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Gallaudet meets Alice Cogswell
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Gallaudet travels to Europe to research deaf schools
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Frenchman, Laurent Clerc travels back to America with Gallaudet
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Gallaudet and Clerc establish The American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
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The American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb renamed the American School for the Deaf
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Postmaster General donated two acres of his estate in northeast Washington, D.C. for an institution for the deaf and blind
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Edward Gallaudet becomes superintendent of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind
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Abraham Lincoln authorized the institution to become a college
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1st graduation class of the college
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The Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind was renamed to Gallaudet College in honor of Thomas Gallaudet
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The institution became known as Gallaudet College by an act of Congress
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Gallaudet College was given the university title