Yale University: Timeline

1701   The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

1842   Scroll and Key secret society of Yale University established.

1844   Influential North America North America

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n fraternity Fraternities and sororities

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 Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.

1854   Chemistry Professor Professor

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 Benjamin Silliman, of Yale University is the first to fractionate petroleum Petroleum

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 by distillation.

1901   Yale University celebrates its bicentennial.

1949   Ezra Pound Ezra Pound

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 is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

1962   President John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy

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 gives the commencement address at Yale University.

1965   Yale University presents the "Vinland map".

1968   Yale University announces it is going co-educational.

1974   The Milgram experiment first described by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1974 book ''Obedience to Authority; An Experimental View.''

1993   A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter in Yale University.

2001   The libertarian Free State Project is founded at Yale University.