1800-1860: Education: Chronology

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1800-1860: Education: Chronology

IMPORTANT EVENTS OF 1800-1860

1800

The Massachusetts legislature gives local school districts the power to levy taxes.

1801

Cane Ridge revivals in Kentucky initiate the Second Great Awakening.
Moravian missionaries enter the lands of the Cherokees.

1802

Cherokee chiefs urge Moravians to open a school.

1803

Moravians found a school at Spring Place, Georgia.

1804

Ohio University is founded in Athens, Ohio.

1805

The New York Free School Society is organized.

1807

East Tennessee College (present-day University of Tennessee) is founded in Knoxville.

1809

Miami University is founded in Oxford, Ohio.

1814

Emma Hart Willard organizes Middlebury Female Seminary in Vermont.

1815

Gov. Pablo Vicente Sola urges that schools be established in California pueblos and presidios.

1816

The Indiana constitution directs the legislature to establish a system of free education and recommends the establishment of township schools and a state university.

1817

Transylvania University establishes a medical college in Kentucky.
Plans leading to the founding of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor are introduced to the state legislature.

1818

Thomas Jefferson receives a legislative charter to establish the University of Virginia.
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions establishes a school in the Cherokee nation.
The Pennsylvania legislature provides for public schools.

1819

A Supreme Court case {Dartmouth College v. Woodward) protects charters of privately organized colleges from government intervention.
The University of Virginia is founded in Charlottesville.
The University of Cincinnati is founded in Ohio.

1820

Indiana University is founded in Bloomington.
The University of Alabama is chartered.

1821

The Ohio legislature establishes school districts.
A medical department is founded at the University of Cincinnati.

1824

The Indiana legislature establishes school districts.
Robert Owen purchases New Harmony, Indiana.

1825

Charles Grandison Finney conducts revivals in western New York.
New York establishes public schools.
Pestalozzian schools are founded in New Harmony, Indiana.
The Illinois legislature establishes school districts.

1826

The New York Free School Society becomes the Public School Society.
Frances Wright establishes the Nashoba community in Tennessee.
Case Western Reserve University is founded in Cleveland, Ohio.
Episcopalians found Kenyon College in Ohio.

1828

Indiana University is founded in Bloomington.

1829

Baptists found Georgetown College in Kentucky.

1830

The American Sunday School Union plans a campaign in the Mississippi River valley.
A medical department is founded at Miami University in Ohio.

1831

The Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers is organized in Ohio.
The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa.

1832

Lyman Beecher moves to Cincinnati as president of Lane Seminary.
Jesuits found St. Louis University in Missouri.

1833

Catharine Beecher establishes the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati.
Oberlin Collegiate Institute is founded in Ohio.

1834

An antislavery controversy engulfs Lane Seminary in Cincinnati.
Presbyterians found Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Tulane University is founded in New Orleans.
The University of the Ozarks is founded in Clarksville, Arkansas.
William E. P. Hartnell opens a school for boys in Monterey, California.

1835

Lane rebels enroll at Oberlin Collegiate Institute.
Lyman Beecher publishes Plea for the West.
Catharine Beecher publishes An Essay on the Education of Female Teachers.
Congregationalists found Illinois College in Jacksonville.

1836

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sends Marcus and Narcissa Whitman to the Oregon country.

1837

Horace Mann is appointed secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education.
Bacon College (present-day University of Kentucky) is founded in Georgetown.
Catholics found St. Mary’s College in Kentucky.
Methodists found Asbury College (present-day DePauw University) in Green-castle, Indiana.
Calvin Stowe writes “Report on Elementary Instruction in Europe” for the Ohio legislature.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction John D. Pierce writes a model school law in Michigan.

1839

The state of Missouri passes school legislation.
The University of Missouri is founded in Columbia.

1840

Catholic bishop John Joseph Hughes, protesting the use of the King James Bible and the Protestant message of New York public schools, requests public funding for Catholic schools.
Cincinnati, Ohio, provides bilingual education for children of German immigrants.

1841

Catharine Beecher publishes Treatise on Domestic Economy.
The U.S. Congress provides federal land grants to states in order to fund education.

1842

The New York legislature denies public funds to sectarian schools.
Catholics found the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Methodists found Ohio Wesleyan University.

1843

The Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education in the West is founded in New York.
The Sisters of Mercy enter the United States.

1844

The University of Mississippi is founded in Oxford.
California governor Manuel Micheltorena urges the establishment of schools in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco, and Sonoma.

1845

Lutherans found Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio.
Baptists found Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

1846

The Iowa constitution establishes free public education.
Olive Mann Isbell opens a school for children of settlers from the East in Santa Clara and then Monterey, California.

1847

The State Reform School for Boys is founded in Westborough, Massachusetts.
Catharine Beecher’s Central Committee for Promoting Female Education sends female missionary teachers to the West.
The State University of Iowa is founded in Iowa City.
Missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman are murdered in Oregon by Cayuse Indians.

1848

The Wisconsin constitution and legislature establish free public education.
The University of Wisconsin is founded in Madison.

1849

Roberts v. City of Boston protests segregation in Boston public schools.
The United Brethren found Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio.
The city of San Francisco establishes free public schools.

1850

Lutherans found Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
The Disciples of Christ found Butler University in Indianapolis.
Quakers found Earlham College in Indiana.
The University of Utah is founded in Salt Lake City.
Oregon State University is founded in Corvallis.

1851

German Reformed church members found Heidelberg College in Ohio.
Northwestern University is founded in Evanston, Illinois.
Universalists found Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois.
The University of Minnesota is founded in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Methodists found the College of the Pacific in Santa Clara, California, which later moved to Stockton.
The Sisters of Notre Dame establish a boarding school for girls in San Jose, California.
The California legislature provides school districts and apportions school funds to counties.

1852

Antioch College is founded in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
The Indiana legislature establishes free public education.
Anna Peck founds Rockford Seminary for women in Illinois.
Catharine Beecher founds Milwaukee Female College in Wisconsin.

1853

Catharine Beecher lobbies for free normal schools.
Louisiana State Seminary of Learning is founded in Alexandria.
Unitarians found Washington University in St. Louis.
Lindenwood College for women is founded in St. Charles, Missouri.
Charles Loring Brace becomes urban missionary with the Children’s Aid Society.
John Swett becomes principal of Rincon Grammar School in San Francisco.

1854

The Ohio legislature establishes free public education.
Congregationalists found Pacific University in Oregon.

1855

The Illinois legislature establishes free public education.
Michigan State University is founded in East Lansing.
California College (present-day University of California, Berkeley) is founded in Oakland.
Jesuits found Santa Clara College in California.
Sacramento City Council allows tax funds to support separate education for African American children.

1856

Auburn University is founded in Alabama.

1857

Illinois State Normal University is established in Normal, Illinois.
The Ohio Reform School for boys is founded.
Margarethe Meyer Schurz opens the first private kindergarten in America in Watertown, Wisconsin.
The Children’s Aid Society sends city boys to Western states.