1895
- The de Young museum is founded in San Francisco by San Francisco Chronicle publisher M. H. de Young (pictured) as an outgrowth of the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894
- Landscape designer Makoto Hagiwara creates the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park
- The Native Sons of the Golden State, a Chinese benevolent society, is founded in San Francisco
- John Van Denburgh completes his organizing of the herpetology department of the California Academy of Sciences