Iowa State Chronology
Events occurring in the same year did not necessarily happen in the order presented here.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1856 | Iowa General Assembly enacts legislation for creation of the State Agricultural College and Model Farm |
| 1859 | Story County is the chosen county for the State Agricultural College and Model Farm |
| 1860 | Construction starts on the first building on campus, Farm House |
| 1862 | Morrill Act of 1862 is passed; college to be named Iowa State Agricultural College |
| 1869 | First graduating class enters Iowa State |
| 1875 | The first national fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, opens at Iowa State |
| 1876 | The university cemetery is opened. One of the very few active cemeteries associated with a university campus in the U.S. |
| 1877 | The first national sorority, Pi Beta Phi, opens at Iowa State |
| 1879 | The School of Veterinary Science is formally organized. It's the first of its kind in the United States. |
| 1890 | Student newspaper Iowa Agricultural College Student is founded. Later to be named the Iowa State Daily |
| 1895 | Football team nicknamed by a Chicago Sports Writer quipping 'a cyclone from Iowa blew-out Northwestern University' |
| 1898 | The college is divided into "divisions": Agriculture, Engineering, Science and Philosophy, and Veterinary Medicine |
| 1898 | Renamed the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts |
| 1905 | First Agricultural Engineering program in the world established |
| 1913 | The college roads are paved |
| 1922 | VEISHEA is established |
| 1923 | Jack Trice is mortally injured during a football game against Minnesota |
| 1933 | First statistics laboratory in the U.S. is established |
| 1939 | The Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) is invented. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. |
| 1945 | Campus production reaches 2 million pounds of high-purity uranium for Manhattan Project. |
| 1947 | Ames Laboratory established by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
| 1950 | WOI-TV established as the first commercially operated television station owned by a university in the U.S. Station sold in 1994. |
| 1954 | Cy becomes the Iowa State mascot |
| 1959 | Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits Iowa State |
| 1959 | 10 kW, 150-ton nuclear teaching reactor is built. Reactor decommissioned and removed in 2000. |
| 1959 | Renamed the Iowa State University of Science and Technology |
| 1959 | Iowa State's divisions become colleges: the College of Agriculture, College of Engineering, College of Home Economics, College of Sciences and Humanities, and College of Veterinary Medicine |
| 1962 | Enrollment reaches 10,000 students |
| 1966 | Enrollment reaches 15,000 students |
| 1968 | The College of Education is established |
| 1974 | The Maintenance Shop opens in the Memorial Union |
| 1979 | The College of Design is established |
| 1984 | The College of Business is established |
| 1988 | First VEISHEA Riot |
| 1992 | Second VEISHEA Riot |
| 1995 | Reiman Gardens opens |
| 1997 | Working replica of Atanasoff-Berry Computer is unveiled, goes on nationwide tour |
| 1999 | Central Campus is listed as a "medallion site" by the American Society of Landscape Architects |
| 2004 | Third VEISHEA Riot |
| 2005 | The College of Education and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences are combined to create the College of Human Sciences |
| 2006 | VEISHEA returns after being canceled for 2005; is deemed a huge success |
| 2007 | ISU's year long Sesquicentennial celebration is kicked off at VEISHEA 2007 with a 20,000-piece birthday cake |
| 2008 | Sesquicentennial of Iowa State |
| 2009 | 25th Anniversary of the College of Business |
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