1907
- By the end of a violent streetcar operator strike in San Francisco, thirty-one people had been killed and about 1100 injured.
- San Francisco Mayor Eugene Schmitz (pictured) is found guilty of extortion, and the office of mayor is declared vacant
- The School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts is founded in Berkeley during the height of the Arts and Crafts movement
- Piedmont is incorporated in Alameda County
- The whaling bark Lydia wrecks on the shore of San Francisco