Template:Duketime
Duke University Timeline | |||
---|---|---|---|
1838 |
Brown’s Schoolhouse, a private subscription school, founded in Randolph county | ||
1841 |
Methodists and Quakers organize Union Institute Academy | ||
1851 |
State legislature grants rechartering of academy as Normal College | ||
1859 |
Methodist Church provides financial support, formalizing name change to Trinity College | ||
1871 |
First social organization on campus founded | ||
1878 |
First women earn degrees | ||
1881 |
First international student enrolls | ||
1887 |
J.F. Crowell inaugurated as president | ||
1892 |
Trinity moves to Durham, largely due to generosity of Washington Duke and Julian S. Carr | ||
1894 |
J.F. Kilgo inaugurated as president; Washington Duke donates $300,000 for endowment | ||
1900 |
Trinity becomes first white institution of higher education in the south to invite Booker T. Washington to speak; first Native American student graduates | ||
1903 |
Bassett Affair | ||
1922 |
Chronicle editors coin the term Blue Devils for athletic teams | ||
1924 |
James B. Duke establishes the $40 million Duke Endowment, propelling the final name change to Duke University | ||
1925 |
Original campus rebuilt with Georgian style buildings | ||
1930 |
Majority of construction on the new Gothic Revival-style West Campus is complete | ||
1938 |
Duke’s football team, dubbed the Iron Dukes, dominate their regular season opponents | ||
1942 |
Duke hosts the Rose Bowl in Wallace Wade Stadium | ||
1964 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to the university on the civil rights movement’s progress | ||
1969 |
Terry Sanford, a former governor of North Carolina, is inaugurated as president; Perkins library complete | ||
1971 |
Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs founded | ||
1972 |
Women’s college merges into Trinity, which serves as the liberal arts college for men and women | ||
1974 |
Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture opens | ||
1980 |
Duke Hospital opens | ||
1986 |
Men’s soccer captures Duke’s first NCAA championship | ||
1991 |
Men's basketball wins its first NCAA title. They would repeat in 1992 and win again in 2001 and 2010. | ||
1993 |
Keohane inaugurated as the university's eighth president | ||
1994 |
Duke team wins Putnam Mathematical Competition. Duke teams would win again in 1996 and 2000 and have come in the top-three 9 times from 1996-2005. | ||
1994 |
Levine Science Research Center (LSRC) opens; Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy moves into new building | ||
1995 |
East Campus converts to an all-freshmen campus | ||
1996 |
Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership begins | ||
1998 |
Campaign for Duke goes into its public phase with a goal of $1.5 billion | ||
1999 |
Duke celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding | ||
2003 |
Duke's Center for Human Genetics opens in April | ||
2003 |
Campaign for Duke ends having raised over $2.36 billion | ||
2004 |
Brodhead inaugurated as ninth president | ||
2004 |
Fitzpatrick Center (CIEMAS) opens | ||
2004 |
The Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) holds its annual conference at Duke | ||
2005 |
Nasher Museum of Art opens | ||
2005 |
The Rolling Stones play in Wallace Wade Stadium as part of their Bigger Bang world tour | ||
2006 |
The Duke lacrosse case makes national headlines when a stripper accuses three men's lacrosse players of rape. | ||
2007 |
The Duke lacrosse case ends with the accuser discredited, the three charged players declared innocent, and the prosecutor who pursued the case being disbarred. | ||
2010 |
The men's lacrosse team wins its first national title. | ||
Key (Contemporary President) | |||
H.K.H. Brodie | |||
N.O. Keohane | |||
R.H. Brodhead |