On Oct. 1, 1872, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (Virginia Tech) was founded. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute…
On Jan. 21, 1872, classes began at the Arkansas Industrial University with seven boys and one girl in…
On Mar. 27, 1871, the state legislature approved establishment of a land-grant university, to be known as the…
On Mar. 27, 1871, the University of Arkansas was founded in in Fayetteville as the Arkansas Industrial University,…
On Jan. 21, 1871, Richard A. Edes, U.S. Consul in Bahia, Brazil sent a letter to Horace Capron,…
In 1770, Benjamin Franklin, the colony of Pennsylvania’s ambassador, sends home from Europe seeds he calls Chinese caravances…
On Mar. 23, 1868, the University of California (UC) was founded, and in 1869 the University opened its…
In 1867, Paris or Emerald Green (copper(II) acetoarsenite), the first chemical insecticide, used against the Colorado potato beetle,…
In 1866, The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts (University of New Hampshire) was founded.
In 1865, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, presented his laws of heredity to the…
On Feb. 16, 1863, Kansas State University, or K-State, was was founded in Manhattan, during the American Civil…
On Sept. 12, 1862, Iowa became the first State in the Nation to accept the terms and conditions…
On Jul. 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Morrill Act, or the Land Grant Colleges…
On May 15, 1862, the Organic Act established the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and directed its commissioner to…
On Apr. 27, 1862, the Tariff Act, also known as the Dallas Tariff, exempted foreign plants and trees…
In 1862, the University of South Dakota was founded by the Dakota Territorial Legislature in Vermillion, making it…
In 1861, the U.S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) annual seed distribution exceeded 2.4 million packages of seed…
In 1860, Manly Miles became a professor at Michigan Agricultural College, now know as Michigan State University, and…
In 1859, the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences was established, and in 1872 the…
On Mar. 22, 1858, the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, now Iowa State University, was officially established…
On Jan. 20, 1858, Corvallis academy (Oregon State University) was founded and maintained by the Methodist Episcopal Church,…
On Feb. 12, 1855, Gov. Kinsley S. Bingham signed into law an act for the establishment of the…
On Jan. 6, 1853, Florida Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support to higher education,…
On Jan. 24, 1851, the West Florida Seminary (Florida State University) was founded by the Florida General Assembly…
In 1850, Texas A&M (Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas) was founded.
On Feb. 5, 1849, the first class of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with 17 students, met in a…
On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…
On Jul. 26, 1848, Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin’s first governor, signed the act that formally created the University of…
In late 1845 and 1846, a summer blight ravaged Ireland’s potato crop. It is estimated that more than…
In 1839, the U.S. Congress puts $1,000 into the Congressional Seed Distribution Program, administered by the U.S. Patent…