A Brief History.

1209 - Founded

1284 - First college founded, a full list of the colleges can be found here.

1627 - John Harvard enters Emmanuel College as an undergraduate

1687 - Isaac Newton publishes 'Principia Mathematica'

1831 - Charles Darwin leaves for HMS Beagle

1932 - Splitting of the atom

1953 - Francis Crick and James Watson discover the structure of DNA

1948 - Woman are admitted to formal membership

1988 - Stephen Hawking publishes a ‘Brief History of Time’