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First British university to be founded via a charter of incorporation, with King's College and University College as founding colleges. See below. Queen's University of Ireland: 1850 to 1882 Founded as the university of the three "Queen's Colleges" of Belfast, Cork, and Galway, all established 1845.
In the Americas, first the Spanish, then the British, and then the French founded universities in the lands they had conquered early in the 16th century, [61] meant to professionally educate their colonists and propagate monotheistic religion, like christianity, to establish formal, administrative rule of their American colonies; like-wise, the ...
A 1911 map of medieval universities in Europe The University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy, founded in 1088, the world's oldest university in continuous operation [1] A dining hall at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, the world's second-oldest university and oldest in the English-speaking world A partial view of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, the world's third ...
The Royal University of Ireland (1881, as the successor of the Queen's University of Ireland), the Victoria University (1881), and the University of Wales (1893) were the only other universities established in the 1800s, all as federal or examining universities. The first unitary university in the British Isles outside of Scotland was the ...
Year of foundation William of Durham: University College [1] 1249 John I de Balliol: Balliol College: 1263 Walter de Merton: Merton College: 1264 Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter: Exeter College: 1314 Adam de Brome: Oriel College: 1324 Robert de Eglesfield, chaplain of Queen Philippa: Queen's College: 1341 William of Wykeham: New College: 1379
Humboldt University, founded in Berlin in 1810, was a much emulated model of a modern university in the 19th century (photochrom from 1900). [1] University of London, founded in 1836, was established as an independent examining board for affiliated colleges, with King's College London and University College London as the founding colleges.
[35] [36] The Slade School of Fine Art was founded as part of University College in 1871, following a bequest from Felix Slade. [37] In 1878, the University of London gained a supplemental charter making it the first British university to be allowed to award degrees to women.
The French Revolution and the ensuing Napoleonic wars led to over 40% of universities in Europe closing. From 153 universities in 1789, numbers fell to only 83 in 1815. The next quarter century saw a rebound, with 15 new universities founded, bringing numbers back to 98 by 1840. [10]