Virtue Across Time

Time of The Good

Period: Jan 1, 1450 to Oct 13, 2010

Columbus lands on Indigenous people's land

Oct 12, 1492

Columbus sails a long way to discover that he did not discover new land.

The Protestant Reformation

Oct 31, 1517

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Isaac Newton hit by an apple

Jul 5, 1687

Published "Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy"; usually called the Principia.

College of William and Mary established

Feb 8, 1693

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

Jefferson proposes two-track system

Nov 15, 1779

Articles of Confederation

Mar 1, 1781

"First draft" of the Consitution. It was disputed for years before being ratified in 1781. It was quickly replaced by the Constitution in 1788.

Land Ordinance of 1785

May 20, 1785

Purpose was to raise money through selling uncharted land. It also created funds for public schools under section 16 in townships' charters.

Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia opens

Jul 28, 1787

US Constitution ratified

Sep 17, 1787

Woot.

George Washington elected

Apr 30, 1789

April 30, 1789

French Revolution

May 15, 1789

French Revolution begins (approx. dates) Socrates;
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Bill of Rights

Dec 15, 1791

Vindication of the Rights of Woman published

Nov 9, 1792

(date = approx.)
Wollstonecraft publishes "Vindication"

John Adams elected

Nov 1, 1800

Thomas Jefferson elected

Mar 4, 1801

March 4, 1801

Blackboard 1.0 used in the US

Sep 1, 1801

Mr. George Baron, an instructor at West Point Military Academy, is considered to be the first American instructor to incorporate the use of a large black chalk board into the presentation of his math lessons in 1801. However, it's probable that a few other schools had access to it, also. (taken from http://www.ergoindemand.com/about_chalkboards.htm)

James Madison elected

Mar 4, 1809

James Monroe

Mar 4, 1817

Civilization Fund Act of 1819

Mar 3, 1819

Act to further marginalize indigenous people in the US. The first boarding school for indigenous people opens in Carlisle, PA by Capt. Pratt.

Boston English HS is 1st public HS in the US

Sep 16, 1821

John Qunicy Adams elected

Mar 4, 1825

Andrew Jackson elected

Mar 4, 1829

New England Asylum for the Blind opens

Nov 16, 1829

First school for children with visual impairments

McGuffey Readers published

Nov 16, 1836

Martin Van Buren elected

Mar 4, 1837

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Horace Mann iss Secretary of MA State Board of Education

Nov 16, 1837

William Henry Harrison elected

Mar 4, 1841

John Tyler elected

Apr 6, 1841

James Polk elected

Mar 4, 1845

Compulsory Attendance Act of 1852

Nov 16, 1852

Massachusetss passed the first laws. Other states followed and by 1918 everyone has them.

Civil War starts

Jan 1, 1861

Morrill Act of 1862

Jul 2, 1862

Created land grant colleges.
without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactic, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Act)

Emanicpation Proclamation signed

Sep 22, 1862

Civil War ends

Apr 9, 1865

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Mar 1, 1875

United States federal law proposed by Republican Senator Charles Sumner and Republican Congressman Benjamin F. Butler in 1870. The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodations" (i.e. inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement). (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1875)

Meharry Medical College opens

Nov 16, 1876

First medical college for African Americans

Booker T. Washington becomes head of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Jul 4, 1881

Students learn both academics and trades

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr open Hull House

Sep 18, 1889

Plessy v. Ferguson

May 18, 1896

Plessy v. Ferguson ruling. Separate, but equal. Socrates:
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Theodore Roosevelt elected

Sep 14, 1901

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Ella Flagg Young, CPS Superintendent

Jul 29, 1909

Socrates:
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Black Tuesday

Oct 29, 1929

Hitler-Stalin Pact

Aug 23, 1939

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Harry S. Truman elected

Apr 12, 1945

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

May 17, 1954

US Supreme Court Landmark decision that established segregation of races was unconstitutional. Socrates:
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Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

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Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965

Apr 11, 1965

Now known as NCLB

Title IX enacted

Jun 23, 1972

Ronald Reagan elected

Jan 20, 1981

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A Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform

Apr 26, 1983

Report that said US education was failing

George H. W. Bush

Jan 20, 1989

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World Wide Web invented

Oct 1, 1990

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He wrote the first WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML.

William Clinton elected

Jan 20, 1993

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George W. Bush got in

Jan 20, 2001

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Gratz v. Bollinger

Jun 23, 2003

Landmark case in Michigan that shoots down the point system UM uses in its undergrad admissions Socrates:
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Ren2010

Jun 15, 2004

"In June 2004, Mayor Richard Daley launched Renaissance 2010, a bold initiative whose goal is to increase the number of high quality educational options in communities across Chicago by 2010. New schools are created through a competitive, community-based selection process which establishes a set of high standards to which every new school will be held accountable. In 2005, Chicago Public Schools opened the first "cohort" of Renaissance 2010 schools." (taken from http://www.ren2010.cps.k12.il.us/

Barack Obama elected

Jan 20, 2009

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