TIMELINE: 90 YEARS OF HISTORY 1910s

Fort Bliss Campus   Architectural style of the Kingdom of Bhutan

Significant events in UTEP history * Significant events in El Paso history ** Significant events in national or world history 1913 Texas Gov. O.B. Colquitt signs Senate Bill 183, creating the State School of Mines and Metallurgy in El Paso ** Mexican Revolution in its third year 1914 El Paso citizens donate 22 acres and three buildings east of Fort Bliss—the site of the former El Paso Military Institute—for the School of Mines Regents adopt the first budget: Dean Stephen Howard Worrell to be paid $2,500 annual salary Twenty-seven students enroll on opening day, Sept. 23 ** World War I begins 1915 First issue of student paper The Prospector published ** Albert Einstein forms his General Theory of Relativity 1916 First commencement ceremony, May 30 First women, Ruth Brown and Grace Odell, enroll Fire destroys the new school's Main Building Discouraged by General Pershing's military buildup crowding Fort Bliss, a water shortage, and the Main Building fire, Dean Worrell looks for a new school location * Pancho Villa raids Columbus, N.M. * El Paso High School opens * Elephant Butte Dam dedicated 1917 Civic leaders donate land overlooking Sunset Heights and Downtown for the new campus Construction begins on the first buildings, modeled after the architectural style of the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan ** U.S. enters World War I 1918 Enrollment is 100 ** Worldwide flu epidemic kills 22 million ** World War I ends 1919 Name changed to U.T. Department of Mines and Metallurgy Students' Association forms