1857 Trustees convene at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee on July 4
1857 Trustees meet in Montgomery, Ala., select university location & name
1858 Tennessee state legislature grants charter in January
1860 A ceremonial cornerstone is laid in what is now Louisiana Circle
1861 Civil War begins, interrupting the creation of the University
1866 Otey Hall, the first permanent building, constructed as a seminary
1868 Construction of the first chapel, St. Augustine's
1868 The Junior Department opens; later renamed Sewanee Grammar School and then Sewanee Miltary Academy in 1908
1868 University officially opens in September with 4 professors and 9 students
1870 Ecce Quam Bonum Club opens; General store constructed: now Shenanigans; EQB club founded as Faculty Club
1871 First Gowns awarded
1872 Red robe presented to Charles Todd Quintard, Vice Chancellor
1873 University cemetery created
1875 The first recorded athletic event for Sewanee, a baseball game played in Tullahoma in which Sewanee defeated the Arctics of Lynchburg 24-9
1876 First documentation of the Honor Code
1877 First stone building, Hodgson Hall, built
1877 Sewanee's first social fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, organized
1881 Tennessee chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon established
1882 Kappa Sigma established
1883 Kappa Alpha established
1883 Phi Delta Theta established
1883 Delta Tau Delta established
1886 Convocation Hall built to serve as first gymnasium
1886 Breslin Tower built, modeled after Magdalen College of Oxford
1888 Eastern Star Cemetary created
1889 Sigma Nu established
1891 Royal purple selected as Sewanee color. First football game. Cornerstone laid for Walsh Hall.
1890 Military discontinues at College, to reappear in times of national crisis
1891 Hardee Field, fourth oldest football field in the nation, constructed
1891 Sewanee Cumberland Presbyterian Church founded
1892 Sewanee Purple begins
1892 Medical School opens
1893 Law School opens
1896 Summer Music School inaugurated
1899 First hospital opens
1899 University farm established to provide food for students and faculty
1899 Football team wins six games in 6 days
1900 Rev. Douglas donates clock and chimes
1901 Convocation Hall becomes library.
1905 Construction on All Saints' Chapel begins.
1907 Work on All Saints' stops due to bank failure.
1909 Medical School closes
1915 The Dixie Highway goes through the Domain. This is the same roadway that now is known as University Avenue
1917 Thompson Union completed. Ambulance unit travels to France to join war effort.
1918 Magnolia Hall becomes main dining hall
1919 Phi Gamma Delta established.
1926 Sewanee Elementary School built by local citizen.
1937 Graduate School of Theology begins
1941 Final football game against Vanderbilt
1949 Beta Theta Pi established
1952 Gailor Hall built
1953 School of Theology integrated after faculty protest and walkout
1956 First Sewanee Summer Music Center
1957 Juhan Gymnasium constructed
1957 Jackson-Myers Airfield dedicated
1959 All Saints' Chapel completed
1960 University Farm closes
1960 Mountain Goat train stops running
1960 First Festival of Lessons and Carols celebrated
1961 College integrated
1963 Lambda Chi Alpha established
1964 Alpha Tau Delta established
1964 Sewanee Public Schools integrated
1965 duPont Library replaces library in Convocation Hall
1965 Gamma Sigma Phi established
1968 Sewanee Military Academy opens doors to women
1968 St. Mary's School for girls closes
1969 Delta Kappa Epsilon established
1969 Sewanee officially becomes coeducational
1970 Freshmen beanies no longer required
1971 Sewanee Military Academy becomes Sewanee Academy
1973 First class of women graduate
1975 All Saints' Chapel consecrated
1977 First local sorority, Theta Kappa Phi, established
1978 Gamma Tau Upsilon
1979 Theta Pi established
1979 Alpha Delta Theta established
1979 Alpha Tau Zeta established
1980 Phi Kappa Epsilon established
1981 St Andrew's School merges with Sewanee Academy
1984 School of Theology moves to Sewanee Academy Campus
1986 George Bush, Sr. awarded honorary degree
1994 Robert Dobbs Fowler Center completed
1999 Phi Sigma Theta established
1999 Kappa Omega established
2001 McClurg Hall opens
2003 Sewanee's first nationally affiliated sorority founded- Kappa Delta
2004 Chapel of the Apostles completed
2004 Donne Bentley Wright donates Bentley Bells
2005 Nabit Art Building opens
