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| 1872 | Yale New Haven Hospital and the General Hospital Society of Connecticut discuss a training school for nurses |
| 1873 | Legislature grants charter to the Connecticut Training School |
| 1879 | Manual of Nursing published by the Connecticut Training School family |
| 1906 | Lobby efforts for Connecticut to become the first state in the Union to pass state registration law for nurses |
| 1923 | Rockefeller Foundation funds a five year trial to reconstruct the Connecticut Training
School to form the Yale School of Nursing Annie Goodrich becomes the first Dean of Yale School of Nursing |
| 1923 | The Committee to Study Nursing Education (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation) publishes Nursing and Nursing Education in the United States, Report of the Committee for the Study of Nursing Education and Report of a Survey by Josephine A Goldmark, later known as the Goldmark Report. |
| 1926 | The last class of the Connecticut Training School graduates with the first class of Yale School for Nursing |
| 1929 | The Rockefeller Foundation grants a permanent endowment of $1 million |
| 1939 | Corporation authorizes a Master's degree and an advanced program in Mental Health Nursing for students with previous experience |
| 1948 | 25th Anniversary of Yale School of Nursing observed |
| 1955 | First male student graduates from Yale School of Nursing |
| 1956 | The basic nursing program is discontinued and the curriculum is changed to a one year graduate course |
| 1959 | The Corporation votes permanent support to the Yale School of Nursing |
| 1972 | First male midwife graduates from Yale School of Nursing |
| 1973 | Beginning of the 3 year Basic Program 50th Anniversary of Yale School of Nursing observed |
| 1978 | Delta Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau established at Yale School of Nursing |
| 1990 | The Independence Foundation awards Yale School of Nursing $1 million for its first endowed professor chair |