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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly on December 11, 1789; its cornerstone was laid on October 12, 1793, at Chapel Hill, chosen because of its central location within the state.
By 1815, the university started giving equal ground to the natural sciences, and in 1818 the Department of Chemistry was founded. This development continued with the establishment in 1831 of the first astronomical observatory at a state university in the United States.
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) was the first state-chartered institution of higher learning in the United States. The inspiration for the schools’ founding came in the late 18th century from Revolutionary War military officer and future governor of North Carolina, William Richardson Davie .
This entry will introduce the history of the UNC system by detailing the origins of the campus at Chapel Hill. The university was chartered (that is, given permission to operate) by the state of North Carolina in 1789, and the university welcomed its first student in 1795.
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill is a public institution that was founded in 1789. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 20,210 (fall 2022), and the campus size is 729 acres. It...
Opened to students on January 15, 1795, the University of North Carolina received its first student, Hinton James of New Hanover County, on February 12. By March there were two professors and 41 students present.