| 1701 |
Proposals for Erecting an UNIVERSITY in the Renowned Colony
of Connecticut |
| 1701-1718 |
The Collegiate School, later named Yale College, is founded
by ten Connecticut ministers at a meeting in Branford, near
New Haven. |
| Oct 9 1701 |
"AN ACT FOR LIBERTY TO ERECT A COLLEGIATE SCHOOL," wherein
Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences who thorough
the blessings of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment
both in Church and Civil State, passed by the General Court
of the Colony of Connecticut. |
| Oct 16 1701 |
Major James Fitch of Plainfield, one of the Governor's Assistants,
offered to give a farm of 657 acres and building materials
for farther promoating, of this God pleasing worke. . . ."
The colonial Assembly voted "£120 in country pay, to
be paid annually. '' |
| Nov 11 1701 |
The Trustees met in Saybrook and voted to locate the School
there with Rev. Mr. Pierson as Rector. |
| Mar 1702 |
Jacob Heminway, first student, received at the Rector's
house in Killingworth. |
| Sep 16 1702 |
The first commencement held in Saybrook at the house of
the Rev. Thomas Buckingham, Trustee. Degree of Master of Arts
ad eundem conferred on four graduates of Harvard; Nathaniel
Chauncey awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master
of Arts. |
| Sep 30 1702 |
The first tutor appointed to assist the Rector. |
| Sep 15 1703 |
The degree of Bachelor of Arts first conferred for work
in course. |
| Oct 21 1703 |
The Governor and Council granted permission to the Trustees
"for the raising such a summe or summes within this Colonie
by a brief or such like method as shall be needfull for procuring
and upholding a tutor, and for further promoting of the said
school by building or otherwise. . . ." |
| 1707 |
After operating temporarily in the Rector's home in Killingworth,
the School moves to Saybrook. |
| Mar 5 1707 |
Death of Rector Pierson |
| Sep 9 1708 |
The "Saybrook Platform" drawn up by Synod composed of eight
Trustees, four other ministers, and four laymen. |
| May 22 1711 |
Letter from Jeremiah Dummer (B.A. Harvard 1699 ), Agent
in London of the Province of Massachusetts 1710-1721 and of
Connecticut Colony 1712-1730, to Rev. James Pierpont mentioned
"Mr. Yale, formerly Governor of Fort George in the Indies,
has got a prodigious estate. . . . He told me lately, that
he intended to bestow a charity upon some college in Oxford.
But I think he should much rather do it to your college, seeing
he is a New England and I think a Connecticut man. . . ." |
| Oct 1712 |
Under title of "An Act for encouragement of Learning" the
Connecticut General Assembly voted "That the collegiate school
at Seybrook . . . shall receive this present year out of the
Colony treasury the sum of one hundred pounds . . . instead
of one hundred and twenty pounds in pay formerly granted to
the said school." |
| May 5 1713 |
Dummer wrote: "The Library I am collecting for your Colledge
comes on well . . . and Mr. Yale has done something, tho very
little considering his Estate and particular relation to your
Collony." |
| Jul 26 1714 |
Tutor Noyes at Saybrook wrote Rector Andrew at Milford concerning
the publication of "theses and A Catalogue, as in other Schoolse."
"We had a very valuable and considerable Library of Choice
Books Sent to us." |
| May 1715 |
The Connecticut General Assembly ordered "That for the Encouragement
of so good a work as building a Convenient house for sd School
A brief be sent unto the several Towns and Parrishes in this
Colony for ye asking the Contribution of the well affected
to Religion and Learning among us. . . ." |
| Oct 1715 |
The Assembly voted that from the sale of 105,793 acres of
land "there shall be paid five hundred pounds to the trustees
of the Collegiate School, for the building a College house.
. . ." |
| Sep 12 1716 |
The Trustees voted to remove the Collegiate School to New
Haven "as a very Convenient place for for which the Most Liberal
Donations are given. . . ." Hartford trustees continued struggle
to locate the School at Hartford. |
| 1716-1718 |
Some students enrolled at Wethersfield under Tutor Elisha
Williams. |
| 1716 |
Yale trustees vote to move the School from Saybrook to New
Haven "as a very Convenient place for it, and for which the
Most Liberal Donations are given." |
| Apr 5 1717 |
The Trustees "agreed and ordered, that, the Building of
a Collegiate School and also A House for a Rector in New-Haven
be undertaken with all convenient Speed. "It is Agreed and
Voted that the Honourable or Governour with or Deputy Govenr
be intreated to favour us with their advice concerning the
Architechtonick part of the Building of the Colkegiate House
and Rectors House." Committee of Trustees appointed "to inspect,
order and direct e Buildings aforesd. . . .Mr. Henry Caner
engaged as builder. |
| Sep 11 1717 |
First commencement in New Haven |
| Oct 8 1717 |
The first building raised. Partially removed in November,
1775, kitchen and dining rooms retained until October, 1782. |
| Oct 31 1717 |
Colony grant distributed by Trustees on basis of student
enrollment-13 in New Haven, 14 in Wethersfield, and 4 at Saybrook. |
| Jan 14 1718 |
Rev. Cotton Mather (B.A. Harvard 1678) wrote to Elihu Yale
of London regarding the needs of the College: "Sir, though
you have your felicities in your family, which I pray God
continue and multiply, yet certainly, if what is forming at
New Haven might wear the name of YALE COLLEGE, it would be
better an a name of sons and daughters. And your munificence
might easily obtain for you such a commemoration and perpetuation
of valuable name, as would be much better than an Egyptian
pyramid." |
| 1718 |
Yale student enrollment is 37 |
| 1718-1721 |
Gifts received from Governor Yale |
| 1718 |
The Collegiate School is named Yale College at first public
Commencement in New Haven in honor of Elihu Yale"s donations. |
| Oct 9 1718 |
"An Act for the Encouragement of Yale College" passed by
the Connecticut General Assembly. |
| Dec 1718 |
Removal of books from Saybrook to New Haven |
| Mar 24 1719 |
Rev. Timothy Cutler became Rector |
| Dec 30 1719 |
The First Society (Center Church) granted "ye Liberty of
sitting in ye N. E. half of ye Front Gallery in ye Meeting
house except ye frount seat, provided ye present Studants
do pay 1s. per head . . . and for ye future ye students at
sd. school 2s per head per annurn for ye use of sd- Society." |
| Jul 8 1721 |
Governor Yale died |
| Oct 1721 |
"What shall be gained by the impost on rum for two years
next coming shall be applied to the building of a rector's
house for Yale College." From an Act of the Connecticut General
Assembly. |
| May 28 1722 |
Rev. Joseph Morgan (M.A. Hon. 1719) wrote to Rev. Cotton
Mather: "I hear some in Conecticut complain yt. Arminian Books
are cryed up in Yale Colledge for Eloquence and Learning,
and Calvinists despised for ye contrary. . . ." |
| 1722 |
Residence completed for the Rector on the southwest corner
of College and Chapel streets. Occupied by Rector Williams,
Presidents Clap, Stiles, and Dwight. Property sold in 1801. |
| Oct 1722 |
A "Common Seal" granted to the Trustees by the General Assembly. |
| Sep 1723 |
Honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine first conferred in
America at Yale |
| Oct 10 1723 |
"AN ACT IN EXPLANATION OF AND ADDITION TO THE FOR ERECTING
A COLLEGIATE SCHOOL IN THIS COLONY," passed by the General
Assembly. This legislation, constituting the Rector ex oficio
a Trustee, was not approved by the Trustees until September
11, 1798; the first meeting attended by the Rector was that
of September 10, 1729. |
| 1724 |
Catalogue of graduates printed at New London |
| May 31 1726 |
Trustees created office of Scholar of the House and appointed
a Senior student; "his Work to observe and note down all Detriment
the College receives in its Windows Doors Studies Tables Locks
and Salary to be three pounds and to give an account Quarterly." |
| Sep 13 1726 |
Rev. Elisha Williams inducted into Rectorship after giving
"Satisfaction of the Soundness of his Faith in Opposition
to Armenian and prelatical Corruptions. . . ." |
| Sep 1727 |
The Trustees voted "that for ye future every Candidate for
any Degree in this Colledge pay in to ye Rector before he
has his Degree given him 40 Shillings, twenty Shillings for
his Degree and the other twenty Shillings for the Cornencement
Dinner for which latter the Rector to be accountable to the
Trustees." |
| Jul 26 1732-1733 |
Bishop George Berkeley's donations establish the first scholarships
for graduate study. |
| May 30 1733 |
Dean Berkeley shipped valuable collection of books from
London for the College Library. |
| Sep 13 1738 |
The Trustees voted that a bond be required of every student
before admission. |
| 1743 |
The Colony grant increased and a third tutor engaged. A
classified catalogue of the Library published. |
| Sep 12 1744 |
". . . after the End of this vacancy no person Shall be
admitted a freshman into this College who is more than twenty
one years old, unless by Special allowance of the Trustees
or their Committee. " |
| Feb 25 1745 |
The Declaration of the Rector and Tutors of Yale College
against the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, his Principles and
Deisgns, in a Letter to him. |
| May 9 1745 |
"An Act for the more full and compleat Establishment of
of YALE COLLEGE in New-Haven and for enlarging the Powers
and Previleges thereof," passed by the General Court. By this
Charter the Trustees became a corporation called The President
and Fellows of Yale College. |
| Jun 1 1745 |
President Clap took oaths imposed by new charter which became
effective on this date. |
| Sep 15 1745 |
Revised Laws of the College approved |
| Apr 16 1746 |
The first professorship (Divinity) established with funds
given in 1745 by Colonel Philip Livingston "as a small achowledgement
of the sence I have for the favour and Education of my sons
have had there." |
| May 1747 |
The General Assembly authorized a lottery, 15 per cent to
be deducted out of each prize for the building of a new College. |
| Oct 1749 |
In response to an appeal from the President and Fellows
for further aid toward the new College, the General Assembly
voted the proceeds of the sale of a French vessel taken by
the Colony frigate. |
| Apr 17 1750 |
Foundation of the new College laid |
| 1750 |
Construction of Connecticut Hall on Old Campus, the oldest
standing building in New Haven. |
| Jul 1751 |
Custom introduced of the presentation to the President of
the Senior Class as candidates for degrees, by Senior Tutor
in an appropriate Latin speech. |
| Oct 1751 |
Additional funds voted by the General Assembly to complete
the new building |
| 1752 |
Exterior of new College completed |
| Sep 30 1752 |
The Corporation ordered that the new College be named Connecticut
Hall in recognition of the generosity of the Colony government. |
| 1753 |
New College partially occupied |
| Sep 12 1753 |
Reputed date of founding of Linonia, literary and debating
society. |
| Nov 21 1753 |
The president directed to hold regular Sunday services in
the College Hall. These were inaugurated on November 25. |
| Feb 1754 |
Reception in honor of Benjamin Franklin (M.A. Hon. 1753). |
| Nov 30 1754 |
The Rev. Naphtali Daggett, professor-elect, took of the
College pulpit |
| Jun 30 1757 |
The College Church formed. Present corporate title, "The
Church of Christ in Yale University." |
| Jul 19 1758 |
"Whereas the present calamitous and distressing War loudly
calls us to Repentance and Reformation, and to the practice
of Industry and Frugality�It is therefore ordered that the
next Commencement shall be private�" |
| Apr 1761 |
Foundation laid for a Chapel on site of present Vanderbilt
hall. |
| 1763 |
"The study of Algebra was first introduced by the tutors,
and made a part of the collegiate exercises." |
| Sep 20 1765 |
General Gage, writing to Sir William Johnson, referred to
a group of Yale graduates as "the pretended patriots, educated
in a seminary of democracy." |
| Apr 22 1766 |
The Corporation deliberated on insubordination of students
and decided that disorders had "arisen very much from the
Spirit of the Times and the Influence of others." |
| Sep 10 1766 |
Resignation of President Clap |
| Dec 17 1767 |
David Avery (B.A. 1769) wrote to Eleazar Wheelock (B.A.
1733): "It is not he that has got the finest coat or largest
ruffles that is esteemed here at present. And as the class
hence forward are to be placed alphabetically, the students
may expect marks of distinction put upon the best scholars
and speakers." |
| 1768 |
The literary and debating society of Brothers in Unity founded. |
| 1769 |
The Senior Class agreed to appear at Commencement "wholly
dressed in the manufactures of our own Country." |
| Oct 16 1770 |
The General Assembly paid the outstanding debt of the College
(�216) and the Corporation then established the professorship
of "Mathematicks and natural Philosophy." |
| 1770 |
Tutor Trumbull published The Progress of Dullness, a satirical
poem on the system of instruction. |
| Sep 8 1772 |
Honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Laws
first conferred. |
| Jun 28 1775 |
Student military company drilled for General Washington
and escorted him as far as Mill river on his way to Cambridge,
Noah Webster (B.A. 1778) leading the company "with music." |
| Nov 4 1777 |
Professorship of Ecclesiastical History established |
| Mar 1777 - Jun 1778 |
Because of difficulty in securing supplies for Commons,
classes assembled under Tutors in Farmington, Glastonbury,
and Wethersfield. |
| Jul 8 1778 |
Inauguration of the Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles (B.A. 1746), first
Yale graduate to be elected President. |
| Jul 5 1779 |
Yale students, alumni, and President Emeritus Napthali Daggett
under General Tryon help defend New Haven during the British
invasion. James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773) "commanded on that day
the 2d Company of the Governor's Foot Guards" and the volunteers
included former President Daggett "who fought, was wounded,
taken prisoner, and maltreated." The credit of saving the
college buildings was claimed by Edmund Fanning (B.A. 1757),
then colonel of a Loyalist Regiment. |
| Nov 13 1780 |
Connecticut Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa founded. |
| Apr 24 1781 |
The Corporation voted that the degree of Doctor of Laws
be conferred upon General Washington. |
| Jan 1782 |
Bequest of �500 from Daniel Lathrop (B.A. 1755) ; the
first gift of substantial amount from a graduate. |
| Sep 14 1785 |
Seventy students graduated; the largest class in the first
century. |
| Oct 15 1789 |
Arrived here the elegant Pourtrait of the Hon. Governor
Yale which was this day received and deposited in the College
Library. It is a Donation of the Hon. Dudley North, Esq.,
of London, Member of Parliament, and a Descendant of Governo
rYale, after whom this College was named." |
| Dec 24 1789 |
Arrived from England a valuable collection of philosophical
apparatus (including a telescope), purchased for the College. |
| Jun 26 1792 |
The President and Fellows accepted an amendment to the charter
which provided that in return for substantial fincial assistance
"the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor and six senior assistants
in the Council of this State," became members of the Corporation
ex oflciis. |
| 1793 |
Artist John Trumbull's campus plan for The Old Brick Row
adopted. |
| Apr 15 1793 |
Laying of cornerstone of Union Hall, later called South
College. Demolished in 1893. |
| 1794 |
Spring and Fall. Prevalence of scarlatina and epidemic of
yellow fever interrupted college exercises. |
| May 12 1795 |
Death of President Stiles |
| Sep 8 1795 |
The Rev. Timothy Dwight (B.A. 1769) inaugurated President. |
| 1796 |
The first annual catalogue of students printed in broadside
form. |
| 1799 |
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest
scientific societies, is founded by Yale faculty and alumni. |
| 1800 |
Yale enrollment is 217. |
| Sep 10 1801 |
Professorship of Law instituted "for the benefit all the
Graduate and Undergraduate Students, belonging to the College." |
| 1801 |
In one hundred years the degree of Bachelor of Arts had
been conferred on 2,333 students. |
| 1802 |
Revival of religion experienced in the College |
| Sep 9 1802 |
Benjamin Silliman appointed to professorship of Chemistry
and Natural History, first science professor at Yale and in
America. |
| 1803 |
"The necessay expenses, exclusive of clothing, traveling
expenses in vacation, and pocket money do not exceed $200
per annum." |
| 1804 |
The Corporation voted that "Freshmen shall not hereafter
be sent on errands by their fellow students." |
| Sep 10 1805 |
James L. Kingsley (B.A. 1799) appointed Professor of languages
and Ecclesiastical History and Librarian. The duties of the
latter office had been performed previously by the Senior
Tutor. |
| 1808 |
Smibert's portrait of Bishop Berkeley and his family presented
to College by Isaac Lothrop of Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
| 1810 |
George Gibbs of Newport offered to deposit at Yale his extensive
cabinet of minerals. |
| Oct 1810 |
Charter granted for The Medical Institution of Yale College,
to be conducted under joint auspices of the College and Connecticut
State Medical Society. |
| 1812 |
Yale Musical Society founded. |
| 1813 |
The first annual catalogue in pamphlet form (octavo) printed;
it contained lists of the officers and students. |
| Aug 31 1813 |
The Medical Institution organized by the appointment of
four professors in addition to Professor Silliman-Eneas Munson,
Nathan Smith, Eli Ives, and Jonathan Knight. |
| Sep 13 1814 |
Degree of Doctor of Medicine in course first conferred. |
| Jul 23 1817 |
Jeremiah Day, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy,
was inaugurated President after ordination to the ministry. |
| Jul 1818 |
Publication of Volume I, Number 1, The American Journal
of Science, more especially Mineralogy, Geology, and the Other
Branches of Natural History; including also Agriculture and
Ornamental As Well as Useful Arts. Conducted by Benjamin Silliman.
"In the following plan of this Work we trust it will understood,
that the Editor does not pledge himself that all subjects
mentioned shall be touched upon in every number." |
| Oct 12 1818 |
Article 8 of the Constitution of Connecticut, which became
effective on this date, confirmed the charter of Yale College. |
| May 12 1819 |
Further Act passed by the General Assembly substitute for
the former senior assistants the six senior senators as members
of the Yale Corporation. |
| Jul 8 1819 |
Calliopean Literary Society organized |
| 1821 |
Chi Delta Theta founded by Professor Kingsley. |
| 1822 |
Theological Department organized. Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor
called to professorship of Didactic Theology. |
| 1822 |
Statement of the courses of instruction, expenses, etc.,
added to the annual catalogue. |
| May 1823 |
Assent to the Saybrook Platform by members of Faculty abrogated. |
| 1823 |
Beginning of gifts from Sheldon Clark, for many years the
large individual donor to the College. |
| 1824 |
Private law school conducted in New Haven by Seth P. Staples
(BA. 1797), Judge David Daggett (B.A. 1783), and Samuel Hitchcock
(B.A. 1809) affiliated with Yale College and names students
included in the catalogue. |
| May 24 1825 |
The Gibbs Cabinet of Minerals, which had been on exhibition
since 810, purchased. |
| Sep 12 1826 |
The graduating class numbered 101; the largest previous
class (82) graduated in 1814. |
| Sep 1827 |
The Society of the Alumni was formed with the avowed object
of "sustaining and advancing the interests of the college.
" |
| 1828 |
Bread and Butter Rebellion |
| 1830 |
The "Conic Sections Rebellion" of the Class of 1832. |
| 1830 |
Permanent funds amounted to $57,995.70 |
| 1830 |
Each Tutor confined his teaching to one subject instead
of hearing a single class in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics. |
| Oct 1832 |
The Trumbull Gallery opens, the first art museum connected
with a university in America, featuring John Trumbull"s historical
paintings of the American Revolution. |
| 1832 |
Skull and Bones founded. |
| 1832 |
The Centum Millia Fund secured from contributions of graduates
and other friends. The first movement for raising a large
amount for general endowment. |
| Mar 1834 |
Yale Natural History Society organized |
| Aug 19 1834 |
The Corporation accepted an Act of the General Assembly
which provided exemption of taxation of college funds with
an exception of real estate having an annual income of more
than $6,000. |
| 1835 |
The Yale Literary Magazine founded. |
| 1836 |
Alpha Delta Phi founded. |
| Aug 14 1836 |
The Corporation accepted an Act which constituted a majority
of the Successors of the Original Trustees a quorum, provided
due notice of the meeting had been issued. |
| 1838 |
Psi Upsilon (later Fence Club) founded. |
| 1839-1841 |
Yale and New Haven community work together to secure the
freedom of the Amistad Captives, a landmark event in African
American history. |
| 1841 |
Graduate instruction outside the professions begun |
| 1841 |
Scroll and Key founded. |
| Nov 5 1841 |
Publication of the first number of the Yale Banner. |
| 1842 |
A common dining hall abandoned |
| Jan 1843 |
Publication of the first number of The New Englander, later
to become the New Englander and Yale Review. |
| Aug 15 1843 |
The Townsend Premiums established; five to be awarded annually
"to the authors in the Senior class of the best original compositions
in the English language." |
| Aug 15 1843 |
The School of Law formally placed under the control of the
Corporation. The degree of Bachelor of Laws first conferred.
The number of students enrolled 1824-1842 was 410. |
| 1843 |
First collegiate rowing races are held in New Haven harbor. |
| 1844 |
Delta Kappa Epsilon founded. |
| Aug 19 1846 |
The Corporation voted "that Noah Porter, Jun., of Springfield,
is elected Professor of Moral Philosophy and physics on Clark's
foundation to enter upon his office on or about the first
of June next." |
| 1846 |
Professorships of Agricultural Chemistry and of Applied
Chemistry established "for the purpose of giving instruction
to graduates and others not members of the undergraduate classes." |
| Oct 21 1846 |
Ordination and inauguration of President Theodor Dwight
Woolsey. |
| Aug 17 1847 |
Department of Philosophy and the Arts (later to bcalled
the Graduate School) established "to embrace Philosophy, Literature,
History, the moral sciences other than Law and Theology, the
Natural Sciences excepting Medicine, and their application
to the Arts." The catalogue of 1847-1848 stated that "a School
of applied Chemistry is embraced within this department." |
| 1848 |
Berzelius founded. |
| 1850 |
The total endowment at this time was $180,489.59. |
| 1850 |
Yale enrollment is 555 |
| 1851 |
Graduates of Yale College 1702-1851: 6,093 |
| Jul 27 1852 |
Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy authorized by the Corporation
to be given in the Department of Philosophy and the Arts. |
| 1852 |
Organization of a School of Engineering under Professor
William Augustus Norton. |
| 1852 |
First award of the DeForest Prize; established for the Senior
who shall write and pronounce an English oration in the best
manner." |
| 1854 |
Schools of Applied Chemistry and Engineering named Yale
Scientific School. |
| 1854 |
Yung Wing graduates, the first Chinese student to graduate
from an American college. |
| 1856 |
Fund-raising pamphlets issued: Proposed Plan for a complete
organization of the School of Science and Appeal in Behalf
of the Yale Scientific School, with an Appendix. |
| 1857 |
Cortland Van Renssalaer Creed graduates from the medical
school, the first African American graduate of Yale. |
| Oct 30 1858 |
Joseph E. Sheffield, Esq., conveyed to the President and
Fellows of Yale College a deed to property on the northeast
corner of Grove and Prospect streets for the use of the Scientific
School. His gifts and bequests for equipment and endowment
ultimately exceeded $1,000,000. |
| Jul 24 1860 |
Yale awards first Doctor of Philosophy degrees in the United
States. Yale Scientific School named Sheffield Scientific
School. |
| 1861 |
Mory's founded. |
| 1863 |
Sheffield Scientific School awards first Ph.D. to J. Willard
Gibbs. |
| 1865 |
Thet Xi founded. |
| Jul 25 1865 |
The Corporation adopted plan for management of the School
of the Fine Arts and appointed a "council of five persons,
of whom the President of Yale College shall be, ex offcio,
one and the chairman." |
| Nov 25 1865 |
Publication of the first number of the Yale Courant. |
| 1865 |
Publication of the first number of the Yale Pot-Pourri. |
| Nov 1 1866 |
Acceptance of letter of gift from Mr. George Pebody of London
for a Museum of Natural History. |
| 1866-1900 |
"Public Lectures to Mechanics" instituted. Later known as
the "Sheffield Lectures,'' the course was given annually for
forty-four years. |
| 1866 |
Course in Mining and Metallurgy announced |
| 1867 |
St. Anthony Hall founded. |
| Jul 16 1867 |
Degree of Bachelor of Divinity first conferred. During the
period 1822-1866 the number of students was 883. |
| Dec 1867 |
Mr. Jarves deposited in the School of the Fine Arts 119
paintings from his collection of Italian primitives. They
were purchased by the University November 9, 1871. |
| 1869 |
The Yale School of the Fine Arts, the first collegiate art
school and Yale"s first coed school, opens. |
| 1870 |
First Yale Scientific Expedition organized by Professor
Marsh. |
| Feb 8 1871 |
Articles of Incorporation of the Board of Trustees of the
Sheffield Scientific School drawn up at the suggestion of
Mr. Joseph E. Sheffield. |
| Jul 11 1871 |
The Corporation accepted "An Act relating to Yale College,"
passed by the General Assembly on July 6, which provided for
the election of six graduates as Fellows of Yale College "in
the stead of the six senior senators of the state. . . ." |
| Oct 11 1871 |
Inauguration of the Rev. Dr. Noah Porter, eleventh president. |
| Mar 13 1872 |
The Corporation voted: "Whereas Yale College has by the
successive establishment of the various departments of instruction
the Institution attained to the form of a University: Resolved,
that it be recognized as comprising the four departments of
which a University is commonly understood to consist, viz:
the departments of Theology, of Law, of Medicine, and of Philosophy
and the Arts. Resolved, also, that the department of Philosophy
and the Arts be recognized as comprising, in addition to the
School of the Fine Arts, the three Faculties which severally
instruct the members of the University who are prosecuting
their studies as candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy,
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, or the degree of Bachelor
of Philosophy." "Voted, that after the public Commencement
in the year 1874 the degree of Master of Arts will not be
conferred, unless satisfactory evidence has been given that
the candidate has been pursuing professional, literary, or
scientific studies since receiving his first degree." |
| May 15-16 1872 |
The Semicentennial Anniversary of the founding of the Divnity
School. |
| 1872 |
The Linonia and Brothers in Unity societies presented their
libraries to the College and disbanded. |
| Sep 11 1872 |
Publication of the first number of the Yale Record. |
| 1872 |
Mary Goodman, New Haven African American businesswoman,
endows a scholarship fund for the education of African Americans
in the Divinity School. |
| Jun 24 1874 |
"Voted, that the granting of ad eundem degrees henceforth
cease." |
| Jun 24 1874 |
The Semicentennial Anniversary of the founding of the Divnity
School. |
| 1875 |
First Yale-Harvard football game. |
| May 17 1876 |
Advanced course in law and political science for graduates
offered in School of Law leading to the degrees of Master
of Laws and Doctor of Civil Law. |
| Jun 18 1876 |
Publication of the first number of the Yale Record. |
| 1876 |
New Haven native Edward Bouchet receives the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy from Yale, the first doctorate awarded to an
African American by an American university. |
| 1876 |
Degree of Master of Arts upon examination first conferred. |
| 1876 |
Peabody Museum of Natural History completed |
| Apr 9 1877 |
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station established
on permanent basis by the General Assembly with one of its
Board of Control to be elected by the Trustees of the Sheffield
Scientific School. |
| Jan 28 1878 |
Yale Daily News founded |
| 1878 |
Chi Phi founded. |
| 1880-1883 |
Walter Camp, as Yale student and coach, develops the game
of American football. |
| May 1 1882 |
The Corporation voted to erect the Observatory buildings. |
| 1883 |
The Farnam homestead at 43 Hillhouse Avenue bequeathed to
the University for the President's house by Henry Farnam,
former partner of Joseph E. Sheffield. |
| 1883 |
Wolf's Head founded. |
| Dec 24 1884 |
The President and Fellows of Yale College and the Connecticut
State Medical Society agreed to terminate the cotract known
as the "Articles of Union of 1810" which provided for joint
administration of the Medical department. |
| 1886 |
First woman receives a degree from the Law School, Alice
Rufie Blake Jordan. |
| May 25 1887 |
The Corporation accepted the Act of the General Assembly
authorizing the name of Yale University. |
| 1889 |
St. Elmo founded. |
| Jun 23 1890 |
In response to "a widespread sentiment among Yale graduates
in favor of some systematic endeavor to increase the resources
of the University," the Corporation voted "to establish a
fund to be known as an Alumni University Fund." |
| May 25 1891 |
Publication of the first number of the Yale Alumni Weekly. |
| Jun 24 1891 |
The degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts conferred for the first
time. The first number of the Tale Law Journal published. |
| Oct 1891 |
The first number of the Yale Law Journal published. |
| 1892 |
The Corporation accepted the Act of the General Assembly
authorizing the name of Yale University. |
| Mar 3 1892 |
The Corporation voted that "beginning in the fall of 1892,
the courses of the Graduate Department with the degree of
Ph.D. shall be open to candidates without distinction of sex." |
| May 1892 |
Publication of the first number of The Yale Review, succeeding
the New Englander and Yale Review 1886-1892. George P. Fisher,
George B. Adams, Henry W. Farnarn, Arthur T. Hadley, and John
C. Schwab comprised the editorial board. |
| Apr 21 1893 |
The General Assembly passed an act making the Storrs Agricultural
College the land grant college of Connecticut. Damages amounting
to $154,604.45 were paid to the University and became part
of the permanent funds of the Sheffield Scientific School. |
| 1894 |
Department of Music becomes the School of Music. The first
seven women receive doctor of philosophy degrees. |
| Nov 13 1894 |
The Corporation voted that the Department of Music be ranked
as a separate school. On June 27 the degree of Bachelor of
Music had been conferred for the first time. |
| Oct 18 1899 |
The first non-clerical President, Professor Arthur Twining
Hadley, inaugurated. |
| 1900 |
Allan M. Hirsh, Class of 1901, writes "Boola Boola" in the
fall of 1900. |
| Mar 16 1900 |
Acceptance of gift from Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pinchot, Gifford
Pinchot (B.A. 1889), and Amos R. E. Pinchot9B.A. 1897), providing
for the establishment of a School of Forestry. |
| Oct 20-23 1901 |
Exercises in commemoration of the Bicentennial Anniversary
of the founding of the University. The celebration included
a special convovation at which sixty-two honorary degrees
were conferred. |
| May 5 1902 |
The General Assembly passed an act making the Storrs Agricultural
College the land grant college of Connecticut. Damages amounting
to $154,604.45 were paid to the University and became part
of the permanent funds of the Sheffield Scientific School. |
| 1902 |
Yale Foreign Missionary Society established (Yale China
Association 1934-). |
| May 20 1905 |
Pierson-Sage Square property acquired for development of
University laboratories. |
| Jun 27 1905 |
Election of the first non-clerical Fellow, Payson Merrill
(B.A. 1865), as a Successor of the Original Trustees. |
| Feb 19 1906 |
The Corporation provided for the establishment of an Alumni
Board, to "meet the desire of Yale graduates in different
sections of the country for representation on the councils
of the University." |
| Nov 16 1907 |
Beginning of teaching at Yale-in-China, in Chang-sha, Hunan. |
| Jul 30 1908 |
The Yale University Press founded by George Parmly Day (B.A.
1897). |
| 1910 |
Jane Addams receives the first honorary degree awarded to
a woman by Yale. |
| Jun 20 1911 |
The Elizabethan Club Collection presented to the University
Library by Alexander S. Cochran (B.A. 1896). |
| Oct 1911 |
Yale Review, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1. Edited by Wilbur
L. Cross (B.A. 1885). |
| 1911-1915 |
Yale Peruvian Expeditions conducted by Hiram Bingham III
(B.A. 1898) with the cooperation of the National Geographical
Society. |
| 1913 |
President William Howard Taft becomes professor of constitutional
law at Yale. |
| 1913 |
The requirements for the Master of Arts degree increase
"not less than two years of graduate study." |
| Feb 22 1913 |
Alumni University Day first observed. |
| May 19 1913 |
First agreement betweent the University and the General
Hospital Society of Connecticut, which provided a closer affiliation
between the School of Medicine and the New Haven Hospital. |
| 1913 |
Yale Peruvian Expeditions conducted by Hiram Bingham III
(B.A. 1898) with the cooperation of the National Geographical
Society. |
| 1914 |
Yale Bowl completed, the largest amphitheater to be constructed
since the Roman Colosseum. |
| Jun 20 1915 |
Dedication of the Civil War Memorial, the gift of about
one thousand graduates and friends of the University. |
| Oct 20-22 1916 |
Pageant commemorating the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the
Removal of Yale College to New Haven. |
| 1916 |
Students in the Sheffield Scientific School who are able
to comply with the entrance requirements of the School of
Medicine may combine their College and Medical courses, entering
the School of Medicine at the beginning of their third College
year." |
| 1916 |
Women admitted to the School of Medicine |
| Apr 7 1917 |
The Prudential Committee voted "to approve and adopt on
behalf of the Yale Corporation the 'Memorandum [March 27]
on the Attitude of Yale University in the Present Crisis,'
signed by the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the University,
the Dean of the College, the Director of the Sheffield Scientific
School, and the Professor of Military Science, detailed by
the War Department,...and to authorize the above officers
as a University Emergency Committee, to make regulations in
accordance with the provisions of the memorandum." |
| Apr 12 1917 |
Dedication of the Civil War Memorial, the gift of about
one thousand graduates and friends of the University. |
| Aug 23 1917 |
The Yale Mobile Hospital Unit under command of Dr. Joseph
Marshall Flint, Professor of Surgery, sailed for France. |
| Jul 5 1918 |
Death of John William Sterling (B.A. 1864). Mr. Sterling's
will provided a bequest "to the use and for the benefit of
Yale University." Funds appropriated for endowment and buildings
by the Trustees of his Estate 1921-1937 exceeded $40,000,000. |
| Aug 1 1918 |
The Yale Army Laboratory School established under the direction
of Colonel Charles Franklin Craig, M.C., U.S.A. (M.D. 1894).
More than one thousand officers and enlisted men served at
this station. |
| Sep 7 1918 |
Voted, "to authorize the President and Treasurer to proceed
with the preparation of contracts satisfactory to the Government
for the establishment of a branch of the Students' Army Training
Corps at Yale University." "Voted, that the Naval Committee
appointed by the Yale Corporation be disbanded. . . and that
the powers of the committee be transferred to the Superintendent
and the Commandant of the Yale Naval Training Unit..." |
| Dec 16 1918 |
Voted, "that in the opinion of the Corporation, the reasons
which led to the establishment and maintenance of a course
of "Selected Studies in language, literature, history and
Natural and Social Sciences' under the administration of the
Faculty of the Sheffield Scientific School are no longer valid." |
| Mar 26 1919 |
The Yale Mobile Hospital Unit under command of Dr. Joseph
Marshall Flint, Professor of Surgery, sailed from France. |
| 1919 |
The Yale Army Laboratory School established under the direction
of Colonel Charles Franklin Craig, M.C., U.S.A. (M.D. 1894).
More than one thousand officers and enlisted men served at
this station. |
| 1919-1920 |
University reorganization through the Corporation's Committee
on Educational Policy and the Alumni Committee on Plan for
University Development. |
| 1920 |
President Arthur Twining Hadley appoints chemist John Johnson
as the first Sterling Professor. |
| May 8 1920 |
Ownership of the Yale University Press transferred to Yale
University. |
| Sep 30 1920 |
The Memorial Quadrangle first occupied. The gift of Mrs.
Stephen V. Harkness for a memorial to her son, Charles W.
Harkness (B.A. 1883). |
| 1920 |
Beginning of the administration of the Freshman Year under
a separate dean and faculty. |
| Oct 9 1920 |
The Corporation accepted terms of an agreement providing
for affiliation of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Honolulu
with Yale University. |
| Nov 21 1920 |
Dedication of the Memorial Tablets erected by the University
to the men of Yale who gave their lives in the of their country
during the World War. |
| 1920 |
Completion of Yale-New Haven landmark Harkness Tower, at
the time the tallest freestanding tower in the U.S. |
| Jun 21 1921 |
Inauguration of President James Rowland Angell. |
| 1921 |
At the close of President Hadley's administration the University
endowment exceeded $30,000,000, as contrasted with $5,605,736.82
on June 30, 1901. |
| Jun 21 1922 |
First award of the degree of Bachelor of Science to graduating
class of the Sheffield Scientific School. |
| Nov 5 1922 |
Dedication of the Memorial Tablets erected by the University
to the men of Yale who gave their lives in the of their country
during the World War. |
| Dec 13 1924 |
School of Nursing established on the fiftieth anniversary
of Connecticut Training School for Nurses, the institution
which it succeeded. |
| Dec 13 1924 |
Acceptance of gift from Edward S. Harkness (B.A. 1897),
for the establishment of a Department of Drama in the School
of the Fine Arts. |
| Apr 18 1925 |
Agreement with the University of the Witwatersand, South
Africa, provided for erection of a Yale observatory on its
grounds. |
| Jun 14 1926 |
First award of the degree of Bachelor of Science to graduating
class of the Sheffield Scientific School. |
| Sep 30 1926 |
Compulsory attendance at daily and Sunday chapel services
abolished. |
| Dec 11 1926 |
Acceptance of gift from Charles H. Ludington (B.A. 1887)
for the establishment of the Department of Personnel Study. |
| 1928 |
Spring. Excavations at Dura-Europos started. Conducted by
Yale and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. |
| Dec 8 1928 |
The Corporation voted "to approve the principle of a residential
subdivision of the undergraduate schools . . . Designed to
foster a spirit of social intimacy and companionship." |
| May 11 1929 |
Berkeley Divinity School enters into affiliation with Yale
University. |
| 1929 |
Institute of Human Relations establsihed |
| Jan 11 1930 |
Acceptance of funds from Edward S. Harkness (B.A. 1897)
to provide buildings and endowment to inaugurate the undergraduate
residential college plan. |
| Feb 22 1930 |
The Yale Library Associates organized, succeeding the Alumni
Board subcommittee on the Library. |
| Jun 14 1930 |
Acceptance of The Mabel Brady Garvan Collections of early
American arts and crafts, the gift of Francis P. Garvan (B.A.
1897). |
| May 14 1932 |
School of Engineering reestablished. |
| 1933 |
Branford, Calhoun, Davenport, Jonathan Edwards, Pierson,
Saybrook, and Trumbull Colleges open under the college plan
funded by Edward S. Harkness. |
| 1934 |
Yale Political Union founded. |
| 1934 |
Acceptance of funds from Edward S. Harkness (B.A. 1897)
to provide buildings and endowment to inaugurate the undergraduate
residential college plan. |
| Jun 30 1937 |
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
established at Yale by gifts from Miss Alice S. Coffin and
Starling W. Childs (B.A. 1891). |
| 1937 |
Number of volumes in the several libraries of the University
over 2,650,000. |
| Oct 8 1937 |
Inauguration of President Charles Seymour. |
| 1937 |
Degree of Master of Nursing conferred for the fist time. |
| 1940 |
Pension plan for employees adopted. |
| Jun 1941 |
First session of the summer school of music on the Stoeckel
estate at Norfolk, Conn., provided by the bequest of Ellen
Battell Stoeckel. |
| 1941 |
Committees on Enrollment and Scholarships organized by Alumni
Board to assist the Board of Admissions in the selection of
applicants for admission to the Undergraduate Schools. |
| Jul 1 1942 |
Inauguration of President Charles Seymour. |
| Jul 15 1942 |
General Hospital, organized by the Surgeon General of the
United States and staffed by doctors from the faculty of Medicine
and Red Cross nurses organized by the School of Nursing, mobilized
for active duty. |
| Nov 1942 |
Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology reorganized as the
Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Inc., under the joint
administration of Harvard and Yale. |
| 1942 |
Yale campus converted into wartime training school. |
| Jan 1943 |
Chinese Language School established to provide Chinese-speaking
officers and enlisted men for the Army. In 1946 the school
was organized on a permanent basis under the designation of
Far Eastern Languages. |
| Jan 1943 |
Army Air Forces Technical Training School established for
the training of aviation cadets in various fields. The Army
leased physical facilities from the University but was responsible
for all instruction in the school. |
| 1943 |
Captain Glenn Miller forms Army Air Forces "Superband" at
Yale, broadcasting weekly from the campus. |
| Jul 1943 |
Specialized training for the armed forces inaugurated. Yale
was responsible for teaching men assigned to it by the services.
The Army undergraduate courses included engineering, premedical,
and language study and the advanced work consisted of medical
training, a Military Intelligence School, and a Civil Affairs
Specialist Training School. The Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard
programs included for undergraduates premedical, pre-dental,
and pre-chaplain corps work and deck officer, engineering,
and naval aviation training. The Schools of Medicine and Nursing
and the Divinity School gave instruction to medical and chaplain
corps candidates and to women enrolled in the Cadet Nurse
Corps. |
| Jul 1 1945 |
The Sheffield Scientific School resumed its original function
of teaching science at the graduate level. Courses leading
to the B.S. degree in science were placed under the faculty
of Yale College and the course leading to the B.S. degree
in industrial administration under the School of Engineering. |
| Nov 10 1945 |
Columbia University and Yale undertook the joint operation
of the astronomical station at the University of the Witwatersrand. |
| 1945 |
Labor and Management Center established "for the study of
the basic principles of human relationships involved in industrial
relations and analysis of the forces operating in the labor
market." |
| 1945 |
Termination of the armed forces training programs. From
their inauguration in 1943, 14,000 Air Corps cadets, 3,650
officers and enlisted men in other Army schools, and 4,000
members of Navy units received training at Yale. |
| Feb 1946 |
Degree of Doctor of Forestry authorized. |
| 1946 |
Summer. First session of summer art school at Norfolk, Conn.,
on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel estate. |
| Sep 1946 |
Two-term year (September-June) restored in the Undergraduate
Schools. |
| 1947 |
University Council of twenty-five alumni established to
study the major constituent parts of the University and to
offer recommendations for their improvement and support. |
| Oct 15-17 1947 |
Exercises to commemorate the centennial of the Sheffield
Scientific School. |
| Jul 28 1948 |
Establishment of the Eugene Higgins Scientific Trust. The
trust provides that its income is to be distributed among
Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale universities for "education
in natural and physical science: . . to promote the general
advancement of science by investigation, research and experiment
. . . And to encourage in the broadest and most liberal manner
. . . the application of the knowledge so obtained to the
improvement and benefit of mankind." |
| 1948 |
Levi Jackson first African-American player and captain of
Yale football team. |
| Feb 5 1949 |
25th anniversary of the School of Nursing celebrated. |
| Dec 10 1949 |
Degree of Master of City Planning authorized. |
| Jan 1950 |
First graduate program of research and instruction in the
conservation of natural resources established in cooperation
with the Conservation Foundation. |
| Feb 26 1950 |
Dedication of tablets in Memorial Hall erected by the University
in memory of the Yale men who lost their lives in the service
of their country in the Second World War. |
| Oct 6 1950 |
Inauguration of President Alfred Whitney Griswold. |
| 1950 |
Establishment of the Eugene Higgins Scientific Trust. The
trust provides that its income is to be distributed among
Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale universities for "education
in natural and physical science: . . to promote the general
advancement of science by investigation, research and experiment
. . . And to encourage in the broadest and most liberal manner
. . . the application of the knowledge so obtained to the
improvement and benefit of mankind." |
| Oct 18-19 1951 |
Principal celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the University. |
| 1951 |
Master of Arts in Teaching program organized in the Graduate
School. |
| 1952 |
Some Yale books published in the anniversary year: Yale
College, An Educational Histoy, 1871-1921, by George W. Pierson;
The 250th Anniversary of Yale University: Speeches and Documents
of the Year of Celebration, 1951-1952; Yale Men Who Died in
the Second World War, by Eugene Kone; The Yale Scene, by Samuel
Chamberlain and Robert Dudley French. |
| 1952 |
Principal celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the University. |
| Feb 9 1952 |
Committee appointed by President Griswold to survey the
intellectual and spiritual welfare of the University, its
students, and its faculty presents report. |
| Jan 28 1953 |
Publication of Seventy-Five: A Study of a Generation in
Transition, by the Yale Daily News on its 75th anniversary. |
| 1953 |
University Art Gallery designed by architet Louis Kahn opens. |
| 1953 |
Some Yale books published in the anniversary year: Yale
College, An Educational Histoy, 1871-1921, by George W. Pierson;
The 250th Anniversary of Yale University: Speeches and Documents
of the Year of Celebration, 1951-1952; Yale Men Who Died in
the Second World War, by Eugene Kone; The Yale Scene, by Samuel
Chamberlain and Robert Dudley French. |
| 1953 |
Yale leads fifth Humboldt Cwent expedition for collecting
oceanographic species. |
| Jan 1954 |
Agreement by the American PhiIosophical Society and Yale
to publish the papers of Benjamin Franklin, MA Hon 1753. |
| Feb 22 1954 |
Rededication of Connecticut Hall (1750/53- ) following complete
renovation. |
| Jun 13 1954 |
One hundredth anniversary of the graduation from Yale of
Yung Wing, the first Chinese to receive a Westem degree. |
| 1954-1955 |
Publication of Seventy-Five: A Study of a Generation in
Transition, by the Yale Daily News on its 75th anniversary. |
| Sep 28 1954 |
Honorary degrees awarded to five world religious leaders
in a special convocation at the opening of the 133rd year
of the Divinity School. |
| Jul 1 1955 |
The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale
University established in association with the Department
of Economics. |
| 1955 |
Publication of Yale: The University College, 1921-1937,
by George Wilson Pierson. |
| Oct 28 1955 |
Dedication of the Josiah Willard Gibbs Research Laboratories,
first science building constructed at Yale since 1922. |
| May 8 - Jun 18 1956 |
"Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni." Two hundred and fifty
pictures covering 500 years of American and European painting
loaned by 102 alumni, and viewed by 28,670 persons. |
| Nov 1956 |
Yale crew wins in Olympics for the United States. |
| May 7 - Jun 10 1957 |
Exhibition of Prints and Drawings from the Yale collections,
dedicated to the memory of Carl A. Lohmann. |
| Jun 11-14 1957 |
The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale
University established in association with the Department
of Economics. |
| Oct 19 1957 |
Yale Development Committee formed |
| 1958 |
William Sloane Coffin, Jr. named chaplain. |
| 1958 |
Carnegie Teaching Fellowships established. |
| 1958 |
Summer Intern Program in Government established. |
| 1959 |
Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at Yale at the invitation
of the Undergraduate Lecture Committee. |
| Feb 21 1959 |
Dedication of the Memorial Tablets to the Yale Men who lost
their lives in Korea, 1950-53. |
| Feb 21 1959 |
Dedication hockey game in the David S. Ingalls Rink. |
| Feb 20 1960 |
Alumni Day Program in honor of Yale authors. |
| 1960 |
School of Medicine celebrates 150th anniversary: 1810-1960. |
| 1960 |
President Griswold announces Program for the Arts and Sciences |
| 1960 |
The former Alpha Delta Phi tomb at 15 Hillhouse Avenue converted
for the Collection of Musical Instruments. |
| Oct 23 1961 |
Report of Committee for the Student of Engineering Education
at Yale. |
| 1961 |
The Concilium on International Studies organized to coordinate
the work in International Relations, Mrican, East Asian, Latin
Amencan, Russian and East European, and Southeast Asia Studies. |
| 1961-1962 |
Professor Stanley Milgram conducts experiments on obedience
to authority. |
| Apr 13 1962 |
Alumni Day Program in honor of Yale authors. |
| Jun 11 1962 |
The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon President
John F. Kennedy. |
| Dec 7 1962 |
Dedication of new residential colleges, Ezra Stiles and
Morse. |
| 1962 |
Yale-Columbia Southern Observatory, Inc., organized in cooperation
with the University of Cuyo, Argentina. |
| Oct 11 1963 |
Dedication of The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. |
| Nov 9 1963 |
Dedication of the School of Art and Architecture Building. |
| Feb 20 1964 |
Yale and the State of Connecticut collaborate in establishing
the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven. |
| Apr 11 1964 |
Inauguration of Kingman Brewster, Jr, as the seventeenth
president of the University. |
| Jun 15 1964 |
Martin Luther King Jr. bailed out of jail to receive an
honorary degree at Yale.
|
| Sep 1 1964 |
Office of Administrative Data Systems established |
| Feb 1965 |
Graduate School Association organized. |
| 1965 |
Yale Symphony Orchestra established. |
| 1965 |
Paul Mellon (1929) anonymously purchases the Vinland map,
purportedly the oldest known map of the Western hemisphere,
and gives it to Yale.
|
| 1965 |
Yale Glee Club's first Round-the-World summer tour. |
| Oct 1965 |
Release of the report of the "Ad Hoce Committee on
Policies and Procedures on Tenure Appointments." |
| Dec 4 1965 |
Opening of the Robert A. Taft Library of Jonathan Edwards
College. |
| Oct 28 1965 |
Peabody Museum of Natural History celebrates centennial. |
| Oct 28 1965 |
Dedication of the Kline Biology Tower, the last of three
buildings comprising Kline Science Center. |
| Dec 1965 |
Announcement of joint study to explore possibilities of
Yale and Vassar College cooperation. |
| 1966 |
The 250th anniversary of the removal of the Collegiate School
to New Haven. |
| 1966 |
Spring. First group of sophomores to participate in the
Five-Year B.A. program selected. |
| Oct 5 1966 |
Dedication of the Arthur Williams Wright (B.A. 1859, Ph.D.
1861) Nuclear Structure Laboratory. |
| 1967 |
North Sheffield Hall (1872/73) and Winchester Hall (1892)
removed to provide site or new laboratory. |
| Dec 8 1967 |
Announcement of gift of the Paul Mellon Center for British
Art and British Studies. |
| Dec 14 1967 |
Special advisory committee appointed to aid in planning
coeducation at Yale. |
| Feb 17 1968 |
Fifty-fifth Alumni Day; cornerstone laying for the Becton
Engineering and Applied Science Center. |
| Jul 6 1968 |
President Brewsier presides at commemoration in Wrexham,
Wales, of the 250th anniversary of the naming of Yale College
for its first benefactor, the Honorable Elihu Yale. |
| 1968 |
Total endowment of the University, $482,896,526. Number
of volumes in the several libraries of the University, over
5,300,000. |
| Nov 9 1968 |
Corporation approves coeducation for Yale College beginning
with class entering in September 1969. |
| 1969 |
Special advisory committee appointed to aid in planning
coeducation at Yale. |
| 1970 |
Yale responds to the Black Panther Trials in New Haven. |
| 1971 |
First women named to serve on the Yale Corporation, Hanna
Gray and Marian Wright Edelman. |
| 1972 |
Schools of Architecture and Art established. |
| 1976 |
School of Organization and Management founded (name changed
to School of Management in 1994) |
| 1977 |
Whitney Humanities Center opens |
| 1977 |
Yale Center for British Art opened; Louis Kahn, architect |
| 1978 |
A. Bartlett Giamatti inaugurated as nineteenth president |
| 1986 |
Benno C. Schmidt inaugurated as twentieth president |
| 1992 |
Howard R. Lamar became twenty-first president. |
| 1992 |
Rumpus first published. |
| Oct 4 1993 |
President Richard C. Levin |
| 1994 |
Yale establishes Homebuyer Program to assist university
employees to buy houses in New Haven |
| 1997 |
Five-year "and for Yale" campaign raised $1.7 billion dollars. |
| 1998 |
Renovation of Yale's twelve residential colleges began |
| Nov 1998 |
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance,
and Abolition established. |
| 1999 |
Yale enrollment is 11,019. |
| 2000 |
Kurt Schmoke becomes first African-American Senior Fellow
of the Yale Corporation. |
| 2000-2001 |
Yale Tercentennial celebrated. Yale announces $1 billion
investment in science and medicine. |
| Apr 2 2001 |
Creation of Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay
Studies. |
| May 21 2003 |
Bombing at Law School. |
| 2003 |
Art Gallery renovation begins. |
| Dec 2004 |
Professional students and graduate students in languages,
the humanities, and the social science agree to form a union. |
| 2005 |
Daniel L. Malone Engineering Center dedicated. |
| Apr 26 2006 |
President Hu Jintao of China visits Yale. |
| Sep 30 2006 |
Yale Tomorrow, a five-year $3 billion campaign launched. |
| 2007 |
School of Management revamps curriculum. |
| Jun 2007 |
University announces that it will buy a 136-acre research
campus in West Haven, Connecticut, vacated by Bayer Healthcare. |
| Jul 2007 |
Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg came to campus to film
scenes for the next Indiana Jones movie. |
| Oct 19 2007 |
Bass Library, formerly Cross Campus Library, opened after
a one-year renovation program. |
| 2008 |
Yale announces the decision to construct two new residential
colleges. |
| 2008 |
Yale announces the decision to create School of Engineering
and Applied Science. |
