Teaching begins at Oxford
Oldest university in the English-speaking world
There is evidence of teaching at Oxford by 1096, and it grew rapidly after 1167, when Henry II barred English students from Paris. It is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
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Moscow is first mentioned in a chronicle in 1147. By then, teaching had been going on at Oxford for about half a century.
Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, the world's oldest operating place of learning, was founded by a woman, Fatima al-Fihri, 237 years before teaching began at Oxford.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — 17 years later
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — 17 years later
Middle East
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — 3 years later
Asia
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — 17 years later
Alive at the time
- Omar Khayyam (aged 48)
- Henry IV (aged 46)
- Vladimir II Monomakh (aged 43)
- Sviatopolk II (aged 46)
- Philip I (aged 44)
- Nestor the Chronicler (aged 40)
- William II Rufus (aged 40)
- Al-Ghazali (aged 38)
- Henry I Beauclerc (aged 28)
- Lothair III (aged 21)