1908
The campus that would become UC Davis first opens its doors as the University Farm, the research and science-based instruction extension of UC Berkeley.
1909
The Farm School opens in January.
The first Picnic Day is held on May 22, and more than 2,200 people attend.
1922
For the first time, the campus offers a four-year program is divided into Divisions. Among them were the Chemistry Division and the English Division.
1925
Military Science Department is established.
1927
Mathematics and Physics Department is established.
1928
Celeste Turner Wright becomes the first regular woman faculty member and first Ph.D. in humanities at Davis and serves as the first chair of the Department of English.
1933
German is the first foreign language to be introduced at UC Davis.
In 1933, Edward B. Roessler is sent to Davis from UC Berkeley to develop the Division of Mathematics and Physics and to create statistical services for agriculture.
1937
Vernon Puryear is named chair of the Department of History and Political Science. In the coming decades, he would play an important role in planning for the College of Letters and Science.
1938
The campus is renamed the “College of Agriculture at Davis.”
1940
Division of Chemistry holds first patents for entire University of California.