Harvard Medical School (first) is established in Cambridge.

Originally the Medical Institution of Harvard University, it is located in the basement of Harvard Hall. The third medical school in the U.S. (after those at today’s University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University), its creation was promoted by Dr. John Collins Warren. The faculty includes Warren (anatomy), Benjamin Waterhouse (theory and practice of medicine), and Aaron Dexter (chemistry and materia medica). Classes begin October 7, 1783. The school moves to Boston, first above an apothecary shop on Washington Street (second) in 1810, to Mason Street (third) in 1816, and to a new building (fourth) on North Grove Street in 1847.* It becomes the second medical school in the U.S. after Johns Hopkins to affiliate with a university in the 1860s. The school moves to a new building (fifth) on Boylston Street in 1883,* then to its current location (sixth) on Shattuck Street in 1906.*