Chronology

Search and filters

Entries

1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

2. 1905
   Founding or opening · Chapel Hill William de Berniere MacNider organizes UNC's first Department of Pharmacology

   MacNider, a Chapel Hill native and 1903 graduate of the medical school's first class, organized the university's first Department of Pharmacology and led it as professor.

3. October 23, 1918
   Statistic or record · Chapel Hill The Tar Heel counts some 300 student cases and three deaths as the three-week campus quarantine eases

   Confined to the campus for three weeks, the Student Army Training Corps men had their first leave on Saturday, October 19, under orders not to leave town. The paper counted about 300 cases among the students, three deaths and 35 still in the college infirmary, credited the second-year medical students with keeping the toll low, and noted that both of the university's physicians, Dr. Mangum and Dr. MacNider, had fallen ill.

4. 1937–1940
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill William de Berniere MacNider serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine

   MacNider succeeded Charles Staples Mangum as dean of the medical school in 1937 and resigned the deanship in 1940 to return to research.

5. 1939
   Construction or physical change · Chapel Hill MacNider Hall is completed as the first building of the medical school complex

   The first building constructed in UNC's medical school complex was completed in 1939 and named for MacNider, then dean.

Suggest a correction to an entry →

A dated event is a fact, filed on the page of the subject it belongs to: a person, a place, a theme, or a named event or history. Pages are subjects, with their own works and sources; the Place, community, or institution filter also gathers the institutions that recur in the entries without a page of their own. The page opens on the highlights; a search or any filter looks through every dated event and storyline, and each filter’s counts say how many entries choosing it would show alongside the others. A storyline is a longer history that gathers related dated events, and each storyline’s page lists its own. Counts give dated events and storylines separately. Dates come from the sources named on the cards and from the index’s event pages; where sources disagree, the card follows the county records. Entries marked approximate or needing research say so on the card; the rest were checked against the source named on it. The correction link under the entries opens the contact form; name the entry and its date and the Friends will check the source. Suggest an event →

Compiled and maintained by the Friends of the Orange County Public Library from county records, the sources named on each card, and the index’s event pages. Last updated October 2, 2026.