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-335 - Aristotle founded the Lyceum
-387 - Plato founded the academy in Athens
1538 - First university in the Americas
1823 - The first lectures in Britain on mental illness
1831 - The Salpêtrière asylum of Paris began a program of treatment of "idiotic" women
1835 - The first Canadian facility for the care of people with mental illness opened
1841 – Lectures in educational psychology
1853 - The first program in mental health in Chile
1860 - First chair in psychology established at the University of Bern, Switzerland
1875 - First US demonstration laboratory of psychology equipment
1876 - First Italian laboratory for work in psychology
1879 - Wilhelm Wundt established first psychological laboratory
1883 - The first formal psychology research laboratory in the United States
1883 - University authorities gave Wundt's Leipzig laboratory formal recognition
1884 – F Galton set up an anthropometric laboratory
1885 - First course in experimental psychology proposed
1885 - The first laboratory of psychology in Italy
1885 - V S Bekhterev founded Russia’s first laboratory of experimental psychology
1886 - First laboratory of experimental psychology in Russia
1886 - Psychophysical Laboratory founded at the University of Copenhagen
1888 - Y Motora gave the first psychology lecture in Japan at Tokyo University
1889 - First psychological laboratory in France
1889 - The first laboratory of psychology in Canada
1890 - Australia’s first part–time lecturer in psychology was appointed
1890 - J M Baldwin founded first Canadian psychological laboratory
1890 - Y Motora became Professor of Psychology at The Imperial University of Tokyo
1892 - First Dutch laboratory founded in Groningen
1892 - First Swiss laboratory founded
1892 - Laboratory of experimental psychology founded at the University of Louvain
1893 - Laboratory of Experimental Psychology established at the University of Iassy
1894 - First laboratory of psychology in Austria
1895 - First university course in psychology in Argentina
1896 - First laboratory of experimental psychology in Italy
1896 - First psychological clinic in the United States
1896 - First university course in psychology in Mexico
1896 - Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Linguistics in France
1897 - First laboratory of psychology in Poland
1897 - Laboratories of psychology at the Universities of Cambridge and London
1898 - Psychology laboratory in Buenos Aires
1900 - The Institut Psychologique International founded in France
1901 - First Polish psychology laboratory founded
1901 - First psychology faculty chair in Argentina
1902 - First Australian university course in psychology
1902 - First professor of psychology in Spain
1903 - First psychological laboratory in Japan
1905 - Alfred Binet announced the founding of the first laboratory school in Europe
1905 - Psychology introduced as an independent subject in India
1906 - Institute of Applied Psychology established in Berlin
1906 - Psychology appears in the curriculum in Egypt
1906 - Psychology in Italy was officially acknowledged
1906 - The first Romanian Chair of Psychology
1908 - Cairo University introduced psychology as a minor subject
1908 - First psychological laboratory at the University of New Zealand
1908 - The first laboratory of psychology in Chile
1909 - First psychology laboratory in Norway
1910 - Psychology appointment in Queensland, Australia
1911 - First Czech psychological laboratory
1912 - First experimental psychology laboratory in Russia
1912 - First laboratory of experimental psychology in the Czech Republic
1912 - Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute founded
1912 - Moscow Institute of Psychology opened
1913 - W Köhler initiated studies in Tenerife
1914 - Experimental laboratory Escola Normal de São Paulo founded
1915 - First department of psychology in India
1915 - First German psychological testing center for armed forces
1915 - India’s first psychology laboratory established
1916 - Division of Applied Psychology established
1916 - First psychological laboratory in Mexico
1917 - First psychological laboratory in China
1917 - Psychotechnical laboratory for training of railroad engineers established
1918 - Chair of Psychology established at Tbilisi State University, Georgia
1918 - South Africa’s first chair and department of psychology
1920 - First Chinese independent psychology department, at Nanjing University
1920 - Yugoslavia’s first psychology institute established
1921 - First Finnish Institute of Psychology founded
1921 - First psychology department in Australia
1923 - Laboratory in experimental medical psychology established in Brazil
1923 - Laboratory of Psychology of Engenho de Dentro established
1925 - Selection and Professional Orientation Institute of Pernambuco established
1926 - First psychological laboratory in Greece
1927 - First Greek psychology laboratory at the University of Athens
1927 - First psychology laboratory in China
1927 - Research Center for Economic Psychology founded in Vienna
1929 - Department of Psychology in Croatia
1929 - First professor of Psychology in Egypt
1929 - Yale' s Institute of Human Relations established
1930 - First psychological laboratory at the Higher Institute of Education of Cairo established
1930 -First Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the University of Dunedin, New Zealand
1931 - Institute of Psychology founded at the Universidad de Buenos Aires
1933 - Psychological Engineering Section of State Institute for Experimental Psychology abolished in the USSR
1934 - American Institute of Public Opinion established
1934 - Discipline of psychology becomes obligatory in some undergraduate courses
1934 - First psychological clinical in Egypt at the Higher Institute of Education
1935 - US Army Air Corps Physiological Research Unit authorized
1936 - First independent chair of psychology in Finland
1937 - First psychology program in School of Philosophy and Literature in Mexico
1937 - Psychological laboratory incorporated by the University of Brazil
1937 -First Armenian psychology library at Yerevan University
1938 - First psychology course at Dalhousie University
1938 - First psychology department in Ankara University
1938 - Netherlands Institute of Psychology founded
1939 - Psychology course taught at the University of Hong Kong
1941 - First Institute of Psychology in Ottawa, Canada
1941 - Georgian Institute of Psychology founded in Tbilisi
1941 - Instituto de Psicologia established at the Universidad de Chile
1941 - Psychology school established at the Instituto Psicopedagogico Nacional in Peru
1945 - K Lewin organized Research Center for Group Dynamics
1946 - Department of Psychology founded at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada
1947 - Colombia’s first psychology training program established
1947 - First Philipino neuropsychological services unit
1947 - Georgian Research Institute of Psychology established
1947 - Institute for Personnel Selection and Guidance opened
1947 - R Barker and H Wright established Field Station dedicated to ecological psychology
1947 - University degree (licence de psychologie) established in France
1948 - First Swedish independent chair of psychology
1948 - Instituto de Psicologia y Investigaciones Psicologicas established in Guatemala
1948 - Professional training programs for psychologists introduced in Chile
1948 - Psychology as an independent university subject in Czechoslovakia
1948 - The C G Jung Institute is established in Zurich
1949 - Department of Psychology of National Taiwan University established
1949 - First University of Ghana course in psychology
1950 - First school of psychology in Cuba
1950 - Institute of Psychology established at the Central University of Ecuador
1950 - National Science Foundation (NSF) created in the United States
1950 - Psychology program founded in Iran
1951 - Institute of Psychology Chinese Academy of Science founded
1951 - Israeli Institute of Applied Social Research opened in Jerusalem
1952 - Psychology introduced at the University of Indonesia
1953 - First university degree programs in psychology in Brazil
1953 - Postgraduate psychology established at the University of Madrid
1953 - Testing and Vocational Guidance Unit at the US Technical Operation Mission in Tehran established
1955 - Formation in psychology at the Universidad San Marcos at Peru established
1955 - Psychology established at the University of Queensland, Australia
1955 - Psychology introduced in the Sudan
1956 - Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences renamed
1957 - Argentina's first psychology training program introduced
1957 - First academic department of psychology in Israel
1957 - Instituto de Investigaciones Psicologicas founded at the Universidad de Costa Rica
1957 - Psychological research laboratory founded at the Armenian Pedagogical Institute
1957 - Psychology education introduced in Saudi Arabia
1958 - Offered in France — a doctorate with an option in psychology
1959 - First operant behavior laboratory at the University of Liege, Belgium
1959 - First psychology department at the National Teacher's College in Tehran, Iran
1960 - First school of professional psychology in Mexico
1961 - A psychology program is established at the University of las Villas, Cuba
1962 - M Murphy and R Price founded the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, in California
1963 - First course of Psychology at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
1963 - First psychology department in Iran established at the University of Tehran
1963 - The Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education founded in Berlin
1964 - First Department of Psychology of the Universidade de Brasília
1964 - First psychology department in Nigeria established at the University of Nigeria
1965 - First clinical psychology course in Iran
1965 - First laboratory of experimental psychology in Zambia
1966 - Department of Psychology and Education established at Kuwait University
1966 - First master's program in humanistic psychology at the Sonoma State College, California
1966 - Independent psychology faculties & degree programs were established in Moscow and Leningrad universities
1967 - Department of psychology at the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic established
1967 - Department of Psychology at the University of Ghana
1967 - First history of psychology PHD program in the world
1968 - Department of Psychology at the Hong Kong Psychological Society established
1968 - Department of psychology established in the University of Zambia
1968 - Soviet Union authorized doctoral-level degrees in psychology
1970 - The Association of Humanistic Psychology creates the Humanistic Psychology Institute as an educational and research institute
1971 - First psychology degrees offered in Italian universities
1971 - Institute of Psychology of the USSR Academy of Sciences founded
1971 - Interdisciplinary Center of Research in Mathematical and Experimental Psychology established
1973 - Faculty of Psychology at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) established
1973 - Skinner Center for Special Education founded in Bogota, Colombia
1973 - The Qatar College of Education introduced psychology as a separate discipline
1973 - The University of Zimbabwe established the country’s first chair of professional psychology
1974 - First psychology departments in Egypt established at Cairo, Alexandria, and Ain Shams Universities
1975 - Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology established at the Alberta University, Canada
1975 - First college program in Community Psychology offered at he University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
1975 - The first Psychology Psychological Medical Department was established at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda
1976 - Muhammad Ajmal National Institute of Psychology (Pakistan) established
1976 - Psychology recognized as an independent school at the University of Havana
1978 - Laboratorio de Psicologia at the Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela founded
1978 - New York University Head Trauma Program established at New York University
1979 - First master's degree program in clinical psychology in Thailand offered by Mahidol University
1980 - Institute of Psychology official teaching of psychology abolished in Romania between 1980 and 1989
1980 - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics opened in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1983 - Post-master's training institute in clinical psychology begun in Pakistan
1987 - First department of psychology established at a major Greek university
1991 - Research laboratory for Asian indigenous psychology established in Taiwan
1996 -Demographics - Canada
2000 - Post-master's training in clinical psychology in Pakistan
2001 - PhD program in clinical psychology in Pakistan
2001 - Thailand's first doctoral programs
2002 - British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre established
2002 - PhD program in Psychology at Warsaw School of Social Psychology
2004 - European Institute for the Study of Human Behaviour found
2004 - PsyCorps was founded
2005 - EuroPsy pilot project