Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Its origins lie in a small school in Randolph County started by Methodists and Quakers, which later became Union Institute, Normal College and then Trinity College, and moved to Durham in 1892 with the support of local benefactors such as Julian Carr and the tobacco magnate Washington Duke. In 1924 a large endowment from his son James B. Duke led to the renaming of the institution as Duke University. Its Gothic chapel is a landmark of the campus, and its medical center and law school are among the best known in the country. The Duke Blue Devils basketball team, coached for decades by Mike Krzyzewski, has won multiple national championships.
Before and after
- 7 November 1837Earthquake in Valdivia, Chile
- from 13 November 1837 to 9 September 1838First Herat War
- 23 November 1837Birth of Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- 24 December 1837Birth of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
- 1838Founding of Duke University
- 1838Founding of The Times of India
- 1838Friedrich Bessel measures the first stellar parallax
- 18 February 1838Birth of Ernst Mach
- from 25 May 1838 to 1 January 1839Cherokee removal
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- 6 March 1902Founding of Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
The era
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