College. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
19. "About STJS". Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
20. John S. Davis (2012). Historical Dictionary of Jazz. Scarecrow Press. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-8108-7898-3.
21. Julie Sontag; Julie Cross (April 16, 2013). "Climate Solutions Awards go to Corbett, Davis Flea". The Davis Enterprise. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
22. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
23. "Have Modem Will Travel". Sacramento Bee. October 27, 1995.
24. For Natomas Buzz, see Maura R. O'Connor (October 31, 2011). "The Natomas Buzz, Hyperlocal news for a Sacramento, Calif. community". CJR's Guide to News Startups. Columbia Journalism Review. For Sacramento Press, see Caitlin Kasunich (September 21, 2011). "The Sacramento Press, An ad network helps pay the bills for local news". CJR's Guide to News Startups. Columbia Journalism Review. Both retrieved November 4, 2016.

Bibliography

• Bogardus' San Francisco, Sacramento City and Marysville Business Directory. 1850.
• Winfield J. Davis (1890), "Sacramento City", An illustrated history of Sacramento County, California, Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co.
• Sacramento City and County Directory. Sacramento: Sacramento Directory Co. 1908.
  • 1919 ed.
• "Sacramento", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Sacramento", California: Guide to the Golden State, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House
• Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Sacramento, CA", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
• "Northern Interior: Sacramento", California, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, OL 10387102M

External links

• "Sacramento City Annexations", MapStory, archived from the original on 2014-10-21, All annexations to the city of Sacramento, California 1850-Present
• Items related to Sacramento, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)