04/09/1847
The first state reformatory for boys authorized in Massachusetts
07/01/1850
U.S. Naval Academy opens as a four year institution
04/29/1854
First university for African-Americans incorporated in Pennsylvania
08/11/1858
The National Teachers' Association holds its first convention
10/16/1858
London based philanthropist George Peabody donates a further $200,000 to the Peabody Institute in Baltimore
04/16/1859
The cornerstone of the Peabody Institute is laid in Baltimore, Maryland
08/05/1859
Advocates for women's rights meet in Poughkeepsie, New York
11/26/1859
Final installment of Charles Dickens' "The Tale of Two Cities" published in London
12/10/1859
Ateneo de Manila University is founded in the Philippines
01/26/1860
Cornelius Conway Felton unanimously elected as new President of Harvard University
07/17/1860
Congressional Commission to examine the methods of training at West Point meets for the first time
07/19/1860
Cornelius Conway Felton inaugurated as new President of Harvard University
07/19/1860
Hamilton College in Clinton, New York graduates seventeen men of the class of 1860
07/26/1860
Survey finds only nine of Harvard's 107 man class of 1860 are Democrats while seventy-five are Republicans
09/18/1861
New York City's Bellevue Hospital Medical College opens its first term
10/06/1861
- 10/09/1861
In Russia, rioting students close down the University of St. Petersburg
10/16/1861
In New York City, the Bellevue Hospital Medical College opens its first regular term
10/24/1861
In Russia, authorities reopen the University of St. Petersburg, shut down earlier by student riots
11/04/1861
In Seattle, the University of the Territory of Washington holds its first classes with thirty students
01/24/1862
American novelist and essayist Edith Wharton is born into a wealthy family in New York City
03/10/1862
Fire destroys Euphemia Hall, a female Episcopal school founded and run by a Dickinson College graduate
03/27/1863
School for the physically disabled incorporated in New York City
05/01/1863
School for the physically disabled opened in New York City
05/24/1863
The cornerstone is laid for the new buildings of Chicago's University of St. Mary's of the Lake
