1892
- Le Petit Trianon (pictured) near Santa Clara Valley is built for Charles A. Baldwin and his wife Ellen Hobart Baldwin, as the center of their wine-producing estate
- Stanford Cardinal football play the first game of their first season, 1891-1892, and shortly into the season win in their first game against California Golden Bears football
- The University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education is established
- Paul Masson's first sparkling wine under the name "champagne" is introduced at Almaden Valley in Santa Clara County
- The Sierra Club is founded in San Francisco by John Muir (pictured, 1880)
- The Owl Drug Company is established in San Francisco