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Boston University was established on the 26th of May 1869 when Governor William Claflin signed the charter. The institution originated from a meeting of Methodist ministers and laymen who gathered on April 24 and 25 of 1839 to create the Newbury Biblical Institute.
Three trustees named Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin, and Jacob Sleeper obtained the charter for Boston University in 1869. Isaac Rich died on the 13th of January 1872 leaving his estate worth over $1.5 million which consisted mostly of real estate throughout downtown Boston.
In 2024 the university reported receiving $579.5 million in total research awards and ranked 16th among private institutions for all research expenditures during fiscal year 2023. On the 2nd of March 2025 the Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager telescope landed on the moon aboard NASA's Blue Ghost lunar lander with principal investigator Brian Walsh leading BU research efforts.
On the 25th of April 1968 African-American students conducted a sit-in three weeks after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and locked president Arland F. Christ-Janer out of his office for twelve hours. They demanded ten items including creation of a Martin Luther King Chair of Social Ethics and expansion of African-American library resources.
Boston University established its largest study abroad program in London England with headquarters located at 43 Harrington Gardens in South Kensington. The university also operates centers in Los Angeles Paris Washington D.C. and Sydney Australia to host internship management film festival travel writing engineering and education programs.