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- 1816 – Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and others obtain a charter from the Virginia General Assembly for Central College, which historian Philip Alexander Bruce describes as “the University in its chrysalis state.” They raise $40,000 and buy the land where the UVA's academical village now sits.
- 1826 – Edgar Allan Poe enrolled at the University of Virginia, the 136th of 177 students registering for the second session. He attended classes in the Schools of Ancient and Modern Languages but drops out December 15th, saddled with gambling and other debts.