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 at:1868 text: 1868 - Election of Lyon Playfair elected first University MP. Baxter Chair of Engineering established. ~        Foundation of Edinburgh Ladies Education Association (later Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women)
 at:1878 text: 1878 - David Laing bequest.
 at:1884 text: 1884 - Tercentenary Festival. Election of first Students’ Representative Council. Founding of University Union (for men).
 at:1887 text: 1887 - Patrick Geddes starts ‘University Hall’. The Student founded (by Robert Cochrane Buist).
 from:1892 till:1893 text: Foundation of Faculty of Science. Foundation of Faculty of Music. First Matriculation of Female Students (Jeannie Wark Robertson).~        First Graduation of Women in Degree of M.A. (Lilias Maitland). Ordinance no. 11 regulates the Arts curriculum, institutes lectureships, and introduces summer term.~        Introduction of Preliminary Examination for students.