Rutgers University Timeline of Events

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution...

Timeline of Events

1766

11.10.1766

The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).

1873

10.19.1873

Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.

1943

10.19.1943

Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.