Increase Mather
Terms of office: Acting President, 1685-1686; Rector (a unique title), 1686-1692; President, 1692-1701, died in office on May 14 (1639-1723). Education: Harvard College (A.B. 1656); Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (A.M. 1658). Professional background: Pastor of North (Second) Church, Boston, Mass. Immediate past position: As above (Mather continued his Boston pastorate during his 16-year Harvard executive term).
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1720 : Spain begins occupying Texas. |
1699-1700 : The College has acquired nearly all of the western third of Harvard Yard. |
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John Rogers
Term of office: 1682-1684, died in office on July 12 (1630-1684). Education: Harvard College (A.B. 1649; A.M. 1652). Professional background: Assisted (without ordination) his brother-in-law William Hubbard's ministry and practiced medicine (without medical training) on parishioners in Ipswich, Mass. Immediate past position: Presumably as above.
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1684 : President Rogers dies during a total solar eclipse.
1682 : Harvard produces no graduates.
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Urian Oakes
Terms of office: Acting President, 1675-1680; President, 1680-1681, died in office on Aug. 4 (ca. 1631-1681). Education: Harvard College (A.B. 1649; A.M. 1652). Professional background: Ecclesiastical posts in England, grammar-school headmaster, orator. Immediate past position: Minister in Cambridge, Mass.
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1680 : On the site of today's Massachusetts Hall, a new president's lodging replaces the presidential quarters of 1645. |
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Leonard Hoar
Term of office: 1672-1675, died in office on May 14 (ca. 1630-1675). Education: Harvard College (A.B. 1650; A.M. 1653); Cambridge University, England (M.D. 1671). Professional background: Ecclesiastical posts in England, biblical scholarship.
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1674 : Harvard College publishes what is believed to be the first yearbook of college graduates. |
1674 : Using a microscope, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek gives the first accurate description of red blood cells. |
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Charles Chauncy
Term of office: 1654-1672, died in office in February (1592-1672). Education: Trinity College, Cambridge University (B.A. 1614; M.A. 1617; B.D. [Bachelor of Divinity] 1624). Professional background: Greek lecturer at Trinity; vicar to several English churches. Immediate past position: Minister in Scituate, Mass.
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1665 : Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk becomes the first Native American to receive a Harvard degree. |
1665 : Newton conceives the theory of universal gravitation and develops early forms of calculus. |
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Henry Dunster
Term of office: 1640-1654 (1609-1659). Education: Magdalene College, Cambridge University, England (B.A. 1631; M.A. 1634). Professional background: Clergyman, educator. Immediate past position: Schoolmaster and church curate in Bury, England.
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1650 : President and Fellows of Harvard College established. |
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1648 : Europe's Thirty Years' War ends. |
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1643 : The colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven form The United Colonies of New England. |
1636 : Harvard College established. |
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