Select Event in Timeline: 1786 - Peale's Museum 1794 - The Columbianum 1795 - The Columbianum 1802 - Charles Willson Peale 1805 - Summer and fall meetings 1806 - Charter ratified 1807 - Regular schedule 1810 - North gallery added 1810 - First mention of agreement 1811 - First Annual Exhibition 1812 - Board resolved 1813 - Paintings sent from Europe 1816 - First purchase 1820-23 - Statue gallery 1822 - Consideration of professorship 1824 - Marquis de Lafayette 1831 - First medal 1834 - Financial problems 1836 - Benjamin West 1839 - Leased new frontage buildings 1844 - Excellent financial report 1845 - Financial balance in hand 1847 - New and larger building 1848 - Hiram Powers 1851 - Exhibition of Thomas Cole 1855 - The Pennsylvania Academy's 50th Anniversary 1856 - Fiftieth anniversary 1857 - Academy supported Dr. W. H. Furness 1860 - Exhibition of Frederick Edwin Church 1862 - Total of 62 students registered 1866 - Building in need of repair 1867-72 - Yearly subscription of $1000 raised 1868 - 1868 Christian Schussele engaged 1869 - Separate life class for ladies established 1870 - Chestnut Street building sold 1871 - Frank Furness and George Hewitt 1872 - Cornerstone laid 1876 - Furness-Hewitt building opened 1878 - First endowment of funds 1879 - Mary Smith Prize 1880 - Germania Orchestra 1880 - Joseph E. Temple Fund 1881 - American Artists at Home and in Europe 1882 - First record of student tuition charge 1884 - Exhibition of Whistler etchings 1886 - Eakins resigned 1887 - Academy entertained President 1891 - Receipt of largest bequest to date 1892 - First major display 1893 - Charles Grafly joined faculty 1894 - Winslow Homer 1896 - Cecilia Beaux 1897 - The Fellowship 1898 - Architect Frank Miles Day 1898-1901 - Important early photographic exhibitions 1900 - Illustration course established 1902 - Cresson Travel Scholarship 1903 - Architectural Design course established 1904 - First Annual Exhibition 1905 - One-Hundredth Anniversary 1908 - Exhibition of The Eight 1917 - Opening of the Academy's summer campus 1917-18 - Thomas Eakins Memorial Exhibition 1920 - Paintings and Drawings 1921 - Paintings and Drawings 1922 - Exhibition of Portraits 1923 - Contemporary European Paintings and Sculpture 1928-33 - Chester Springs program 1929 - Cooperative program 1938 - Joseph Pennell 1940 - Paintings by Arthur B. Carles 1945 - Star Presentation exhibited 1948 - Scheidt Travel Scholarship established 1950 - Contemporary British Painting exhibition 1952 - Chester Springs campus closed 1955 - One-Hundred-Fiftieth Anniversary 1964 - Academy School gained a second facility 1965 - Peale Club (dining club) opened 1966 - Andrew Wyeth exhibition 1969 - 164th Annual Exhibition 1970 - President and Mrs. Nixon attended 1971 - Conservation laboratory opened 1972 - Frank H. Goodyear, Jr. 1974 - Furness-Hewitt building closed 1975 - Building awarded 1976 - Restored building reopened 1978 - Morris Gallery program 1980 - One-Hundred-Seventy-Fifth Anniversary 1981 - Exhibition 1982 - Antiques Magazine devoted 1984 - Philip Pearlstein 1985 - Red Grooms exhibition 1988 - School moved into new building 1989 - Checklist of American Paintings 1990 - Thomas Eakins Rediscovered 1990 - Three-volume Index 1992 - Master of Fine Arts program 1994 - I Tell My Heart 1995 - Forty works 1997 - The Fellowship 1999 - Maxfield Parrish exhibition 2000 - Federal building purchased 2002 - American Sublime exhibition 2005 - Two-Hundredth Anniversary 2006 - Relocation to M.V. Hamilton Building 2007 - Academy purchases Eakins masterpiece