1886 Leland Stanford bought 700 acres from Southern pacific railroad for his university. Palo Alto is a dry town.
1891 Leland Stanford opens Stanford University.
1892 Sierra Club is founded with John Muir as president.
1898 The San Francisco Ferry Building is built.
1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
1908 Muir Woods Preserved.
1911 Women get the vote in California state and local elections.
1912 Santa Clara College becomes Santa Clara University.
1929 Stock market crash begins the Great Depression.
1934 Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard graduate from Stanford University
1935 City College in San Francisco established as two year public school.
San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge opens.
1937 Amelia Earhart leaves Oakland to fly around world.
The Golden Gate Bridge opens.
1939 Hewlett-Packard is founded
1941 U.S. enters World War II.
1942 Japanese Americans moved to internment camps
1948 The first long playing record on vinyl is produced
1951 Stanford Industrial Park is built. Varian Associates was its first tenant.
1961 Santa Clara University admits its first female students, purchase making it the first coed catholic university in California.
1970 Xerox PARC founded
1976 Apple Computer is incorporated with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as itâ??s founders.
1977 Apple introduces the first personal computer, the Apple II.
1980 Hewlett-Packard release their first personal computer, the HP-85
1984 the Apple Macintosh computer launched
1985 Jobs and Wozniak leave Apple.
1989 The 7.1 magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake hits the Bay Area. Part of the Bay Bridge collapses as well as parts of the 101 freeway overpass in the SOMA district.
1997 Steve Jobs becomes interim (permanent) CEO
2001 First iPod is launched by Apple Computer
Bay Area History – A Timeline, Part 2
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