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1364

5.12.1364

Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland.

1538

10.28.1538

The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.

1683

6.6.1683

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.

1852

10.11.1852

The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.

1911

11.17.1911

The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at an historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.