Moscow is first mentioned in a chronicle in 1147.
By then, teaching had been going on at Oxford for about half a century.
The events
- Teaching begins at Oxfordc. 1096 · Oxford. 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.
- First mention of Moscow1147 · Moscow. Under the year 1147 the Hypatian Chronicle records Prince Yuri Dolgoruky of Suzdal inviting his ally Sviatoslav Olgovich to meet him at Moskov. It is the first chronicle mention of the future capital of Russia.
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- 1054 In July 1054, Chinese astronomers saw a new star; 12 days later came the schism in Constantinople.
- 1066 · 1910 The same Halley's Comet embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry in 1066 returned in 1910 — when the Earth even passed through its tail.
- 1096 · 1325 Oxford University is older than the Aztec state: teaching at Oxford existed by about 1096, while Tenochtitlan was founded only in 1325.
- 1147 · 1150 Moscow is first mentioned in a chronicle in 1147 — around the time Angkor Wat was being completed in Cambodia.
- 1163 · 1185 When Prince Igor marched against the Polovtsians in 1185, Notre-Dame had been under construction for 22 years.