1557 |
Will of Bishop Robert Reid.
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1580 |
Bequest of Clement Litill's Library.
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1582 |
Charter from James VI.
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1583 |
Opening of the University
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1620 |
Separation of posts of Principal and Professor of Divinity.
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1620 |
Creation of post of Rector.
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1620 |
Foundation of Chair of Mathematics
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1620 |
Foundation of Chair of Metaphysics.
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1626 |
William Drummond of Hawthornden donates books to Library.
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1639 |
Bartilmo Somerville endows Chair of Divinity (first major private benefactor)
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1665 |
Rectorship transferred to Lord Provost of Edinburgh
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1670 |
Creation of Edinburgh Botanic Garden
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1690 |
Purge of Episcopalian and Jacobite Staff.
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1690 |
Gilbert Rule appointed Principal.
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1703 |
William Carstares appointed Principal.
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1704 |
Seizure of College Records by Town Council.
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1701 |
Foundation of Faculty of Law.
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1708 |
End of Regenting System.
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1708 |
Foundation of Faculty of Arts.
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1713 |
Foundation of Chair of Chemistry.
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1726 |
Foundation of Faculty of Medicine.
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1745 |
Classes suspended as the Jacobites march on city.
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1745 |
David Hume turned down for Chair of Moral Philosophy.
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1749 |
First American Graduate (John Moultrie).
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1760 |
Foundation of Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
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1760 |
Foundation of Trustees' Drawing Academy (forerunner of Edinburgh College of Art)
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1762 |
William Robertson appointed Principal.
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1787 |
Theft of College Mace, possibly by Deacon Brodie
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1789 |
Laying of Foundation Stone of Old College.
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1826 |
Visitation of the University by Royal Commission
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1843 |
Resignation of Thomas Chalmers, Professor of Divinity.
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1846 |
Foundation of New College.
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1848 |
Free Church of Scotland Normal and Sessional School opens (forerunner of Moray House).
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1847 |
Free Churchman Charles MacDouall refused as Professor of Hebrew on religious grounds.
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1847 |
James Young Simpson discovers anaesthetic use of chloroform in childbirth.
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1858 |
Universities (Scotland) Act.
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