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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1636 | Harvard College founded | |||
| 1654 | Harvard establishes Indian College | Indian, Harvard | ||
| 1836 |  | Eliza Susan Quincy portrays procession at Harvard's 200th Anniversary | Harvard centennial | |
| 1836 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard. | He lasted until 1854, though he complained early on, "Perhaps the worst thing in a college life is this having your mind constantly a playmate for boys,--constantly adapting to them, instead of stretching out and grappling with men's minds." Today Harvard's Longfellow Institute honors American multi-lingualism. | ||
| 1853 | Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes a campaign biography for his former Bowdoin classmate Franklin Pierce and is rewarded with a consulship in England. | |||
| 1866 | Peabody Museum founded at Harvard | |||
| 1873 | Anne Whitney wins competition to create a sculpture of Samuel Adams for the United States Capitol. | Later the City of Boston installed a bronze version at Faneuil Hall even though in 1874 a Boston commission rejected her sculpture of Charles Sumner because she was a woman. | statue | |
| 1894 | Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard | labor, population | ||
| 1972 | Harvard dedicates the so-called "Bradstreet Gate" between the Science Center and the Yard. | The Bradstreet Gate was controversial because it appeared to by-pass the history of Radcliffe. The passage from Bradstreet's writing engraved on the gate was taken out of context. In the original it described her dismay at the raw condition of the settlement in Boston when she first arrived. Perhaps the first female freshmen in the Yard had similiar anxieties. Additional Information | ||
| 1997 | Irish Hunger Monument erected in Cambridge | immigration | ||
| 2001 | Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains | Check the Harvard website for additional stories on NAGPRA | bones Indians |