| DATE |
EVENT |
SOURCE |
| pre-European |
Native Americans occupied the land that would become California at least 15,500 years before the arrival of European explorers |
JWC |
| 1534 |
Discovery of lower California |
TW |
| 1536 |
Name of California first applied to the peninsula |
TW |
| 6-17-1579 |
Sir Francis Drake took possession of California in the
name of Queen Elizabeth |
TW |
| 1838 |
Gold discovered twenty-five miles northeast of Mission San
Fernando, LA County |
TW |
| 8-12-1839 |
Arrival of Captain Sutter at the present site of
Sacramento |
|
| Summer 1840 |
Sutter’s Fort erected |
TW |
| 6-18-1841 |
Grant made to John A. Sutter of New Helvetia |
TW |
| 9-1841 |
Captain Sutter bought the property held by the Russians at
Bodega |
TW |
| 10-20-1842 |
Commodore Jones hoisted American flag over Monterey,
supposing that war had been declared |
TW |
| 3-1844 |
Pablo Gutierrez found what he supposed to be gold on Bear
river |
TW |
| 3-6-1844 |
Fremont’s arrival at Sutter’s Fort |
TW |
| 11-1844 |
Truckee river named after the Indian, Captain Truckee |
TW |
| 11-1844 |
Schallenberger cabin built at Donner lake & Moses
Schallenberger remains winter |
TW |
| 3-1846 |
Arrival of Freemont and exploring party |
TW |
| 4-1846 |
Donner party set out for California |
TW |
| 6-14-1846 |
Revolt of Bear Flag party |
|
| 7-7-1846 |
Monterey taken possession by Americans |
TW |
| 7-8-1846 |
Yerba Buena seized by Americans |
TW |
| 7-10-1846 |
Revolution (or Bear Flag) party raise the American Flag |
TW |
| 8-15-1846 |
Californian newspaper started at Monterey by Colton & Semple |
TW |
| 10-1846 |
Donner party arrive at Donner lake |
TW |
| 10-16-1846 |
First Donner forlorn-hope party leaves the lake for
outside help |
TW |
| 1-1847 |
Name of Yerba Buena changed to San Francisco |
TW |
| 2-19-1847 |
Tucker’s relief party reach Donner lake |
TW |
| 3-1-1847 |
J.F. Reed’s relief party reach Donner lake |
TW |
| 4-1847 |
Third & fourth relief parties reach Donner lake |
TW |
| 8-28-1847 |
Work commenced on sawmill at Coloma |
TW |
| 11-28-1847 |
Steamer Sitka left S.F. for first trip to Sacramento,
arriving Dec. 4 |
TW |
| 1-24-1848 |
Gold Discovery by James Marshall in Coloma at Sutter’s
sawmill (some older source give date as January 19th) |
TW |
| 6-2-1848 |
First gold on Yuba River found by Jonas Spect |
TW |
| Summer 1848 |
Caldwell opens first store at Beckville, on Deer creek |
TW |
| Summer 1848 |
David Stump and Berry mine on Wolf creek at Grass Valley |
TW |
| Summer 1848 |
James Marshall claims have led a party of immigrants &
camped on Deer Creek |
TW |
| Summer 1848 |
Earliest settlement in county Rose’s Corral, btw Anthony
House & Bridgeport |
AS1856 |
| Summer 1848 |
David Bovyer opens a trading post at White Oak Springs |
TW |
| Summer 1848 |
Jonas Spect prospects on Deer creek as far as Penn Valley |
TW |
| 1849 |
Settlements of French Corral |
TW |
| 1-4-1849 |
Alta California newspaper started in San Francisco |
TW |
| 2-7-1849 |
First Pacific railroad bill introduced in Congress |
TW |
| 2-28-1849 |
Steamer California reached San Francisco |
TW |
| Spring 1849 |
John Rose builds a corral at Pleasant Valley |
TW |
| Summer 1849 |
Findley opens a trading post at mount of Greenhorn creek |
TW |
| 8-1849 |
First settlement at Grass Valley |
TW |
| 9-1849 |
1st settlers of Nevada City: Pennington, Cross,
McCaig, Caldwell |
AS1856 |
| 9-1848 |
Rough & Ready and Randolph companies settle at Rough
and Ready |
TW |
| 9-1949 |
1st store opened by Dr. A.B. Caldwell, log
store on Nevada St. |
AS1856 |
| 9-1-1849 |
First Constitutional Convention met at Monterey |
TW |
| 9-23-1849 |
Boston Co. arrived in Boston Ravine |
TW |
| 9-28-1849 |
First sermon in Nevada County at Boston Ravine by Rev. H.
Cummings |
TW |
| Fall 1849 |
Jefferson and Washington settled |
TW |
| Fall 1849 |
First mining in Little York |
TW |
| Fall 1849 |
Corral built at French Corral, and a store opened |
TW |
| 10-1849 |
1st female & children were family of Mr.
Stamps, built a cabin on Cayote St. |
AS1856 |
| 12-20-1849 |
Military Government of California dissolved. J.C. Fremont
and William M. Gwin Elected to the United States Senate |
TW |
| 12-15-1849 |
First session of Legislature held at San Jose |
TW |
| 12-24-1949 |
First great fire in San Francisco |
TW |
| 1849-1850 |
Winter very severe, in March 1850 snow was 10’ deep on
Deer Creek, roads blocked |
AS1856 |
| 2-18-1850 |
CA divided into 27 counties by Legislature (Nevada Co part
of Yuba County) |
TW |
| 1850 |
Settlements of Newtown, Sweetland, Kentucky Flat, Eureka,
Sweetland, Cherokee |
|
| 3-1850 |
Collection of tents, brush shanties and a few poor board
houses began to assume to appearance of a town |
TW |
| 3-1850 |
Charles F. Stamps elected Alcalde of Nevada City |
TW |
| 3-1850 |
Water first brought by ditch from Mosquito Creek to Old
Coyote Hill |
AS1856 |
| 4-9-1850 |
State Library founded |
TW |
| 4-17-1850 |
The name Nevada given to this settlement, names submitted & adopted by committee.
Formerly known as Caldwell’s Upper Store & Deer Creek Dry Diggings |
AS1856 |
| Spring 1850 |
1st hotel (cloth) opened in Nevada by Womack & Kenzie
early Spring of 1850 at corner of Commercial & Main streets |
AS1856 |
| Spring |
Settlement of Eureka South |
TW |
| 4-1850 |
Nevada Hotel opened, built by J.N. Turner of “rifted” pine
boards 38’w x 48’d all rafters, beams, floors etc. were taken from one tree!
Lodging & board $25 week |
AS1856 |
| 5-1850 |
Coyote lead was discovered northeast of town ravine named
Old Coyote Ravine |
AS1856 |
| 5-1-1850 |
About a dozen shake houses graced the town site mostly of
Main and Commercial streets |
TW |
| 5-4-1850 |
Second great fire in San Francisco |
TW |
| Summer 1850 |
First religious society organized—Methodist
Episcopal, Rev. Isaac Owen |
TW |
| 6-1850 |
First discovery of quartz at Grass Valley-first quartz
excitement was October |
TW |
| 7-1850 |
Davis, Captain G.W. Kidd & Mr. Bedford extended the
limits of the town by laying out Broad street as far as M.E. Church and Pine street from Commercial to
Spring, lots were 70’x90’ |
TW |
| 8-1850 |
Spring and Cedar streets were laid out |
TW |
| 8-1850 |
1st saw mill commenced on Deer Creek just above
town |
AS1856 |
| Fall 1850 |
6000 people living in and around Nevada |
AS1856 |
| 9-9-1850 |
Act of Admission of California into the Union |
|
| 9-1850 |
John & Thomas Dunn, C. Carol & C. Marsh projected
the Rock Creek Ditch /9 mi |
AS1856 |
| 12-1850 |
Murder of Dr. Lenox in Nevada City |
TW |
| 12-1850 |
Sweetland settled by H.P. Sweetland |
TW |
| 12-12-1850 |
First Post Office established for the town of Nevada |
TW |
| 3-1851 |
Deer Creek Mining Ditch constructed and computed in 1 year |
|
| 1851 |
1851 opened with 250 buildings in town & scores of
cabins & tents on the hills |
TW |
| 1851 |
1st Quartz mining and Gold Tunnel, California, Cornish,
Nevada, Mill & Wigham Mines were discovered |
EK
AS1856 |
| 1851 |
First church, post office, newspaper, theatre, Odd Fellow
lodge, dramatic hall |
|
| 1851 |
Settlements at Moore’s Flat, Woolsey’s Flat and Orleans’s
Flat |
TW |
| 1851 |
First settlement at Johnson’s Diggings (Birchville) |
TW |
| 1851 |
First house built at Cherokee-place first worked in 1850
by Cherokee Indians (??) |
TW |
| 1851 |
Settlement of Omega, Red Dog (Brooklyn), |
AS1856 |
| 1-1851 |
Second session of Legislature convened at San Jose |
TW |
| 1-1-1851 |
Jack Allen killed at Grass Valley |
TW |
| 2-14-1851 |
Act of Legislature approved, removing Capital to Vallejo |
TW |
| 3-1851 |
James Knowlton hung at Bridgeport |
TW |
| 3-11-1851 |
1st major fire of Nevada City-burned to the ground,
loss $500,000 originated at a saloon on Main street near Commercial, 125
buildings burned |
AS1856 |
| 3-13-1851 |
City incorporated by California Legislature |
NCFG TW |
| Spring 1851 |
First P.O. in county |
TW |
| 4-1851 |
Nevada Journal issued |
TW |
| 4-14-1851 |
Mayor and Aldermen elected by local voters |
NCFG |
| 4-21-1851 |
Common Council meets for first time, Justice of the Peace
Albion Olney officiates at qualifications ceremonies |
NCFG |
| 4-25-1851 |
Nevada County formed
|
TW |
| 5-5-1851 |
Regular council meeting |
NCFG |
| 5-18-1851 |
An act by CA Legislature creates Nevada County |
TW |
| 5-10-1851 |
Ordinance 2* enacted/vacant building lots |
NCFG |
| 5-20-1851 |
Election of the first officers of the county (4th Monday) |
AS1856 PP |
| 5-20-1851 |
Ordinance 7 enacted/defining & establishing boundaries |
NCFG |
| 5-20-1851 |
Ordinance 8 enacted/fees in Recorder’s court of City
Attorney & Marshall |
NCFG |
| 5-22-1851 |
Ordinance 10 enacted/to prevent and suppress disturbance
& riotous assemblies |
NCFG |
| 5-22-1851 |
Ordinance 11 enacted/defining manner of imprisonment of
convicts |
NCFG |
| 5-24-1851 |
Ordinance 12 enacted/respecting the ravine west of Main
street |
NCFG |
| 5-28-1851 |
Ordinance 13 enacted/regulating Licenses Common Council of
City |
NCFG |
| 5-28-1851 |
Ordinance 14 enacted/relating to the street on Little Deer
Creek |
NCFG |
| 5-28-1851 |
Ordinance 15 enacted/regulating the ravine west of Main
street |
NJ |
| 5-28-1851 |
Ordinance 18/respecting the oath of officers |
NJ |
| 5-28-1851 |
Ordinance 19/to prevent and state nuisances |
NJ |
| Summer 1851 |
First school in Rough and Ready |
TW |
| 6-1851 |
First school in Nevada City |
TW |
| 6-2-1851 |
Regular council meeting |
NCFG |
| 6-7-1851 |
Ordinance 21 enacted/an ordinance regulating licenses |
NCFG |
| 6-16-1851 |
Ordinance 22 enacted/regarding special election of two
Aldermen |
NJ |
| 7-7-1851 |
Regular council meeting |
NCFG |
| 7-11-1851 |
Ordinance 28 enacted/Commission of Streets and Sewers |
NCFG |
| 8-4-1851 |
Regular council meeting |
NCFG |
| 8-11-1851 |
Ordinance 32 enacted/regulating the amount of taxation |
NCFG |
| 8-11-1851 |
Ordinance 33 enacted/disorderly houses & houses of ill
fame |
NCFG |
| 8-25-1851 |
Ordinance 35 enacted/extension of the burial ground |
NJ |
| Fall 1851 |
Wells, Fargo & Co established |
TW |
| 9-1-1851 |
Regular council meeting |
NCFG |
| 9-6-1851 |
Special committee appointed by citizens’ meeting at Empire
Saloon to aid in collection of taxes, fees, & fines. |
NCFG |
| 912-1851 |
Special committee meets at Davis & Hirst store.
Members appointed to assist City Marshal in collections of taxes, fees &
fines. |
NCFG |
| 9-19-1851 |
Special committee meets again |
NCFG |
| 9-27-1851 |
Salaries of city officers repealed effective Oct. 10.
(Ordinance 36) |
NCFG |
| 10-17-1851 |
Second quarterly report shows city $9,308.80 in debt |
NCFG |
| 10-23-1851 |
Nevada Journal reports “6 or 7 attempts have been made to
get together a quorum of the Common Council without success. They ought to
feel that they have yet responsible duties to perform toward the creditors |
NCFG |
| 11-1851 |
First house built Cherokee |
TW |
| 11-1-1851 |
1st duel
fought in Nevada County at Industry Bar on the Yuba btw Dibble & Lundy |
AS1856 |
| 11-20-1851 |
Jenny Lind Theatre opened Nevada City |
TW |
| 1852 |
1st attempt to supply the city with water |
NCHSB |
| 1852 |
Settlement of Little York, Moore’s Flat (Clinton)
Orleans’s Flat, Alpha, Walloupa, |
AS1856 |
| 1-26-1852 |
Assemblyman Edward F. W. Ellis of Nevada County presents
petition of citizens of Nevada asking for repeal of charter. It is referred
to committee |
NCFG |
| 2-3-1852 |
Charter repeal bill passed by Assembly |
NCFG |
| 2-4-1852 |
Charter repeal bill goes to Senate and committee on
corporations |
NCFG |
| 2-12-1852 |
Charter repeal bill signed by Speaker of Assembly, and
President of Senate |
NCFG |
| 2-14-1852 |
Charter repeal bill signed by Governor Bigler to repeal
city charter |
NCFG |
| 2-?-1852 |
Isaac Williamson appointed commissioner to dispose of city
property, call for claims to be presented, give report of city indebtedness
within 30 days of call |
NCFG |
| 2-28-1852 |
Commissioner Williamson publishes legal notice in Nevada
Journal |
NCFG |
| 3-3-1852 |
Severe storm of wind, snow and rain began |
|
| 3-4-1852 |
A man named Brown was hanged at Newtown by mob violence |
NCHSB |
| 3-6-1852 |
Jenny Lind Theatre sailed down Deer Creek from the swollen
waters |
NCHSB |
| 4- 3-1852 |
Williamson submits report of indebtedness |
NCFG |
| 7-18-1852 |
John Barrett, a robber, was hung in Nevada City |
NCHSB |
| 9-7-1852 |
Fire starting in the kitchen of (old wooden) National
Hotel, $25,000 &12 buildings lost |
NCHSB |
| 9-14-1852 |
First issue of Young America by R. A. Davidge in Nevada City |
NCHSB |
| 10-9-1852 |
First quartz mining laws. A convention was held in Nevada
City & attended by miners from all parts of the county. |
NCHSB-NJ |
| 12-20-1852 |
Quartz mining laws adopted |
NCHSB |
| 4-1853 |
E.E. Matteson conceived idea of attaching nozzle to hose to
bear on bank |
NCHSB |
| 1853 |
Settlement of Woolsey’s Flat, Snow Point, (North) San
Juan, |
AS1856 |
| 1-3-1853 |
Fourth session of the Legislature met at Vallejo |
TW |
| 2-4-1853 |
State Capital removed to Benicia |
TW |
| Spring 1853 |
First settlement at North San Juan |
TW |
| Summer 1853 |
Nevada City again incorporated
|
TW |
| 6-28-1853 |
Rough and Ready destroyed by fire $59,700 loss |
TW |
| 6-30-1853 |
Engineer’s report on Marysville & Nevada Plank Road |
TW |
| 9-14-1853 |
Nevada Young Americaissued (newspaper) became Nevada Democrat |
TW |
| Fall 1853 |
The Gardiner/Mason Duel on Broad St. |
NCHSB |
| 12-1853 |
Nevada Baptist Church organized |
NCHSB |
| 12-1853 |
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church organized
in Grass Valley |
TW |
| 12-1853 |
First settlement of Relief Hill |
TW |
| 12-1853 |
First cabin built at Lake City |
TW |
| 12-1853 |
Name of Johnson’s Diggings changed to
Birchville |
TW |
| 12-1853 |
Fifty houses burned at French Corral |
TW |
| 12-1853 |
First fire company formed in Grass
Valley |
TW |
| 1-1-1854 |
California Stage Company began
operations |
TW |
| 2-25-1854 |
State Capital removed to Sacramento |
TW |
| 3-1-1854 |
California Steam Navigation Company
organized |
TW |
| 3-1854 |
African M.E. Church organized in Grass
Valley |
TW |
| Fall 1854 |
Frisbie’s Theatre built in Nevada City |
TW |
| 11-1854 |
Destructive fire at French Corral |
TW |
| 11-28-1854 |
Fire originated in boarding house on
Main street $6,000 9 buildings lost |
TW |
| 2-20-1855 |
Fire originated in kitchen of Virginia
House $40,000 loss |
TW |
| 3-5-2855 |
Grass Valley incorporated by Court of
Sessions |
TW |
| 3-20-1855 |
Emmanuel Episcopal Church organized in
Grass Valley |
TW |
| 8-24-1855 |
First railroad train in California
placed on track of S.V.R.R. |
TW |
| 9-13-1855 |
Grass Valley destroyed by fire |
TW |
| 9-1855 |
Board of Supervisors organized |
TW |
| 9-1855 |
Trinity Episcopal Church organized in
Nevada City |
TW |
| 4-1856 |
Legislature gives new boundaries to
Nevada county |
TW |
| 4-19-1856 |
The law under which Nevada City was
incorporated was ruled unconstitutional |
TW |
| 4-19-1856 |
Nevada City again incorporated
|
TW |
| 5-1-1856 |
Hamilton Hall opened in Grass Valley |
TW |
| 5-16-1856 |
Vigilance Committee formed in San Francisco |
TW |
| 7-19-1856 |
City’s most devastating fire started at Hughes’s Blacksmith Shop on Pine St, $1,500,00 and at
least 10 deaths. Town was laid in ruins in ½ hour swept by winds |
TW |
| 10-6-1856 |
Death of Thomas Hodges, alias Tom Bell, the noted highwayman. |
TW |
| 11-3-1856 |
Death of Sheriff Wright and David Johnson |
TW |
| 12-1856 |
St Canice Catholic Church organized in Nevada City |
TW |
| 12-1856 |
North San Juan M.E. Church organized |
|
| 12-1-1856 |
Frisbie & Bain’s theatre opened in Nevada City |
TW |
| 2-2-1857 |
Nevada County divided into seven townships |
TW |
| 2-14-1857 |
Laird’s dam gives way. Damage $44,000 |
TW |
| 4-1857 |
Name of Humbug City changed to North Bloomfield |
TW |
| 6-15-1857 |
First stage on the wagon road completed round trip,
Placerville to Carson Valley |
TW |
| 10-9-1857 |
Frank V. Moore committed suicide in jail on day set for
his execution |
TW |
| Fall 1857 |
Name of San Juan changed to North San Juan |
TW |
| Fall 1857 |
San Juan Star issued, afterwards Hydraulic Press |
TW |
| 2-22-1858 |
Michael Brennan commits murder of his family and suicide
at Grass Valley |
TW |
| 2-26-1858 |
Major C. Bolin, alias David Butler, hung at Nevada City |
TW |
| 5-3-1858 |
Robbery of Wells, Fargo & Co’s treasure box near
Nevada City |
TW |
| 5-9-1858 |
Christian Church organized in Grass Valley |
TW |
| 5-23-1858 |
Nevada City nearly consumed by fire $207,075 loss |
TW |
| 5-31-1858 |
Work commenced on California Central Railroad |
TW |
| 6-7-1858 |
Hook & Ladder Co formed in Grass Valley |
TW |
| 7-23-1858 |
First overland mail, via Placerville and Salt Lake, left Sacramento |
TW |
| 8-23-1858 |
State Fair held at Marysville |
TW |
| 9-16-1858 |
Metropolitan Theatre opened in Nevada City |
TW |
| 11-1858 |
Nevada African M.E. Church organized |
TW |
| 11-2-1858 |
Bloomfield Township formed |
TW |
| 1-13-1859 |
Fire at Red Dog $8,600 loss |
TW |
| Spring 1859 |
Discovery Comstock ledge |
TW |
| 6-1859 |
Discovery of celebrated Comstock lead announced |
TW |
| 7-8-1859 |
Rough and Ready destroyed by fire |
TW |
| 8-5-1859 |
Horace Greeley spoke on Broad Street |
ND |
| 9-13-1859 |
State Fair held at Sacramento |
TW |
| 9-20-1859 |
Railroad Convention met at Sacramento |
TW |
| 4-1860 |
County Hospital completed |
TW |
| 4-1860 |
Pony Express established and first messenger left
Sacramento |
TW |
| 5-1860 |
Massacre of Major Ormsby’s party near Pyramid Lake |
TW |
| 5-20-1860 |
Fire started in Nevada City would have easily been put out
except for leaky hose $13,300 |
TW |
| Summer 1860 |
Pi-Ute Indian War |
TW |
| 6-1860 |
Nevada City Water Works commenced, cost $38,000 |
TW |
| 6-12-1860 |
Nevada Hose Co No. 1 formed in Nevada City |
TW |
| 6-13-1860 |
Eureka (Pennsylvania) Hose Co. No. 2 organized in Nevada
City |
TW |
| 6-23-1860 |
Protection Hook and Ladder Co. formed in Nevada City |
TW |
| 7-4-1860 |
Tomlinson’s celebration in Nevada City |
TW |
| 8-8-1860 |
Fire in Grass Valley $40,000 loss |
TW |
| 9-1860 |
Death of the Indian, Captain Truckee |
TW |
| 9-6-1860 |
Nevada Transcript issued in Nevada City |
TW |
| 1-1861 |
Instrumental survey of route for C.P.R.R. over Sierras
made during this year |
TW |
| 1-13-1861 |
State Agricultural Society decided to make Sacramento a
permanent location |
TW |
| 1-1861 |
Instrumental survey of route C.P.R.R. over Sierras made
during this year |
TW |
| 4-17-1861 |
Act of Legislature Nevada City empowered of levy an annual
tax .20/$100 to support fire department |
TW |
| 4-15-1861 |
Grass Valley incorporated by the Legislature |
TW |
| 5-15-1861 |
Corner stone of State House laid |
TW |
| 6-19-1861 |
Protection Hose Co No. 1 organized in Grass Valley |
TW |
| 6-28-1861 |
Articles of Incorporation of C.P.R.R. of California filed
with Secretary of State |
TW |
| 7-12-1861 |
Hydraulic duel in Nevada City |
TW |
| 8-1861 |
North San Juan Theatre built |
TW |
| 1-23-1862 |
Legislature adjourned to San Francisco on account of flood |
TW |
| 5-15-1862 |
Act forming township governments |
TW |
| 6-11-1862 |
Fire in Grass Valley. $24,000 loss |
TW |
| 7-1-1862 |
Pacific Railroad Act approved by President |
TW |
| 7-11-1862 |
Falling of Pine street bridge, Nevada City |
TW |
| 8-1862 |
Red Dog destroyed by fire, $50,000 loss |
TW |
| 8-15-1862 |
Fire in Grass Valley, $40,000 loss |
TW |
| 9-1862 |
Grass Valley lighted with gas |
TW |
| 10-13-1862 |
Hydraulic Hose Company, No 1 organized at North San Juan |
TW |
| 10-29-1862 |
Union Hose Co, No. 2 organized at North San Juan |
TW |
| 11-4-1862 |
Birckbeck committed suicide in jail, while under sentence
of death |
TW |
| 11-1862 |
Complete water-works built at North San Juan |
TW |
| 12-13-1862 |
Western Pacific Railroad Co incorporated |
TW |
| 1-8-1863 |
Ground broken for C.P.R.R. at Sacramento |
TW |
| 2-22-1863 |
Construction of C.P.R.R. commenced |
TW |
| 3-1863 |
Eureka Hose co. formed in Grass Valley |
TW |
| 4-3-1863 |
Thomas Burke hung in Nevada City |
TW |
| 4-1863 |
Act approved by Governor granting $10,000 per mile to
C.P.R.R. |
TW |
| 4-1863 |
Court of Sessions abolished by amendments to Constitution |
TW |
| 6-1863 |
Discovery of Meadow Lake quartz |
TW |
| 6-1863 |
San Juan Press issued |
TW |
| 8-25-1863 |
Tiger Hook and Ladder Co formed in Grass Valley |
TW |
| 9-5-1863 |
Fire at North San Juan. $550,000 loss |
TW |
| 9-1863 |
Joseph Gray built first house at Coburn’s Station (Truckee) |
TW |
| 11-8-1863 |
Great fire of 1863 again leveled Nevada City including and the complete business district
$550,000 (county records were saved) |
TW |
| 1-19-1864 |
Repeal of township law |
TW |
| 3-1864 |
Nevada Gazette issued |
TW |
| 3-21-1864 |
Ordinance to “walk your horses on Pine St. Bridge” |
NCN |
| 10-6-1864 |
Fire at North San Juan |
TW |
| 10-28-1864 |
Grass Valley Union issued |
TW |
| 1-10-1865 |
California Pacific Railroad Company incorporated |
TW |
| 1-17-1865 |
The “Big Scare” in Nevada City |
TW |
| 5-19-1865 |
Fire in Moore’s Flat. $30,000 loss. |
TW |
| Spring 1865 |
Nevada Theatre built. |
TW |
| 9-19-1865 |
Fire at North San Juan, Chinatown destroyed except for 7
buildings |
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| 8-1865 |
Central Pacific Railroad purchased Sacramento Valley
Railroad |
TW |
| 1866 |
Boundary between Nevada and Placer counties defined |
TW |
| 2-16-1866 |
Formation of Meadow Lake township |
TW |
| 3-24-1866 |
Meadow Lake incorporated |
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| 5-6-1866 |
Steve Venard kills three stage robbers |
TW |
| 6-30-1866 |
Bank of California organized |
TW |
| 7-18-1866 |
Eagle Hose Company No. 2 formed in Grass Valley |
TW |
| Summer 1866 |
Grass Valley water-works completed. Cost, $20,000. |
TW |
| 9-23-1866 |
Souchet-Picard duel |
TW |
| 11-8-1866 |
Murder of James L. Cooper and Joseph Kyle at Cooper’s
Bridge |
TW |
| 7-27-1867 |
Explosion in the Court House and death of R.H. Farquhar |
TW |
| 7-28-1867 |
Burning of Indian Rancheria, near Nevada City |
TW |
| 12-1-1867 |
Chinese driven out of French Corral |
TW |
| 1868 |
Town of Boca started |
TW |
| 4-8-1868 |
First train of cars run on Western Pacific Railroad |
TW |
| 7-1868 |
Coburns’s Station (Truckee) destroyed by fire |
TW |
| 3-5-1869 |
Fire started on Spring street, destroyed 3 builds
including the Union Stables, the oldest building in the city that survived
the previous fires |
TW |
| 3-28-1869 |
Roundhouse at Truckee burned |
TW |
| 3-28-1869 |
You Bet destroyed by fire $37,000 loss |
TW |
| 4-3-1869 |
First train of cars run on Western Pacific Railroad |
TW |
| 4-1869 |
Hank Brown whips five robber in Truckee |
TW |
| 5-10-1869 |
Union Pacific & Central Pacific Railroads met at
Promontory Point, Utah |
TW |
| 7-1869 |
Coburn’s Station (Truckee) destroyed by fire |
TW |
| 7-1869 |
Boundary between Nevada and Sierra county defined |
TW |
| 7-1869 |
Truckee Tribune issued |
TW |
| 7-1869 |
California Steam Navigation Company transferred all their
property to the Central Pacific Railroad Company some time during the year |
TW |
| 7-31-1869 |
Moore’s Flat destroyed by fire $100,000 |
TW |
| 1-22-1870 |
Grass Valley reincorporated |
TW |
| 7-4-1870 |
Fire at North San Juan, $5,000 loss |
TW |
| 7-20-1871 |
Truckee burned to the ground, $111,000 loss |
TW |
| 11-9-1871 |
Grass Valley Republican issued |
TW |
| 4-30-1872 |
Truckee Republican issued |
TW |
| 8-13-1872 |
Fire at Cherokee. $10,000 loss |
TW |
| 12-17-1872 |
Chinese riot in Truckee |
TW |
| 1873 |
Telegraph line built from Truckee to Tahoe City |
TW |
| 1873 |
San Juan Times issued |
TW |
| 5-7-1873 |
Fire in Truckee. $12,000 loss |
TW |
| 7-5-1873 |
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