The following is a timeline of the history of San Jose, California, United States.
- 1803 – San Jose de Guadalupe church built.
- 1805 - Mission San Jose's church built in 1805, not 1803, and named La Mission del Gloriosisimo Patriarch San Jose, or just Mission San Jose, but not San Jose de Guadalupe according to San Jose Mission's history page.[3]
- 1809 - Mission San Jose's church completed and dedicated.[4]
- 1822 – Mexicans in power.
- 1840 – Population: 750 (approximate).
- 1846 – Town occupied by U.S. forces.
- 1849 – December: Town becomes capital of the new state of California.[6]
- 1850
- City chartered.
- Josiah Belden becomes mayor.
- San Francisco-San Jose stagecoach begins operating.
- 1851
- 1852 – San Jose Foundry in business.
- 1853 – Hook and Ladder Company No.1 organized.
- 1855
- 1856 – Young Men's Literary Association organized.[11]
- 1857 – Minn's Evening School established.
- 1861 – San Jose Daily Mercury newspaper begins publication.[8]
- 1862 - California State Normal School founded.
- 1864 – San Francisco-San Jose Railway in operation.
- 1865 – St. Joseph High School established.[12]
- 1866 – Santa Clara Argus newspaper begins publication.[8]
- 1867 – San Jose YMCA established.[13]
- 1868 – St. Joseph's Church built (approximate date).
- 1870
- 1871 – University of the Pacific relocated to San Jose vicinity.
- 1875 – San Jose Law Library,[11] San Jose Fruit Packing Company, and California Pioneers of Santa Clara County[16] established.
- 1878 – Home of Benevolence founded.
- 1879 – Daily Morning Times begins publication.[8]
- 1886 – Board of Trade organized.
- 1888 – Lick Observatory established atop Mount Hamilton.
- 1889
- 1890 – Population: 18,060.
- 1891 – Heald College established.[12]
- 1892 – First Unitarian Church of San Jose built.
- 1892 – We and Our Neighbors Clubhouse (women's club) founded.
- 1894
- 1895 – Post Office built.
- 1897 – Good Government League organized.
- 1900 – Population: 21,500.
Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 996, OL 5812502M
Patterson, Homer L. (1932). Patterson's American Educational Directory. Vol. 29. Chicago. hdl:2027/uc1.b3970358.{{cite book}}
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American Association for State and Local History (2002). "California: San Jose". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). Rowman Altamira. p. 60+. ISBN 0759100020.
"For Woman Mayor, It's Another First", New York Times, December 13, 1975
Pluralism Project. "San Jose". Directory of Religious Centers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
Published in the 19th century
- Frederic Hall (1871), History of San José and surroundings, San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Co., OCLC 1742911, OL 6916091M
- G.H. Hare, Hare's Guide to San Jose and Vicinity for Tourists and New Settlers (San Jose, 1872)
- Luther L. Paulson (1875). Handbook and Directory of Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Mateo Counties. Comp. and pub. by L.L. Paulson.
- Bishop's Directory of the City of San Jose. San Francisco: B.C. Vandall. 1876.
- J.P. Munro-Fraser (1881). History of Santa Clara County, California. San Francisco.
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- "San José (California)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (9th ed.). 1886.
- "San Jose". Western and Southern States. Appletons' General Guide to the United States and Canada. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1889.
- San Jose City Directory. F.M. Husted. 1892.
- Picturesque San José, San Jose: H.S. Foote and C.A. Woolfolk, 1893
- San Jose City Directory. F.M. Husted. 1899.
Published in the 20th century
- San Jose City Directory. F.M. Husted. 1902.
- Mary Bowden Carroll (1903), Ten years in Paradise, San Jose, Cal: Popp & Hogan, OCLC 2558925, OL 23346957M
- Seeing San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley, San Jose: Guide Publishing Co., 1904
- "San Jose", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
- "San José" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 150.
- "San Jose", Santa Clara Valley, Woman's Club of Palo Alto, 1911
- Eugene T. Sawyer (1922), History of Santa Clara County, California, Los Angeles: Historic Record Co., OL 13497989M
- William F. James; George H. McMurry (1933), History of San Jose, California, San Jose, Calif: Smith Printing Co.
- Oscar Osburn Winther (1935). "Story of San Jose, 1777–1869, California's First Pueblo". California Historical Society Quarterly. 14 (1): 2–27. doi:10.2307/25160553. JSTOR 25160553.
- Federal Writers' Project (1940), "San Jose", San Francisco: The Bay and Its Cities, American Guide Series, NY: Hastings House
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- Peter A. Morrison (1974). "Urban Growth and Decline: San Jose and St. Louis in 1960s". Science. 185 (4153): 757–762. Bibcode:1974Sci...185..757M. doi:10.1126/science.185.4153.757. JSTOR 1738474. PMID 4843376. S2CID 545941.
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "San Jose, California", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
- Timothy J. Lukes (1994). "Progressivism Off-Broadway: Reform Politics in San Jose, California, 1880–1920". Southern California Quarterly. 76 (4): 377–400. doi:10.2307/41171743. JSTOR 41171743.
- Ramón D. Chacón (1995). "Quetzalcoatl in San Jose: Conflict over a Commemoration". California History. 74 (3): 328–339. doi:10.2307/25177515. JSTOR 25177515.
- "City & Town Profiles: San Jose", Santa Clara County, 1995, Martinez, California: McCormack's Guides, 1995, p. 166+ (fulltext via Open Library)
Published in the 21st century
- Johnson, Bob (2010). San Jose. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-8083-8 – via Google Books.
- "San Francisco Bay Area: San Jose", California, Lonely Planet, 2003, OL 8647775M
- "San Jose Mayor Declares State of 'Fiscal Emergency'". New York Times. May 21, 2011.
- "Cut Salaries, Not Pensions in San Jose, Judge Rules". New York Times. December 23, 2013.