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Early "co-ed" students at Maryland State College, 1923 The University of Maryland campus as it appeared in 1938 before the expansion engineered by President Byrd. The state took complete control of the school in 1916, and consequently the institution was renamed Maryland State College. Also that year, the first female students enrolled at the ...
Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert (1808–1864), a future U.S. Representative (Congressman) and descendant of the first Lord Baltimore, purchased 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the Riversdale Mansion estate nearby today's College Park, Maryland. [16] Later that year, Calvert founded the school and was the acting president from 1859 to 1860. [17]
California: United States: Founded as a Presidio (military settlement). The first civilian settler, William A. Richardson, arrived in 1822. 1776 Sincelejo: Sucre: Colombia 1777: San Jose: California: United States: Originally known as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California, which later ...
The University of Maryland, Baltimore was founded in 1807 as the Maryland College of Medicine. In 1812, it was rechartered as the University of Maryland and given the authority to establish additional faculties in law, divinity, and arts and sciences. The faculty of law was founded in 1816, though it operated intermittently until 1868.
1975 – Chinese Historical Society of Southern California founded. 1976 – Los Angeles City Historical Society founded. [63] 1977 – X (musical group) formed. 1978 L.A. Weekly begins publication. President Carter makes his first visit (May 4) Los Angeles Conservancy founded. 1979 – Sister city relationship established with Taipei, Taiwan. [55]
California was part of New Spain until that kingdom dissolved in 1821, becoming part of Mexico until the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), when it was ceded to the United States under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The same year, the California gold rush began, triggering intensified U.S. westward expansion.
The headquarters for UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland near the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Until late 2000, the UMGC headquarters was listed in College Park, Maryland. In an attempt to establish its own identity as an independent university, UMGC changed its postal address to Adelphi, an unincorporated community that ...
The Widney Alumni House, the campus's first building. The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure donations from several key figures in early Los Angeles history—a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs; an Irish Catholic former governor, John Gately Downey; and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W. Hellman.