| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1770/11/29 | Ezekiel Hersey writes his will, gifting Harvard College 1,000 pounds sterling, with "the interest thereof to be by them appropriated toward the support of a professor of anatomy and physic" should such studies be undertaken at Harvard. | |
| 1782/09/19 | The president and fellows of Harvard College adopt President Joseph Willard's plans for a medical school with a handful of students and a faculty of three. | |
| 1783/00/00 | The chair of the Theory and Practice of Physic is established at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| 1783/00/00 | First classes at the Harvard College Medical School are held in Harvard Hall. Students do not pay tuition but do buy tickets to the professors' lectures. They do not have academic requirements and there are no written exams. | Harvard Hall, Harvard U, Cambridge, MA |
| 1783/00/00 | The Harvard Medical School is established by Dr John Warren. The raised pews of Holden Chapel make an useful amphitheater for Warren for the next nineteen years. | Holden Chapel, Harvard U, Cambridge, MA |
| 1791/00/00 | The chair of the Theory and Practice of Physic is endowed as the Hersey Professorship by the wills of Ezekiel Hersey, Sarah Derby, his widow, and Abner Hersey, his younger brother. | |
| 1850/00/00 | Dean Oliver Wendell Holmes and his colleagues seriously considered admitting a forty-five-year-old woman to the Harvard Medical School. | Harvard Medical School Quadrangle, Boston |
| 1850/09/00 | In the fall of 1850 the Harvard Medical School admits, at the request of the American Colonization Society, two young African American men who intend to practice in Liberia and a 38-year-old African American who plans to practice in this country. | Harvard Medical School Quadrangle, Boston |
| 1871/00/00 | Dr James Clarke White establishes at Harvard Medical School a Professorship of Dermatology, the first at any medical school in the United States. | Harvard Medical School Quadrangle, Boston |
| 1906/00/00 | Harvard Medical School moves to Longwood Avenue. The campus was designed the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. | Harvard Medical School Quadrangle, Boston |
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