Indiana University Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system, in the southern Indiana city of Bloomington. It began as a state seminary, authorised soon after Indiana became a state, and it opened for teaching a few years later with a very small faculty. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it grew into a large public research university with strong programmes in music, business, law and the sciences. It is associated with the zoologist and sexologist Alfred Kinsey, whose Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction is based there, and with the political scientist Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize in economics. Its athletic teams are known as the Hoosiers.
Before and after
- 13 September 1819Birth of Clara Schumann
- from 3 November 1819 to 22 December 1819Persian Gulf campaign of 1819
- 19 November 1819Construction of Museo del Prado
- 22 November 1819Birth of George Eliot
- 1820Founding of Indiana University Bloomington
- 1820Missouri Compromise
- 1820Oersted discovers electromagnetism
- 14 March 1820Birth of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
- 27 April 1820Birth of Herbert Spencer
More in Society, economy & sport
- 12 May 1792Founding of New York Stock Exchange
- c. 1800sRise of nationalism
- 17 February 1863Founding of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- from 6 April 1896 to 15 April 1896The first modern Olympic Games open in Athens
- 1 January 1901Founding of Australia
- 21 May 1904Founding of FIFA
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 19th century.