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(Top) 1 19th century 2 20th century 2.1 1900s–1940s 2.2 1950s–1990s 3 21st century 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 6.1 Books 6.2 Periodicals 6.3 Travel guides 7 External links

Timeline of Fresno, California

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fresno, California, USA.

19th century

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1856 – Fresno County formed in 1856 with Millerton, a settlement along the San Joaquin River, as the county seat.^[1]
1865 – William Helm brings his wife and his sheep to the valley floor area south of Millerton.^[2]
1870 - Weekly Expositor newspaper in publication.^[3]
1872 – Fresno station founded by the Central Pacific Railroad Company^[4]
1874 – County seat of Fresno County moves from Millerton to Fresno due to population growth.^[5]
1875
- Fresno County Courthouse built.
- Central California Colony established south of Fresno, creating a successful model for attracting settlers.^[4]^[6]
1876 – Fresno Morning Republican newspaper in publication.^[7]
1877 – Fresno Volunteer Fire Department organized.^[8]
1881 - William Helm bought the block bounded by Fresno, R, Merced and S Streets from Louis Einstein.^[9]
1882 – St. John Church built.
1884 – Big Fresno Fair begins.^[10]
1885 – Fresno incorporated.^[11]
1889 – Meux Home built.^[12]
1890
- Barton opera house opens.^[11]
- Population exceeds 10,000.^[4]
1892 - Street cars introduced ^[4]
1893 – Fresno Free Public Library opens.^[13]
1894
- Fresno Parlor Lecture Club organized.^[14]
- Fresno Water Tower built.
- San Francisco-Fresno bike messenger service (during the Pullman Strike) initiated.^[15]
1899 – Santa Fe Passenger Depot opens.
1900 – Population: 12,470.^[16]

20th century

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1900s–1940s

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1901
- Fresno City Railway in operation.
- Fresno Buddhist Temple founded.^[17]
1904
- Gottschalks shop in business.
- First Butcher Shop Opened by Andrew David Green
1906 – Forestiere Underground Gardens begin developing.
1908 – Asparēz Armenian/English-language newspaper begins publication.
1909 – Raisin Day festival begins.^[18]^[19]
1910 – Fresno Junior College opens.
1911
- Fresno State Normal School founded.^[18]
- Sunnyside Country Club opens.
1913 – Commercial Club organized.^[11]
1914 – Holy Trinity Church built.
1918
- Sun-Maid raisin facility begins operating.
- Bank of Italy building constructed.
1919 – Fresno Historical Society^[8] and Temple Beth Israel founded.
1921 – Fresno State College established.^[16]
1922
- KMJ 580AM Radio begins broadcasting.
- Fresno Bee newspaper begins publication.^[20]
1923
- Fort Washington Country Club established.
- San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation Building constructed.
1925 – Security Pacific Bank Building constructed.
1926 – Fresno State Stadium dedicated.^[18]
1928 – Pantages Theater opens.
1929
- Roeding Park Zoo opens.
- Z. S. Leymel becomes mayor.
- Chandler Airport opens as area's primary airport.
1932 – Fresno Memorial Auditorium built.^[16]
1935 – Academy (social group) formed.^[21]
1939 – Tower Theatre opens.
1942 – U.S. Air Force Hammer Airfield and Japanese American internment camp in use.
1944 – Pacific Bible Institute founded.^[22]
1946 – Sierra Sky Park Airport residential aviation community established near city.
1947 – Hammer Field National Guard training area and Fresno Air Terminal established, becoming primary hub of commercial aviation instead of Chandler Airport.
1948 – Azteca Theater built.

1950s–1990s

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1954 – Peoples Church and Fresno Philharmonic [1] founded.
1955 – Bernice F. Sisk becomes U.S. representative for California's 12th congressional district.^[23]
1960 – Mexican American Political Association founded.^[24]
1961 – City of Fresno Takes over municipal bus service.
1962 – Farm Workers Association founding meeting held in Fresno.^[25]
1964
- Fulton Mall dedicated.
1966
- Fresno Convention Center complex built.
- Fresno County Courthouse rebuilt.
1967 – Catholic Diocese of Fresno established.
1968 - Woodward Park opened in north Fresno.
1969 – Kiddie Kinema movie theatre opens.^[26]
1970
- Fashion Fair Mall in business.
- Population: 167,927.^[5]
1973 – Good Company Players founded.^[27]
1977 – KMTF television begins broadcasting.
1983 – Fresno Metronews begins publication.
1984
- Nanaksar Gurdwara founded.
- Fresno Metropolitan Museum established.^[28]
1989
- Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill closes.
- Karen Humphrey becomes mayor.
1990
- Vida en el Valle Spanish/English-language newspaper begins publication.^[29]
- Population: 354,202.^[30]
1992 – Hmong Times newspaper in publication.^[31]
1993
- Hmong Today (television program) begins broadcasting.
- San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center established.[2]
- Jim Patterson becomes mayor.
1996 – Tahoe Joe's restaurant in business.
1997
- Community Food Bank active.[3]^[32]
- River Park shopping center in business.
1998
- City website online.^[33]^[34]
- Fresno Grizzlies baseball team formed.
- Fresno Stadium 22 cinema opens.^[26]
2000
- University High School established.^[22]
- Mormon Fresno California Temple dedicated.

21st century

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2001
- Alan Autry becomes Mayor
2002
- Grizzlies Stadium opens.
2003
- Save Mart Center (arena) opens.
- Ani-Jam anime convention begins.
2005
- Woodward Shakespeare Festival and Artists' Repertory Theatre founded.
- Jim Costa becomes U.S. representative for California's 20th congressional district.^[35]
- Coyle United States Courthouse built.
2008 – Neighborhood Thrift shop in business.^[36]
2009 – Ashley Swearengin becomes mayor.
2010
- Fresno Metropolitan Museum closes.^[28]
- Population reaches 494,665 people.^[37]
2013
- Poet laureate inaugurated.^[38]
- Bitwise Industries launches, bringing a technology and entrepreneur community together. Starts with Bitwise Mural District, and more Fresno campuses follow.
2014
- Fresno General Plan adopted, becoming the first one in decades to not expand the Sphere of Influence.
2015
- On January 6, Governor Jerry Brown attends a groundbreaking ceremony for California High-Speed Rail in downtown Fresno at the future location of Fresno's High Speed Rail Station.^[39]
- Fresno Declares Drought; worst recorded precipitation levels; 130 years. Water Use Reduction/Conservation Begins.
2017 – Fresno shootings.
2020
- Population reaches 542,161 people.^[40]
2021
- Former Police Chief Jerry Dyer becomes Fresno's 26th mayor.

References

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^ Walker 1934, p. 2.

^ Guinn, J. M. (1905). History of the State of California with Biographical Record. Chicago: The Chapman Publishing Co. pp. 669–670.

^ Vandor 1919, p. 149.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "History of Fresno". City of Fresno Planning and Development. Retrieved January 3, 2023.

^ ^a ^b Nergal 1980.

^ Painter 1994.

^ Vandor 1919, p. 150.

^ ^a ^b Fresno Historical Society. "Collections: Manuscripts". Retrieved March 13, 2014.

^ Eaton 1964.

^ Laval, Elizabeth M. (October 20, 2004). The Fresno Fair: As Seen Through the Lens of Claude C. Pop Laval. Word Dancer Press. ISBN 9781884995484.

^ ^a ^b ^c Vandor 1919.

^ "Thomas R. Meux Home (1889)". Local Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 3 August 2016.

^ "History of Fresno County Public Library". Fresno County Public Library. Retrieved December 5, 2022.

^ California Federation of Women's Clubs (1907). Club Women of California. San Francisco.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

^ Jeroen Heijmans; Bill Mallon (2011). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Cycling. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7175-5.

^ ^a ^b ^c Federal Writers' Project 1939.

^ Diana Marcum (2011). "Closure of historic temple in Fresno dismays Japanese American community". Religion. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2012.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Fresno State Centennial" (Historical Timeline). California State University, Fresno. 2010. Archived from the original on March 14, 2014. 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.

^ ^a ^b Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Fresno, California". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved March 13, 2014.

^ "California". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1958. hdl:2027/mdp.39015024835871.

^ 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.

^ ^a ^b "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.

^ ^a ^b Pogrebin, Robin (July 23, 2013). "Death of a Museum". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 8, 2021.

^ "Non-English readers targeted". Reno Gazette Journal. February 17, 1991. Retrieved October 31, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998

^ "Non-English readers targeted". Merced Sun Star. August 17, 1992. Retrieved February 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

^ "California Food Banks". Food Bank Locator. Chicago: Feeding America. Retrieved March 13, 2014.

^ "City Hall Gets Web Site", Fresno Bee, May 10, 1998

^ "City of Fresno". Archived from the original on 2000-02-29 – 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.

^ "Fresno (city), California". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on April 27, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2014.

^ Norimitsu Onishi (May 7, 2013). "Recognition Grows for Poets of Streets, Main or Otherwise". The New York Times.

^ David Siders (January 7, 2015). "Groundbreaking at Fresno for California high-speed rail". The Sacramento Bee.

^ "QuickFacts: Fresno city, California". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 24, 2022.