The University of California was established by an act of the California legislature, signed by Governor Henry Haight, which created a state university from a private college in Oakland and from a land-grant college, with its first campus in Berkeley. Today the system has ten campuses, including Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, Davis, Santa Barbara and Irvine, and it is one of the largest and most respected public university systems in the world. Its leading figures include Clark Kerr, who shaped the California Master Plan for Higher Education in the 1960s, and its laboratories played a major role in physics, including the Manhattan Project. Its students and faculty have won dozens of Nobel Prizes.
Before and after
- 31 August 1867Death of Charles Baudelaire
- 14 September 1867Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital
- 5 December 1867Birth of Józef Piłsudski
- 1868Founding of Technical University of Munich
- 1868Founding of University of California
- 1868Construction of Auckland Grammar School
- from 1868 to 1889Meiji Restoration
- from 3 January 1868 to 3 May 1947Empire of Japan
- from 27 January 1868 to 27 June 1869Boshin War
More in Society, economy & sport
- 1869Founding of Goldman Sachs
- 1874Founding of Universal Postal Union
- 1878Founding of Manchester United F.C.
- 23 September 1889Founding of Nintendo
- 1 November 1897Founding of Juventus FC
- 6 March 1902Founding of Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 19th century.