November 29, 1681 - King Charles II granted a charter to the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Scotland.

July 21, 1733 - Harvard College granted John Winthrop the first honorary Doctor of Law degree in the U.S.

May 3, 1765 - The first US medical school to offer a full diploma program opened, at what is now called the University of Pennsylvania.

1800 - Royal College of Surgeons founded in England.

February 1, 1840 - Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first in U.S., incorporated.

April 24, 1844 - David Stewart was appointed the first professor of pharmacy in the U.S. at the Maryland College of Pharmacy, (Baltimore, MD) for two years; instructed students in the theory and practice of pharmacy.

November 1, 1848 - The Boston Female Medical School, first medical school in the world exclusively for women opened its doors to 12 students. Founded by Samuel Gregory, who disapproved of male doctors attending childbirth, its early curriculum focused on midwifery; 1850 - renamed the New England Female Medical College, expanded to include a full medical curriculum, and the college began to grant medical degrees to women; 1873 - college had graduated 98 women doctors, including Rebecca Lee, MD, the first African-American female physician. Shortly after Gregory's death, it merged with Boston University School of Medicine, becoming one of the first coed medical colleges in the world.

January 23, 1849 - English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, NY; 1857 - founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children; 1875 - became professor of gynecology at the London School of Medicine for Women.

March 11, 1850 - Quaker businessmen, clergy and physicians and headed by philanthropist William J. Mullen established Woman's Medical College of Penn (first female medical school).

October 12, 1850 - Classes began at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first medical school entirely for women.

March 1, 1864 - Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston; spent her lifetime working to improve the health of the black community; 1883 - published "A Book of Medicinal Discourses in Two Parts": based on her personal journals, focused on instructions for women on how to provide medical care for themselves and their children.

February 21, 1866 - Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from a dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in Cincinnati; July 1865 - became the first woman elected as a member of the Iowa State Dental Society.

July 17, 1867 - Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA -- the first dental school in the US; September 1, 1867 - Robert T Freeman is first black to graduate from Harvard Dental School.

June 30, 1870 - Ada Kepley became the first female law school graduate from Union College of Law (Northwestern), 1869-1870.

March 26, 1878 - Hastings College of Law founded.

June 20, 1895 -Caroline Willard Baldwin became first female PhD (science), earned from Cornell University.

April 4, 1902 - British financier Cecil Rhodes left $10 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University in England.

September 29, 1909 - University of Florida College of Law opened with two full-time faculty members: Albert J. Farrah, serving as the new Dean (formerly Dean at Stetson) and Harry W. Trusler (formerly Professor at Stetson), and four Special Lecturers: Judge Horatio Davis, Judge Thomas M. Shackleford, Col. W. W. Hampton, and Col. William E. Baker; 1910 - Three law students, who transferred from Stetson University, were the first students to graduate from the new University of Florida College of Law.

September 30, 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism opened.

January 12, 1948 - The Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.

October 9, 1949 - Harvard Law School began admitting women.

June 28, 1978 - The Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he had been a victim of reverse discrimination.

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(Harvard Law), Scott Turow ; with a new afterword by the author (1988). One L. (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 319 p. (orig. pub. 1977)). Turow, Scott; Harvard Law School; Law students--Massachusetts--Biography.

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