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University of Pennsylvania

private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

8 dated entries naming University of Pennsylvania, drawn from 7 separate years between 2300 BCE and 1946 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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23rd century BC

  • 2300 BCEc. 2300 BC – 2184 BC: The Disc of Enheduanna, from Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) is made. It is now in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.source

18th century

  • 1740November 14 – The University of Pennsylvania is officially established.source
  • 1751August 13 – The Academy and College of Philadelphia, predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, opens its doors, with Benjamin Franklin as president.source
  • 1751January 7 – The University of Pennsylvania, conceived 12 years earlier by Benjamin Franklin and its other trustees to provide non-denominational higher education "to train young people for leadership in business, government and public service". rather than for the ministry, holds its first classes as "The Academy and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania" in Philadelphia.source

19th century

  • 1813October 2 – The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is founded (the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States).source
  • 1850October 19 – The Phi Kappa Sigma international fraternity is founded, at the University of Pennsylvania.source

20th century

  • 1943May 17 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the computer ENIAC.source
  • 1946February 14 – ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), an early general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania; it weighs 60,000 pounds (over 27 tons), and occupies a big room.source

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