Enlightenment · North America · Culture
1693
College of William and Mary Founded
1693
A royal charter established the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the second oldest college in the English-speaking Americas after Harvard. It was intended to train Anglican clergy for the southern colonies and educate planters' sons in humane letters and natural philosophy. Among its later students would be Thomas Jefferson, who would reshape both the college and the nation.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.