Hugh H. Toland and Richard Beverly Cole arrive in San Francisco, CA.

Hugh H. Toland starts the Toland Medical College in San Francisco, on Stockton and Chestnut streets, making it the oldest medical school in the West in continuous operation.

Governor Henry H. Haight signs a bill creating the University of California which provides the colleges of "law, medicine, and other professional colleges" to be created.

Hugh H. Toland proposes giving his Medical College to the new University of California, but insists that the school be in his name. The University of California withdraws from negotiations.

Richard Beverly Cole becomes the dean of Toland Medical College after a reconciliation between Toland and Cole stemming from a long-term disagreement concerning a surgical procedure in 1856 for a gunshot victim James King of William.

August 7... The California College of Pharmacy is organized by the California Pharmaceutical Society. Instruction begins in October and includes courses in materia medica, pharmacy, chemistry and botany.

Daniel Coit Gilman becomes president of the University of California. The following year he sends a letter to the Regents redefining the goals of medical education, including dental and pharmaceutical programs, and education for women. Twenty years later he implements these advanced ideas as president of Johns Hopkins.

San Francisco City and County Hospital moves from Francisco and Stockton streets to new buildings on Potrero Avenue.

An affiliation agreement is approved between the UC President Gilman and the trustees of the California Pharmaceutical Society.

The Regents accept Toland Medical College as the Medical Department of the University of California. Cooperation between the new Medical Department and the College of Pharmacy reaches a point where Dean Cole announces that medical students in good standing can attend classes of the College of Pharmacy.

University of California adopts a policy to admit women to medical school and Lucy Wanzer registers as a student. In 1876, Wanzer becomes the first women to graduate from a medical school in California.

The first students graduate from the California College of Pharmacy.

September 7... Persuaded by Samuel W. Dennis, the Regents officially establish the new Department of Dentistry, first dental school on the West Coast. Dennis becomes the first dean of the school.

June... The first courses in dentistry begin with eight students in the Toland Medical School building. In November 1882, the first class graduates, and Maria Angelina Burch, the first woman, graduates in 1883.

Robert McLean becomes dean of the Medical Department. Medical Internships are offered for the first time at San Francisco City and Country Hospital.

Arnold D'Ancona and George Nuttall graduate from the UC Medical School. Nutall would later become well known for his studies of immunity reactions and the bacteriology of diptheria and later becomes professor of bacteriology and preventative medicine at Cambridge. D'Ancona becomes dean of the Medical School in 1899.

The first women nurses are added to the staff at SFGH to undertake the task of bringing some sort of surgical cleanliness to the primitive operating theaters.

The first Post Graduate Department is created within the Medical Department.

The Dental College moves to the top floor of the Donohoe Building on the corner of Market and Taylor streets.

Governor James Budd signs a $250,000 appropriation for the affiliated Colleges buildings. Mayor Adolph Sutro is so impressed with his daughter's medical education at UC, and by Cole's tactful persuasion, he offers 13 acres of land on Mount Parnassus to UC's Medical, Dental and Pharmacy departments, the School of Veterinary Medicine and Hastings College of Law.

March 27. Cole helps lay cornerstone for the new Affiliated Colleges buildings. One year later the Affiliated Colleges open, but Hastings College of Law refuses to leave its downtown location.

Dean D'Ancona works to change the Medical School from a proprietary establishment to a university-supported institution.

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