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1620 The roles of Principal and Professor of Divinity are separated
1707 The Faculty of Law is founded
1708 The Faculty of Arts is founded
1726 The Faculty of Medicine is founded
1745 Classes are suspended as Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army marches on the city
1789 The foundation stone is laid at the site of Old College
1847 James Young Simpson, Professor of Midwifery, discovers anaesthetic use of chloroform in childbirth
1858 The Universities (Scotland) Act grants the University full control of its own affairs
1859 W E Gladstone becomes the first Rector to be elected by the student body
1893 The University’s first female students graduate
1897 The University’s graduating hall, McEwan Hall opens
1914-1918 Nearly 8,000 students and graduates enlist in the armed forces during WWI
1920 The foundation stone is laid at the site of the King’s Buildings campus
1958 The University appoints its first female Professor, Elizabeth Wiskemann
1973 Edinburgh University Students’ Association is founded
1996 Dolly the Sheep is cloned at the Roslin Institute
2002 A new Medical School is opened at Little France
2011 The University merges with Edinburgh College of Art
2013 Emeritus Professor Peter Higgs is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
The competition to design the University's new buildings was won by the architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in 1877 (who later designed the dome of the Robert Adam/William Henry Playfair Old College building). After extensive European travel, he decided upon a 'Cinquecento' Italian Renaissance style which he judged "more suitable than Greek or Palladian, where the interior would have been constrained by the formal exterior, or medieval, which would have been out of keeping with the spirit of scientific medical enquiry".[citation needed]
Initially the design incorporated a new University Graduation Hall, but as this was seen as too ambitious. A separate building was constructed for the purpose, the McEwan Hall, also designed by Anderson, after funds were made available by the brewer and politician Sir William McEwan in 1894. It was presented to the University in 1897.
law In 1707, the year of the unification of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England into the Kingdom of Great Britain, Queen Anne established the Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh, to which Charles Erskine (or Areskine) was appointed; this was the formal start of the Faculty of Law. Numbers grew with the expansion of the legal profession in the 19th century, and by 1830 there were over 200 students attending the Scots Law class alone. Scholarship amongst the academics at Edinburgh continued to grow in reputation, with the work of Muirhead, Lorimer and Rankine achieving international renown.
Following the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century, the University was positioned at the forefront of academia and critical thinking.Edinburgh intellectuals, Amid this group was David Hume, philosopher, economist and essayist known for his philosophical skepticism and empiricism; Joseph Black, the chemist behind the discovery of latent heat and carbon dioxide; and James Hutton, the ‘Father of Modern Geology’.
union An Edinburgh Students' Representative Council (SRC) was founded in 1884 by student Robert Fitzroy Bell.[1] Shortly afterwards, the SRC voted to establish a union (the Edinburgh University Union (EUU)), to be housed in the building now known as Teviot Row House. The Edinburgh University Women's Union was founded in 1906 On 1 July 1973 the SRC, the EUU and the Chambers Street Union merged to form Edinburgh University Students' Association.[2]
nc New College originally opened its doors in 1846 as a college of the Free Church of Scotland, later of the United Free Church of Scotland, and from the 1930s has been the home of the School of Divinity. Prior to the 1929 reunion of the Church of Scotland, candidates for the ministry in the United Free Church studied at New College, whilst candidates for the old Church of Scotland studied in the Divinity Faculty of the University of Edinburgh. During the 1930s the two institutions came together, sharing the New College site on The Mound.[3]
dickvet Originally called the Highland Society’s Veterinary School,[4], the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies was founded in 1823 by William Dick, a former student of the anatomist John Barclay of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.[5]Although an autonomous institution, the students also attended the lectures in (human) medicine at the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. On his death in 1866, Dick bequeathed his college in trust to the Burgh Council of Edinburgh.It was officially named Dick’s Veterinary College in 1873. The Royal (Dick) Veterinary College was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1906.[citation needed]
In 1951 the college was reconstituted as The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, a part of the University of Edinburgh, and became a full Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 1964. Reorganisation of the university in 2002 resulted in the Dick Vet again becoming one of the four Schools within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. In 2011, the Summerhall site was vacated and the staff and students were relocated to a new teaching building on the Easter Bush campus, 7 miles (11 km) south of Edinburgh. This consolidated all the veterinary facilities, together with The Roslin Institute, onto one campus.
The Roslin Institute is an animal sciences research institute which is notable for Dolly the Sheep. It received attention in 1996 when Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and their colleagues created Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. A year later Polly and Molly were cloned; both sheep contained a human gene.
englit In 1762, Reverend Hugh Blair was appointed by King George III as the first Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres. This formalised literature as a subject at the university and the foundation of the English Literature department, making Edinburgh the oldest centre of literary education in Britain.[6]
scieng <copyedit as based on https://www.ed.ac.uk/science-engineering/about/history> In the sixteenth century science was taught as 'natural philosophy'. The seventeenth century saw the institution of the University Chairs of Mathematics and Botany, followed the next century by Chairs of Natural History, Astronomy, Chemistry and Agriculture.
During the eighteenth century, the University was a key contributor to the Scottish Enlightenment and it educated many of the leading scientists of the time. Edinburgh's professors took a leading part in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. In 1785, Joseph Black, Professor of Chemistry and discoverer of carbon dioxide, founded the world's first Chemical Society.
The first named degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Science were instituted in 1864, and a separate 'Faculty of Science' was created in 1893. The Regius Chair in Engineering in 1868, and the Regius Chair in Geology in 1871, were also founded.
The Moray House Institute for Education until this merged with the university in August 1998, becoming the Moray House School of Education.
kb In 1919 the King's Buildings site was purchased by the University for the relocation and expansion of its science departments. In July 1920, King George V laid the foundation stone for the first building; the Department of Chemistry, on the King's Buildings campus. The first classes were held in October 1922 and the Chemistry Building (renamed the Joseph Black Building) was officially opened by the Prince of Wales in December 1924.