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Harvard University

private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts

8 dated entries naming Harvard University, drawn from 7 separate years between 1636 CE and 1947 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

  • 1636October 28 – Harvard University was founded.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
  • 1639March 13 – Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.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
  • 1869August 27 – The University of Oxford wins the first international boat race held on the River Thames, against Harvard University.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

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

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