| The
Seminary and the Church |
|
The
World and the Nation |
|
Diderikke Brandt (wife
of Pastor Nils Brandt) organizes sewing circles to raise
money for seminary students |
1850s |
|
Formation of Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Northern Illinois |
1851 |
|
Norwegian Synod founded |
1853 |
|
1850 |
|
1854 |
Commodore Perry "opens"
Japan to the West |
|
1858 |
Minnesota becomes a
state |
|
1858 |
First Atlantic cable
laid |
|
1859 |
Charles Darwin writes
On the Origin of the Species |
|
|
Scandinavian Augustana Synod formed |
1860
|
|
August
Weenaas becomes professor at Scandinavian Augustana Synod
seminary in Paxton, Ill. |
1868 |
|
Augsburg
Seminary founded in Marshall, Wis. |
1869 |
|
August
Weenaas named president of Augsburg Seminary |
1869 |
|
1860 |
|
1861 |
Civil War
begins |
|
1861 |
Charles
Dickens publishes Great Expectations |
|
1863 |
Lincoln
issues Emancipation Proclamation |
|
1865 |
Civil War
ends |
|
1868 |
Nobel
invents dynamite |
|
1869 |
Completion of transcontinental railway |
|
1869 |
Suez
Canal opened |
|
|
Norwegians withdraw from Augustana Synod |
1870 |
|
Mrs.
August Weenaas assists husband in early days of Augsburg
College |
1870s |
|
Augsburg
Seminary moved to Minneapolis |
1872 |
|
St. Olaf
College founded as co-educational school |
1874 |
|
Georg Sverdrup named president of Augsburg Seminary |
1876 |
|
Norwegian
Synod's Luther Seminary founded on Hamline Ave, St. Paul |
1876 |
|
1870 |
|
1870
|
J.D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil Co. |
|
1876 |
National Baseball League founded |
|
1877 |
Bell invents telephone |
|
1879 |
Ibsen produces "A Doll's House" |
|
|
|
Mission
Society founded with Erick Tou (1889) and J.P. Nogstad
(1887) to Madagascar |
1885 |
|
Anti-Missourian Brotherhood formed |
1887 |
|
1880 |
|
1880 |
Dostoevsky publishes The Brothers Karamozov |
|
1883 |
Northern
Pacific Railroad completed |
|
1885 |
Daimler
invents internal combustion engine |
|
1886 |
Federation of Labor founded |
|
1888 |
Benjamin
Harris elected
U.S.
president |
|
1888 |
George
Eastman perfects "Kodak" camera |
|
|
Valborg
Hovind Stub (Mrs. H. G. Stub) teaches voice at Luther
Seminary |
1890s |
|
United
Norwegian Lutheran Church (United Church) founded |
1890 |
|
Faculty
grows to five |
1891 |
|
"United
Church Seminary" begun in St. Anthony Park, St. Paul |
1892 |
|
M. O.
Bockman elected president |
1892 |
|
Sverdrup
and Oftedal resign as professors of United Church |
1893
|
|
Lutheran
Free Church formed |
1897 |
|
1890 |
|
1891
|
Beginning
of wireless telegraphy |
|
1894 |
Sibelius
composes "Finlandia" |
|
1895 |
Spanish-American War begins |
|
1898 |
British
obtain 99 year lease on Hong Kong |
|
|
Augsburg
Seminary and College New Main building completed |
1901
|
|
President
Georg Svendrup dies |
1907 |
|
1900 |
|
1901 |
Queen Victoria dies |
|
1903 |
Wright brothers make first powered flight |
|
1903 |
Ford Motor Co. founded |
|
1905 |
Einstein states First Theory of Relativity |
|
1905 |
Haakon VII crowned king of independent Norway |
|
1906 |
San Francisco earthquake |
|
1909 |
Freud lectures on psycho-analysis in U.S. |
|
|
George
Svendrup (son of Georg) elected president |
1911 |
|
Half of
faculty teach in English, half teach in Norwegian |
1911 |
|
Lena Dahl
(Mrs. T. H. Dahl) starts Women's Missionary Federation,
builds mission house at Luther Seminary |
1911
|
|
Merger of
three Norwegian Church bodies forms Norwegian Lutheran
Church in America. (Name changed to Evangelical Lutheran
Church in 1947). |
1917 |
|
Hauge
Synod school, Red wing Seminary, joins in merger to form
Luther Theological Seminary |
1917 |
|
Hauge
Synod's Mission Dove Society (an early women's missionary
group) comes into Evangelical Lutheran Church, builds
mission housing on campus |
1917 |
|
Mary Wee
(Mrs. M.O. Wee) organizes Seminary Faculties wives |
1917 |
Hamline
site sold.
Faculty totals 10 |
1918 |
|
Several
Luther Theological Seminary students see active service in
World War I |
1918-1919 |
|
1910 |
|
1910 |
Stravinsky's "The Firebird" premieres |
|
1911
|
Sun Yet
Sen elected president of China |
|
1912 |
Titanic
sinks |
|
1913 |
Gandhi
arrested; passive resistance movement in India grows |
|
1914 |
Panama
Canal opened |
|
1914
|
World War
I begins |
|
1918 |
Lenin
assumes power and founds Soviet Union |
|
1919 |
Versailles Armistice ends World War I |
|
1919 |
League of
Nations founded |
|
1919 |
Karl Barth writes The Epistle to the Romans |
|
1919 |
U.S. House of Representatives moves to curtain immigration |
|
|
Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary opened in Chicago
as seminary of the Synod of the Northwest (ULCA) after split
with Maywood, Ill. |
1920 |
|
Joseph
Stump first president |
1920 |
|
Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary located in Fargo,
N.D. |
1921 |
|
Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary located in
northeast Minneapolis until 1940 |
1922 |
|
Augsburg
College becomes a co-ed institution |
1922 |
|
Luther
Theological Seminary catalog reflects Norwegian-English
bilingual emphasis |
1924 |
|
First
issue of Northwestern Seminary Bulletin published |
1924 |
|
Women's
Missionary Societies provide funds for returned missionaries
on Northwestern Theological Seminary campus |
1926 |
|
1920 |
|
1920
|
Warren
Harding elected president |
|
1921 |
Charlie
Chaplin's "The Kid" premieres |
|
1922
|
T.S.
Eliot's The Wasteland published |
|
1925 |
Scopes
Trial begins in Tennessee over theory of evolution |
|
1925 |
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby published |
|
1926 |
First
demonstration of television |
|
1927 |
Lindbergh
makes first solo transatlantic flight |
|
1929 |
Wall
Street crash triggers Great Depression |
|
|
M.O.
Bockman retires, T. F. Gullixson named president |
1930
|
|
Augsburg
Academy closes, height of Depression |
1933 |
|
Internship year added to program |
1934
|
|
George
Svendrup dies at age 58 |
1937 |
|
Bernhard
M. Christensen elected president of Augsburg College and
Seminary |
1938 |
|
Internship program added to curriculum |
1939 |
|
1930 |
| 1930 |
The
planet Pluto discovered |
| 1931 |
U.S.
population hits 122 million |
| 1932 |
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt elected president |
| 1933 |
Hitler
becomes Chancellor of Germany |
| 1935 |
Dust Bowl |
| 1936 |
Jesse
Owens wins four gold medals at Berlin Olympic games |
| 1936 |
Chiang Kai-Shek
declares war on Japan |
| 1938 |
Munich
Conference between Hitler and Chamberlain |
| 1939 |
Germany
invades Poland |
| 1939 |
World War
II begins |
| 1939 |
"Gone with the Wind" premieres |
|
|
Pillsbury
Mansion in south Minneapolis bought and refurbished for
$50,000 |
1940 |
|
145 women
form the Northwestern Theological Seminary Auxiliary |
1940 |
|
Gracia
Christensen (Mrs. Bernard Christensen) establishes
"Seminettes" |
1940s |
|
Condensed
program for preparation of pastors during World War II |
1941 |
|
Augsburg
Seminary and Augsburg College formally separate |
1942 |
|
Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary football team
challenges Luther Theological Seminary to game |
1942 |
|
1940 |
| 1940
|
The
Battle of Britain begins |
| 1941 |
Hong Kong
falls to Japanese |
| 1941
|
Dec. 7
Japan
attacks Pearl Harbor |
| 1944 |
June 6
Allies land on Normandy |
| 1944 |
Sartre published No Exit |
| 1945 |
May 8 VE
Day, Victory in Europe |
| 1945 |
Aug. 6 Atomic Age begins with bombing of
Hiroshima |
| 1945 |
Aug. 16
VJ Day, Victory in Japan |
| 1946 |
First
meeting of United Nations General Assembly |
| 1947 |
Dead Sea
Scrolls discovered |
| 1947 |
India
receives independence |
| 1948 |
Gandhi
assassinated |
| 1949 |
Apartheid
begins in South Africa |
|
|
Student
Wives Organization starts at Luther Seminary |
1950s |
|
Faculty
Wives continues with Nora Rogness' leadership |
1950s |
|
B.M.
Christensen suggests discussion of merger of Lutheran Free
Church with other Lutheran bodies |
1950 |
|
Gullixson
appointed by president Truman to Federal Commission on
Resettlement |
1952
|
|
Gullixson
resigns; Alvin Rogness elected president |
1954 |
|
Concord
begins publication as a theological journal |
1955 |
|
Bockman
Hall (Old Main) remodeled |
1955 |
|
"Seminettes" founded as seminary wives social group |
1956 |
|
Dr. Clemens
Zeidler becomes president of Northwestern Lutheran
Theological Seminary (1957-1976) |
1957 |
|
1950 |
|
1950 |
Outbreak
of Korean War |
|
1950 |
Britain
recognizes communist China |
|
1950
|
National
Council of Church in U.S. founded |
|
1952 |
Hydrogen
bomb tested |
|
1952 |
Reinhold
Niebuhr publishes Christ and Culture |
|
1955
|
Blacks
boycott busses in Montgomery, Ala. |
|
1956 |
Hungarian
uprising suppressed by Soviet troops |
|
1956 |
Elvis
Presley number 1 on charts |
|
1957 |
Sputnik
launched by Soviet Union |
|
1957 |
Desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Ark. |
|
1958 |
NASA
founded |
|
1959 |
Fidel
Castro become president of Cuba |
|
|
The
American Lutheran Church (The ALC) formed |
1960 |
|
Lutheran
Church in America (LCA) founded |
1962
|
|
Lutheran
Free Church joins The ALC |
1963 |
|
LCA Board
of Theological Education recommends Northwestern Lutheran
Theological Seminary seek closer ties to Luther Theological
Seminary |
1963 |
|
Augsburg
Seminary closes and three members of that faculty move to
Luther Theological Seminary. Last of total of 710 men
graduate |
1963 |
|
Discussion begins between boards of Luther and Northwestern
Seminaries to lease land from Luther |
1964 |
|
First
woman theological candidate accepted |
1964 |
|
First
meeting of Luther-Northwestern Seminary Coordinating
Committee to plan integration of the two school's programs |
1966
|
|
Luther and Northwestern class schedules integrated. |
1967 |
|
Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary's own building
completed on Luther Theological Seminary campus |
1967 |
|
New
Northwestern building on Luther campus furnished with
Auxiliary funding |
1967 |
|
Northwestern Seminary moves to former Breck School site |
1967
|
|
Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary joins Consortium
of Minnesota Seminaries |
1969 |
|
Dean
Robert Roth represents Northwestern Lutheran Theological
Seminary student protest over the Vietnam War to leaders in
Washington D.C. |
1969 |
|
1960 |
|
1960 |
John F.
Kennedy elected president |
|
1961 |
Berlin
Wall erected |
|
1962 |
Cuban
missile crisis |
|
1962 |
U.S.
Troops move to support Vietnam |
|
1962 |
Vatican
II convenes |
|
1962 |
John
Glenn first American to orbit earth |
|
1963
|
John F.
Kennedy assassinated |
|
1964 |
Kenya
gains independence; other African countries follow |
|
1964 |
The
Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
|
1965 |
Cultural
Revolution launched in China |
|
1966 |
U.S.
population nears 196 million |
|
1966 |
United
Methodist Church formed in U.S. with 11 million members |
|
1967 |
"Six-Day
War" between Israel and Arab nations |
|
1967
|
Hanoi
bombed by U.S. planes |
|
1968 |
Student
riots in U.S. and France |
|
1968 |
Martin
Luther King, Jr., assassinated |
|
1969 |
Neil
Armstrong sets foot on Moon from Apollo 11 |
|
1969 |
Golda
Meir becomes prime minister of Israel |
|
1969 |
Woodstock
Festival |
|
1969 |
Ho Chi
Minh dies |
|
|
Clinical
Pastoral Education (C.P.E.) offered for the first time |
early
1970s |
|
The
Bell
becomes
news and development publication |
1970 |
|
First
women ordained in The American Lutheran Church (The ALC) and
Lutheran Church in America (LCA) |
1970 |
|
Kathryn
Ulriden Moen organist and choir director at Northwestern
Seminary |
1970
|
|
Northwestern and Luther Seminaries invited by University of
Minnesota to have seminary students enroll in Human
Sexuality course |
1972
|
|
Annelotte
Svendsbye forms united group called, LTS Women |
1974 |
|
Alvin
Rogness resigns |
1974 |
|
Lloyd
Svendsbye elected president of Luther Theological Seminary |
1975 |
|
Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary receives
Association of Theological Schools accreditation |
1975 |
|
Faculty
Wives re-emerges as its own group |
1975 |
|
Full-fledged Development Department formed |
1975 |
|
Lloyd
Svendsbye elected Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary
president |
1976 |
|
"Maximal
Functional Unification" between Luther and Northwestern
Seminaries begins |
1976 |
|
Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary library moved to
Luther Theological Seminary's Gullixson Hall |
1976 |
|
Northwestern bookstore merged with Luther bookstore |
1976 |
|
Food
service merged, though two sites exist on campus |
1976 |
|
2,000
women members of Auxiliary |
1977 |
|
Master of
arts degree program started |
1977 |
|
First
woman in administration post, Elizabeth Beissel, as
assistant dean of students |
1977 |
|
Curriculum revision follows self-study |
1977 |
|
1970 |
|
1970
|
Charles
DeGaulle dies |
|
1971 |
"Fiddler
on the Roof" longest running Broadway play |
|
1971
|
Vietnam
War expands with bombing in Cambodia |
|
1972 |
Nixon
visits China |
|
1973 |
Lyndon
Johnson dies |
|
1973 |
U.S.
troops withdraw from Vietnam |
|
1973 |
Violence
between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland at new
high |
|
1973 |
"Energy
Crisis" at peak |
|
1974 |
Richard
M. Nixon is impeached and resigns presidency over Watergate |
|
1975 |
Communists seize Saigon |
|
1975
|
Fifth
Assembly of World Council of Churches in Nairobi, Kenya |
|
1976 |
U.S.
celebrates bicentennial |
|
1976
|
Pol Pot
comes to power in Cambodia |
|
1977
|
President
Jimmy Carter warns of national "malaise" |
|
1978 |
Camp
David Accord between Israel and Egypt |
|
1978 |
U.S.
Congress debates Equal Rights Amendment |
|
1978 |
917 die
at Jonestown, Guyana |
|
|
Lloyd
Svendsbye advocates full merger of two schools with joint
board support |
1980 |
|
Lay
School of Theology starts with 150 students |
1980 |
|
Word &
World,
Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary journal debuted |
1981 |
|
Full
merger secured and name changed to, Luther Northwestern
Theological Seminary |
1982 |
|
Diane
Jacobson first woman in tenure eligible position |
1982 |
|
Cross-cultural concentration master's degree adopted Paul
Knutson appointed as first campus pastor |
1983 1983
|
Chapel of
Incarnation and Campus Center dedicated.
Chapel of the Cross retained. |
1985 |
|
Faculty
supports development of doctoral program |
1985 |
|
Half of
student are second-career students |
1986 |
|
Former
bishop Gib Fjellman serves nine-month interim presidency |
1987 |
|
Doctor of
theology degree program begins |
1987 |
|
"Singing
the Faith" annual Reformation event begins |
1987 |
|
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America formed |
1988 |
|
(September) David L. Tiede elected president of Luther
Northwestern Theological Seminary |
1988 |
|
David
Preus, former presiding bishop of The American Lutheran
Church, named first director of Global Mission Institute |
1988 |
|
Auxiliary
name changed to Luther Northwestern Friends |
1989 |
|
Faculty
Wives group ceases. Friends organization covers many
functions. |
late 1980s |
|
1980 |
|
1980
|
Ronald
Reagan elected president |
|
1981 |
AIDS
first recognized as disease |
|
1981
|
Sandra
Day O'Connor first woman on Supreme Court |
|
1984 |
Walter
Mondale selects Geraldine Ferraro as
democratic vice-presidential candidate |
|
1985
|
Mikhail
Gorbachev becomes USSR leader/reformer |
|
1986 |
Martin
Luther King Day celebrated first time |
|
1986 |
Nuclear
disaster at Chernobyl |
|
1987 |
Minnesota
Twins wins World Series |
|
1987 |
Wall
Street crash |
|
1987 |
Iran
Contra Hearings begins |
|
1988 |
George
Bush elected president |
|
1988
|
Federal
deficit hits $3 trillion |
|
1989 |
Tiananmen
Square demonstration put down |
|
1989 |
Berlin
Wall comes down |
|
1989 |
Exxon
"Valdez" causes largest ever oil spill |
|
1989 |
San
Francisco earthquake |
|
|
Rural
Ministry program begun with appointment of C. Dean
Freudenberger |
1990 |
|
Master of
sacred music degree program begins |
1990
|
|
Seminary
clusters begin. Luther Theological Seminary linked with
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Calif. to
form Western Mission Cluster |
1992 |
|
Revised
curriculum implemented/faculty divisions revised |
1993 |
|
Library
bar codes all books, fully automating collection |
1993 |
|
Faculty
and staff offices fitted for computers |
1993 |
|
Islamic
Studies master of arts degree program begins |
1993 |
|
School's
name changed to Luther Seminary |
1994 |
|
Non-ELCA Lutheran students make up 13% of student
body.
18%
(nine individuals) of faculty are women. 50% of student body is female.
|
1995 |
|
Bea Vue-Benson ordained as first Hmong (woman) pastor |
1995 |
|
Smoking banned in seminary buildings |
1997 |
|
Augsburg Publishing and Seminary Bookstore share space |
1998 |
|
1990 |
| 1990 |
U.S.
responds to Iraqi invasion of Kuwait |
| 1990 |
Germany
reunified under Helmut Kohl |
| 1990 |
Gorbashev
visits Minnesota |
| 1991 |
"Desert
Storm" in Iraq |
| 1991 |
Soviet
Union dissolved; Cold War ends |
| 1992 |
War
begins in Bosnia |
| 1992
|
Bill
Clinton elected president |
| 1995
|
Yitzhak
Rabin assassinated in Israel |
| 1997 |
Hong Kong
returns to Chinese control |
|
1999 |
President Clinton impeached but not convicted |
|
|
14% of students are ecumenical, 37 non-Lutheran
denominations, 50 int'l |
2000 |
"Centered Life" initiative begun
|
2001 |
|
Richard Bliese appointed Academic Dean |
2003 |
David Tiede retires as president after 18 years
Richard Bliese named president |
2005 |
|
D(istributed) L(earning) M.Div program begun |
2007 |
|
2000
|
|
2000 |
Disputed presidential election decided by Supreme Court,
Bush elected |
|
2001 |
9/11 - Two planes crash into World Trade towers in NYC |
|
2001 |
U.S. invades Afghanistan |
|
2003 |
U.S. invades Iraq |
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