1754 – The town of San Fernando was founded during the reign of Fernando VL King of Spain. It was carved out from the town of Mexico and Bacolor.

1829 – Angeles City formerly known as Bario Culiat was separated from San Fernando.

1892 – The San Fernando Railroad station, together with the Bagbag-Mabalacat stretch of the Manila-Dagupan Railroad was inaugurated. That same year, national hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal made a stop-over in the town as part of his mission to recruit members of the La Liga Filipina, a secret society he founded.

1898 - Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, together with his cabinet visited the town and proceeded to the convert of the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando which serves as the military headquarters at the time.

1899 – Philippine Revolutionary troops led by Gen. Antonio Luna burned the casa municipal, the town church and several houses to render them useless to the approaching American forces.

1904 – The Pampanga Provincial Government was finally transferred to San Fernando from Bacolor.

1921 – The Pampanga Sugar Development Company (PASUDECO), the first Filipino financed sugar center began its operation in 1921. The company was formed in 1918 by large-scale planters which became a catalyst for the exponential growth of San Fernando.

1941 – Forces of the Japanese Imperial Army occupied the town and placed the municipal government under its supervision.

1942 – The San Fernando train station was the ending point of the long walk of the Filipino-America prisoners of war (Bataan Death March) which started in Bataan during the Japanese Colonization.

1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupted over 600 years of dormancy hurling a year of ash and volcanic debris on the town.

1996 – The Pampanga Megadike was constructed thus, preventing further damage to the town due on the town.

2001 – San Fernando became a component city through the ratification of Republic Act 8990 which made the City of San Fernando the 99^th city of the Republic of the Philippines.

The City of San Fernando, Pampanga is strategically located in the heart of Central Luzon, a gateway to the North. It is 67 kilometers north of Metro Manila, 16 kilometers south of Clark Freeport Zone and Clark International Airport and 50 kilometers east of Subic Bay (Naval Base). It is composed of 35 barangays, all classified as urban and with an aggregate land area of 6,774 hectares. The City of San Fernando has a population of 354,666 based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority. It serves as the provincial capital of Pampanga and the administrative center of Central Luzon.