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The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), is a public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countries. It also has 34 research institutes, 26 museums, and 18 historic ...
During the regime of Porfirio Díaz, Justo Sierra merged and expanded Mexico City's decentralized colleges of higher education, founding the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). UNAM is a public university founded in 1910 and claims to be the institutional heir of the earlier original University of Mexico, but under state rather ...
UNAM's School of Medicine (Spanish: Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM) is the medical school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located at the university's main campus of Ciudad Universitaria. Established in 1553 as part of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, it is one of the oldest medical schools in the Americas ...
The University of Namibia (UNAM) is a multi-campus public research university in Namibia, and the largest university in the country. [3] It was established by an act of Parliament on 31 August 1992. Background
[1] 1791 Knoxville founded as the capital of the Southwest Territory, named for Henry Knox [2] Knoxville Gazette newspaper begins publication. [3] 1792 – Blount Mansion built. [4] 1793 – First Presbyterian Church established. [4] 1794 – Blount College (later the University of Tennessee) established. [4]
The Knoxville Gazette, first Tennessee newspaper, begun. 1794 Blount College, a predecessor of the University of Tennessee, founded in Knoxville, first American nondenominational institution of higher learning. 1796 February 6 - Tennessee adopts a constitution. June 1 - Tennessee becomes the 16th of the United States.
Pulaski was founded in 1809. During the Civil War , after the Union took control of Tennessee in 1862, thousands of African Americans left plantations and farms to join their lines for refuge. [ citation needed ] The Army set up a contraband camp in Pulaski to help house the freedmen and their families, feed them, and put them to work.
Coal production in Tennessee peaked in 1972, and today less than 0.1% of coal in the U.S. comes from Tennessee. [330] Tennessee is the nation's leading producer of ball clay . [ 332 ] Other major mineral products produced in Tennessee include sand , gravel , crushed stone , Portland cement , marble , sandstone , common clay , lime , and zinc .