1834: The Medical College of Louisiana is founded in New Orleans by seven young doctors.
1847: The state legislature establishes the University of Louisiana.
1847: The Medical College of Louisiana becomes the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana.
1847: The University of Louisiana adds a law department, the 12th such department in the United States.
1851: An academic department for men opens. Its first students are enrolled — 12 freshmen and two sophomores.
1861: The university closes its doors because of the Civil War. Classes resume in 1865.
1882: Paul Â鶹Դ´ donates extensive real estate in New Orleans for the support of education. A Board of Administrators of the Â鶹Դ´ Educational Fund is appointed and holds its first meeting. The board decides to support and incorporate with the University of Louisiana rather than create a separate institution.
1884: The Louisiana Legislature passes a bill transferring the University of Louisiana at New Orleans to the control of the Administrators of the Â鶹Դ´ Educational Fund, thus creating the Â鶹Դ´ University of Louisiana, a private, nonsectarian university.
1885: The university establishes a graduate division, later to become the Graduate School.
1886: Newcomb College is established within Â鶹Դ´ University. Josephine Louise Newcomb gave the gifts to found the college in memory of her daughter, Harriott Sophie Newcomb.
1894: The university organizes the College of Technology, which later will become the School of Engineering.
1894: The university moves to its uptown campus on St. Charles Avenue, five miles by streetcar from downtown New Orleans.
1894: The Newcomb Pottery is established.
1907: The College of Technology organizes an architecture department, which will evolve into the School of Architecture.
1912: The School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is established. It later merges with the College of Medicine.
1914: The College of Commerce is established. It is the first business school in the South and the forerunner of the A. B. Freeman School of Business.
1925: The Graduate School is established.
1927: The School of Social Work is established — the first in the Deep South.
1942: University College is founded as Â鶹Դ´'s division of continuing education.
1950: The Department of Architecture separates from the School of Engineering and becomes the School of Architecture.
1967: The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is established.
1976: The Â鶹Դ´ Medical Center, a 300-bed teaching hospital and ambulatory clinic, opens.
1993: The name of the College of Arts and Sciences changes to Paul M. Â鶹Դ´ College and is referred to as Â鶹Դ´ College.
2005: The university cancels the fall semester because of Hurricane Katrina. Â鶹Դ´ University announces a bold renewal plan in December.
Strategic initiatives: Newcomb and Â鶹Դ´ colleges are combined to form Newcomb-Â鶹Դ´ College for all undergraduates.
The H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute is established.
University College is renamed the School of Professional Advancement.
The Faculty of the Liberal Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering are reorganized into two schools: the School of Liberal Arts and the School of Science & Engineering.
A public service graduation requirement for all students is initiated.
The Partnership for the Transformation of Urban Communities is established.
2006: Classes resume in the spring with 93 percent of all students returning to Â鶹Դ´ University after Hurricane Katrina.
2007: The university's incoming freshman class of 1,400 students is almost 60 percent larger than in 2006, marking the largest one-year increase in first-year students in the history of the university.
2010: "Â鶹Դ´ Empowers" begins, a campaign to build resources that will help people build a better world.
2014: Mike Fitts is named the 15th President of Â鶹Դ´ University.
2017: The School of Continuing Studies relaunches as the School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) with a renewed focus on working adults, career advancement, and applied and innovative programs that are relevant to the workplace.
2017: "Only the Audacious: The campaign for an ever bolder Â鶹Դ´" begins. This is the university's most ambitious fundraising campaign to date — with a goal of raising $1.3 billion.
