The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Sacramento, California, United States.
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- 1839 – Sutter's Fort (or “New Helvetia”) established.[1]
- 1845 – New Helvetia Cemetery established, the first cemetery in the city[2]
- 1849
- Sacramento City founded by John Sutter, Jr. and Sam Brannan.[3]
- William Stout becomes mayor.
- City Cemetery established.
- First sale of town lots.[1]
- 1850
- August: Squatters' Riot.
- October–November: Cholera outbreak[4]
- November: Chevra Kaddisha Cemetery established, the first Jewish cemetery in the state[5]
- Population: 6,820.[1]
- Daily California Republican newspaper begins publication.[6]
- 1852
- Congregation B'nai Israel synagogue established.
- Big Four Building constructed.
- Fire.[1]
- 1854 – State legislature relocates to Sacramento.[7]
- Sacramento Turn Verein founded [8]
- 1855
- First local steam railway of California opened.[1]
- November: the first California State Convention of Colored Citizens, a colored convention, was held here.[9][10]
- 1856
- Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park built.
- December: the second California State Convention of Colored Citizens, a colored convention, held here[10]
- 1857
- 1860 – Ground broken for California State Capitol building.[7]
- 1862 - Flood.[1]
- 1863 – Central Pacific Railroad building across the Sierras begins.[1]
- 1865 – California State Convention of Colored Citizens, a colored convention, was held here[12]
- 1869 – First train from the Atlantic coast reaches Sacramento.[1]
- 1874 – Capitol building completed.[7]
- 1877 – Muybridge photographs galloping horse at Union Park Racetrack.
- 1879 – Sacramento Free Public Library founded.[13]
- 1889 – Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament built.
- 1890 – Population: 26,386.[1]
- 1891 – Brighton School rebuilt.
- 1898 – Ruhstaller Building constructed.
- 1900 – Population: 29,282.[1]
20th century
- 1909 - Old Sacramento Chinatown closed for railroad
- 1910 – Population: 44,696.[1]
- 1912
- Empress Theatre opens.
- New Helvetia Cemetery closes for burials[14]
- 1915 – Zoological park established.[15]
- 1919 – Business and Professional Women's Club founded.[16]
- 1923 – Sacramento Municipal Utility District established.
- 1924
- Senator Hotel in business.
- Chevra Kaddisha Cemetery closes
- Home of Peace Cemetery opens
- Turn Verein Hall on J street opens [17]
- 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.[18]
- 1939 – Sacred Heart Parish School constructed.
- 1941 – Sacramento Army Depot activated.
1942 - Sacramento Horsemen's Association organized.
- 1947
- Sacramento Opera Guild founded.[19]
- Vic's Ice Cream in business.
- 1948
- Sacramento Symphony formed.[20]
- Belle Cooledge elected mayor.[21]
- 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.[22]
- Sacramento Book Collectors Club active.[23]
- 1962 – The Sacramento Observer newspaper begins publication.[24]
- 1966 – From March to April, farmworkers march to Sacramento from Delano.[25]
- 1968 – Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society formed.[26]
- 1974 – Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee first held.[27]
- 1975
- Phil Isenberg becomes mayor.
- September 5: Gerald Ford assassination attempt.
- 1977 – Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission established.
- 1979
- 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.[29]
- 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.[30]
- 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.[31]
- 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.
- 2022 – A mass shooting occurs in downtown Sacramento, killing six and injuring twelve.
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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Britannica 1910.
- ^ Jenner, Gail L. (2021-09-15). What Lies Beneath: California Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 262. ISBN 978-1-4930-4896-0.
- ^ Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center; Historic Old Sacramento Foundation (2006). Old Sacramento and Downtown. Arcadia. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-3123-6.
- ^ Charles E. Nagel (October 1957). "Sacramento Cholera Epidemic of 1850" (PDF). Golden Notes. 4 (1). Sacramento County Historical Society. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ "Chevra Kaddisha (Home of Peace Cemetery) Historical Landmark". State of California, Office of Historic Preservation.
- ^ "About Daily California Republican. (Sacramento, Calif.) 1850-1863". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ a b c "California State Capitol History Part One". California State Capitol Museum. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ Historical marker database accessed May 2023
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b Junne, George H. (2000). Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-313-31208-3.
- ^ G. Walter Reed (1923). History of Sacramento County, California. Los Angeles: Historic Record Company. p. 163. ISBN 978-5-88230-133-9.
- ^ Herron, Paul E. (April 2022). ""This Crisis of Our History": The Colored Conventions Movement and the Temporal Construction of Southern Politics". Studies in American Political Development. 36 (1): 21–40. doi:10.1017/S0898588X21000122. ISSN 0898-588X. S2CID 246985506.
- ^ American Library Annual, 1917–1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. p. 274. hdl:2027/mdp.39015013751220.
- ^ "Pioneer cemetery once sat at site of East Sacramento's Sutter Middle School". Valley Community Newspapers. July 8, 2011. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Guide to the Sacramento Business and Professional Women's Club Records". Collection Guide. Online Archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ Historical marker database accessed May 2023
- ^ "Guide to the Sacramento Amateur Movie Makers Club Records". Collection Guide. Online Archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ "Sacramento Opera History". Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ Phaedra Hise (May 1, 1997). "Labor-Union Disharmony Silences Symphony". Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ Doris Weatherford (2012). Women in American Politics: History and Milestones. CQ Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-1-60871-007-2.
- ^ "Guide to the Sacramento Peace Center records, 1960–1987". Collection Guide. Online Archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ Margaret Miller Rocq (1976). California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0908-8.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Cases: United States". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Pennsylvania: Swarthmore College. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
- ^ "About STJS". Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ John S. Davis (2012). Historical Dictionary of Jazz. Scarecrow Press. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-8108-7898-3.
- ^ Julie Sontag; Julie Cross (April 16, 2013). "Climate Solutions Awards go to Corbett, Davis Flea". The Davis Enterprise. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ^ "Have Modem Will Travel". Sacramento Bee. October 27, 1995.
- ^ 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.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 979–980.
- 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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sacramento, California.
- "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)
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