Harvard University

private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts

14 dated entries naming Harvard University, drawn from 11 separate years between 1636 CE and 2004 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

16368 September – New College founded at the English colony of Massachusetts; later renamed 'Harvard'.source
1636September 18 (September 8 Old Style) – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes New College (Harvard University), as the first college founded in the United States.source
1636October 28 – Harvard University was founded.source
1639March 13 – Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.source
1650June 9 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established (the first legal corporation in the Americas).source

18th century

1721June 26 – Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of the Harvard University School of Medicine begins the first public inoculation campaign in order to slow the smallpox epidemic in Boston, giving a vaccine to his own son, and then to his slave and the slave's infant son.source

19th century

1852August 3 – The first American intercollegiate athletic event, the Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, is held.source
1852August 3 – The first Harvard–Yale Regatta boat race between Harvard and Yale Universities, the first North American intercollegiate athletic event, is held on Lake Winnipesaukee.source
1869August 27 – The University of Oxford wins the first international boat race held on the River Thames, against Harvard University.source
1874May 14 – First admission charge at a football game: Harvard beats University of McGill (Montreal) 3–0.source
1875June 4 – Two American colleges play each other in arguably the first game of college football: Tufts University and Harvard University at Jarvis Field in Cambridge, Massachusetts.source
1895W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.source

20th century

1947June 5 – U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American reconstruction and relief aid to Europe, in a speech at Harvard University.source

21st century

2004February 4 – Mark Zuckerberg launches "TheFacebook", later renamed to Facebook, a social networking website for Harvard University students.source