TIMELINE |
EVENTS |
IMAGES |
880-210 million years
ago |
Mountain uplift
formation in the Sierras |
|
3 million- 10,000 years
ago |
Glacial action carves
out the valleys and features like Half Dome |
|
8,000 years ago |
Native Americans
inhabit the valley: called the valley Ah-wah-nee
and themselves Ah-wah-nechee |
|
1833 |
Walker Party first
Europeans view Ah-wah-nee |
|
1851 |
Mariposa
Battalion
drive Ah-wah-nechee out; miss name the
valley "Yosemite" |
|
1863-65 |
Albert
Bierstadt (1830-1902) visits Yosemite and
sketches for a number of paintings |
|
1890 |
John Muir (1838-1914)
gets Yosemite area set aside as a preserve under
State of California |
|
1903 |
T.R. Roosevelt
(1858-1919) visits Yosemite w/ Muir |
|
1906 |
Bill passed to make
Yosemite a National Park |
|
1906 |
San Francisco
Earthquake |
|
1913 |
Hearings to damn Hetch
Hetchy Valley on the Tuolomne River in Yosemite
NP.
Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) argues in favor of
the project.
Supreme Court rules in favor of the damn |
|
1916 |
National Park Service
is established |
|
1945-1978 |
Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Photographer and school in Yosemite |
|
1980's- present |
Smog and overcrowding |
|