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]
20th century
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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]
^Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 737, OL5812502M
^American Association for State and Local History (2002). Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). ISBN0759100020.
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