The University’s Office of Communications announced the launch of the University’s Facebook timeline on Monday afternoon.
“Just flipped the switch on Timeline for Princeton's page on @facebook. Check it out: on.fb.me/h9X0A4,” University Social Media Strategist Ian Cahir tweeted from his personal account at 4:45 p.m. on Monday.
The timeline now extends all the way back to the University’s founding in 1746. According to an earlier tweet by Cahir, Facebook's timeline did not originally allow for events that occurred before 1800 to be posted.
“Interesting issue with brand pages. I'm doing the history for @Princeton, and FB's timeline ends at 1800. We go back to 1746 #oops,” Cahir had tweeted on March 1.
University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said in an email that last week Facebook started allowing brand pages to mark milestones back to the year 1000.
The newly launched timeline page does include many events in the University’s history that occurred prior to the turn of the 19th century, including the completion of the construction of Nassau Hall in 1756, John Witherspoon's being named the sixth University president in 1768 and George Washington’s offensive against the British troops occupying Nassau Hall in 1777.
The timeline also features many other notable events in the University’s history, including the fires that ravaged Nassau Hall in 1802 and 1855 and the first college football game in world history, which was played between Princeton and Rutgers in 1869.
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