In 1878, The first description of avian influenza (bird flu) dates to 1878 in northern Italy, when it…
On Oct. 12, 1872, the Legislature established the University of Oregon (UO) in Eugene. The UO officially opened…
On Feb. 5, 1849, the first class of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with 17 students, met in a…
In 1836, Charles Cagniard de Latour’s work with microscopes shows that yeast is a mass of little cells…
In 1833, the first enzyme was discovered and isolated by French chemist Anselme Payen also known for discovering…
In 1830, Scottish botanist Robert Brown discovers a small dark body in plant cells. He called it the…
In 1802, naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus was the first to use the the term “biology” in his Biologie…
In 1800, Benjamin Waterhouse introduced into the U.S. the technique of smallpox vaccination discovered in England by Dr….
On May 14, 1796, English scientist and physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year old James Phipps with the world’s…
On Jul. 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins was issued the first patent under the new U.S. patent statute signed…
In 1665 a tailor from Eyam ordered a box of materials relating to his trade from London, that…
In 1665, Robert Hooke published Micrographia that described cells – viewed in sections of cork – for the…
In 1346, during a siege of Kaffa (now Feodosia, Ukraine), the Tartar army catapulted bodies of plague victims…
In 400 BCE, Greek historian Herodotus wrote of Scythians archers from the Black Sea region that used poison-tipped…