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Academy

institution of higher learning

9 dated entries naming Academy, drawn from 8 separate years between 396 BCE and 1669 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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4th century BC

  • 396 BCEXenocrates, Greek philosopher and scholarch (or rector) of the Academy (d. 314 BC)source
  • 385 BCEPlato forms his Academy, teaching mathematics, astronomy and other sciences as well as philosophy. It is dedicated to the Attic hero Academus. Philanthropists bear all costs; students pay no fees.source
  • 367 BCEThe Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, goes to Athens as a pupil at Plato's Academy.source
  • 347 BCEPlato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens (b. c. 427 BC)source
  • 347 BCEPlato dies and his nephew Speusippus is named as head of the Academy.source
  • 339 BCEXenocrates is elected as head of the Greek Academy replacing Speusippus.source

2nd century BC

  • 193 BCECarneades of Cyrene moves to Athens to found the third or new Academy.source

5th century

  • 431Greek Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus begins studying at the Academy in Athens.source

17th century

  • 1669September 23 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor grants the status and privileges of a university to the Jesuit Academy in Zagreb, the precursor to the modern University of Zagreb.source

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