The University of California, Santa Barbara, is a public research university on a coastal campus near Goleta, California, and a member of the University of California system. Its origins lie in a small private school for manual training founded by Anna Blake in Santa Barbara. It later became a state normal school and then a state college, before being incorporated into the University of California. In the 1950s the campus was moved to its present site, a former military base on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean. UCSB is known for research in physics, materials science, marine science and the environment, and its faculty and alumni include several Nobel laureates.
Before and after
- 22 November 1890Birth of Charles de Gaulle
- 29 December 1890Wounded Knee Massacre
- from 29 December 1890 to 15 January 1891Ghost Dance War
- 1891Founding of California Institute of Technology
- 1891Construction of University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1891Founding of Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- 1891Founding of Vatican Observatory
- 1891Discovery of Gundestrup cauldron
- 22 January 1891Birth of Antonio Gramsci
More in Art, literature & culture
- 10 August 1793Construction of Louvre Museum
- 1 November 1800Construction of White House
- 17 November 1869Construction of Suez Canal
- 1886Statue of Liberty
- 1894Radio
- c. 1900sRise of modernism
The era
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