The University of Toronto is a public research university in Ontario, and one of the leading universities in Canada. It was founded as King's College by royal charter, with ties to the Church of England, and was later secularized and renamed. It is organized as a federation of colleges, some of which have a religious background. The university is famous for the discovery of insulin in the early 1920s by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J. J. R. Macleod and James Collip, and for the work of James Till and Ernest McCulloch that proved the existence of stem cells. It has produced a number of Nobel laureates and has one of the largest university libraries in North America.
Before and after
- 17 September 1826Birth of Bernhard Riemann
- from 18 November 1826 to 24 November 1826Battle of Arachova
- 5 March 1827Death of Pierre-Simon Laplace
- 5 March 1827Death of Alessandro Volta
- 15 March 1827Founding of University of Toronto
- 26 March 1827Death of Ludwig van Beethoven
- 5 April 1827Birth of Joseph Lister
- 20 October 1827Battle of Navarino
- 1828Discovery of thorium
More in Society, economy & sport
- 12 May 1792Founding of New York Stock Exchange
- 1823Origins of rugby union
- 4 June 1880Introduction of Bulgarian lev
- 23 June 1894Founding of International Olympic Committee
- 1903Rise of Bolsheviks
- 1907Rise of scouting
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.