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Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

Timeline of Events

1701

10.9.1701

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

1844

6.22.1844

North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.

1852

8.3.1852

First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.

1873

10.19.1873

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

1949

2.19.1949

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

1993

6.24.1993

Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses his sight in one eye, his hearing in one ear and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.