Timeline of Fresno, California
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fresno, 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.
19th century
- 1874 – Town becomes seat of Fresno County.
- 1875
- Fresno County Courthouse built.
- Fresno Expositor newspaper in publication.[2]
- 1877 – Fresno Volunteer Fire Department organized.[3]
- 1882 – St. John Church built.
- 1884 – Big Fresno Fair begins.
- 1885 – Fresno incorporated.[4]
- 1888 – Meux House built.
- 1890 – Barton opera house opens.[4]
- 1893 – Fresno Free Public Library opens.
- 1894
- Fresno Parlor Lecture Club organized.[5]
- Fresno Water Tower built.
- San Francisco-Fresno bike messenger service initiated.[6]
- 1899 – Santa Fe Passenger Depot opens.
20th century
1900s–1940s
1950s–1990s
21st century
- 2000
- 2001
- Alan Autry - 23rd Mayor of Fresno, California - In office, January 5, 2001 – January 6, 2009
- 2002
- 2003
- 2005
- 2008 – Neighborhood Thrift shop in business.[25]
- 2009 – Ashley Swearengin becomes mayor.
- 2010
- 2011 – Downtown Fresno Partnership formed.
- 2012 – Community Media Access Collaborative established.
- 2013 – Poet laureate inaugurated.[28]
- 2015 - Governor Brown; High-Speed Rail Project Signing Ceremony, Downtown Fresno. Future Location: HSR Station-Fresno.
- 2015 - Fresno Declares Drought; worst recorded precipitation levels; 130 years. Water Use Reduction/Conservation Begins.
See also
- Other cities in California
- Timeline of Anaheim, California
- Timeline of Bakersfield, California
- Timeline of Long Beach, California
- Timeline of Los Angeles
- Timeline of Mountain View, California
- 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 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- 1 2 Fresno Historical Society. "Collections: Manuscripts". Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- 1 2 3 Vandor 1919.
- ↑ California Federation of Women's Clubs (1907). Club Women of California. San Francisco.
- ↑ Jeroen Heijmans; Bill Mallon (2011). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Cycling. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7175-5.
- 1 2 Pluralism Project. "Fresno, California". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- 1 2 3 "Fresno State Centennial". California State University, Fresno. 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ↑ "Raisin Day Excitement at Fresno". Pacific Rural Press. April 24, 1920 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ↑ Project for Excellence in Journalism (2012). "McClatchy Company". Media Ownership Database. State of the News Media. Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center.
- ↑ Madden Library. "Local History". Research Guides. California State University, Fresno. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- 1 2 3 Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "Fresno, California". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ↑ "California". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1958.
- ↑ Cordelia Candelaria, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33210-4.
- ↑ Marshall Ganz (2010). Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-975785-5.
- 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Fresno, CA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ↑ "American Association of Community Theatre". Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ↑ American Association for State and Local History (2002). "California: Fresno". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). p. 64. ISBN 0759100020.
- ↑ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ↑ "California Food Banks". Food Bank Locator. Chicago: Feeding America. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ↑ "City Hall Gets Web Site", Fresno Bee, May 10, 1998 – via Fresno County Public Library
- ↑ "City of Fresno". Archived from the original on February 2000 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ↑ "(Fresno)". Northern California Community Loan Fund. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ↑ "Death of a Museum". The New York Times. July 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Fresno (city), California". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ↑ Norimitsu Onishi (May 7, 2013). "Recognition Grows for Poets of Streets, Main or Otherwise". The New York Times.
- ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Chronology", California: Guide to the Golden State, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House – via Open Library
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- Published in the 20th century
- Charter and Ordinances of the city of Fresno, California. Fresno: Franklin Printing House. 1911.
- State Commission of Immigration and Housing of California (1918). Report on Fresno's immigration problem. Sacramento: California state printing office.
- "Fresno". Automobile Blue Book. USA. 1919.
- Paul E. Vandor (1919), History of Fresno County, California, Los Angeles: Historic Record Company
- Ben Randal Walker, "Fresno: 1872–1885, A Municipality in the Making", Fresno County Historical Society Publications, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1934.
- Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Fresno", California: Guide to the Golden State, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House
- "Fresno Past and Present", Quarterly Journal of the Fresno City and County Historical Society. Fresno: The Society, 1959-
- Eaton, Edwin M. Vintage Fresno: Pictorial Recollections of a Western City'. Fresno: Huntington Press, 1964.
- Margaret Miller Rocq, ed. (1970). "Fresno County: Fresno". California Local History: A Bibliography (2nd ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-8047-0716-9.
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Fresno, CA", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
- Waiczis, Michael R., and William B. Secrest, Jr. A Portrait of Fresno, 1885-1985: A Publication of the Centennial History Committee. Fresno: Centennial History Committee, 1985.
- "San Joaquin Valley: Fresno". California. Let's Go. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1998. p. 510+. OL 10387102M.
- Published in the 21st century
External links
Coordinates: 36°45′00″N 119°46′00″W / 36.75°N 119.766667°W / 36.75; -119.766667
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