1800-1860: Education: Chronology

1800-1860: Education: Chronology

IMPORTANT EVENTS OF 1800-1860

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.

1858

• The Minnesota constitution establishes free public eduction.
• Episcopalians found the University of the South in Tennessee.
• Iowa State University is founded in Ames.

1859

• Catholics found St. Ignatius College in San Francisco.

1860

• Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College is founded in Baton Rouge.