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1816	First constitution of Indiana adopted, providing for a general system of education ascending from township schools to a state university.
1818	State legislature established Monroe County and appointed commissioner to locate and name town where courthouse could be situated.
1820	Legislative act adopted establishing a state seminary, January 20 (Founder's Day). In July, Board of Trustees choose location for seminary.
1822	Construction begun of Seminary building and professor's house.
1823	Baynard Rush Hall hired as first professor to teach in the Seminary.
1824	Classes begin with an enrollment of ten men, though Seminary building not yet complete.
1825	Seminary building completed.
1828	Legislative act adopted changing State Seminary to Indiana College, Jan. 24.
1829	Andrew Wylie (1829-51) named first president.
1830	First graduating class. Preparatory Department established (abolished 1890). Construction of First College building started at Seminary Square.
1836	First College building finished (destroyed by fire in 1854).
1838	Legislative act adopted changing Indiana College to Indiana University.
1842	School of Law established (suspended 1877-89; revived Feb. 15, 1889).
1852	Legislative act adopted recognizing Indiana University as "The University of the State," June 17. Alfred Ryors (1852-53) named second president.
1853	William Mitchell Daily (1853-59) named third president.
1854	First College building destroyed by fire.
1855	Second College building constructed (used for Preparatory Department, 1885-90; sold to Bloomington School Board for use as a high school, 1897).
1859	Theophilus A. Wylie served six months as acting president. John Hiram Lathrop (1859-60) named fourth president.
1860	Cyrus Nutt (1860-75) named fifth president.
1865	IU president made a member ex officio of the State Board of Education.
1867	IU becomes one of the first state universities to admit women. The Indiana Student (now the Indiana Daily Student) first published. Men's baseball team becomes IU's first known athletic activity. Legislative act begins annual appro priations, March 8.
1869	Sarah Parke Morrison becomes first woman graduate.
1874	Science Hall at Seminary Square completed (destroyed by fire 1883).
1875	Lemuel Moss (1875-84) named sixth president.
1883	Charles Henry Gilbert becomes first to receive Ph.D. degree. Following fire at Seminary Square, citizens of Monroe County pledge $50,000 to the University. Dunn's Woods, located east of downtown Bloomington, purchased from Moses F. Dunn. First intercollegiate game (baseball) played by an IU team.
1884	Wylie and Owen Halls constructed on new campus (named University Park). Elisha Ballantine named acting president.
1885	David Starr Jordan (1885-91) named seventh president. Mitchell Hall (named Maxwell Hall until 1894) constructed on new campus.
1886	Men's football team started. Reorganization of curriculum to major subject and departmental basis.
1890	Department of Physical Training for Women established, with gym in Wylie Hall. Summer School established. Library Hall (renamed Maxwell Hall in 1894) constructed. Preparatory Department abolished.
1891	John Merle Coulter (1891-93) named eighth president. Legislative act adopted providing for election by alumni of three trustees. Department of Physical Training for Men established, with gym in Owen Hall. First IU extension course offered in Indianapolis.
1892	Men's Gymnasium completed (converted into a carpenter's shop after 1896, razed in 1932).
1893	Joseph Swain (1893-1902) named nineth president.
1894	Kirkwood Hall constructed. Campus yearbook, Arbutus, first published.
1895	Trustees purchase 10 acres north and east of campus from Moses F. Dunn (Dunn cemetary excepted). Biological Station established at Turkey Lake (Towinana in 1899).
1896	Women's Gym moved to Mitchell Hall. Second Men's Gymnasium constructed (renamed Assembly Hall in 1917; razed in 1938).
1898	Men's basketball team started.

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1900 Campus

1900	Kirkwood Observatory constructed. Wylie Hall partly destroyed by fire.
1902	William Lowe Bryan (1902-37) named tenth president. Science Hall constructed (renamed Ernest Hiram Lindley Hall in 1957).
1903	School of Medicine established.
1904	Graduate School established.
1906	Student Building constructed with funds from private subscriptions. Alpha Hall opens.
1907	Second Library Building completed (renamed Student Services Building in 1972, Joseph Amos Franklin Hall in 1988).
1908	School of Education established. Theordore F. Rose Well House built with portals of the Second College Building.
1909	The Indiana Union for Men established.
1910	Biology Hall completed (renamed Swain Hall East in 1957).
1911	Real estate given by Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Long for Robert W. Long Hospital in connection with School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
1912	Extension Division established (renamed Continuing Education in 1965, School of Continuing Studies in 1975).
1913	IU Alumni Association formed.
1914	Training School for Nurses established (renamed School of Nursing in 1956).
1916	First extension office opened in Indianapolis.
1917	Department of Military Science established. Fort Wayne Extension Center established. Men's gym completed.
1919	Indianapolis School of Medicine Building completed (renamed Charles P. Emerson Building in 1961).
1920	School of Commerce and Finance established (renamed School of Business Administration in 1933, School of Business in 1938, Kelley School of Business in 1998).
1921	School of Music established. Three-year Memorial Fund Campaign begun.
1922	First classes offered in South Bend.
1923	Commerce Building constructed (renamed Business Administration Building in 1935, Social Science Building in 1941, William A. Rawles Hall in 1971).
1924	President's house completed. Washington Hall dormitory constructed (renamed South Hall in 1925, Ulysses H. Smith Hall in 1959).
1925	Women's Memorial Hall and Memorial Stadium (renamed Tenth Street Stadium in 1971) completed. (Stadium demolished in 1982 for construction of Arboretum). School of Dentistry established.
1928	Field House completed (renamed Ora L. Wildermuth Intramural Center in 1971).
1931	Chemistry Building completed.
1932	Indiana University Memorial Union completed (additions in 1939 and 1946). Men's wrestling and track teams win NCAA championships.
1933	South Bend-Mishawaka Extension Center established.
1934	School of Dentistry building completed on Medical Center campus at Indianapolis.
1936	Administration Building (renamed William Lowe Bryan Administration Building in 1957), School of Music Building, and Forest Hall (renamed Goodbody Hall in 1962) completed. Alpha Hall (first women's dormitory) purchased by University ( razed in 1961). IU Foundation established.
1937	Herman B Wells named acting president. School of Medicine Building at Bloomington completed (renamed Burton D. Myers Hall in 1958).
1938	Herman B Wells (1938-62) named eleventh president. School of Business established. University School (renamed Wendell W. Wright School of Education Building in 1979) and Stores and Services Building (renamed Ernie Pyle Hall in 1954 ) completed. Clinical Building at Indianapolis completed. John Bradford donated 900 acres of family land to IU (by 1956 Bradford Woods recreational area was enlarged to 2,300 acres). Men's cross country team wins NCAA championship.
1939	Calumet Extension Building constructed for Northwest campus.
1940	Bloomington Alfred C. Kinsey Institute established. Beech (renamed Morrison Hall in 1942) and Sycamore halls added to Memorial and Goodbody halls to form Agnes E. Wells Quandrangle. North Hall (renamed Cravens Hall in 1959) and West Hall (renamed Edmondson Hall in 1959) added to men's residence complex (renamed Collins Living Learning Center in 1981). Construction of the Business and Economics Building (renamed Woodburn Hall in 1971). Men's basketball and cross country teams won NCAA championships. Fort Wayne Luther Institute Building is purchased. South Bend First full-time director appointed for South Bend-Mishawaka Center.
1941	Bloomington IU Auditorium completed. One of the world's first cyclotrons becomes operational at IU. Indianapolis The Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union becomes part of IU (renamed School of Physical Education in 1973). Southeast Falls City Area Center established at Jeffersonville (renamed Indiana University Southeastern Center in 1946).
1942	Bloomington Junior Division established (renamed University Division in 1970). Professor Woodburn's home on North College Avenue donated. Men's cross country team won NCAA championship.
1944	Indianapolis Benjamin Harrison Law School acquired.
1945	Bloomington School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation established. IU wins Big 10 football championship. Kokomo Extension Center begun.
1946	Bloomington Dormitory unit completed (renamed John W. Ashton Center in 1980). Several army buildings moved to campus for housing and classroom use. Indianapolis Maennerchor Building purchased for School of Law. Kokomo Kingston-Seiberling mansion purchased.
1947	Bloomington First IU president Andrew Wylie's home purchased (restored 1961-65).
1948	Bloomington America's first degree-granting folklore program initiated. Archives of Folk and Primitive Music founded (renamed Archives of Traditional Music in 1965). East Hall constructed (burned in 1968). Link Observatory and income-producing property for its upkeep donated by Goethe and Helen Link. Northwest Gary College and IU unite facilities and programs.
1949	Inter-campus Geologic Field Station established in Cardwell, Montana, on 60 acres given by the state of Montana. Bloomington Men's Quadrangle (renamed Joseph H. Wright Quadrangle in 1959) and University Apartments completed.

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1950	Inter-campus IU Press established. Indianapolis Medical Center accepted Laboratory Science Building from State Board of Health (renamed James W. Fesler Hall in 1959).
1951	Bloomington School of Letters summer program established in Graduate School (ended in 1973). First pre-optometry courses offered in the fall.
1952	Bloomington Indiana Memorial Union organization admits women for the first time.
1953	Bloomington Men's basketball team wins NCAA championship. Indianapolis Student Union Building at Medical Center opened.
1954	Bloomington 120 acres north of campus purchased from Faris estate.
1955	Bloomington Married housing unit completed (renamed Hepburn, Nutt, Bicknell, and Banta apartments in 1959). Jordon Hall of Biology and Smithwood Hall (renamed Daniel Read Hall in 1960; rededicated 1962) completed.
1956	Bloomington School of Law Building completed. Beck Chapel constructed. Indianapolis School of Nursing established.
1957	Bloomington Evermann Apartments completed.
1958	Indianapolis Alfred S. Warthin Apartments and Medical Science Building completed. Fort Wayne IU and Purdue programs combined.
1959	Bloomington Ballantine Hall and Tower Quadrangle (renamed Nellie S. Teter Quadrangle in 1961). Biddle opens. Indianapolis Division of Allied Health Sciences established in School of Medicine. Northwest Tamarack Hall completed.
1960	Bloomington Lilly Library completed. Seventeenth Street Football Stadium (renamed Indiana Memorial Stadium in 1971) and Athletic Field House completed. Married Student Housing complex (renamed Redbud Hill Apartments in 1961) erected.
1961	Bloomington Graduate School of Business established. Woodlawn Dormitories (Morgan, Brown, Monroe, and Green halls) and Ruby C. Mason cooperative housing unit completed. Showalter Fountain completed.
1962	Inter-campus Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr. (1962-68) named twelfth president. Herman B Wells named University Chancellor. Bloomington Fine Arts Building, Geology Building, Campus View Apartments, and Residence Halls Administration Building completed. Royer Pool completed. South Bend South Bend-Mishawaka Campus Building completed.
1963	Bloomington Aerospace Research Applications Center established under contract with NASA (moved to Indianapolis Center for Advanced Research at IUPUI in 1976). Psychology Building, Administrative Services Building, Radio and Television Building, and John W. Foster Quadrangle completed. Northwest Gary and Calumet campuses combined under single administration named IU Northwest.
1964	Bloomington Paul V. McNutt Quadrangle and new University School completed. Fort Wayne Kettler Hall completed.
1965	Bloomington Wendell L. Willkie Quadrangle and Tulip Tree House completed. Kokomo Kokomo Campus Building completed.
1966	Bloomington Graduate Library School established (renamed School of Library and Information Science in 1980). First University owned campus bus system. School of Business Building, Student Health Center, and Forest and Herman T. Briscoe quadrangles completed. South Bend Greenlawn Hall opened.
1967	Bloomington University acquires 245 acres on Monroe Reservoir to house Biological Research Station. Indianapolis Herron School of Art affiliated with IU. Northwest First commencement held. South Bend First commencement held.
1968	Inter-campus Herman B Wells named interim president. Joseph Lee Sutton (1968-71) named thirteenth president. University's 150th Birthday Drive publicly announced. Bloomington Optometry Building and Speech and Hearing Building completed. East Hall destroyed by fire. Men's swimming team wins NCAA championship. Football team plays in Rose Bowl. Indianapolis Preventive Dentistry Research Building in Medical Center and Phase I of University Hospital completed. Fort Wayne First commencement held.
1969	Bloomington Third Library Building completed. Second Library Building damaged by fire (now Franklin Hall). Eigenmann Graduate Residence Center completed. Indianapolis IU and Purdue merge into IUPUI, with IU given administrative and fiscal control. Northwest Academic, library, and student activities facilities added. Southeast First commencement held at Jeffersonville.
1970	Inter-campus Sequicentennial celebrated. Bloomington Afro-American Studies program established (renamed Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies in 2002.) Credit Union Building completed. Men's swimming team wins NCAA championship. Indianapolis First commencement held. IUPUI Columbus Center opens. New building for School of Law in Indianapolis completed. Kokomo First commencement held.
1971	Inter-campus John W. Ryan named fourteenth president. Bloomington Assembly Hall, Musical Arts Center, Glenn Black Archaeological Laboratory, and Publications/Printing Services Building completed. Metz Carillon donated by Arthur R. Metz Foundation. AIAW begins first intercollegiate competition for women. Indianapolis Medical Research Facilities Building completed. Undergraduate campus consisting of three new buildings opens.
1972	Inter-campus School of Public and Environmental Affairs established. Bloomington Poplars Hotel purchased and renamed Poplars Research and Conference Center. Second Library Building renovated as Student Services Building (renamed Joseph Amos Franklin Hall in 1988). Men's swimming team won NCAA championship. Indianapolis IU School of Liberal Arts, Purdue School of Science, and Purdue School of Engineering and Technology established. South Bend Northside Hall addition completed.
1973	Bloomington Black Culture Center established. Latino Culture Center established. Men's swimming team wins NCAA championship. Indianapolis School of Physical Education established. Nursing Building completed. IUPUI Columbus Center moved to facilities in Bakalar Technical Training Building. Southeast Southeast campus at New Albany opened.
1974	Inter-campus Administrative reorganization: regional administration phased out, Bloomington and Indianapolis organized as core campuses. IU and Purdue united under one chancellor Bloomington Department of Journalism established within COAS. (Became independent school in 1989.) Showalter House constructed by IU Foundation. Indianapolis Administration Building completed. East Richmond facility opened.
1975	Inter-campus School of Continuing Studies established. Bloomington School of Optometry established. Indianapolis Engineering and Technology Building completed. East New building at Richmond completed. South Bend Associates Complex acquired . Southeast Hillside Hall and Life Science Building completed.
1976	Bloomington Men's basketball team wins NCAA championship. Fort Wayne The Fort Wayne Art Institute School of Fine Arts merges with IUPU at Fort Wayne. Northwest Hawthorne laboratory and classroom building completed. Southeast University Center completed.
1977	Bloomington New Geology Core Storage Building opens. Andrew Wylie House entered on National Register of Historic Places. Indianapolis Riley House Intensive Care Clinic, Parent Education and Preparation Center, and Parent Care Unit completed. School of Social Service renamed School of Social Work. East New IHETS TV tower installed. Northwest Apartment building named Lindenwood Hall. South Bend Part of IUSB moved into sections of Associated Properties.
1978	Bloomington Animal Care Building completed. Breaking Away filmed.
1979	Bloomington Music Practice Building completed. Old Crescent buildings (Franklin Hall, Student Building, Maxwell Hall, Owen Hall, Wylie Hall, Kirkwood Hall, Lindley Hall, Rose Well House, and Kirkwood Observatory) listed on Indiana Register of Historic Places. Football team wins Holiday Bowl. Indianapolis Sports Center completed.
1980	Bloomington Visitors Center opens. Old Crescent buildings placed on National Register of Historic Places. Indianapolis Riley Hospital Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Clinic and Laboratory completed. Kokomo New Science Building completed.
1981	Bloomington School of Journalism becomes systemwide school. School of Music students present first performance by a university company at Metropolitan Opera House. Little 500/Soccer Stadium opens (renamed Bill Armstrong Stadium in 1983). IU Art Museum completed. Men's basketball team wins NCAA championship. Indianapolis University Townhouses completed. Fort Wayne Trustees of IU and Purdue recognize constitution joining their faculties under one governing body. Medical Education Program established in School of Medicine.
1982	Bloomington Memorial service held for composer and IU alumnus Hoagy Carmichael. Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein in residence as first fellow of Institute for Advanced Study. William Hammond Mathers Museum completed. American Studies program in Yugoslavia (IU/Zagreb University) established. Women's tennis team wins AIAW championship. Men's soccer team wins NCAA championship. Indianapolis Natatorium/Gymnasium, Track and Field Stadium, Classroom/Office II Building completed. Kokomo Fifteen acres acquired adjacent to campus.
1983	Bloomington Institutes established for American Theatre Studies, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Materials Research. Men's soccer team wins NCAA championship. Indianapolis Elks Cancer Research Center opens. Institute for Humanities Research established. Fort Wayne Walter E. Helmke Library Endowment established. Northwest Laboratories for Environmental Research and Great Lakes Center for Public Affairs and Administration established in SPEA.
1984	Bloomington American Indian Studies Institute established. Indianapolis Hudson Institute moved to IUPUI. Kokomo Nine acres adjacent to campus acquired. Northwest Wells Fargo Gamefield opens.
1986	Inter-campus Herman B Wells Program for Outstanding Young Scholars, a four-year scholarship program, announced.
1987	Inter-campus Thomas Ehrlich becomes fifteenth president. Indianapolis Center on Philanthropy at IUPUI established with $4 million grant from Lilly Endowment. Tenth Pan American games held.
1988	Inter-campus IU celebrates 150th anniversary of university status. Fort Wayne Campus grows to 565 acres with the gift of McKay farm.
1989	Kokomo Kelley Student Center and Laboratory Building dedicated. South Bend Franklin D. Schurz Library dedicated.
1990	Bloomington School of Fine Arts renamed the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts. The Student Building catches fire during renovations.
1991	Northwest Marram Hall opened.
1992	Indianapolis IU Hospital and Outpatient Center completed at the IU Medical Center. Southeast Knobview Hall opened.
1993	Bloomington Wendell W. Wright Education Building dedicated. Fort Wayne Ernest E. Williams Theater dedicated.
1994	Inter-campus Myles Brand becomes sixteenth president. Bloomington School of Music graduate program tied for first place with Juilliard and Eastman in U.S. News and World Report ranking. Professor of English Yusef Komunyakaa wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Indianapolis University Library dedicated. South Bend 23 riverfront acres acquired adjacent to campus.
1995	Bloomington Student Recreational Sports Center opens. Bess Meshulam Simon Music Library and Recital Center opens. Kokomo New library opens.
1996	Inter-campus HEC approves Associate of Arts degree Bloomington John Mellencamp Pavillion, the Indiana University Advanced Research and Technology Institute, and the IU Research Park open. Dalai Lama visits Bloomington campus Wylie Hall rededicated following completion of 3-year renovation Indianapolis Indiana Cancer Pavilion dedicated Ryan White Center begins construction IU Hospital, Methodist Health Group and Riley Hospital for Children consolidate to form Clarian Health Southeast F. C. Richardson installed as Chancellor
1997	Inter-campus Trustees approve observation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day for all campuses beginning 1998 Center for Mathematics Education established to improve K-12 education throughout Indiana Bloomington Sears and IU Business School establish Center for Education and Research in Retailing Price Waterhouse Center for Information Technology established at IU School of Business to help further the development of the technical proficiency of future ac counting and business consulting professionals School of Business becomes the Kelley School of Business, in honor of philanthropist and alumnus E. W. Kelley The Jack and Linda Gill Center for Instrumentation and Measurement Science established Indianapolis Cancer Research Institute dedicated South Bend Kenneth Perrin installed as Chancellor Phi Sigma Sigma opens the campus's first sorority house
1998	Inter-campus IU and Microsoft form agreement, making IU the first university in the U.S. to make Microsoft's software available to students, faculty and staff Bloomington Asian Culture Center established. Congress awards IU $1 million to establish the Midwest Proton Radiation Institute, the first cancer treatment center of its kind in the Midwest, at the Cyclotron facility Indianapolis The Advanced Research and Technology Institute moves its operational base from Bloomington to Indianapolis to better enhance its relationship with the School of Medic ine Kokomo The Center for Regional Campus Excellence launched to examine best practices in higher education across the U.S. and develop models of excellence South Bend Wiekamp Hall dedicated IUSB becomes first regional campus with an endowed chair after receiving a gift from William and Kathryn Shields providing the School of Nursing dean with an annual s tipend to support instruction and scholarship
1999	Inter-campus IU receives $30 million grant from Lilly Endowment for IT research initiative. University Chancellor Herman B Wells named IU's Man of the Century Bloomington Establishment of School of Informatics approved. Graduate student Won Joon Yoon shot and killed by white supremacist Benjamin Smith; Memorial fund established in Yoon's honor. Latino Studies program established. Indianapolis IU Cancer Center receives National Cancer Center research designation Gary Bruce Bergland named Chancellor. U.S. Dept. of Education awards campus $308,000 to expand and provide additional components to its successful Urban Teacher Education Program.
2000	Inter-campus University Chancellor Herman B Wells dies at 97 Bloomington IU partners with Sun Microsystems Inc. to create the Center for Excellence in order to offer IU researchers and students more powerful resources in the areas of high performance computing, networking and storage, data mining and visualization After 29 years, Bobby Knight fired from his position as men's basketball coach; Mike Davis named interim coach Herman B Wells plaza dedicated Indianapolis School of Liberal Arts receives largest gift to date from retired steelworker Sam Masarachia Trustees approve plans for construction of the Research Institute II for housing School of Medicine research laboratories and offices Lilly Endowment awards $105 million to support the Indiana Genomics Initiative Kokomo Ruth Person installed as Chancellor
2001	Bloomington Sharon Brehm installed as successor to Chancellor Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis Mike Davis named Men's Basketball coach
2002	Bloomington Gerry DiNardo named 25th head football coach. Inaugural First Nations at Indiana University (FNIU) pow wow held. Effective December 31, President Myles Brand resigns. IUPUI Chancellor Gerald Bepko named interim president. Latino Faculty and Staff Council established. Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan Language Resource Center (CAAALRC) established. Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility dedicated. Graduate and Executive Education Center dedicated at the Kelley School of Business. South Bend Una Mae Reck succeeds Chancellor Kenneth Perrin. Southeast Sandra R. Patterson-Randles succeeds Chancellor F.C. Richardson.
2003	Inter-campus Adam W. Herbert named IU'S 17th president The School of Informatics, IU's first new university-wide school in 28 years, dedicated on the Bloomington campus January 30 The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) established on both the Indianapolis and Bloomington campuses John Slattery succeeds George E. Walker as dean of graduate studies Bloomington The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) established at IU through an agreement with the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC). Sharon Brehm, IUB chancellor and and IU vice president for academic affairs, resigns Lauren Robel named 15th - and first female - dean of the School of Law Southeast Groundbreaking for new library Fort Wayne Barry Kanpol named campus dean of the School of Education Indianapolis School of Medicine dedicates its newest facility, Research II Charles Bantz installed as IUPUI's fourth chancellor
2004	Inter-campus J. Thomas Forbes, former IU trustee and assistant vice president, returns to IU as executive director of state relations Janet Rabinowitch named director of the IU Press Indianapolis Sociology professor Robert White named dean of the School of Liberal Arts Marion Broome begins her tenure as the fifth dean and second university dean of the IU School of Nursing Fort Wayne IPFW celebrates 40 years

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