Timothy Dwight
American
Timothy Dwight was the President of Yale College, now Yale University, and a notable American author from New Haven, Connecticut. - AsNotedIn
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Timothy Dwight was the President of Yale College, now Yale University, and a notable American author from New Haven, Connecticut. - AsNotedIn
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| 1752/05/14 | Mary Edwards Dwight, wife of Timothy Dwight, gives birth to a son, Timothy Dwight, in Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony. | Born | |||||
| 1766/09/00 | Timothy Dwight enters Yale College. | Education | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1769/06/00 | Timothy Dwight graduates from Yale College. | Education | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1783/00/00 | Dwight accepts the call to a congregation in Greenfield Hill, now part of Fairfield, which he portrayed in idealized form in a popular pastoral poem by the same name. | Vocation | Greenfield Hill Historic District | Greenfield Hill | |||
| 1795/00/00 | During holiday from his responsibilities as president of Yale, Timothy Dwight travels through New England and New York 1795 and 1815. | Author | Travels in New England and New York (book) | ||||
| 1795/09/08 | Timothy Dwight is inaugurated as President of Yale College in New Haven. | Work | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1797/09/09 | Timothy Dwight delivers "The Nature and Danger of Infidel Philosophy" to the Candidates for the Baccalaureate at Yale College. | Author | The Nature and Danger of Infidel Philosophy (book) | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | Second Great Awakening | |
| 1798/00/00 | "The Nature and Danger of Infidel Philosophy" by Timothy Dwight is published by George Bunce, New Haven. | Author | The Nature and Danger of Infidel Philosophy (book) | ||||
| 1801/00/00 | Timothy Dwight receives approval from the Yale Corporation to hire a professor of law. This is the beginning of what will become Yale Law School. | Work | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1802/00/00 | The Yale Corporation authorizes Dwight to fill two newly created professorships, that of Languages and Ecclesiastical History, and Chemistry. | Work | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1811/00/00 | After a long struggle for funding and faculty, Timothy Dwight supervises the establishment of the Medical Institution of Yale College. | Work | Yale Old Campus | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1817/01/11 | Timothy Dwight dies in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. | Died | Grove Street Cemetery | New Haven, CT | |||
| 1822/00/00 | "Travels in New England and New York" by Timothy Dwight is published in New Haven, Connecticut, 1821-1822. | Author | Travels in New England and New York (book) |
2 Creative Works by Timothy Dwight »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| The Nature and Danger of Infidel Philosophy (book) | Author | Dissertation | 1798/00/00 |
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| Travels in New England and New York (book) | Author | Travelogue | 1822/00/00 |
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