Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, funded by a large bequest from the Quaker merchant and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. Under its first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, it was modelled on German universities and put an emphasis on graduate education and research, and it is often described as the first research university in the United States. Its hospital and medical school, which opened in the late nineteenth century, introduced a new style of medical training with bedside teaching, and attracted physicians such as William Osler and William Halsted. The university has since become known for medicine, public health, international studies and applied physics, and it spends more on research than most other US universities.
Before and after
- 20 September 1875Ganghwa Island incident
- 31 October 1875Birth of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- 4 December 1875Birth of Rainer Maria Rilke
- 1876Telephone
- 1876Founding of Johns Hopkins University
- 1876Publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- from 1876 to 1877Great Sioux War of 1876
- 5 January 1876Birth of Konrad Adenauer
- 12 January 1876Birth of Jack London
More in Society, economy & sport
- 12 May 1792Founding of New York Stock Exchange
- 17 February 1863Founding of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- 23 June 1894Founding of International Olympic Committee
- from 6 April 1896 to 15 April 1896The first modern Olympic Games open in Athens
- 1903Rise of Bolsheviks
- 1907Rise of scouting
The era
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