Timeline: Historical Development of Nursing Science
Nurse Science Timeline
Timeline 1850-2010: Historical Development of Nursing Science
Nineteenth Century
Florence Nightingale begins her nursing training in Alexandria, Egypt at the Institute of St. Paul.
Florence Nightingale, in Paris, visits the Daughters of Charity in their Motherhouse in Paris to learn their methods.
Florence Nightingale goes to Turkey with 38 volunteer nurses to assist in caring for the injured of the Crimean War. (October21)
Mary Seacole leaves London to establish a "British Hotel" at Balaklava in the Crimea. (January 31)
Biddy Mason is granted her freedom and moves to Los Angeles. She works as a nurse and midwife and becomes a successful businesswoman.
1857 -- Ellen Ranyard creates the first group of paid social workers in England and pioneers the first district nursing program in London.
1860's
1860 -- Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is published.
1861 -- Sally Louisa Tomkins opens a hospital for Confederate soldiers in July. Later she is made an army officer, the only woman to receive this distinction.
1867 -- Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge publishes The Boys in Blue, her memoirs of nursing in the Union Army.
1870's
1873 -- Linda Richards officially becomes America's first trained nurse upon her graduation from the New England School for Women and Children Training School for Nurses.
1873 -- The Nation's first nursing school, based on the nursing principles of Florence Nightingale, opens at Bellevue Hospital, New York City.
1879 -- Mary Elizabeth Mahoney becomes the nation's first African-American professional nurse upon her graduation from the New England School for Women and Children Training School for Nurses.
1880's
1881 -- Clara Barton establishes and becomes the first President of the American Red Cross (May 21).
1884 -- Mary Agnes Snively, the first...
rst Ontario, Canada nurse trained according to the principles of Florence Nightingale, assumes the position of Lady Superintendent of the Toronto General Hospital's School of Nursing.
1885 -- The first nurse training institute is established in Japan.
1886 -- The first American nursing journal, The Nightingale, is published.
1886 -- The first nursing program in the United States designed for African-Americans is established by Spelman Seminary.
1888 -- The Trained Nurse, a monthly journal, begins publication in Buffalo, New York.
1890's
1893 -- The Nightingale Pledge, written by Lystra Gretter, is first used by the graduating class at the Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.
1897 -- The Associated Alumnae of the Trained Nurses of the United States and Canada, later to become the American Nurses Association, holds its first meeting (February).
1897 -- Jane Delano becomes superintendent of Bellevue Hospital.
1899 -- Japan establishes a licensing system for modern nursing professional with the introduction of the Midwives Ordinance.
1899 -- The International Council of Nurses is formed.
Twentieth Century
1900's
1901 -- New Zealand, with the adoption of the Nurses Registration Act, becomes the first country to regulate nurses (September 12).
1902 -- Ellen Dougherty of New Zealand becomes the first register nurse in the world (February 10).
1902 -- Hired by the New York City Board of Education, Lina Rogers Struthers become's North America's first school nurse.
1902 -- The Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nurses Service replaces the Army Nursing Service.
1906 -- The first nursing school is established in the Philippines.
1908 -- The United States Navy Nurse Corps is established.
1910's
1916 -- The Royal College of Nursing is established in England
1919 -- Nurses Regulation Act
1920's
1923 -- Yale School of Nursing…
