1701    The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

1844    North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.

1852    First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.

1873    Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.

1949    Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

1993    Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses his sight in one eye, his hearing in one ear and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.