Harvard College is named.

Meeting in the First Church in Boston, the General Court votes. “the college agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shall be called Harvard College.” The action is taken in appreciation for the bequest made by the Rev. John Harvard of Charlestown, six months earlier. The young minister left half his estate (779 pounds, 17 shillings, and two pence sterling) and his entire 320-volume library to the new college.