Historical place archive

Cambridge in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Cambridge in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

6 records6 event labels5 people1775–2020

Historical events in Cambridge

1775

18 April 1775
Cambridge Route
William Dawes · American War of Independence

Rides through Roxbury and Cambridge on the way to Lexington.

1837

31 August 1837
American Intellectual Independence
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Philosophy

Calls for intellectual independence from inherited European traditions.

31 August 1837
The American Scholar Address
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Philosophy

Delivers The American Scholar address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

1970

1 1970
Reverse Transcriptase
David Baltimore · Medicine

Independently reports discovery of reverse transcriptase

2008

1 December 2008
Great Recession Announcement
Robert Hall · Recession

The NBER committee announces that the recession began in December 2007.

2020

16 March 2020
COVID-19
Stephane Bancel · Medicine

Moderna begins early human testing of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and Cambridge. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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