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The Trail CompanionFall 2000Theme: Parks with a PastA Conservation Timeline
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| 1846 | American occupation of California. | |
| 1849 | Gold Rush. | |
| 1850 | California becomes a state. | |
| 1860 | Formation of the Spring Valley Water Company. | |
| 1864 | Jun. 30 Federal government grants Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove to California as Yosemite State Park (incorporated in Yosemite National Park in 1906). | |
| 1870 | Apr. 4. State legislature sets aside Golden Gate Park as a public park for San Francisco. | |
| 1872 | Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, established by the Yellowstone National Park Act. | |
| Alum Rock Park in Penitencia Canyon east of San Jose becomes a municipal park by authorization of the state legislature. | ||
| 1874 | First private toll road to the summit of Mount Diablo built. | |
| 1876 | Leland Stanford and his wife establish their Palo Alto home along San Francisquito Creek. | |
| 1885 | The Stanford Palo Alto lands are given to the University in the 1885 Grant of Endowment with the stipulation that it never be sold. | |
| 1890 | Sep. 25 Sequoia National Park established. | |
| Oct. 1 General Grant National Park established (incorporated in Kings Canyon National Park in 1940). | ||
| Oct. 1 Yosemite National Park established, surrounding the state park. | ||
| 1892 | Sierra Club founded. | |
| 1893 | State legislature sets aside beach lands from Pescadero Creek to Bean Hollow Lagoon for public use, including Pebble Beach. | |
| 1899 | San Jose photographer Andrew P. Hill starts a crusade to save the Big Basin redwoods. | |
| 1900 | Colonel James B. Armstrong, owner of the 400 acre Armstrong Grove of Redwoods, dies, unable to leave it to the state as he intended. | |
| 1902 | Big Basin Redwoods State Park established. | |
| 1903 | President Theodore Roosevelt visits Yosemite with John Muir. | |
| 1905 | Congressman William Kent and his wife, Elizabeth Thacher Kent, buy the area later known as Muir Woods. | |
| 1906 | California returns the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa grove to the U.S. for incorporation into the national park. | |
| Oakland's Robinson Plan recommends acquiring Lake Merritt and other areas as parklands, as well as a county park system. | ||
| Jun. 8 Federal Antiquities Act. | ||
| 1907 | Jan. 14. Special election in Oakland passes bonds to acquire parcels around Lake Merritt and elsewhere for parks. | |
| Sierra Club resolution to Secretary of the Interior opposes damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley. | ||
| 1908 | Jan. 9 Muir Woods National Monument established. | |
| Jan. 16 Pinnacles National Monument established. | ||
| 1913 | Sierra Club loses the battle to preserve Hetch Hetchy. | |
| 1915 | Mt. Diablo Auto Toll Road completed. | |
| 1916 | Aug. 25. National Park Service created in the National Park Service Organic Act. | |
| 1917 | Armstrong Grove purchased by Sonoma County of the Armstrong Grove for a county park. |
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