The Ohlone tribe inhabited the area, the Tamyen (Tamien, Thamien) people are associated with the Mountain View area.
1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded on January 12,[1] and the land that is now Mountain View was used as pasture for sheep and cattle by the Mission Indians.[2]
1842 - Mexico grants 8,800 acre land (part of what is now part of Mountain View and Sunnyvale) to Francisco Estrada and his wife, Inez Castro.[3][4]
1844 - Mexico grants 1,700 acre land grant of Rancho Posolmi, (the Moffett Field area) is granted to local Native American Lupe Ynigo.[4]
1845 - The Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas (Ranch of the Ewe/Lamb Pasture) was a transferred land grant to Mariano Castro, after the death of his relative Francisco M. Estrada.[2][3]
1852 - Stagecoach service begins, and the first stop (near Grant Road and El Camino Real) is formed for service between San Francisco and San Jose. A settlement is formed around this stop.[3]
1854
Settlement named "Mountain View", naming is credited by local store keeper and the first postmaster, Jacob Shumway.[4]
1867 - Rengstorff House (residence) built in Shoreline Park.[4] First Catholic mission of Saint Joseph built under Rev. Fr. Joseph Bixio at El Camino Real and Grant (currently the site of a BMW dealership).[1]
1893 - Stanford University professors "investigate" the Castro Indian Mound, also known as Indian Hill, Secondino Robles (in the neighborhood that is now known as Monta Loma) to better understand local Native American customs.[7]
Mariano Castro family donates land for Saint Joseph Parish. Concrete foundations poured at current location 582 Hope Street, at the corner of Castro Street.[1]
1924 - The local high school is renamed to Mountain View Union High School and relocated to a larger campus, also serving the neighboring Los Altos and Whisman communities.[8]
1926 - Ambra Olive Oil Company of Mountain View is opened on 987 North Rengstorff Avenue. Founded by Mario Ambra (1887–1968), a native of Pachino, Italy, and his wife Rosaria (1890–1981).[10][11]
1928 - Saint Joseph Catholic Church burned down by arsonist.[1]
1940: the city became the home of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now the NASA Ames Research Center), influencing the city's development of its aerospace and electronics industries.[16]
1948 - Construction of Saint Joseph Catholic School on Miramonte Avenue under Rev. Fr. James Doyle.[1]
Stanford University surrenders the collected artifacts and remains from the Castro Shell Mound (the area is now known as the Monte Loma neighborhood) to the descendants, this includes 550 Ohlone Indian remains.[30][31]
1996 - The Computer Museum (now called the Computer History Museum) moves part of the unused museum collection from Boston, Massachusetts to Mountain View and it's stored in a former Moffett Field building.[38]
1995 - The Crossings, a housing community is built over the Old Mill Shopping Mall[29]
1997 - City website online (approximate date).[39]
1999
The Computer Museum moves the remainder of the museum collection to Mountain View and renamed to The Computer Museum History Center.[40]
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^"The Ambra Olive Oil Co. sign". Internet Archive. 1995.
^ abc"Movie Theaters in Mountain View, CA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
^"About the Association". Mountain View Historical Association. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
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^Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 737, OL 5812502M
^American Association for State and Local History (2002). Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). ISBN 0759100020.
^Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
^"City Ball Park May Be Named After MV Pioneer Resident". Mountain View Register Leader. June 9, 1955.
^ abc"The Silicon Engine: a Timeline of Semiconductors in Computers". Mountain View, California: Computer History Museum. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
^ abDeBolt, Daniel (2011). "Steve Jobs called Mountain View home as a child". Mountain View Voice. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
^ ab"Cinemas Around the World - Moffett Drive-In Theatre, Mountain View CA". CinemaTour. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
^ abcPerry, Nick (2004-10-15). "Mayfield Mall Once a Hot Item". Mountain View Voice. Embarcadero Publishing Company. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
^Orr, John. "Mountain View: Former mayor Judith Moss honored by council". The Mercury News. The Mercury News. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
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^ abcRatnikas, Algirdas. "SF Bay Area 2000". Retrieved 2017-04-11.
^Smith, Cheryl. "The First Inhabitants of Our Neighborhood History". Monta Loma Neighborhood. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
^Gross, Jane; Times, Special to The New York (1989-06-24). "Stanford Agrees to Return Ancient Bones to Indians". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
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