1854
![Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1866](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Mare_Island_Naval_Shipyard_1866.jpg/100px-Mare_Island_Naval_Shipyard_1866.jpg)
![Union Ironworks shipyard, Alameda, ca 1918](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Photocopy_of_Photograph_%28From_Bethlehem_Shipbuilding_Ltd.%2C_New_York%2C_New_York%2C_1919%29_C.1918_PHOTOGRAPH_OF_CONSTRUCTION_WORK_IN_PROGRESS_WITH_MACHINE_SHOP_IN_BACKGROUND_-_Union_HAER_CAL%2C1-ALAM%2C2-18.tif/lossy-page1-100px-thumbnail.tif.jpg)
• Mare Island Naval Shipyard (pictured, left), the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean, is established in Vallejo, Solano County
• The Mechanics' Institute Library and Chess Room is founded in San Francisco
• The city of Alameda is incorporated in Alameda County (Alameda Works Shipyard pictured, right)