Y/M/D | Description | Place |
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1636/00/00 | New College is established by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | Old Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA |
1693/02/08 | College of William and Mary granted a royal charter to establish a certain Place of Universal Study, a perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages and other good arts and sciences...to be supported and maintained, in all time coming. | Wren Building, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg |
1701/10/09 | In New Haven, the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut passes "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" with a mission to instruct youth in the arts and sciences and fit them "for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State." | Yale University, New Haven, CT |
1746/00/00 | Aaron Burr, Thomas Clap, Jonathan Dickinson and Jonathan Edwards establish the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) in Elizabeth, New Jersey. | Princeton University, Princeton |
1746/00/00 | Jonathan Edwards and three other men establish the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) in Elizabeth, New Jersey. | Princeton University, Princeton |
1783/09/09 | Dickinson College is chartered by the Pennsylvania legislature. | Old West, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA |
1784/00/00 | The state of Maryland charters St John's College, merging it with King William's School. | St John's College, Annapolis, Annapolis, MD |
1785/00/00 | University of Georgia is the first university chartered by a US State government. | University of Georgia, |
1797/09/00 | Muskingum Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory opens providing classical instruction. The first instructor is Yale graduate, David Putnam. | Erwin Hall, Marietta College, Marietta |
1837/00/00 | Mount Holyoke College is established by Mary Lyon as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. At a low tuition, Holyoke offers an education without religious denomination or wealthy sponsors, but requires rigorous entrance examinations to be excepted. | Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, South Hadley, MA |
1855/00/00 | The University of Iowa admits men and women on an equal basis. | Pentacrest, Iowa City |
1890/00/00 | The Salem Female Academy begins providing college diplomas. | Salem College, Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC |
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