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A Princeton Profile 2001-02 |
A Princeton Time Line
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1696 -- Town of Princeton settled. 1746 -- College of New Jersey founded in Elizabeth, New Jersey, by the Presbyterian Synod. Jonathan Dickinson appointed first president. 1747 -- College moves to Newark under President Aaron Burr, Sr., its second president. 1748 -- Present charter granted in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 1753 -- Nathaniel and Rebeckah FitzRandolph and others deed 10acres in Princeton to the College. 1756 -- Nassau Hall completed; College of New Jersey moves from Newark to Princeton. 1757 -- Jonathan Edwards becomes third president. 1759 -- Samuel Davies installed as fourth president. 1761 -- Samuel Finley becomes fifth president. 1768 -- The Reverend John Witherspoon of Scotland installed as sixth president. 1769 -- American Whig Debating Society formed. 1770 -- Cliosophic Debating Society formed. 1776 -- President Witherspoon signs the Declaration of Independence. 1777 -- George Washington drives the British from Nassau Hall. 1783 -- Continental Congress meets in Nassau Hall, which served as a capitol of the United States from June until November. 1795 -- Samuel S. Smith becomes seventh president. 1812 -- Ashbel Green installed as eighth president. 1823 -- James Carnahan becomes ninth president. 1826 -- James Madison, Class of 1771 and former president of the United States, becomes the first president of the Alumni Association of the College of New Jersey. 1854 -- John Maclean, Jr. installed as tenth president. 1868 -- James McCosh of Scotland elected eleventh president. 1876 -- The Princetonian is published for the first time (still published daily by students during the academic year). 1883 -- Triangle Club (originally called Princeton College Dramatic Association) founded. 1888 -- Francis L. Patton becomes twelfth president; Princeton University Art Museum founded. 1893 -- Honor system established. 1896 -- Name officially changed to Princeton University. 1900 -- Graduate School established. 1902 -- Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, elected thirteenth president. 1905 -- President Wilson establishes system of preceptorials by junior faculty. 1906 -- Carnegie Lake created by Andrew Carnegie. 1912 -- John G. Hibben installed as fourteenth president. 1913 -- Graduate College dedicated. 1914 -- Palmer Stadium completed. 1919 -- School of Architecture established. 1921 -- School of Engineering established. 1928 -- Princeton University Chapel dedicated. 1930 -- School of Public and International Affairs established. 1933 -- Harold W. Dodds becomes fifteenth president; Albert Einstein becomes a life member of the Institute for Advanced Study, with an office on the Princeton campus. 1940 -- Program of Annual Giving established. Undergraduate radio station (then WPRU, now WPRB) founded. 1948 -- Firestone Library dedicated. 1951 -- Forrestal Campus established on U.S. Route 1; "Project Matterhorn" research in nuclear fusion begins there. In 1961 its name is changed to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. 1957 -- Robert F. Goheen installed as sixteenth president. 1962 -- $53 million fund-raising campaign, under President Robert F. Goheen, concludes. It exceeded its goal and raised $61 million. 1964 -- Ph.D. degree awarded to a woman for the first time. 1969 -- Trustees vote to admit women undergraduates. 1970 -- Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC), a deliberative body of faculty, students, staff, and alumni, is established. 1971 -- Third World Center founded. 1972 -- William G. Bowen becomes seventeenth president. 1982 -- System of residential colleges established. 1986 -- A five-year "Campaign for Princeton" concludes under President William G. Bowen after raising $410.5 million. 1988 -- Harold T. Shapiro installed as eighteenth president. 1996 -- The University celebrates its 250th anniversary (1746&endash; ). 2000 -- For its 100th anniversary on December 13, 2000, the Graduate School kicks off its year-long set of events and programs in May. A five-year "Anniversary Campaign" concludes under President Harold T. Shapiro after raising $1.14 billion. 2001 -- Shirley M. Tilghman becomes nineteenth president. |
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