# Timeline of Oakland, California

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States.

## 19th century

* 1852 – Town of Oakland incorporated.
* 1854 – Horace Carpentier elected mayor.
* 1855 – Lyceum founded.
* 1860 – Population: 1,543.
* 1863 – Heald's Business College established.
* 1864 – Vander Naillen School of Practical Engineering established.
* 1866 – Police Court established.
* 1868
** Oakland Evening Transcript newspaper begins publication.
** University of California and Oakland Library Association established.
** Oakland Long Wharf bought by Central Pacific Railroad.
* 1869
** Railway begins operating.
** Lake Merritt Wild-Fowl Sanctuary and Oakland Fire Department established.
** Oakland Long Wharf becomes the western terminus of the First transcontinental railroad.
* 1871 – Mills Seminary relocates to Oakland.
* 1872
** Brooklyn becomes part of Oakland.
** Theosophical Society Library founded.
* 1873 – University of California relocates to Berkeley.
* 1875 – Oakland Daily Evening Tribune newspaper in publication.
* 1878 – Oakland Free Library opens.
* 1880 – Population: 34,456.
* 1884 – Horton School established.
* 1899 – Oakland Conservatory of Music established.
* 1900 – Population: 66,960.

## 20th century

* 1904 – Pacific Technical College established.
* 1906 – April 18: San Francisco earthquake; refugees flee to Oakland.
* 1907 – California School of Arts and Crafts founded.
* 1909
** Samuel Merritt College founded.
** Moore & Scott Iron Works in business.
* 1910
** Oakland Public Museum and YMCA open.
** Population: 150,174.
* 1912 – Oakland School Women's Club and Children's Hospital founded.
* 1913 – Oakland Yacht Club established.
* 1914
** Oakland Technical High School established.
** Oakland City Hall and Civic Auditorium built.
* 1917 – Joaquin Miller Park established.
* 1920 – Population: 216,261.
* 1922 – Snow Museum of Natural History opens.
* 1923 – Tribune Tower completed.
* 1924 – Granada Theater opens.
* 1927
** Oakland Airport begins operating.
** Port of Oakland opens.
* 1928
** Clorox Chemical Company in business.
** Posey Tube (traffic tunnel) built.
* 1931 – Paramount Theatre built.
* 1933 – Oakland Symphony active.
* 1936
** San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens.
** Alameda County Courthouse built.
** Alameda County Botanical and Zoological Society established.
* 1937 – Caldecott Tunnel opens.
* 1940 – Population: 302,163.
* 1944 – Oakland Army Base active.
* 1946 – 1946 Oakland General Strike begins on December 3 and ends on December 5.
* 1954 – Oakland Junior College established.
* 1961 – Coliseum Drive-In opens.
* 1966
** October: Black Panther Party established.
** Oakland Coliseum opens.
* 1968 – Athletics baseball team relocates to Oakland.
* 1969 – Oakland Museum opens.
* 1970 – Regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission established.
* 1971 – Your Black Muslim Bakery in business.
* 1972 – 12th Street Oakland City Center station, 19th Street Oakland station, and MacArthur station open.
* 1973 – Rockridge station opens.
* 1974 – West Oakland station opens.
* 1977 – Lionel Wilson becomes mayor.
* 1985 – Alameda County Community Food Bank established.
* 1988 – Oakland East Bay Symphony established.
* 1989 – October 17: 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
* 1990 – Population: 372,242.
* 1991 – October 20: Oakland firestorm of 1991.
* 1998 – City website online (approximate date).
* 1999 – Jerry Brown becomes mayor.
* 2000 – Allen v. City of Oakland lawsuit filed.

## 21st century

* 2002 – Taoist Center opens.
* 2003
** April 7: Anti-war protest.
** Women of Color Resource Center headquartered in Oakland.
** Urban Habitat headquartered in Oakland (approximate date).
* 2004 – Middle Harbor Shoreline Park landscaped.
* 2007
** East Bay Meditation Center opens.
** Ron Dellums becomes mayor.
* 2008 – Cathedral of Christ the Light dedicated.
* 2009
** January 1: BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant.
** March 21: 2009 shootings of Oakland police officers.
** Oakland Local begins publication.
* 2010
** Ace Monster Toys founded.
** Population: city 390,724; metro 4,335,391.
* 2011
** October 10: Occupy Oakland begins.
** Jean Quan becomes mayor.
** Sudoroom established.
* 2012
** April 2: 2012 Oikos University shooting.
** Oakland Wiki begins publication.
* 2014 – Oakland Police Beat begins publication.
* 2016
** 2016 Oakland warehouse fire