✦ Time paradoxes · Still around
Oxford: c. 1096; Byzantium: 330–1453 — that is about 360 years later.
When teaching began at Oxford, the Byzantine Empire still existed.
Who and what
- Teaching begins at Oxfordc. 1096 · Oxford. Oldest English-speaking university, older than the Aztec state
- Founding of Constantinople330 · Byzantium. Constantine moves the capital to the Bosporus for 1,000 years
- Fall of Constantinople1453 · Constantinople. The Ottomans end the thousand-year Byzantine Empire
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