1879—Visionary women and men, led by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, create the "Harvard Annex" for women's instruction by the Harvard faculty.

1894—The Annex is chartered as Radcliffe College by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

1943—During World War II, Harvard and Radcliffe sign an agreement allowing women students into Harvard classrooms for the first time.

1943—The donation of Maud Wood Park's suffrage papers forms the nucleus of Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library, today the foremost library on the history of women in the United States.

1947—The College launches the prestigious Radcliffe Publishing Course.

1960—Concerned about the "climate of unexpectation" facing women academics, Radcliffe President Mary Ingraham Bunting establishes the community of scholars, scientists, and artists known today as the Bunting Fellowship Program.

1963—Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is opened to women and Radcliffe Graduate School closes.

1970—The first joint Harvard and Radcliffe commencement is held in Harvard Yard.

1975—Limits on the number of women undergraduates are abolished.

1976—To advance the study of women's lives over time, Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner creates the Henry A. Murray Research Center—the nation's largest social science data archive on human development across the life span.

1977—Radcliffe and Harvard sign an agreement that governs their innovative educational partnership.

1992—To widen the horizons of feminist scholarship, Radcliffe establishes the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, linking faculty and graduate students from six Boston-area institutions of higher learning.

1993—To engage women and men as full partners in shaping and governing society, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson launches the Radcliffe Public Policy Center.

1999—On October 1, Radcliffe College and Harvard University officially merge, thereby establishing the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

2001—On January 1, noted historian Drew Gilpin Faust becomes Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

2007—On July 1, Barbara J. Grosz becomes Interim Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

2008—On April 28, Barbara J. Grosz becomes Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.