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The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

Timeline of Events

1214

6.20.1214

The University of Oxford receives its charter.

1811

3.25.1811

Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet ''The Necessity of Atheism''.

1829

6.10.1829

The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.

1871

6.16.1871

The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.