1693/02/08 |
Col William Randolph |
Founder, First Trustee |
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. |
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Creation of Higher Education in the United States |
1695/00/00 |
College of William and Mary |
Owner |
Sir Christopher Wren Building at the College of William and Mary is constructed between 1695 and 1700 |
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1695/00/00 |
Christopher Wren |
Architect |
Sir Christopher Wren Building at the College of William and Mary is constructed between 1695 and 1700 |
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1700/00/00 |
Col Thomas Lightfoot Lee |
Education |
Thomas Lee attends the College of William and Mary |
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1702/00/00 |
Lewis Burwell II |
Work |
Hon Lewis Burwell works as a governor of the College of William and Mary. |
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1711/00/00 |
Alexander Spotswood |
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Lt Gov Spotswood meets with the Cheroenhaka offering Tribute forgiveness, if the Cheroenhaka would send their sons to Brafferton school for Indians at The College W and M. At first, classes were held in temporary quarters and later in the Wren Building. |
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1745/07/00 |
Benjamin Harrison V |
Education |
After the death of his father, Benjamin Harrison quits the College of William and Mary. |
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1749/07/00 |
George Washington |
Education |
George Washington receives his surveyor's license through The College of William and Mary. |
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1755/00/00 |
James Mercer |
Graduate |
James Mercer graduates from the College of William and Mary |
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1758/00/00 |
Peyton Randolph of Williamsburg |
Work |
Peyton Randolph restructures William and Mary College. |
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1760/03/25 |
Thomas Jefferson |
Education |
Thomas Jefferson enrolls at the College of William and Mary where he will study mathematics and philosophy with William Small of Scotland. Jefferson will lodge and board in the Wren Building until April 1762. |
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1760/04/00 |
Patrick Henry |
Education |
In the spring, Patrick Henry travels to Williamsburg to obtain a license as a lawyer, and calls on Thomas Jefferson at College. Henry tells Jefferson he has been reading law only six weeks. |
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Patrick Henry Receives His Law License |
1772/07/00 |
Nathaniel Burwell |
Education |
As a student at the College of William and Mary, Nathaniel Burwell receives the college's Botetourt Medal for scholarship. |
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1774/00/00 |
James Monroe |
Education |
James Monroe enrolls at William and Mary, graduating in 1776 |
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1780/00/00 |
George Wythe |
Professor |
Marshall takes law classes at William and Mary taught by George Wythe |
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1780/00/00 |
John Marshall (Chief Justice) |
Education |
Marshall takes law classes at William and Mary taught by George Wythe |
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1781/11/00 |
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After the battle of Yorktown, the main college building at William and Mary becomes a hospital for wounded French soldiers and officers. |
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Siege of Yorktown |
1789/00/00 |
St George Tucker |
Work |
John Stark Ravenscroft attends schools in Scotland and England until 1789, when he returns to Virginia on family business and enrolls at William and Mary to complete a law degree under the tutelage of George Wythe and St George Tucker. |
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1789/00/00 |
Bishop John Stark Ravenscroft |
Education |
John Stark Ravenscroft attends schools in Scotland and England until 1789, when he returns to Virginia on family business and enrolls at William and Mary to complete a law degree under the tutelage of George Wythe and St George Tucker. |
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1790/00/00 |
Nathaniel Burwell |
Owner |
By 1790, Nathaniel Burwell owns about 8,000 acres in the lower Shenandoah Valley. |
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1795/00/00 |
James Patton Preston |
Education |
James Preston attends the College of William and Mary from 1790 to 1795. |
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1802/00/00 |
Henry St George Tucker |
Work |
John Preston studys law under Henry St George Tucker at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia from 1801-1802. |
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1802/00/00 |
John Preston |
Education |
John Preston studys law under Henry St George Tucker at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia from 1801-1802. |
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1808/06/00 |
John S Barbour Sr |
Education |
John Barbour graduates from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. |
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1824/10/19 |
Marquis de Lafayette |
Guest of Honor |
Lafayette visits Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary. |
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Lafayette's Triumphal Tour of America |
1840/00/00 |
Edmund Berkeley |
Education |
Edmund Berkeley attends William and Mary. |
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1857/00/00 |
Peachy Gilmer Breckinridge |
Education |
Peachy Breckinridge attends the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia School of Law 1857-58. |
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1858/00/00 |
Eben Faxon |
Architect |
A disastrous fire guts the Wren Building at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. It will be restored under the direction of architect Eben Faxon. |
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