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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. |
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| 1718/00/00 |
James Pierpont II |
Education |
James Pierpont II graduates from Yale College. |
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| 1718/00/00 |
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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. |
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Establishing Yale University |
| 1743/06/00 |
Caleb Smith Sr |
Education |
Caleb Smith graduates from Yale College. |
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| 1751/06/00 |
Rev Cotton Mather Smith |
Education |
Cotton Mather Smith graduates of Yale College. |
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| 1762/09/00 |
Oliver Ellsworth |
Education |
Oliver Ellsworth enters Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. |
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| 1766/09/00 |
Timothy Dwight |
Education |
Timothy Dwight enters Yale College. |
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| 1769/06/00 |
Timothy Dwight |
Education |
Timothy Dwight graduates from Yale College. |
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| 1772/00/00 |
Abraham Baldwin |
Education |
A member of the Linonian Society, Abraham Baldwin graduates from Yale College. |
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| 1778/00/00 |
Ezra Stiles |
Work |
Ezra Stiles is elected to the presidency of Yale College. |
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| 1779/07/04 |
Ezra Stiles |
Patriot |
Yale President Ezra Stiles sights the British fleet approaching New Haven harbor through his telescope from the steeple of the college chapel. The student militia will assist in defending the town the next day. |
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| 1781/00/00 |
Josiah Meigs |
Work |
Josiah Meigs tutors in mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy at Yale from 1781 to 1784. |
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| 1787/06/00 |
Gaylord Griswold |
Education |
Gaylord Griswold graduates from Yale College. |
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| 1793/06/00 |
David Putnam Sr |
Education |
David Putnam graduates from Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. |
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| 1793/09/00 |
Lyman Beecher |
Education |
Fitted for college by the Rev Thomas W Bray, Lyman Beecher begins attending Yale College. |
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| 1795/00/00 |
Ezra Stiles |
Work |
By the end of his term, Ezra Stiles fills the only two professorships at Yale: the Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and the Professorship of Divinity. |
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| 1795/09/08 |
Timothy Dwight |
Work |
Timothy Dwight is inaugurated as President of Yale College in New Haven. |
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| 1797/06/00 |
Lyman Beecher |
Education |
Lyman Beecher graduates from Yale College. |
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| 1797/09/09 |
Timothy Dwight |
Author |
Timothy Dwight delivers "The Nature and Danger of Infidel Philosophy" to the Candidates for the Baccalaureate at Yale College. |
The Nature and Danger of Infidel Philosophy (book) |
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Second Great Awakening |
| 1798/00/00 |
Lyman Beecher |
Education |
Lyman Beecher attends Yale Divinity School under the tutelage of Timothy Dwight. |
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| 1799/06/00 |
Oliver Ellsworth Jr |
Education |
Oliver Ellsworth Jr graduates from Yale College. |
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| 1801/00/00 |
Timothy Dwight |
Work |
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. |
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| 1802/00/00 |
Oliver Ellsworth Jr |
Education |
Oliver Ellsworth Jr tutors at Yale and receives an AM or Artium Magister (Master's) degree in 1802. |
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| 1802/00/00 |
Rev Samuel Hopkins |
Education |
Samuel Hopkins earns his Doctor of Divinity from Yale. |
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| 1802/00/00 |
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Dwight persuades Benjamin Silliman to give up his plans to become a lawyer and to instead establish a program to teach chemistry. Silliman soon becomes the "father of American scientific education". |
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| 1802/00/00 |
Timothy Dwight |
Work |
The Yale Corporation authorizes Dwight to fill two newly created professorships, that of Languages and Ecclesiastical History, and Chemistry. |
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| 1810/00/00 |
Nathaniel Mather, Lawyer |
Education |
Nathaniel Mather attends Yale College. |
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| 1811/00/00 |
Timothy Dwight |
Work |
After a long struggle for funding and faculty, Timothy Dwight supervises the establishment of the Medical Institution of Yale College. |
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| 1827/06/00 |
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer |
Education |
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer graduates from Yale. |
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| 1837/00/00 |
John Langdon Sullivan |
Education |
John L Sullivan receives a medical degree from Yale University. Dr Sullivan practiced homeopathic medicine for the next 25 years. |
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| 1875/06/00 |
Edward Austin Kent |
Education |
After attending the Briggs Classical School of Buffalo, Edward Kent earns a degree in Civil Engineering from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University. |
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| 1891/06/00 |
Charles Samuel Ingham |
Education |
Charles S Ingham receives his BA from from Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. |
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