Timeline of Mountain View, California
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mountain View, California, USA.
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.
Prior to 20th century
Part of a series on the |
|---|
| History of California |
 |
| Periods |
| Topics |
| Cities |
 California portal |
- 1854
- 1867 - Rengstorff House (residence) built.[1]
- 1888 - Mountain View Register newspaper begins publication.[2][3]
20th century
- 1900 - Bank of Mountain View in business.[1]
- 1902
- November 7: Mountain View incorporated.[4]
- Mountain View Union High School opens.
- "Electric streetlights, telephone service and a municipal water system" begin operating (approximate date).[1]
- 1904 - Seventh-day Adventist Pacific Press Publishing Association moves to town.[4]
- 1905
- Mountain View Public Library established.
- Farmers and Merchants Bank built.[4]
- 1906 - April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[1]
- 1909 - Town Hall built.[5]
- 1930 - Mountain View Theater opens.[6]
- 1933 - US Naval Air Station Moffet Field established.[4]
- 1934
- Historic Adobe Building constructed.
- Mountain View Buddhist Temple active.[7]
- 1950
- 1954 - Mountain View Historical Association formed.[9]
- 1955 - February 24: Birth of Steve Jobs.[10]
- 1956 - Beckman Instruments' Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory active.[11]
- 1960 - Population: 30,889.[4]
- 1968 - Intel Corporation and Monolithic Memories in business.[11]
- 1970 - Regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission established.
- 1975 - Old Mill Mall (shopping centre) in business.[1]
- 1979 - Kannon Do Zen Center active.[7]
- 1982 - Grid Compass laptop computer introduced.[12]
- 1985 - Actel Corporation[11] and Century cinema[6] in business.
- 1987 - Downtown Mountain View Station opens.
- 1993
- Voice of Mountain View newspaper begins publication.[2]
- Anna Eshoo becomes U.S. representative for California's 14th congressional district.[13][14]
- 1994 - Santa Clara County government computer network begins operating.[15]
- 1997 - City website online (approximate date).[16]
- 1999 - Google Inc. in business.[1]
21st century
- 2002 - Computer History Museum opens.[1][17]
- 2010 - Population: 74,066.[18]
- 2014 - John McAlister becomes mayor.[19]
- 2016
See also
- History of Santa Clara County, California
- Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area
- History of Google, headquartered in city
- Other cities in California
- Timeline of Anaheim, California
- Timeline of Bakersfield, California
- Timeline of Fresno, California
- Timeline of Long Beach, California
- Timeline of Los Angeles
- Timeline of Oakland, California
- Timeline of Riverside, California
- Timeline of Sacramento, California
- Timeline of San Bernardino, California
- Timeline of San Diego
- Timeline of San Francisco
- Timeline of San Jose, California
- Timeline of Santa Ana, California
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 San Jose Mercury News 2007.
- 1 2 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ↑ American Newspaper Annual, N. W. Ayer & Son, 1921 – via HathiTrust
- 1 2 3 4 5 Perry 2012.
- ↑ "City History". City of Mountain View. Retrieved January 30, 2016. (timeline)
- 1 2 3 "Movie Theaters in Mountain View, CA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- 1 2 Pluralism Project. "Mountain View, California". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ↑ Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 737, OL 5812502M – via Internet Archive
- ↑ American Association for State and Local History (2002). Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). ISBN 0759100020.
- ↑ Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
- 1 2 3 "The Silicon Engine: a Timeline of Semiconductors in Computers". Mountain View, California: Computer History Museum. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ↑ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
- ↑ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, DC. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ↑ "California". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1993.
- ↑ "NII Awards 1995". USA: National Information Infrastructure Awards. Archived from the original on January 1997.
- ↑ "City of Mountain View Home Page". City of Mountain View. Archived from the original on January 1997.
- ↑ "Museum History (timeline)". Computer History Museum. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ↑ "Mountain View city, California". State & County QuickFacts. US Census Bureau. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ↑ "Clark, McAlister to lead City Council in 2014", Mountain View Online, January 8, 2014
- ↑ "Mountain View: Showalter picked as new mayor", San Jose Mercury News, January 6, 2016
- ↑ "Teslas in the Trailer Park: A California City Faces Its Housing Squeeze", New York Times, November 13, 2016
Bibliography
- "Mountain View". San Jose City and Santa Clara County Directory. Polk-Husted. 1909 – via Google Books.
- Mary Jo Ignoffo (2002). Milestones: a history of Mountain View, California. California History Center & Foundation. ISBN 978-0-935089-27-1.
- "A look back: Timeline of Mountain View history", San Jose Mercury News, March 2007
- Nicholas Perry; Kimberly Chan (2012). Mountain View. Then & Now. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-9576-4.
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountain View, California. |
- Mountain View Public Library. "Mountain View History Center".
- Items related to Mountain View, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
|
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.