Yosemite Timeline

 





TIMELINE
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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