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Iowa State Chronology

Events occurring in the same year did not necessarily happen in the order presented here.

Year Event
1856 Iowa General Assembly enacts legislation for creation of the State Agricultural College and Model Farm
1859 Story County is the chosen county for the State Agricultural College and Model Farm
1860 Construction starts on the first building on campus, Farm House
1862 Morrill Act of 1862 is passed; college to be named Iowa State Agricultural College
1869 First graduating class enters Iowa State
1875 The first national fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, opens at Iowa State
1876 The university cemetery is opened. One of the very few active cemeteries associated with a university campus in the U.S.
1877 The first national sorority, Pi Beta Phi, opens at Iowa State
1879 The School of Veterinary Science is formally organized. It's the first of its kind in the United States.
1890 Student newspaper Iowa Agricultural College Student is founded. Later to be named the Iowa State Daily
1895 Football team nicknamed by a Chicago Sports Writer quipping 'a cyclone from Iowa blew-out Northwestern University'
1898 The college is divided into "divisions": Agriculture, Engineering, Science and Philosophy, and Veterinary Medicine
1898 Renamed the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
1905 First Agricultural Engineering program in the world established
1913 The college roads are paved
1922 VEISHEA is established
1923 Jack Trice is mortally injured during a football game against Minnesota
1933 First statistics laboratory in the U.S. is established
1939 The Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) is invented. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer.
1945 Campus production reaches 2 million pounds of high-purity uranium for Manhattan Project.
1947 Ames Laboratory established by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
1950 WOI-TV established as the first commercially operated television station owned by a university in the U.S. Station sold in 1994.
1954 Cy becomes the Iowa State mascot
1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits Iowa State
1959 10 kW, 150-ton nuclear teaching reactor is built. Reactor decommissioned and removed in 2000.
1959 Renamed the Iowa State University of Science and Technology
1959 Iowa State's divisions become colleges: the College of Agriculture, College of Engineering, College of Home Economics, College of Sciences and Humanities, and College of Veterinary Medicine
1962 Enrollment reaches 10,000 students
1966 Enrollment reaches 15,000 students
1968 The College of Education is established
1974 The Maintenance Shop opens in the Memorial Union
1979 The College of Design is established
1984 The College of Business is established
1988 First VEISHEA Riot
1992 Second VEISHEA Riot
1995 Reiman Gardens opens
1997 Working replica of Atanasoff-Berry Computer is unveiled, goes on nationwide tour
1999 Central Campus is listed as a "medallion site" by the American Society of Landscape Architects
2004 Third VEISHEA Riot
2005 The College of Education and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences are combined to create the College of Human Sciences
2006 VEISHEA returns after being canceled for 2005; is deemed a huge success
2007 ISU's year long Sesquicentennial celebration is kicked off at VEISHEA 2007 with a 20,000-piece birthday cake
2008 Sesquicentennial of Iowa State
2009 25th Anniversary of the College of Business

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