1891
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- Roe Island Light (pictured) is built at the east end of Suisun Bay across from Port Chicago
- Stanford University (pictured) opens in Santa Clara County, with 21 departments, including the Department of the History and Art of Education
- King Kalākaua of Hawaii dies at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco
- The First Unitarian Church of Berkeley is founded