| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1700/00/00 | Ten ministers led by the Rev James Pierpont of New Haven meet in Branford, Connecticut, to donate books: I give these books for the founding of a College in this Colony. | Branford Center Historic District, Branford |
| 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 |
| 1701/10/16 | Rev Samuel Mather begins working as a founding trustee of Yale College. He will continue in this position until 21 May 1724. | Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 1702/00/00 | Appointed trustees select Saybrook, as the site for the Collegiate School and Abraham Pierson, a minister in Killingworth, as the first rector, or president. The college will operate in his home until his death in 1707. | Killingworth, Connecticut |
| 1707/00/00 | After the death of Abraham Pierson, Collegiate School moves to Saybrook. | Old Saybrook, Connecticut |
| 1716/00/00 | As out-of-the-way Saybrook proves to be unpopular, Collegiate School moves to New Haven, whose citizens have built a wooden building, "College House" (lost), at the corner of College and Chapel Streets. | Yale Old Campus, New Haven, CT |
| 1718/00/00 | After London merchant and slave trader Elihu Yale - step grandson of Theophilus Eaton - donates over 400 books, a portrait of King George I, and cloth goods that will sell for 562 pounds, Collegiate School is renamed Yale College. | Yale Old Campus, New Haven, CT |
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