Dartmouth College was founded by the Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock, who received a royal charter from King George III through the governor of New Hampshire. Wheelock had earlier run a school in Connecticut for Native American students and moved the institution to the New Hampshire frontier, to the town of Hanover. The college takes its name from the Earl of Dartmouth, an English patron of the project. It became a central case in American law when the state tried to take it over in 1816, and the Supreme Court ruled in 1819 that the charter was a protected contract. Dartmouth is a member of the Ivy League, known for its undergraduate teaching and its rural setting, and it began admitting women to its degree programs in the 1970s.
Before and after
- 5 January 1769James Watt patents the separate condenser
- 1 May 1769Birth of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- 15 August 1769Birth of Napoleon
- 14 September 1769Birth of Alexander von Humboldt
- 13 December 1769Founding of Dartmouth College
- 5 March 1770Boston Massacre
- 7 April 1770Birth of William Wordsworth
- 27 August 1770Birth of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 16 December 1770Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven
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The era
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