Events
Harvard 1636
(New College)College of William & Mary
1693Yale 1701
(Collegiate School)Princeton 1746
(College of NJ)Columbia (1754)
(King's College)University of Pennsylvania 1755
(College of Philadelphia)Brown University 1764
(College of Rhode Island)Rutgers 1766
(Queen's College)Dartmouth 1769Johns Hopkins UniversityCornell UniversityNew York University
1831Stanford University
1891University of Chicago
1890University of California, Berkeley
1868South Carolina College
1801University of Virginia
1819University of Wisconsin-Madison
1848Ivy League EstablishedMount Holyoke (1837)Vassar College (1865)Wellesley College
(1875)Smith College (1875)Radcliffe College (1879)Bryn Mawr College
(1885)Aristotle's Lyceum
335 BCPlato's Academy
387 BCAristotle begins tutoring Alexander
343BCAcademy at Gondishapur
529 -Nalanda Mahavihara
5th CenturyPandidakterion
Imperial University of Constantinople
425Al Quaraouiyine
859Novum Organum
Francis Bacon 1620De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Nicolaus Copernicus 1543Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton 1687Treatise on Human Nature
David Hume (1738)Essays, Moral and Political
David Hume 1741Fall of the Western Roman EmpireLibrary at AlexandriaUniversity of Bologna
Universita di Bologna
1088University of ParisAt least 16 studium generales in Europe by this point.At least 31 studium generales spread across Europe by this point.Nearly 75 studium generales across Europe.The Prince
Noccolo Machiavelli 1513The Medieval CurriculumUniversity of OxfordUniversity of CambridgeMartianus Capella Marraigae of Philology and MercuryEssay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life
Joseph Priestly (1765)Periods
Colonial CollegesMorrill ActsSophists lecture for fee (meritocratic aristocracy) beginning wih the lectures of ProtagorasMuhammadDugald Stewart Prof of Moral Phil
University of Edinburgh 1785Francis Hutcheson P. of Moral Phil
University of GlasgowSmith Begins lecturing in Edinburgh (1748)
Professorship at Glasgow in 1751/53
Rhetoric, belle-lettres, "the progress of opulence"Aristotelian Revival
(12th Century)Protestant Reformation
1517 - 1648
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