New England Female Medical College (first) is established.

Originally the Boston Female Medical College, it is founded by Dr. Samuel Gregory and Dr. Israel Tisdale and located initially at 133 East Springfield Street. The first medical school for women in the U.S., it was created, according to Marianne Vahey, because Gregory “feared that medicine was attracting men whose interest was not philanthropic but prurient.” Twelve students are in the first class. The school moves to the former Boston Lying-In Hospital building in 1859 and to East Canton Street in 1862. After closing briefly, it moves a new building on Stoughton Street in 1870.* It merges with the Boston Homeopathic Hospital briefly and is absorbed by the Boston University School of Medicine in 1873.*