Short answers, pulled from the story.
The University of Notre Dame was established on the 26th of November 1842 when eight Holy Cross brothers arrived in Indiana. Edward Sorin led this group from France and Ireland to take over land purchased by Stephen Badin thirty years prior.
Theodore Hesburgh served as president from 1952 until 1987 and transformed the institution through massive financial growth and coeducation. His administration increased the operating budget eighteenfold, raised the endowment fortyfold, and admitted women as undergraduate students starting in 1971.
The Main Building stands on Main Quad which is known locally as God Quad and represents the oldest part of the campus. This structure serves as the center for administrative offices and features a golden dome topped by a statue of Mary.
Knute Rockne became head coach of the football team in 1918 and led the Irish to three national championships with five undefeated seasons. He holds the highest winning percentage in NCAA Division I/FBS football history at .881 and his teams won the Rose Bowl Game in 1925 against Stanford.
The Keough School of Global Affairs opened officially in August 2017 after receiving a fifty-million-dollar gift from Donald Keough. Recent research funding reached an all-time high of $180.6 million in fiscal 2019 covering projects like vector-borne diseases and particle physics.