The University of Wisconsin is founded at…
July 1848 CE
The Wisconsin Constitution provides for "the establishment of a state university, at or near the seat of state government..." and directed by the state legislature to be governed by a board of regents and administered by a Chancellor.
Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin's first governor, signs the act that formally creates the University of Wisconsin.
John H. Lathrop will become the university's first chancellor, in the fall of 1849.
With John W. Sterling as the university's first professor (mathematics), the first class of seventeen students will meet at Madison Female Academy on February 5, 1849.
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