1852 Charles Tufts (1781-1876) becomes the Founder of Tufts University.
1853 Hosea Ballou II becomes the first president of Tufts.
1852 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts charters Tufts College.
1857 The official seal of Tufts College is adopted.
1862 Alonzo Ames Miner becomes the second president of Tufts.
1860 The Tufts Alumni Association is formed.
1862 The Stearns Estate serves as an Underground Railroad stop.
1863 The "Rez" is constructed.
1874 Tufts Professor Amos E. Dolbear invents the telephone.
1875 Elmer Hewitt Capen becomes the first Tufts alumnus (Class of 1860) to serve as its president.
1876 The Tufts student body selects brown and blue as the school colors.
1884 Phineas T. Barnum donates Barnum Hall.
1893 Henrietta Noble Brown becomes the first female graduate of Tufts.
1892 Women students are first admitted to Tufts.
1893 The Tufts University School of Medicine is founded.
1898 The College of Engineering is established.
1899 The School of Dental Medicine is acquired.
1906 Following the 1905 death of President Capen, Frederick W. Hamilton becomes president of Tufts.
1909 The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is established.
1912 William L. Hooper becomes acting President.
1913 Vannevar Bush graduates from Tufts.
1915 Well-known biologist Hermon Carey Bumpus becomes the president of Tufts (1915-1919).
1920 John Albert Cousens becomes president of Tufts.
1910 Jackson College is organized and chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1915 Harold J. Power, founds AMRAD at Tufts.
1922 Edith Bush becomes first female professor.
1934 Poet John Albert Holmes, Jr. (1904-1962) returns to his alma mater.
1937 Dr. George Stewart Miller becomes acting president 1937-1938.
1938 Leonard Carmichael becomes president of Tufts.
1933 The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy opens.
1942 Naval V-12 program is initiated.
1946 Tufts affiliates with MFA and BSOT.
1953 Nils Y. Wessell becomes President of Tufts, a position he holds until 1966.
1955 Tufts achieves University status.
1956 The cannon arrives on campus.
1958 The Leonard Carmichael society (LCS) is founded.
1966 Leonard C. Mead is appointed acting president.
1967 Burton C. Hallowell becomes President of Tufts.
1964 The Tufts Experimental College is founded.
1976 Jean Mayer becomes President of Tufts.
1973 The Dental Health Sciences Tower is dedicated.
1978 The Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine is founded.
1978 The Tufts European Center is dedicated.
1981 Tufts School of Nutrition Science and Policy is established.
1981 The Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences is established.
1981 The Cabot International Center, the new home of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, is dedicated.
1985 The Elizabeth van Huysen Mayer Campus Center is dedicated.
1985 The Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications is dedicated on the Boston campus.
1982 The Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging opens at Tufts on the Boston Health Sciences campus.
1985 The Henry and Lois Foster Small Animal Hospital opens at the veterinary school on the Grafton campus.
1992 John DiBiaggio becomes President of Tufts, a position he holds until 2001.
1993 Franklin M. Loew Academic Building is dedicated at the veterinary school.
1996 Tisch Library is dedicated.
1991 The Shirley and Alex Aidekman Arts Center opens.
1991 Olin Building for Language and Cultural Studies opens.
1999 The Gantcher Family Sports and Convocation Center opens.
2001 Lawrence S. Bacow becomes President of Tufts.
2000 University College of Citizenship and Public Service founded.
2001 The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy is named for its benefactors.
2000 Dowling Hall, a new student services center, opens.
2001 The Barbour Wildlife Clinic is dedicated at the veterinary school.
