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universities and colleges - events| 850 | Italy | A university is founded at Salerno, Italy. It is the first such institution in medieval Europe. | | 1149 | England | The first British university is founded at Oxford, England. Robert Grosseteste is appointed its first chancellor, and it attracts scholars including Friar Roger Bacon, making it a centre for scientific study. | | 1209 | England | Following riots between university scholars and townspeople in Oxford, England, a group of English academics leave and move to the small town of Cambridge, England, where they establish a new university. | | 1249 | England | The English monk and scholar Roger Bacon argues for the inclusion of scientific studies in the curriculum of Oxford University, England, which is primarily a religious institution at the time. | | 1249 | England | University College, the earliest college of Oxford University, England, is founded. | | 1284 | England | Peterhouse, the first college at Cambridge University, England, is founded. | | 1477 | Sweden | The regent of Sweden, Sten Sture the Elder, founds the first Scandinavian university at Uppsala, Sweden. | | 28 October 1636 | North America | A school intended as a training college for Puritan ministers is founded in New Towne (now Cambridge), Massachusetts, with Reverend Henry Dunster as its first president. A gift from the English-born American clergyman John Harvard allows it to remain in existence, and in 1639 the Massachusetts General Court issues a decree naming the school Harvard College. | | 1946 | USA | The Fulbright scholarships are instituted in the USA to enable US citizens to study abroad and people from abroad to study in the USA. | | 9 October 1949 | USA | Harvard Law School announces that it will enrol women. |
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