San Bernardino, California

San Bernardino is the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. As of 2005 the California Department of Finance estimates the population at 199,803. Although rapid residential development is transforming the city into a bedroom community, manufacturing remains a major industry in San Bernardino and the surrounding cities. It is an anchor city of the Inland Empire.

History timeline

• 1810 - Father Dumetz names San Bernardino on May 20, 1810, feast day of St. Bernardino of Siena
• 1843 - Rancho San Bernardino grant to Antonio Maria Lugo
• 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo cedes California to the United States
• 1851 - Mormon colony founded
• 1852 - Colonel Henry Washington erects survey monument in San Bernardino Mountains
• 1854 - San Bernardino incorporated
• 1857 - Brigham Young recalls Mormons to Utah. San Bernardino disincorporated
• 1880s - Railroads arrive
• 1886 - San Bernardino reincorporated
• 1926 - San Bernardino Valley College built
• 1942 - Norton Air Force Base opened
• 1965 - California State University, San Bernardino founded
• 1989 - Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails, killing four
• 1994 - Norton Air Force Base closed