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The following is a timeline of the history of the city, [[University of Oxford|university]] and [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|colleges]] of [[Oxford]], England.

==Pre-history==
* Activity from the [[Mesolithic]] period onwards, attested by archaeological finds across the city.<ref name=OARA2011>{{cite web|title=Oxford Archaeological Resource Assessment|access-date=30 July 2018|url=https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/download/445/oxford_archaeological_resource_assessment}}</ref>
* Bronze Age [[henge]] and barrow complexes at locations including the [[University Parks]].<ref name=OARA2011/>
* Bronze Age burials at locations including The Hamel, [[Radcliffe Infirmary]], [[Banbury Road]], and several university buildings.<ref name=OARA2011/>
* Wide-ranging Iron Age and Roman remains, suggesting continued occupation from pre-conquest period into the Roman era.<ref name=OARA2011/>

==Recorded history before 12th century==
* By 727 – [[Dida of Eynsham]] establishes a nunnery with [[Frithuswith|Frideswide]], perhaps his daughter, as abbess.<ref>{{cite web|title=Timeline History of Oxford – 8th Century|work=Welcome to Oxford|access-date=14 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/8th-century-T4311.html}}</ref>
* after 871 – Coins of [[Alfred the Great]] are minted with the name of Oxford, as ''Orsnaforda''.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Gareth|last1=Williams|first2=John|last2=Naylor|title=King Alfred's Coins|location=Oxford|publisher=Ashmolean|year=2016|isbn=978-1-910807-13-2}}</ref>
* 911 – Mention of Oxford, as ''Oxnaforda'', under the authority of [[Edward the Elder]], [[King of Wessex]].<ref>''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' (date adjusted).</ref><ref name=Tames>{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Tames|title=A Traveller's History of Oxford|location=London|publisher=Phoenix Press|year=2002|isbn=1-84212-684-9}}</ref>
* 979 – Vikings burn Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|title=Timeline History of Oxford – 10th Century|work=Welcome to Oxford|access-date=20 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/10th-century-T1373.html}}</ref>
* 1002 – 13 November: [[St. Brice's Day massacre]] of Vikings: Monastery of St Frideswide destroyed.
[[File:Oxford coat of arms 20050303.jpg|thumb|City coat of arms in [[Oxford Town Hall|Town Hall]]]]
* 1004 – First bridge over the [[River Cherwell]] east of the town centre (on the site of modern-day [[Magdalen Bridge]]) is in existence.<ref name=OHW3>{{cite book|first=Malcolm|last=Graham|title=On Foot from Catte Street to Parson's Pleasure|series=Oxford Heritage Walks, 3|publisher=Oxford Preservation Trust|year=2015|isbn=978-0-9576797-2-6}}</ref>
* 1009 – 1 August: Vikings burn Oxford.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|isbn=978-0-7126-5616-0}}</ref>
* 1015 – Early: [[Sigeferth (died 1015)|Sigeferth]] and [[Morcar (thegn)|Morcar]], chief [[thegn]]s of the [[Five Boroughs of the Danelaw]], come to an assembly in Oxford where they are murdered by [[Eadric Streona]].
* 1018 – [[Cnut the Great]] attends a [[Witenagemot]] at Oxford at which he is recognised as king of England.<ref>{{cite book|first=Frank|last=Stenton|author-link=Frank Stenton|title=Anglo-Saxon England|edition=3rd|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1971|isbn=9780198217169|page=399}}</ref>
* 1022 – Witenagemot held at Oxford to translate the laws of England into Latin and apply them equally within England and the Danelaw.<ref name=Timeline11>{{cite web|title=Timeline History of Oxford – 11th Century|work=Welcome to Oxford|access-date=20 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/11th-century-T1374.html}}</ref>
* 1026 – Witenagemot held at Oxford.<ref name=Timeline11/>
* 1036 – Council of Oxford (a Witenagemot) declares [[Harold Harefoot]] regent of England for his half-brother [[Harthacnut (1020–1042)|Harthacanute]].<ref name=CBH/>
[[File:Oxford-University-Circlet.svg|thumb|University seal]]
* c. 1040–50 – Tower of [[St Michael at the North Gate]] completed.
* 1071–73 – [[Oxford Castle]] erected as a [[Motte-and-bailey castle|motte-and-bailey]] by [[Normans|Norman]] [[baron]] [[Robert D'Oyly]].<ref>''[[Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis]]''.</ref>
* 1074
** St George's tower at the castle is built in stone (it may have Saxon origins), including a chapel for a college of secular canons.<ref name=OHW4>{{cite book|first=Malcolm|last=Graham|title=On Foot from Paradise Street to Sheepwash|series=Oxford Heritage Walks, 4|publisher=Oxford Preservation Trust|year=2016|isbn=978-0-9576797-5-7}}</ref>
** First stone of [[St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford|St Mary Magdalen's Church]], built by D'Oyly, is laid.<ref name=StMM>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.stmarymagdalenoxford.org.uk/history|publisher=St Mary Magdalen|location=Oxford|access-date=26 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026215656/http://www.stmarymagdalenoxford.org.uk/history|archive-date=26 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* c. 1085 – First stone bridge over the [[River Thames]] at [[Grandpont]] (modern-day [[Folly Bridge]]) is built by D'Oyly.
* 1088 – ''[[Curia regis]]'' held at Oxford by [[William II of England]].<ref name=Timeline11/>
* 1096 – Academic teaching at Oxford is recorded.<ref name="BBC timeline" >{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/normanbritain_timeline_noflash.shtml|work=British History Timeline|title=Norman Britain|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=21 December 2007}}</ref>

==12th century==
* c. 1100 – Construction of St Lawrence, [[North Hinksey]] as a chapel begins.
* c. 1110 – Priory of St Nicholas, [[Littlemore]], established.
* 1122
** [[Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford|Priory of St Frideswide]] established.
** Original [[All Saints Church, Oxford|All Saints Church]] established.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/city_church/allsaints.html|title=All Saints Church: City Church of Oxford 1896–1971|work=Oxford History}}</ref>
** Approximate date: [[Carfax, Oxford#Tower|St Martin's Church, Carfax]] built.
* 1126 – [[Leprosy|Leper]] hospital and [[St Bartholomew's Chapel, Oxford|St Bartholomew's Chapel]] (Bartlemas), [[Cowley, Oxfordshire|Cowley]], established by [[Henry I of England|Henry I]].
* 1129 – [[Osney Abbey]] established as a priory by [[Robert D'Oyly (Osney)|Robert D'Oyly]] the younger. It is raised to abbey status in 1154.<ref name=OHW4/>
* c. 1130–60 – Nave, chancel and crypt of [[St Peter-in-the-East]] built.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of St Peter-in-the-East|url=http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/about-college/history-st-peter-east|publisher=St Edmund Hall|location=Oxford|access-date=31 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1131 – [[Godstow]] nunnery established.
* 1133
** Easter: King [[Henry I of England|Henry I]] is in residence at his new [[Beaumont Palace]].<ref name=HH/>
** [[Robert Pullen]], an English theologian, teaches in Oxford.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Turner|first=William|encyclopedia=The [[Catholic Encyclopedia]]|title=Robert Pullus|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13098b.htm|access-date=22 October 2016|year=1912|publisher=Robert Appleton Company|volume=13|location=New York}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Gs-AAAAYAAJ&q=Robert+Pullus|last=Newman|first=John Henry|chapter=The Schoolmen|title=Historical Sketches|location=London|publisher=Longman, Green|year=1894}}</ref>
[[File:Oxford Castle.JPG|thumb|St George's Tower of the [[Oxford Castle|Castle]]]]
* 1136 – April: ''Curia regis'' held at Oxford by the new king [[Stephen of England|Stephen]], attended by [[Theobald of Bec]].
* 1138 – Major fire.<ref name=Koenig>{{cite book|first=Chris|last=Koenig|title=Oxford Past Times|location=Oxford|publisher=Signal Books|year=2013|isbn=978-1-908493-65-1}}</ref>
* 1139
** ''Curia regis'' held at Oxford.<ref name=Timeline12>{{cite web|title=Timeline History of Oxford – 12th Century|work=Welcome to Oxford|access-date=20 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/12th-century-T1375.html}}</ref>
** Temple [[Cowley, Oxfordshire|Cowley]] founded by [[Matilda of Boulogne]] for the [[Knights Templar]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens|url=https://archive.org/details/queensconsorteng00hilt|url-access=registration|last=Hilton|first=Lisa|author-link=Lisa Hilton (writer)|page=[https://archive.org/details/queensconsorteng00hilt/page/86 86]|year=2008|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|location=London|isbn=978-0-7538-2611-9}}</ref>
* 1141 – 24 June: [[The Anarchy]]: [[Empress Matilda]] is forced to flee from [[Palace of Westminster|Westminster]] to Oxford.<ref name=CBH/>
* 1142 – The Anarchy
** 26 September: King Stephen captures Oxford and besieges Matilda inside the castle.<ref name=CBH/>
** December: Matilda escapes from Oxford Castle across the snow in a white cape for camouflage.<ref name=HH>{{cite book|author=Henry of Huntingdon|title=Historia Anglorum|author-link=Henry of Huntingdon}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ychyAQ1JTVAC|title= The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign|first=Edmund|last=King|page=5|access-date=18 December 2007|isbn= 9780191590726|date= 22 September 1994|publisher= Clarendon Press}}</ref>
[[File:Roger Bacons Study in Oxford.jpg|thumb|"[[Roger Bacon|Friar Bacon]]'s Study" at [[Folly Bridge]], demolished 1779<ref>{{cite book|first1=John|last1=Fauvel|first2=Raymond|last2=Flood|first3=Robin J.|last3=Wilson|title=Oxford figures: 800 years of the mathematical sciences|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-852309-3|page=2}}</ref>]]
* 1157 – 8 September: [[Richard I of England]] ("the Lionheart") born in [[Beaumont Palace]].
* c.1160–1180 – [[St Mary the Virgin, Iffley]] built.
* 1166 – 24 December: [[John, King of England]], born in Beaumont Palace.
* 1167 – Increased enrolment at Oxford after English students are barred from attending the [[University of Paris]].<ref name=CBH/>
* 1177
** May: Council of Oxford on governance of Ireland.
** Jewish cemetery.
* 1185 – ''Curia regis'' held at Beaumont Palace by [[Henry II of England|Henry II]].<ref name=Timeline12/>
* c. 1187–1188 – [[Gerald of Wales]] reads his ''[[Topographia Hibernica]]'' to a large academic audience in Oxford.
* 1190
** First known foreign scholar commences study at Oxford, [[Emo of Friesland]].
** Major fire.<ref name=Timeline12/>
* By 1191 – [[Burgess (title)|Burgess]]es are using the first known corporate town [[Seal (emblem)|seal]] in England.<ref name=EO/>
* 1193 – The inn later to become the [[Golden Cross, Oxford|Golden Cross]] is in existence.
* 1194 – [[St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford|St Mary Magdalen's Church]] rebuilt by Bishop [[Hugh of Lincoln]].<ref name=StMM/>

==13th century==
* c. 1200–10 – First [[Hythe Bridge]] built.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1205
** Council held at Oxford by [[John, King of England|King John]] who also spends Christmas here.<ref name=VCH/>
** Approximate date: First known [[Mayor of Oxford]].
* 1209 – Dissatisfied students from Oxford found the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref name=CBH/>
* 1213 – 15 November: A council of knights is held in Oxford.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology" >{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8}}</ref>
* 1214 – 20 June: Papal ordinance defines the rights of the scholars at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name=CBH/> By 1216 a chancellor of the university is in office.<ref name=EO/>
* 1215 – 16–23 July: A council of the barons charged with enforcing [[Magna Carta]] meets with [[John, King of England|King John]] at Oxford Castle.<ref>{{cite book|first=J. C.|last=Holt|title=Magna Carta|edition=2nd|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1992|isbn=9780521259705|pages=484–9}}</ref>
* 1216 – Oxford Castle's first recorded use as a prison, for misbehaving students.
* c. 1220 – Osney Abbey constructs a conduit for fresh water from [[North Hinksey]].<ref name=VCH>{{cite book|editor=Crossley, Alan|title=A History of the County of Oxford. Vol. '''4''': The City of Oxford|series=[[Victoria County History]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1979|isbn=0197227147|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=10|access-date=20 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1221 – 15 August: The [[Dominican Order]] founds [[Blackfriars, Oxford|Blackfriars]].<ref name=CBH/>
* 1222 – 17 April: [[Stephen Langton]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], opens the Synod of Oxford at Osney Abbey, which introduces measures against Jews.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jewish History 1220-1229|url=http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=1220|website=www.jewishhistory.org.il}}</ref>
* 1224 – c. October: [[Franciscan]]s led by [[Agnellus of Pisa]] found the first [[Greyfriars, Oxford|Greyfriars]] in Oxford. By c. 1229 [[Robert Grosseteste]] is teaching theology to the order here.<ref name=CBH/>
* By c. 1230 – [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]] laid out beyond the city wall as Horsemonger Street.<ref name=OHW2>{{cite book|first=Malcolm|last=Graham|title=On Foot from Broad Street|series=Oxford Heritage Walks, 2|publisher=Oxford Preservation Trust|year=2014|isbn=978-0-9576797-1-9}}</ref>
* 1236 – Rioters cause a fire.<ref name=Koenig/>
* Between c. 1236 and 1272 – [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]], at this time known as the ‘house of Cowley’, established, "the oldest surviving academic society to house and educate undergraduates in any university."<ref name=SEH>{{cite web|title=History of the Hall|url=http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/about-college/history-hall|publisher=St Edmund Hall|location=Oxford|access-date=6 October 2014|archive-date=18 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218190058/http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/about-college/history-hall|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1238 – Students attack the [[papal legate]]'s retinue.<ref name=VCH/>
* 1239 – Oxford Castle's first recorded use as a county gaol.
* 1240
** [[Robert Grosseteste]], Bishop of Lincoln, establishes "St Frideswide's Chest" for the support of poor scholars.<ref name=Powicke>{{cite book|first=F. M.|last=Powicke|author-link=F. M. Powicke|chapter=Oxford|title=Ways of Medieval Life and Thought: Essays and Addresses|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81693|year=1949}}</ref>
** Approximate date: [[William de Brailes]] is working on [[illuminated manuscript]]s in the city, including an early [[book of hours]], perhaps for a woman called Suzanna from North Hinksey.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Eamon Duffy|first=Eamon|last=Duffy|title=Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570|year=2006|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven, CT|isbn=0-300-11714-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dmio0EKTBCsC&q=William+de+Brailes&pg=PA8}}</ref>
* 1242 – A tavern exists on the site of the [[Bear Inn, Oxford|Bear Inn]].
* 1249 – Spring: Bequest of [[William of Durham]] for the support of scholars, used for establishment of [[University College, Oxford|University College]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* By 1252 – [[Congregation (university)|University Congregation]] meeting in the [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]].
* 1253 – June: University buys property to support the establishment of University College, on the north side of [[High Street, Oxford|The High]].
* 1258
** 12 June: [[Provisions of Oxford]] enacted by a parliament meeting at the Dominican Friary in St. Ebbes, creating an elected Council of barons to advise King [[Henry III of England|Henry III]]<ref name=CBH/> (abandoned 1261).
** 27 October–4 November: [[Oxford Parliament (1258)|Oxford Parliament]] meets, with [[Peter de Montfort]] presiding.
* 1262 – Consecration of a priory church in Oxford, probably the largest of the [[Dominican Order]] in England, in St Ebbe's.<ref name=OHW5>{{cite book|first=Malcolm|last=Graham|title=On Foot from Carfax to Turn Again|series=Oxford Heritage Walks, 5|publisher=Oxford Preservation Trust|year=2019|isbn=978-0-9576797-6-4|page=49}}</ref>
* 1263
** Early May: [[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester]], newly returned from exile, summons a meeting of rebel barons at Oxford, leading to the outbreak of the [[Second Barons' War]]. Soon afterwards, the King occupies the town and holds a council here.<ref name=VCH/>
** [[Town and gown]] riots.<ref name=Lawrence>{{cite book|first=C. H.|last=Lawrence|chapter=The University in State and Church|title=The History of the University of Oxford|volume=1|editor1=Aston, T. H.|editor2=Catto, J. I. |publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1984}}</ref>
** Presumed date: [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]] is founded in the university by [[John I de Balliol]] on its modern-day site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/history/history/|title=Balliol College: History|access-date=4 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009202636/http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/history/history/<!-- Bot retrieved archive -->|archive-date=9 October 2007}}</ref> Its first statutes are sealed on 22 August 1282 by his widow, [[Dervorguilla of Galloway]], who in 1284 also conveys the freehold of its site.<ref name=JJB>{{cite book|first=John|last=Jones|title=Balliol College: a history|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=2nd|year=2005|isbn=0-19-920181-1}}</ref>
* 1264
** February: Student riots.<ref name=VCH/>
** 12 March: Henry III suspends teaching in the university until [[Michaelmas Day|Michaelmas]] as he is making the city his military headquarters at the outbreak of the Second Barons' War.<ref name=Lawrence/>
** 14 September: [[Walter de Merton]] formally completes the foundation of the House of Scholars of Merton, later [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]] in the university.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* 1265 – Christmas: Henry III is entertained at [[Osney Abbey]].<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1268 – [[Ascension Day]]: Riots against Jews.
* 1274
** January: Student riots between [[Nation (university)#University of Oxford|northerners and southerners]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=R. C.|last=Finucane|title=Cantilupe, Thomas de [St Thomas of Hereford] (c. 1220–1282)|edition=Online|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4570|access-date=30 October 2014|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4570}}</ref>
** August: Merton College receives its statutes, the first English university college to do so.<ref name=CBH/>
* 1276 – Merton College is first recorded as having a collection of books, making [[Merton College Library|its library]] the world's oldest in continuous daily use.<ref>{{cite web|title=Library & Archives – History|url=http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library8.shtml|publisher=Merton College|location=Oxford|access-date=8 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513022654/http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library8.shtml|archive-date=13 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{dubious|date=November 2019}} During the first century of its existence the books are probably kept in a chest.
* 1279 – [[Wolvercote Common]] villagers' rights first confirmed.
* 1280/1 – University College receives statutes.<ref name=CBH/>
* 1281 – December: [[Rewley Abbey]], established in 1280 by [[Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall|Edmund, Earl of Cornwall]] for [[Cistercians]], is dedicated.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1283 – [[Gloucester College, Oxford|Gloucester College]] is founded in the university for [[Benedictine]]s of [[Gloucester Abbey]].<ref name=CO>{{cite web|title=Catholic Oxford|url=http://catholicoxford.blogspot.co.uk/|access-date=14 October 2014}}</ref>
* Between 1283 and 10 May 1301 – [[Hart Hall]] established in the university.<ref name=Hamilton>{{cite book|first=Sidney Graves|last=Hamilton|title=Hertford College|url=https://archive.org/details/hertfordcollege00hamigoog|location=London|publisher=Robinson|year=1903|series=University of Oxford college histories}}</ref>
* c. 1291 – [[Durham College, Oxford|Durham College]] is founded in the university for Benedictines from Durham.<ref name=EO/>
* 1292 – Guildhall.
* 1294 – [[Holywell, Oxford|Holywell]] passes to Merton College.<ref name=OHW3/>
* 1295 – Earliest known members of parliament for Oxford.
* 1297 – [[Quaking Bridge]] first known.<ref name=VCH/>
* By 1300 – The philosopher [[Duns Scotus]] is studying in Oxford.

==14th century==
[[File:Mob Quad from Chapel Tower.jpg|thumb|[[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]]'s [[Mob Quad]]]]
* 1310 – [[Mob Quad]], the first purpose-built accommodation for students, completed in [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]].
* 1314 – 4 April: [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]] is founded in the university by [[Walter Stapledon]], Bishop of Exeter, and his brother for education of clergy.<ref name=CO/> (statutes 26 April 1316).
* 1317 – [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]] first recorded under this name in the university.<ref name=SEH/>
* 1318 – [[John Deydras]], [[pretender]] to the English throne, claims [[Beaumont Palace]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Weir|first=Alison|author-link=Alison Weir|year=2005|title=Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England|location=London|publisher=Jonathan Cape|isbn=9780224063203}}</ref>
[[File:Adam de Brome.jpg|thumb|[[Adam de Brome]], founder of [[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel College]]]]
* c. 1320
** Original University Convocation House added to [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]].
** Tackley's Inn built in the university.
* 1324 – 24 April: [[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel College]] is founded in the university by [[Adam de Brome]] by licence from [[Edward II of England|King Edward II]] in honour of the Virgin Mary.
* 1326
** 21 January: Oriel College chartered.<ref name=CO/>
** 2 October: [[Invasion of England (1326)|Invasion of England]]: [[Isabella of France]] reaches Oxford.
* 1327
** 1 February: First record of mayor of Oxford serving the monarch at a coronation feast.<ref name=TH>Display in Town Hall.</ref>
** 27 August: Death of [[Thomas Cobham]], Bishop of Worcester. His books are given to the university, where they are installed in a room above Convocation House in the [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]], forming the university's first library.
* 1329 – [[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel College]]'s fellows, previously accommodated in Tackley's Inn, move to La Oriole from which the college takes its name.
* 1330 – [[Parliament of England]] meets at [[Osney Abbey]].<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1332 – [[University College, Oxford|University College]] first acquires property on its modern-day site.
* 1333 – November: Following violence between northern and southern masters, a group of the former from [[Brasenose College, Oxford|Brasenose]] and [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton]] migrates to [[Stamford, Lincolnshire]], and attempts to set up a university there. In August 1334, the chancellor of Oxford obtains a royal writ to suppress it, and it is closed in summer 1335.<ref name=Lawrence/>
* 1341 – 18 January: [[The Queen's College, Oxford|The Queen's College]] is founded as the "Hall of the Queen's scholars of Oxford" in the university in the name of [[Philippa of Hainault]] by her chaplain, [[Robert de Eglesfield]].
* 1348 – November: [[Black Death]] reaches Oxford, continuing until June 1349.<ref name=VCH/>
* 1355 – 10 February: [[St Scholastica Day riot]] breaks out, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.<ref name=CBH/>
* 1362 – [[Canterbury College, Oxford|Canterbury College]] is founded in the university by locally-born [[Simon Islip]], Archbishop of Canterbury, for Benedictine monks of [[Christ Church Priory]], Canterbury and secular priests of the province of Canterbury.<ref name=CO/>
* c. 1370s – Cretan-born Franciscan Peter Phillarges, the future [[Antipope Alexander V]], studies in the university.
* 1373
** [[Merton College Library]] is built.
** Rebuilding of [[Hythe Bridge]] in stone begins.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1379 – 30 June: [[New College, Oxford|New College]] is founded in the university by [[William of Wykeham]], Bishop of Winchester, as "The College of St Mary of Winchester in Oxford" (charter 26 November).
* 1381 – [[John Wycliffe]] prohibited from teaching in the university for [[heresy]].
* 1386 – 14 April: First scholars enter [[New College, Oxford|New College]], the first college in the university to provide extensively for undergraduate education<ref name=EO>{{cite book|editor=[[Christopher Hibbert|Hibbert, Christopher]]|title=The Encyclopædia of Oxford|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1988|isbn=0-333-39917-X|title-link=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford}}</ref> and also the first with an entrance tower and with a T-plan college chapel.
* 1396 – Construction of bell tower at [[New College, Oxford|New College]] begins, the first recorded use of building stone from [[Headington Quarry]].<ref name=OHW2/>

== 15th century ==
[[File:New College, Oxford (3915166725).jpg|thumb|[[New College, Oxford|New College]] Dining Hall]]
* 1403 – Rebuilding of [[Hythe Bridge]] in stone completed.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1410 – University students forbidden to lodge with townspeople.<ref name=Timeline15>{{cite web|title=Timeline History of Oxford – 15th Century|work=Welcome to Oxford|access-date=20 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/15th-century-T1384.html}}</ref>
* 1427 – 13 October: [[Lincoln College, Oxford|Lincoln College]] is founded in the university by [[Richard Fleming (bishop)|Richard Fleming]], Bishop of Lincoln, for his secular clergy.<ref name=CO/>
* 1435 – [[St Mary's College, Oxford|St Mary's College]] is founded in the university for [[Augustinians]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Archaeologists search for Oxford University's lost college|work=LABM|url=https://labmonline.co.uk/news/archaeologists-search-for-oxford-universitys-lost-college/|date=2022-01-31|accessdate=2022-01-31}}</ref>
* 1437 – [[St Bernard's College, Oxford|St Bernard's College]] is founded in the university for [[Cistercians]].
* 1438 – 10 February: [[All Souls' College, Oxford|All Souls' College]] is founded in the university by [[Henry Chichele]], Archbishop of Canterbury, and [[Henry VI of England|King Henry VI]] as a graduate institution.<ref name=CBH/>
* 1458 – 15 July: [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]] is founded in the university by [[William Waynflete]], Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England.<ref>{{cite web|title=College History|publisher=Magdalen College|url=http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/discover-magdalen/history-of-college/|access-date=27 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1461 – 3 July: The university chancellor is authorised to ban prostitutes within 10 miles of the city.
* 1465 – First mention of an [[Osney Bridge]].<ref name=OHW4/>
* By 1476 – [[New Inn Hall]] rebuilt and first known under this name.<ref name=VCH/>
* 1478
** Severe outbreak of plague.<ref name=VCH/>
** [[Lincoln College, Oxford|Lincoln College]] is re-endowed by [[Thomas Rotherham]], Bishop of Lincoln.
** Chapel and cloister of [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]] completed by architect [[William Orchard (architect)|William Orchard]].<ref name=CBH/>
** 17 December: First book printed in Oxford.<ref>''Commentarius in symbolum apostolorum'', a 4th century exposition of the [[Apostles' Creed]] attributed to St. [[Jerome]] but actually by [[Tyrannius Rufinus]], perhaps printed by [[Theoderic Rood]], and apparently misdated 1468. {{cite web|title=Printing in universities: the Sorbonne Press and Oxford|url=http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/firstimpressions/assets/downloads/10-Printing-in-universities-the-Sorbonne-Press-and-Oxford.pdf|publisher=[[John Rylands University Library]]|location=Manchester|access-date=6 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714224703/http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/firstimpressions/assets/downloads/10-Printing-in-universities-the-Sorbonne-Press-and-Oxford.pdf|archive-date=14 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1480 – [[Magdalen College School, Oxford|Magdalen College School]] established by William Waynflete.<ref>{{cite book|title=Magdalen School: a history of Magdalen College School, Oxford|first=R. S.|last=Stanier|edition=2nd|location=Oxford|publisher=Blackwell|year=1958}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Clarke|first=D. L. L.|title=Magdalen School: Five Hundred Years On|location=Oxford|publisher=Blackwell|year=1980|isbn=0-631-12516-7}}</ref> Waynflete also establishes a Grammar Hall at his college which by the early 16th century becomes known as [[Magdalen Hall]].<ref name=Hamilton/>
* c.1480 – St George's College founded in the university, served by Augustinians of [[Osney Abbey]].<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol2/pp160-161#h3-0003|chapter=Colleges: St George, Oxford|title=A History of the County of Oxford|volume=2|editor=[[William Page (historian)|Page, William]]|location=London|year=1907|pages=160–161|series=[[Victoria County History]]|access-date=2019-01-08|via=British History Online}}</ref>
* 1481 – 11 October: The printer [[Theoderic Rood]] from [[Cologne]] is known to be established in Oxford.<ref>{{cite book|first=E. Gordon|last=Duff|author-link=Edward Gordon Duff|title=Printing in England in the Fifteenth Century|orig-year=1917|location=London|publisher=Bibliographical Society; British Library|year=2009}}</ref>
* 1485–1487 – Outbreaks of plague or epidemics in each of these years.<ref name=VCH/>
* 1486 – [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]] provides places for commoners (fee-paying students).<ref name=Timeline15/>
* 1488 – The university's [[Divinity School, Oxford|Divinity School]] is completed with [[Duke Humfrey's Library]] on the upper floor as decreed in 1444 by the university to accommodate the manuscripts given by [[Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester]] (died 1447) and begun in 1478.<ref>{{cite book|first=Stanley|last=Gillam|title=The Divinity School and Duke Humfrey's Library at Oxford|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1988|isbn=0-19-951558-1}}</ref>
* 1490 – Construction begins on the tower of [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]].<ref name=CBH/> [[John Colet]] receives his M.A. from the college.

== 16th century ==
[[File:Snow Magdalen Bridge.jpg|thumb|[[Magdalen Tower]] from [[Magdalen Bridge]]]]
* 1509
** [[Magdalen Tower]] completed.
** 19 June: Construction of [[Brasenose College]] as a hall in the university is begun by Sir [[Richard Sutton (lawyer)]] of Prestbury, Cheshire, and the Bishop of Lincoln, [[William Smyth]], for secular clergy<ref name=CO/> (charter 15 January 1512).
* 1510 – Visit of [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]].<ref name=Timeline16>{{cite web|title=Timeline History of Oxford – 16th Century|work=Welcome to Oxford|access-date=20 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/16th-century-T1377.html}}</ref>
* 1517
** 1 March: [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]] founding charter is signed by [[Richard Foxe]], Bishop of Winchester. On 12 March the college's first secular clergy begin their humanist studies within the university in the premises which have been under construction since 1512.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
** A third epidemic of [[sweating sickness]] hits Oxford and Cambridge.
* 1517–1518 – [[Littlemore Priory scandals]].
* 1523 – Visit of King Henry VIII.<ref name=Timeline16/>
* 1525
** February: [[Littlemore Priory]] suppressed.
** July: [[Thomas Wolsey|Cardinal Wolsey]] founds [[Christ Church, Oxford|Cardinal College]] in the university on the site of the [[Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford|Priory of St Frideswide]] (suppressed April 1524) and of [[Canterbury College, Oxford|Canterbury College]].<ref name=CBH/> It will be the first college in which it is possible to study all subjects taught in the university. Work is suspended on Wolsey's downfall in 1529.
* 1530 – Gill's ironmongers opens; it remains in business in the city until 2010.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
* 1531 – Oxford Castle's formally constituted use as a county gaol.
* 1532 – 18 July: Cardinal College, suppressed in 1531, is refounded as [[Christ Church, Oxford|King Henry VIII's College]], an ecclesiastical foundation.
* 1534 – 3 November–18 December: The [[English Reformation Parliament|Reformation Parliament]] passes the [[Acts of Supremacy|Act of Supremacy]] establishing Henry VIII as supreme head of the [[Church of England]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/> All colleges and similar institutions are obliged to acknowledge this; the master and fellows of [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]] do so only under protest.<ref name=JJB/>
* 1535 – First appointment to the chair of [[Regius Professor of Divinity]] founded by Henry VIII: [[Richard Smyth (theologian)|Richard Smyth]].
* 1536
** [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] and other religious institutions: [[Rewley Abbey]] dissolved.
** First cornmarket erected in [[Cornmarket Street|Northgate Street]].<ref name=OHW2/>
* 1538 – Dissolution of the Monasteries: [[Greyfriars, Oxford|Greyfriars]] dissolved.<ref name=EO/>
* 1539 – Dissolution of the Monasteries: [[Gloucester College, Oxford|Gloucester College]], [[Osney Abbey]] and [[Godstow]] nunnery (17 November) dissolved.
* 1540 – Dissolution of the Monasteries: [[St Bernard's College, Oxford|St Bernard's College]] and [[St Mary's College, Oxford|St Mary's College]] dissolved.<ref name=EO/>
* 1542 – [[Diocese of Oxford]] created. In September, [[Osney Abbey]] becomes the seat of the new [[Bishop of Oxford]], the last abbot, [[Robert King (bishop)|Robert King]], becoming the first bishop. This gives the town of Oxford [[City status in the United Kingdom|city status]]. The see is transferred to [[Christ Church, Oxford|King Henry VIII's College]] in June 1544.
* 1546
** 4 November: [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] refounded as a college by Henry VIII under this name. [[Christ Church Cathedral School]] is also founded, for the education of boy choristers.
** [[Regius Professor of Hebrew (Oxford)|Regius Professorship of Hebrew]] founded by Henry VIII.
[[File:Christ Church Great Quadrangle 03.JPG|thumb|[[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]]]]
* 1548 – March: Florentine evangelical reformer [[Peter Martyr Vermigli]] is appointed Regius Professor of Divinity in place of [[Richard Smyth (theologian)|Richard Smyth]]. He is forced to flee the city in September 1553.<ref name="ODNB Vermigli">{{cite ODNB|first=Mark|last=Taplin|title=Vermigli, Pietro Martire [Peter Martyr] (1499–1562)|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2167|access-date=1 November 2014|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28225}}</ref>
* 1550 – The university's [[Duke Humfrey's Library]] is stripped of "superstitious books and images".
* 1555
** 1 May: [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]] founded by merchant [[Thomas White (merchant)|Sir Thomas White]] on the site of [[St Bernard's College, Oxford|St Bernard's College]] to teach Catholic theology.
** 30 May: [[Trinity College, Oxford|Trinity College]] founded by court official and landowner Sir [[Thomas Pope]] on the site of [[Durham College, Oxford|Durham College]] to teach Catholic theology.
** 16 October: Two of the [[Oxford Martyrs]], [[Hugh Latimer]] and [[Nicholas Ridley (martyr)|Nicholas Ridley]], are taken from the [[Bocardo Prison]] and burned at the stake in [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]] following trial in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. Cranmer perhaps watches from a bastion of the city wall.
* 1556 – 21 March: The third of the Oxford martyrs, [[Thomas Cranmer]], deposed Archbishop of Canterbury, is burned at the stake for treason<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/> having professed his faith at St Mary's.
* 1562
** 5 October: [[University of Douai]] inaugurated with [[Richard Smyth (theologian)]] from Oxford as chancellor. With its [[English College, Douai|English College]], it becomes a refuge for Catholic academics forced to leave Oxford.
** Grazing rites of freemen of Oxford to [[Port Meadow, Oxford|Port Meadow]] and of residents of [[Wolvercote]] to [[Wolvercote Common]] are confirmed.<ref name=Wolvercommon>{{cite book|editor=Malden, Jo|title=Celebrating 80 Years of the Wolvercote Commoners' Committee 1929–2009|publisher=Wolvercote Commoners' Committee|year=2009}}</ref>
* 1566 – 31 August–6 September: Visit of Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]], staying at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]]. On 2 September at a performance of [[Richard Edwardes]]' play ''Palamon and Arcite'' before her the stage collapses causing three deaths, but the show goes on and "the Queen laughed heartily thereat".<ref>{{cite book|url=http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/N12549703.pdf|author-link=John Nichols (printer)|first=John|last=Nichols|title=The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth|edition=New|year=1823|volume=1|location=London}}</ref> On 6 September the first [[honorary degree]]s to be awarded at a ceremony in Oxford are conferred on [[Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford]], and eleven others, who receive the [[Master of Arts|MA]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Honorary Degrees - Early History|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=2018-07-27|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/The-University-Year/Encaenia/Honorary-Degrees-Early-History}}</ref> The Queen grants a royal crest to the city coat of arms.
* 1571 – 27 June: Establishment of [[Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus College]] "within the City and University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's foundation" on the site of White Hall by [[Welsh people|Welsh]] cleric and lawyer [[Hugh Price (lawyer)|Hugh Price]], the first college established as an Anglican institution at its foundation.<ref name=EO/> It incorporates the Great White Hall.
* 1577 – 6 July: "[[Black Assize]]" results in an outbreak of [[epidemic typhus]] killing around 300 in the city.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Nuttall Encyclopædia|year=1907|title-link=The Nuttall Encyclopædia}}</ref> Rowland Jenkins, an Oxford stationer, is condemned to have his ears cut off for distributing Popish books.<ref name=CO/>
* 1580 – 6 April: [[1580 Dover Straits earthquake|Dover Straits earthquake]] felt in Oxford.<ref name=CBH/>
* 1581
** Undergraduates are required to subscribe to the [[Thirty-Nine Articles]] of the Anglican Church.<ref name=CO/>
** 27 June: Copies of [[Edmund Campion]]'s ''Decem Rationes'', arguments against the validity of the Anglican Church, printed clandestinely at [[Stonor Park]], are found on the benches of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.<ref name=CO/>
* 1582 – February: ''Meleager'', a [[Latin]] play on the mythological figure of [[Meleager]] by "Gulielmus Gagerus" ([[William Gager]]), is performed by members of Christ Church.
* 1583 – 11 June: ''Rivales'', another Latin play by Gager, is acted by members of Christ Church; it is criticised for its "filth". The following day they present another, ''Dido''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Adams|first=William|title=A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-Wrights, Players, and Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the Earliest Times to the Present|volume=1|edition=Repr.|year=2010|publisher=Nabu Press|isbn=978-1-144-71419-0|page=557}} ''Rivales'' is lost.</ref>
* 1585 – 3 April: [[The Queen's College, Oxford|The Queen's College]] is incorporated as a full college under this name by an Act of Parliament obtained by its Provost, [[Henry Robinson (bishop)|Henry Robinson]].
* 1586 – [[Oxford University Press]] is recognised by decree of the [[Star Chamber]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Harry|last=Carter|title=A History of the Oxford University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofoxfordu0000cart|url-access=registration|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1975|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofoxfordu0000cart/page/17 17–22]|isbn=978-0-19-951032-0 }}</ref>
* 1588
** [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]] is granted a royal charter.<ref name=JJB/>
** First published map of the city, surveyed by [[Ralph Agas]] in 1578.
* 1589
** 5 July: Catholic priests [[George Nichols (martyr)|George Nichols]] and Richard Yaxley, together with two helpers, are hanged in [[Holywell, Oxford|Holywell]], having been arrested for celebrating mass at the Catherine Wheel inn in [[Magdalen Street]] East.<ref name=CO/>
** 8 December: Oxford-born [[John Underhill (bishop)|John Underhill]], [[Rector (academia)|Rector]] of [[Lincoln College, Oxford|Lincoln College]], is elected [[Bishop of Oxford]], the [[Episcopal see|see]] having been vacant for 21 years. He holds the post until his death on 12 May 1592 after which the see again falls vacant for 11 years.
* 1592 – 22–28 September: Visit of Queen Elizabeth, staying at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/N12549705.pdf|first=John|last=Nichols|title=The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth|edition=New|year=1823|volume=3|location=London}}</ref> On 26 September members of Christ Church revive William Gager's 1583 Latin play ''Rivales'' before her.
* c. 1594 – Mound erected as a feature in [[New College, Oxford|New College]] garden.
* 1598 – 23 February: [[Thomas Bodley]] refounds the university's [[Duke Humfrey's Library]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>

== 17th century ==
[[File:The Bodleian Library from the south entrance.jpg|thumb|Old Schools Quadrangle, [[Bodleian Library]]]]
* 1602 – 8 November: [[Bodleian Library]] opens;<ref name=CBH/> [[Thomas James]] is its first librarian and publishes the first catalogue in 1605.
* 1603 – Antiquary [[William Camden]] publishes an edition of early British histories in which he inserts into [[Asser]]'s ''Life of King Alfred'' a claim that [[Alfred the Great]] founded the University of Oxford in 886.<ref name=Powicke/>
* 1604
** 31 January: [[Thomas Crompton (died 1609)|Sir Thomas Crompton]] becomes the first [[Burgess (title)|burgess]] summoned to sit as a member for the newly created [[Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford University constituency]] in the [[Parliament of England]].
** [[John Bridges (bishop)|John Bridges]] is elected Bishop of Oxford, the seat having been vacant for 11 years.
** The [[King's Men (playing company)]] make their first visit to Oxford; they will come a total of 6 times by 1613.
* 1604–1611 – Men of the university participate in the translation of the [[King James Version]] of the Holy Bible, with the First Oxford Company under [[John Harding (President of Magdalen)]] working on the Old Testament Prophets and the Second Oxford Company under [[Thomas Ravis]] on the New Testament Gospels.<ref>{{cite book|first=Adam|last=Nicolson|authorlink=Adam Nicolson|title=Power and Glory|location=London|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2003|isbn=0-00-710893-1}}</ref>
* 1605
** c. March: Catholic conspirators in the [[Gunpowder Plot]] meet at the Catherine Wheel inn in [[Magdalen Street]] East.<ref name=CO/>
** 27–30 August: Visit of [[James I of England|King James I]], [[Anne of Denmark|Queen Anne]], and their son [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales|Prince Henry]] to the university. Gentlemen from [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] entertain them with a series of plays, including (at the latter) an early example of perspective scenery. The big hit of the visit is [[Samuel Daniel]]'s ''The Queen's Arcadia''; [[Matthew Gwinne]]'s Latin play ''Vertumnus'' puts James to sleep.
* 1607 – 18 September: The [[King's Arms, Oxford|King's Arms]] exists under this name.
* c. 1609? – ''[[Morus nigra]]'' (black mulberry) planted at [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]]; it will still be flowering into the 21st century.
* 1610
** 9 November: Catholic priest [[George Napper]] is hanged at the Castle for celebrating mass.
** 12 December: Sir [[Thomas Bodley]] makes an agreement with the [[Stationers' Company]] of London to put a copy of every book registered with them into the new [[Bodleian Library]], the origin of [[legal deposit]] in the British Isles.<ref>{{cite book|editor=[[Allardyce Nicoll|Nicoll, Allardyce]]|title=Shakespeare Survey|volume=4|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1951}}</ref> To accommodate this, he plans and finances an extension to the library, "Arts End" of [[Duke Humfrey's Library]] (completed 1612).
** 20 December: [[Wadham College, Oxford|Wadham College]] is founded in the university by [[Dorothy Wadham]] on the site of the college of Trinitarian Friars.<ref name=CO/>
* 1612 – [[Jacob Barnet affair|Jacob Barnet]], a Jew, is imprisoned by the university for changing his mind about converting to Christianity; he is later exiled.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Sketch Map of a Lost Continent: The Republic of Letters|first=Anthony|last=Grafton|url=http://arcade.stanford.edu/journals/rofl/articles/sketch-map-lost-continent-republic-letters-by-anthony-grafton|access-date=28 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522195140/http://arcade.stanford.edu/journals/rofl/articles/sketch-map-lost-continent-republic-letters-by-anthony-grafton|archive-date=22 May 2010}}</ref>
* 1616 – [[Robert Burton (scholar)|Robert Burton]] is appointed vicar of [[St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford|St Thomas the Martyr's Church]], an office which he holds until his death in 1640.
* 1617 – [[Carfax Conduit]] completed.<ref name=VCH/>
* 1619 – [[Henry Savile (Bible translator)|Henry Savile]] founds the [[Savilian Professor of Astronomy|Savilian Professorships in Astronomy]] and [[Savilian Professor of Geometry|in Geometry]] in the university.
* 1621 – The [[University of Oxford Botanic Garden]], the oldest [[botanical garden]] in the [[British Isles]], is founded as a [[physic garden]] by [[Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A History of The Gardens|url=http://www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/Garden/History%20Sub/obg-history-1.html|publisher=The University of Oxford Botanic Garden|access-date=15 March 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709200332/https://www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/Garden/History%20Sub/obg-history-1.html|archive-date=9 July 2011}}</ref>
* 1624
** February: The [[Bodleian Library]] takes delivery under its [[legal deposit]] privilege of a copy of the Shakespeare [[First Folio]] which it has bound by William Wildgoose. Having been sold, probably in 1664 when replaced by a new edition, it has to be bought back in 1906 by an appeal.<ref name=Craster/>
** 5 August: [[Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke College]] is founded in the university on the site of Broadgates Hall, originally to support scholars from [[Abingdon School]].
** Bodleian Library's Old Schools Quadrangle completed and fitted out.
* 1625 – c. August: Court and Parliament temporarily move to Oxford because of [[bubonic plague]] in London.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* 1630 – The Mitre Hotel (in [[High Street, Oxford|The High]]) in business.<ref>It closes as a steakhouse in 2018 and reopens as an Italian restaurant under another name at the end of 2022. {{cite news|first=Sophie|last=Perry|title=Oxford: The Mitre pub to reopen as Italian restaurant|url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/20271443.oxford-mitre-pub-reopen-italian-restaurant/|work=Oxford Mail|date=2022-07-11|accessdate=2022-11-25}}</ref>
* 1631 – Original [[Iffley Lock]] built as a [[pound lock]] on the Thames by the [[Oxford-Burcot Commission]].
* 1634
** 13 May: Construction of new university [[Convocation House]] begins.
** Reconstruction of [[University College, Oxford|University College]] begins.
* 1635
** October: Canterbury Quadrangle at [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]], the first example of Italian [[Renaissance architecture]] in Oxford (begun 26 July 1631), is completed at the expense of [[William Laud]], Archbishop of Canterbury.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Howard Colvin|first=Howard|last=Colvin|title=The Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College, Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1968|isbn=0-19-920-159-5}}</ref>
** New charter issued to the city.
* 1636
** 3 March: A "great charter" to the university establishes [[Oxford University Press]] as the second of the [[privileged presses]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A Short History of Oxford University Press|url=http://global.oup.com/about/oup_history/?AB=B&cc=gb|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2012|access-date=30 July 2013}}</ref>
** Late August: Visit of [[Charles I of England|King Charles]] and [[Henrietta Maria of France|Queen Henrietta Maria]].
** Royal charter permits the University Reader in Anatomy to claim the body of anyone executed within 21 miles of Oxford for dissection.<ref>{{cite web|title=Executions at Oxford Castle 1788–1888|website=Oxford History|url=https://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/misc/executions/index.html|accessdate=2024-04-15}}</ref>
* 1637 – New University [[Convocation House]] completed; a new west end for the Bodleian Library on the upper floor is completed in 1640 and used from 1659 to house the oriental manuscripts and other material bequeathed by [[John Selden]] in 1654.
* 1642 – 29 October: King [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] enters Oxford and establishes his court at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]].<ref name=CBH/> Physician [[William Harvey]] is among them.
* 1643
** 3 January: The royal mint is transferred from [[Shrewsbury]] to [[New Inn Hall]].
** January: Royalist newspaper ''[[Mercurius Aulicus]]'' begins weekly publication in Oxford.
** April–June: Fortlet erected in [[St Clement's, Oxford|St Clement's]] to cover [[Magdalen Bridge]].
** July: Charles I's Queen [[Henrietta Maria of France|Henrietta Maria]] arrives in Oxford to take up residence at [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]] until April 1644.
** 7 December: Royalist commander [[Sir Thomas Byron]] is fatally attacked outside his lodgings by one of his own soldiers, Captain Hurst, in a dispute over pay.<ref>{{cite odnb|id=4283|last=Yerby|first=George|title=Byron, Sir Thomas|year=2006|origyear=2004}}</ref>
** Parliamentary prisoners held in St George's Tower of Oxford Castle and munitions stored in the towers of [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]] and [[New College, Oxford|New College]].
* 1644
** 22 January: Charles I opens the Royalist '[[Oxford Parliament (1644)|Oxford Parliament]]'<ref name=CBH/> at Christ Church.
** 28 May–4 June: First [[Siege of Oxford]] by Parliamentarian troops in the [[English Civil War]], ending with the departure of Charles I and his son. The original cornmarket is dismantled for the lead in its roof.<ref name=OHW2/>
** 6 October: Major fire, resulting from a soldier attempting to roast a stolen pig.<ref>{{cite web|first=Anthony|last=Wood|author-link=Anthony Wood (antiquary)|title=The Oxford Journals|url=http://www.day-books.com/diaries/a_wood.pdf|access-date=3 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207105213/http://www.day-books.com/diaries/a_wood.pdf|archive-date=7 February 2012}}</ref>
* 1645
** March: [[Prince Rupert of the Rhine|Prince Rupert]] leaves Oxford for Bristol.
** 19 May–4 June: Second Siege of Oxford by Parliamentarian troops. Their commander, [[Thomas Fairfax]], is then ordered to march north.
** 5 November: Charles I returns to Oxford to overwinter with his troops.
** 30 December: Charles I requests the loan of Agrippa d'Aubigné's ''Histoire universelle'' from the [[Bodleian Library]] which, in accordance with its rules, is refused.
** An [[English yew]] is planted in the [[University of Oxford Botanic Garden|Botanic Garden]] which will still be flowering in the 21st century.<ref name=OBGG>{{cite book|first1=Chris|last1=Thorogood|first2=Simon|last2=Hiscock|title=Oxford Botanic Garden: a guide|location=Oxford|publisher=Bodleian Library|year=2019|chapter=Timeline|page=78|isbn=978-1-85124-520-8}}</ref>
* 1646
** 27 April: Charles I flees Oxford in disguise and begins [[Charles I's journey from Oxford to the Scottish army camp near Newark|his journey from Oxford to the Scottish army camp near Newark]].
** 2–17 May: Third Siege of Oxford by Parliamentarian troops. On 5 May [[Martin Lluelyn|Martin Llewellyn]]'s drama ''The King Found at Southwell'' becomes the last stage piece performed in the city before its surrender.
** 20 June: Surrender of the [[Cavalier|Royalist]] garrison at Oxford to General [[Thomas Fairfax]]'s Parliamentary [[New Model Army]] signed at Christ Church. On 22 June Princes [[Prince Rupert of the Rhine|Rupert]] and [[Maurice of the Palatinate|Maurice]] leave the city and on 24 June the main force marches out, ending the [[First English Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Civil War: Surrender of Oxford|url=http://oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/civil_war.html|work=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme|publisher=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board|year=2013|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1647 – [[Cucking stool]] set up by Castle Mill.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1649–1660 – The semi-formal [[Oxford Philosophical Club]] of natural philosophers meets; it is a predecessor of the [[Royal Society]] of London.
* 1649 – 18 September: Two [[Leveller]] private soldiers are shot near [[Gloucester Green]] for their part in a second mutiny of the New Model Army's Oxford garrison.<ref name=Levellers>{{cite web|title=Inscriptions: The Levellers|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/streets/inscriptions/central/levellers.html|work=History on the streets of Oxford|year=2013|access-date=10 October 2014}} The [[Banbury mutiny]] had taken place earlier in the year.</ref>
[[File:Brasenose College from Loggan's Oxonia Illustrata.jpg|thumb|[[Brasenose College, Oxford|Brasenose]] in c.1674, from [[David Loggan|Loggan]]'s ''Oxonia Illustrata'']]
* 1650
** [[The Eagle and Child]] pub (in [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']]) in business.<ref>{{cite web|title=Eagle & Child pub|url=http://oxfordhistory.org.uk/stgiles/tour/west/48_49_eagle.html|work=St Giles', Oxford|access-date=11 October 2014}}</ref>
** 14 December – Domestic servant [[Anne Greene]] is hanged at [[Oxford Castle]] for infanticide, having concealed an illegitimate stillbirth. The following day she revives in a dissection room in the High and, being pardoned, lives until 1659.<ref>{{cite book|author=A Scholler in Oxford|title=Newes from the Dead, or a True and Exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Greene; whereunto are prefixed certain Poems casually written upon that subject|location=Oxford|publisher=printed by Leonard Lichfield for Tho. Robinson|year=1651}} Includes Latin verses by [[Christopher Wren]].</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1136/bmj.285.6357.1792|pmid=6816370|pmc=1500297|last=Hughes|first=J. Trevor|title=Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Green: An Oxford Case of Resuscitation in the Seventeenth Century|jstor=29509089|journal=[[British Medical Journal]]|volume=285|issue=6357|year=1982|pages=1792–1793}}</ref> 
* 1651
** January: [[Oliver Cromwell]] appointed University Chancellor.<ref>{{cite book|title=Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Religious Connexions of John Owen|first=William|last=Orme|author-link=William Orme (minister)|location=London|publisher=T. Hamilton|page=[https://archive.org/details/memoirsoflifewri00orme/page/142 142]|url=https://archive.org/details/memoirsoflifewri00orme|quote=oliver Cromwell Chancellor Oxford January 1651.|access-date=16 November 2015|year=1820}}</ref>
** First [[coffee house]] in England is opened near the junction of [[Queen's Lane]] and [[High Street, Oxford|The High]]<ref name=CBH/> by Jacob, a Lebanese Jew. (Oxford's next two coffee houses are opened in the same vicinity in 1654 by Cirques Jobson and 1655 by Arthur Tillyard.)
* 1654
** City corporation buys its first [[fire engine]].<ref name=Koenig/>
** First [[Quaker]] preachers in Oxford.
* By 1656 – Baptist meeting established.
* 1659
** [[Robert Boyle]] with the assistance of [[Robert Hooke]], having constructed an improved "Pneumatical Engine" or air pump at his residence in Oxford (where Boyle lives from 1655 to 1668), begins a series of experiments on the properties of air.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Acott|first=Chris|title=The diving "Law-ers": A brief resume of their lives|journal=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal|volume=29|issue=1|year=1999|issn=0813-1988|oclc=16986801|url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/5990|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110402073203/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/5990|url-status=usurped|archive-date=2 April 2011|access-date=17 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Boyle|title=New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects|year=1660}} The 2nd edition of Boyle's book, published in 1662 in Oxford, contains [[Boyle's Law]].</ref>
** Old Dining Hall at [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]] built, the only new collegiate building erected in Oxford during the [[Interregnum (England)|Interregnum]].
* 1665
** 21 September: Consecration of new chapel at [[Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke College]], [[Christopher Wren]]'s first completed work of architecture.
** 25 September–January 1666: The royal court is in residence in Oxford to avoid the Plague in London, [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]] living at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]].
** 9 October: The [[Cavalier Parliament]] assembles in Christ Church to avoid the Plague in London.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
** 7 November: ''[[The London Gazette]]'', the oldest surviving journal, begins publication as ''The Oxford Gazette''.
* 1666 – [[Chapel of Brasenose College, Oxford|Chapel of Brasenose College]] consecrated; the adjacent library is also completed about this time.
* 1667 – [[Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk|Henry Howard]] donates the first of the [[Arundel marbles]] to the university; they will initially be displayed in a 'Garden of Antiquities' surrounding the Sheldonian Theatre.<ref>Displays in [[Ashmolean Museum]].</ref>
* 1669 – 9 July: [[Sheldonian Theatre]], designed by [[Christopher Wren]] in 1664 for university ceremonial and to accommodate the University Press, opens.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* 1674 – ''[[Oxford Almanack]]'' first published by [[Oxford University Press]] for the university.<ref name=EO/>
* 1676 – [[New College, Oxford|New College]] bridge over [[Queen's Lane]] built.<ref name=Pevsner/>
* 1677
** [[Elias Ashmole]] gifts the collection that begins the [[Ashmolean Museum]] to the university. It includes a stuffed [[dodo]] from the [[Musaeum Tradescantianum]] in London.
** [[Holywell, Oxford|Holywell]] incorporated into the city.<ref name=OHW3/>
* 1681
** 21–28 March: [[Oxford Parliament (1681)|Oxford Parliament]] meets in Convocation House (with the Lords at Christ Church) to debate the [[Exclusion Crisis]] before Charles II suspends it for the remainder of his reign.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Jenny Uglow|first=Jenny|last=Uglow|title=A Gambling Man|location=London|publisher=Faber|year=2010|orig-year=2009|isbn=978-0-571-21734-2|page=519}}</ref> This is the last time Parliament meets outside London.
** 25 March: Old Tom public house in [[St Aldate's, Oxford|St Aldate's]] opens as the Unicorn & Jacob's Well.<ref name=EO/>
** 31 August: Protestant activist [[Stephen College]], convicted of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered in Oxford.<ref>''A True copy of the dying words of Mr Stephen Colledge, left in writing under his own hand, and confirmed by him at the time of execution, August 31, 1681 at Oxford''.</ref>
* 1681–1682 – [[Tom Tower]] at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] built to a design by [[Christopher Wren]].
* 1683 – 24 May: The [[Ashmolean Museum]] opens in [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]] as the world's first purpose-built [[university museum]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|work=The Invention of Museum Anthropology|publisher=Pitt Rivers|url=http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/primary-documents/primary-documents-ashmolean-museum.html|year=2012|access-date=2019-05-25}}</ref> including accommodation for the teaching of natural philosophy and a chemistry laboratory. Naturalist Dr. [[Robert Plot]] is the first keeper and first professor of chemistry.
* 1685 – [[Obadiah Walker]], [[List of Masters of University College, Oxford|Master of University College]] since 1676, openly establishes a Catholic cell there.
* 1687 – 4 September: King [[James II of England|James II]] tries to expel the Fellows of [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]] for refusing to Catholicise their institution<ref name=CBH/> and on 25 October forcibly installs [[Samuel Parker (bishop of Oxford)]] as college president. Anti-Catholic riots ensue.<ref name=CO/>
* 1688
** 18 August: [[Timothy Hall (bishop)|Timothy Hall]] is nominated as [[Bishop of Oxford]] following the death of Samuel Parker. Although consecrated on 7 October at [[Lambeth Palace|Lambeth]], he is refused installation by the [[Canon (priest)|canon]]s of [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]].
** November: [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Princess Anne]], having fled the royal court of her father [[James II of England|James II]] in the company of [[Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough|Sarah Churchill]], arrives in Oxford where she rejoins her husband [[Prince George of Denmark]] and they declare for the [[Glorious Revolution]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Green|first=David|title=Queen Anne|year=1970|place=London|publisher=Collins|isbn=0-0021-1693-6|pages=45–7}}</ref>
* 1693 – 29 July: [[Anthony Wood (antiquary)|Anthony Wood]] is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court of the university for certain libels against [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]]; he is fined, banished from the university until he recants, and the offending pages are burned outside the Sheldonian Theatre.
* 1694 – 12 April: Dedication of the chapel at [[Trinity College, Oxford|Trinity College]], designed by [[Henry Aldrich]] with advice from [[Christopher Wren]], the first [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] college chapel.<ref name=EO/>
* 1697 – 23 November: [[Apothecary]] John Crosse makes a will establishing the Oxford Hospital on his property at Little Park near [[Ampthill]] in Bedfordshire as an [[almshouse]] primarily for Oxford college servants; it is built c.1700.<ref>{{cite journal|first=T. D.|last=Whittet|title=Some Oxford apothecaries|journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=72|year=1979|issue=12 |pages=940–5|doi=10.1177/014107687907201219 |pmid=399627 |pmc=1437233 }}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|desc=Oxford Hospital|num=1114468|date=1951-07-17|accessdate=2022-06-30}}</ref>
* 1699 – February: [[Greek College, Oxford|Greek College]] is founded in the university for study of the [[Greek Orthodox Church]], but lasts only until 1705.

== 18th century ==
[[File:Old Ashmolean.gif|thumb|right|[[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]] looking east towards (right to left) the [[Old Ashmolean Building]], the [[Sheldonian Theatre]] and the [[Clarendon Building]]]]
* 1700 – 8 March: Spire of [[All Saints Church, Oxford|All Saints Church]] in [[High Street, Oxford|The High]] collapses. The body of the church is rebuilt 1706–1708.<ref name=Pevsner>{{cite book|first=Nikolaus|last=Pevsner|author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner|title=Oxfordshire|series=[[The Buildings of England]]|location=Harmondsworth|publisher=Penguin|year=1974|isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref>
* 1705 – [[Edmond Halley]], Professor of Geometry, installed in his observatory in [[New College Lane]], identifies the orbit of the [[Halley's Comet|comet which will be named after him]].<ref>''Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae''.</ref>
* 1706–1711 – [[Peckwater Quadrangle]] at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] is built<ref>{{cite web|title=Christchurch, Peckwater Quadrangle, Oxford|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-244880-christchurch-peckwater-quadrangle-oxford|work=British Listed Buildings|access-date=27 October 2014}}</ref> on the site of [[Vine Hall, Oxford|Vine Hall]] and Peckwater's Inn.
* 1707–1760 – Major rebuilding of [[The Queen's College, Oxford|The Queen's College]].
* 1708 – 14 July: [[Joseph Trapp]] becomes first [[Oxford Professor of Poetry]].<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Trapp, Joseph|volume=57}}</ref>
* 1711–1715 – [[Clarendon Building]], designed by [[Nicholas Hawksmoor]], built for [[Oxford University Press]].
* 1712 – 20 July: [[Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus College]] inherits the extensive library of its Principal [[Jonathan Edwards (academic)|Jonathan Edwards]] on his death.
* 1714 
** 29 July: [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]], is founded in the university under the will of [[Sir Thomas Cookes]] of Worcestershire (died 1701) on the site of [[Gloucester College, Oxford|Gloucester Hall]].
** 1 December: Funeral of [[John Radcliffe (physician)|Dr John Radcliffe]] in Oxford.
* 1715 – 28–29 May: Riots in support of [[Jacobitism]], partly directed against Dissenters.<ref name=EO/>
* 1716 – Construction begins of
** [[All Souls' College, Oxford|All Souls' College]]'s North Quad and [[Codrington Library]], designed by [[Nicholas Hawksmoor]] (21 June).<ref name=LA>{{cite web|title=Library Architecture|url=https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/library-architecture|work=The Codrington Library|publisher=All Souls College|location=Oxford|access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref>
** [[University College, Oxford|University College]]'s [[Radcliffe Quadrangle]], to the design of its older buildings.
* 1718 – 16 November: The [[Alfred Jewel]], a work of [[Anglo-Saxon art]], is given to the [[Ashmolean Museum]]. 
* 1720 – Spire of [[All Saints Church, Oxford|All Saints Church]] in [[High Street, Oxford|The High]] rebuilt.<ref name=EO/>
* 1721 – 1 November: Death of [[Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew]] and Bishop of Durham, activates his bequests of 24 June 1720 setting up the annual Creweian Oration and Feast in the university.
* c.1721 – First New Road Baptist chapel built.<ref>''An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses in Central England''.</ref>
* 1722 – [[Turl Street]] gate in city wall demolished.<ref name=OHW2/>
* 1725 – "George the First's Experiment": A Professor of Modern History, appointed under royal patent, appoints the university's first scholars of modern languages; the experiment does not persist.
* 1728 – 17 November: [[William Smith (antiquary)|William Smith]] completes writing ''[[The Annals of University College]]'', written to refute the legend of the college's foundation by [[Alfred the Great]], in favour of William of Durham.<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Smith, William |last=McConnell |first=Anita |id=25927 }}</ref>
* 1729 – [[Charles Wesley]] and his brother [[John Wesley|John]] set up the [[Holy Club]], origin of [[Methodism]], with 14 fellow students, including [[George Whitefield]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctlibrary.com/ch/1983/issue2/216.html|title=The Holy Club|work=Christianity Today|year=1983|access-date=2014-10-20|archive-date=9 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709051234/http://ctlibrary.com/ch/1983/issue2/216.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1733
** 5–12 July: [[George Frideric Handel]] performs a series of concerts in Oxford including on 10 July the première of his oratorio ''[[Athalia (Handel)|Athalia]]'' in the [[Sheldonian Theatre]], where he plays the 1725 Harris organ.
** New Buildings at [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]] begun.<ref name=Pevsner/>
** First [[greenhouse]]s in the [[University of Oxford Botanic Garden|Botanic Garden]] constructed.<ref name=OBGG/>
* 1734 – [[Johann Jacob Dillenius]] is appointed first [[Sherardian Professor of Botany]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|last=Allen|first=D. E.|title=Sherard, William (1659–1728)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355|accessdate=2015-01-13|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/25355|date=September 2013}}</ref>
* 1737 – 17 May: [[Radcliffe Camera|Radcliffe Library]] construction begins.<ref name=RC>{{cite book|first=Stanley|last=Gillam|title=The Radcliffe Camera|location=Oxford|publisher=Bodleian Library|year=1992|isbn=1-85124-026-8}}</ref>
* 1738 – [[Boswells of Oxford]] department store begins business as a luggage manufacturer and retailer. It closes in March–April 2020<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18063414.boswells-oxford-set-close-next-year/|work=Oxford Mail|title=Boswells in Oxford set to close next year|first=Andrew|last=Ffrench|date=2019-11-27|access-date=2019-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18357364.historic-department-store-boswells-will-never-reopen-following-coronavirus-crisis/|work=Oxford Mail|title=Historic department store Boswells will never reopen following coronavirus crisis|first=Andrew|last=Ffrench|date=2020-04-04|access-date=2020-04-04}}</ref> and reopens as a hotel in May 2024.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hotel opens in historic department store building|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxr3103xr5vo|work=BBC News|date=2024-05-07|accessdate=2024-05-08}}</ref>
* 1740 – 8 September: Hart Hall refounded by charter as the first [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]] in the university.<ref name=Hamilton/>
* 1741 – Dial clock installed in tower of [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]] by Thomas Paris of Warwick.
* 1748
** February–April: Student riots in support of [[Jacobitism]].
** [[Holywell Music Room]], the first purpose-built concert hall in Europe, is opened.<ref name=Tyack>{{cite book|title=Oxford: An architectural guide|last=Tyack|first=Geoffrey|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref>
* 1749 – 12 April: The circular [[Radcliffe Camera|Radcliffe Library]], designed by [[James Gibbs]], is opened under the bequest of [[John Radcliffe (physician)|Dr John Radcliffe]] (died 1714) in the newly laid out [[Radcliffe Square]].<ref name=Guest>{{cite book|first=Ivor|last=Guest|author-link=Ivor Forbes Guest|title=Dr. John Radcliffe and His Trust|location=London|publisher=The Radcliffe Trust|year=1991|isbn=0-9502482-1-5}}</ref>
[[File:Radcliffe Camera, Oxford - Oct 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Radcliffe Camera]]]]
* 1751
** Guildhall replaced by Town Hall, including a cornmarket.
** [[Codrington Library]] at [[All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls]] is completed.<ref name=LA/>
* 1752 – 6 April: [[Mary Blandy]] is hanged at [[Oxford Castle]] for [[patricide]], the last woman [[Hanging|hanged]] in Oxford.<ref>{{DNB|first=Leslie|last=Stephen|wstitle=Blandy, Mary|volume=5}}</ref>
* 1753 – 5 May: ''Jackson's Oxford Journal'' begins publication.
* 1755 – January: The [[Ashmolean Museum]]'s decayed stuffed [[dodo]] is largely destroyed.
* 1764 – 6 November: [[Earthquake]] of ~3.4 [[Richter magnitude scale|''<math>M_L</math>'']].<ref>{{cite web|title=Notes on Individual Earthquakes|url=http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/historical/historical_listing.htm|publisher=British Geological Survey|access-date=2020-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516173115/http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/historical/historical_listing.htm|archive-date=2011-05-16}}</ref>
* 1765 – 12 June: The death of General John Guise activates his 1760 bequest of a large collection of [[Old Master]] paintings to his ''alma mater'', [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], where they are assembled in 1767 as the foundation of [[Christ Church Picture Gallery]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Jonathan|last=Spain|title=Guise, John (1682/3–1765)|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11727|access-date=18 November 2014|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/11727}}</ref>
* 1769
** Oxford standard text of the [[King James Bible]], edited by [[Benjamin Blayney]], first published.<ref>{{cite book|last=Herbert|first=A. S.|title=Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible, 1525-1961|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTLRMgEACAAJ|year=1968|publisher=[[British and Foreign Bible Society]]|isbn=0564001309|page=1196}}</ref>
** Alfred [[Masonic lodge]] first meets.<ref name=EO/>
* 1770
** 18 October: [[Radcliffe Infirmary]] admits its first patients.<ref name=EO/>
** [[New Road, Oxford|New Road]] completed.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rhodes|first1=John|last2=Munby|first2=Julian|title=Castle, Canal & College: Worcester Street Car Park & related areas, Oxford|year=2008|publisher=Oxford Preservation Trust}}</ref>
* 1771 – 28 March: Mileways Act provides for major improvements to the city streets. East Gate, North Gate and [[Bocardo Prison]] demolished<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford History: City Wall|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/city_wall/index.html|date=12 September 2012|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> and paving and lighting commissioners appointed.
* 1772
** February: Floods cause partial collapse of [[Magdalen Bridge]] over the [[River Cherwell|Cherwell]].<ref name=Jaine>{{cite journal|last=Jaine|first=T. W. M.|year=1971|url=http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1971/jaine.pdf|title=The Building of Magdalen Bridge, 1772–1790|journal=[[Oxoniensia]]|volume=36|pages=59–71|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
** The first city [[workhouse]] is opened on the site that will later become [[Wellington Square, Oxford|Wellington Square]].
* 1773–1783 – [[Canterbury Quadrangle]] at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] is built to the design of [[James Wyatt]] at the expense of [[Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby]] and Archbishop of Armagh.<ref>{{cite web|title=Christchurch, Canterbury Quadrangle, Oxford|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-244882-christchurch-canterbury-quadrangle-oxfor|work=British Listed Buildings|access-date=27 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1773 – Summer: [[Radcliffe Observatory]] instruments delivered. Construction of the buildings, begun at the end of June 1772, is not completed (to the design of [[James Wyatt]]) until c.1797.<ref name=Guest/>
* 1774 – 1 November: [[Covered Market, Oxford|Covered Market]] opened.
* 1776 – February: Precious metal objects are stolen from the old [[Ashmolean Museum]] by a Frenchman known as Le Maitre, subsequently arrested and imprisoned;<ref name=Dodos>{{cite book|first=David A.|last=Berry|title=Dodos & Dark Lanterns: highlights of Ashmolean history|location=Oxford|publisher=Ashmolean Museum|year=2013|isbn=978-1-85444-281-9}}</ref> the theory that he was [[Jean-Paul Marat]]<ref>{{cite book|pages=187–93|editor=Lovill, Justin|title=Ringing Church Bells to ward off Thunderstorms, and other curiosities from the original Notes and Queries|publisher=Bunbury Press|location=Padstow|year=2009|isbn=978-0-9562046-0-8}}</ref> lacks verification.
* 1778 – [[Magdalen Bridge]], rebuilt by [[John Gwynn (architect)|John Gwynn]] of Shrewsbury, reopens to traffic.<ref name=Jaine/>
* 1779 – 7 April: "Friar Bacon's study" at [[Folly Bridge]] sold for demolition.<ref name=Thacker2>{{cite book|first=Fred S.|last=Thacker|title=The Thames Highway|volume=2|location=Kew|year=1920}}</ref>
* 1780 – Possible foundation date of the [[Bullingdon Club]], originally as an exclusive undergraduate sporting club.<ref>{{cite book|first=S. P. B.|last=Mais|author-link=Petre Mais|title=The Story of Oxford|location=London|publisher=Staples Press|year=1951|page=70}}</ref>
* 1782 – [[Morrells Brewing Company|Morrells]] take a partnership in the Lion Brewery (founded in 1743 by Richard Tawney).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGTtAAAAMAAJ|title=Morrells of Oxford: the family and their brewery 1743–1993|first=Brigid|last=Allen|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxfordshire Books|year=1994|isbn=9780750906340}}</ref>
* 1783
** April: 7-year-old [[Jane Austen]] begins a brief spell being tutored by Mrs Ann Cawley in Oxford.<ref>{{cite journal|first=T. A. B.|last=Corley|title=Jane Austen's school days|journal=Report|publisher=Jane Austen Society|year=1996|pages=10–20}}</ref>
** 4 July: [[John Wesley]] preaches for the first time in the Methodist meeting house in [[New Inn Hall Street]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Inscriptions: Methodist meeting house|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/streets/inscriptions/central/methodist_wesley.html|work=History on the streets of Oxford|year=2013|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1784 – 4 October: [[James Sadler (balloonist)|James Sadler]] makes the first hot air balloon flight in England, from Oxford to [[Woodeaton]].<ref name=EO/>
* 1787 – Original [[Carfax Conduit]] replaced; moved in 1789 to [[Nuneham House]].<ref name=VCH/>
* 1790
** 1 January: The [[Oxford Canal]] is opened throughout from Coventry to a new basin in Oxford.<ref name=CBH/>
** End: [[Osney Lock]] and cut on the Thames, built by convict labour, is opened.<ref name=Thacker2/>
** Major expansion of the [[Oxford Castle|prison]] begins.
* 1791 – 8 July: [[Joseph Haydn]] is awarded an honorary doctorate of music as the culmination of a 3-day visit. He probably conducts his [[Symphony No. 92 (Haydn)|Symphony No. 92]] in the Sheldonian Theatre (where he plays the Harris organ) as part of the ceremonials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haydn107.com/index.php?id=41&part=5&lng=2|title=1791–1795: The London Journeys|work=Haydn 100 & 7|access-date=8 January 2015|archive-date=8 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108165318/http://www.haydn107.com/index.php?id=41&part=5&lng=2|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1794 – Under threat of the [[French Revolutionary Wars]], a meeting at the Star Inn leads to formation of the County Fencible Cavalry, predecessor of the Oxfordshire [[Yeomanry]] and [[Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars]].<ref name=EO/>
* 1795 – St Ignatius church built in [[St Clement's, Oxford|St Clement's]],<ref name=EO/> the city's first new Roman Catholic church since the Reformation.<ref name=CO/>

== 19th century ==
[[File:Oxf-uni-mus-nhi.jpg|thumb|[[Oxford University Museum of Natural History|University Museum]]]]
* 1800 – New University examination statute establishes rigorous written examinations in mathematics and ''[[Literae Humaniores]]''.<ref name=Tames/>
* 1806 – Sir [[Roger Newdigate]] founds the university's [[Newdigate Prize]] for English Poetry. The first winner is [[John Wilson (Scottish writer)|John Wilson]] ("Christopher North").
* 1810 – 29 March: [[Oxford, Ohio]], is laid out in the United States as the home for [[Miami University]].
* 1811 – 25 March: The university expels the first-year undergraduate [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] after he and [[Thomas Jefferson Hogg]] refuse to answer questions about ''[[The Necessity of Atheism]]'', a pamphlet they published anonymously.<ref>{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Winifred|title=Jefferson Hogg: Shelley's Biographer|location=London|publisher=Jonathan Cape|year=1951}}</ref> This follows earlier subversive works printed in the city: Shelley and Hogg's pseudonymous burlesque ''[[Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson]]'' of the previous November and Shelley's ''[[Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things]]'' "By A Gentleman of the University of Oxford" from January.<ref name=SPE12M>{{cite web|url=http://poeticalessay.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/|title=Shelley's Poetical Essay: The Bodleian Libraries' 12 millionth book|publisher=Bodleian Library|location=Oxford|date=10 November 2015|access-date=13 November 2015}}</ref>
* 1812 – William Carter opens the ironmongers that becomes [[Eagle Ironworks, Oxford|Eagle Ironworks]].<ref name=Lucy>{{cite book|first1=Tony|last1=Winckworth|first2=Mike|last2=Hobbs|title=The Lucy Story: portrait of a family company|location=Oxford|publisher=Lucy & Co|year=2009}}</ref>
* 1813 – 14 November: A continuous series of meteorological records for Oxford is begun at the [[Radcliffe Observatory]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Burt, Stephen; Tim|title=Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2019|isbn=9780198834632}}</ref>
* 1814 – 14 June: Banquet in [[Radcliffe Camera|Radcliffe Library]] for [[George IV of the United Kingdom|The Prince Regent]], [[Alexander I of Russia|Tsar Alexander of Russia]] and King [[Frederick William III of Prussia]], who on the following day are awarded honorary degrees of the university.
* 1815
** Summer: First [[Eights Week]].<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft#page/108/mode/2up|chapter=The Eights|location=Oxford|publisher=Henry Frowde|title=Oxford Rowing: A History of Boat-Racing at Oxford from the Earliest Times|year=1900|access-date=22 October 2014|last=Sherwood|first=W. E.}}</ref>
** Daniel Evans establishes the building contractor which will become known by the name of his son-in-law, Symm. Their first contract is for construction of a new Wesleyan Methodist chapel in [[New Inn Hall Street]].<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.symm.co.uk/about-us/history|publisher=Symm|location=Oxford|access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> The business goes into liquidation in February 2020.<ref>{{cite news|first=Andy|last=Ffrench|title=More than 100 jobs lost as historic building firm Symm & Co goes bust|newspaper=The Oxford Times|date=2020-02-13|page=9}}</ref>
* 1816 – 4 May: The first [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]] is declared to have been dissolved on 28 June 1805.<ref name=Hamilton/>
* 1818 – 23 May: Oxford gas company established by Act with riverside works in [[St. Ebbes]].<ref name=OWP>{{cite book|first=Liz|last=Woolley|title=Oxford's Working Past|publisher=Huxley Scientific Press|location=Oxford|year=2012|isbn=978-0-9522671-7-1}}</ref><ref name=Gas>{{cite book|first=Colin|last=Judge|title=The Railway, Locomotives & Company History 1818–1960 of the Oxford Gas Light & Coke Company|publisher=Industrial Railway Society|year=2023|location=Melton Mowbray|isbn=978-1-912995-11-0}}</ref> Public gas street lighting begins in 1819.
* 1819 – 10 February: [[Apollo University Lodge]] consecrated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.apollo357.com/|title=Apollo University Lodge|publisher=Apollo University Lodge|location=Oxford|accessdate=2024-09-25}}</ref>
* 1820
** 9 January: Much of [[Magdalen Hall]] is destroyed by fire; soon afterwards part of the old [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]] collapses and on 3 May the foundation stone of a new Magdalen Hall is laid on the Hertford site (completed 1822).<ref name=Hamilton/>
** November: Residential development of [[Summertown, Oxford|Summertown]] begins;<ref>{{cite book|first=Malcolm|last=Graham|title=On Foot in Oxford. 8. Summertown|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxfordshire Libraries}}</ref> first house completed 24 March 1821.
** Five Mile Walk established.
* 1823 – [[Oxford Union]] established by students as the Oxford United Debating Society.
* 1825–c. June 1827 – New [[Folly Bridge]] built.
* 1825–1830 – New [[Oxford University Press]] building in [[Walton Street, Oxford|Walton Street]] built.
* 1826 – July: [[Warneford Hospital]] opened as Oxford Lunatic Asylum.<ref name=EO/>
* 1827
** 4 June: [[The University Match (cricket)]] is first played between [[Oxford University Cricket Club]] and [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge]] at [[Lord's]]; a draw.
** October: Swimming bath opened in [[St Clement's, Oxford|St Clement's]] by this date.<ref>{{cite news|title=Warm Baths, At the Oxford Baths, St. Clement's|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|date=13 October 1827|issue=3885}}</ref>
* 1828–1837 – [[Beaumont Street]] laid out.<ref name=Pevsner/>
* 1828
** 14 March: [[John Henry Newman|J. H. Newman]], Fellow of Oriel, succeeds [[Edward Hawkins]] as Anglican vicar of the newly refitted [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]], including pastoral care of [[Littlemore]].<ref name=NO>{{cite book|first=Jerome|last=Bertram|title=Newman's Oxford|location=Oxford|publisher=Family Publications|year=2010|isbn=978-1-907380-07-5}}</ref>
** c. Summer: New [[St Clement's Church, Oxford|St Clement's Church]] completed on a new site;<ref name=Pevsner/> as former curate, J. H. Newman had collected most of the funds.<ref name=NO/>
* 1829
** 10 June: [[The Boat Race 1829]] – The newly established [[Oxford University Boat Club]] wins the first inter-university [[The Boat Race|Boat Race]],<ref name="Pocket On This Day" >{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref> rowed at [[Henley-on-Thames]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theboatrace.org/origins|title=Foundations of The Boat Race|work=The Xchanging Boat Race|publisher=Theboatrace.org|access-date=29 March 2012}}</ref> the crew wear dark blue.
** [[Oxford University Police]] established.<ref>{{cite book|pages=194–5|author1=Bruce, Alastair|author2=Calder, Julian|title=Keepers of the Kingdom|location=London|publisher=Cassell|year=2002|isbn=0-304-36201-8}}</ref>
* 1831 – 6 February: [[Henry Bulteel]] preaches a Calvinistic sermon critical of the university at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. On 10 August, the Bishop of Oxford withdraws his licence to preach in Anglican churches.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bulteel|first=Henry Bellenden|title=A sermon on 1 Corinthians ii. 12, preached before the University of Oxford at St. Marys, on Sunday, Feb. 6, 1831. To which is added A Sequel containing an account of the author's ejectment from his curacy by the Bishop of Oxford for his indiscriminate preaching|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x9cAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1|access-date=2016-08-28|edition=6|year=1831|publisher=W. Baxter|location=Oxford}}</ref> His supporters – Bulteelers – build the [[St. Ebbes]] chapel in Commercial Road for him.
* 1832 – 24 June–28 November: [[Cholera outbreak]].<ref name=Cholera>{{cite web|title=Cholera in Oxford|url=http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/cholera/|work=Oxford History|date=9 November 2008|access-date=12 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020212525/http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/cholera/|archive-date=20 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1833 – 14 July: [[John Keble]] preaches an Assize sermon on "[[National Apostasy]]" at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, launching the [[Oxford Movement]] within the [[Church of England]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Perry|last=Butler|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15231|title=Keble, John (1792–1866)|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/15231 |edition=Online|access-date=16 May 2014}}</ref>
* 1834 – [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]], is appointed [[List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford|Chancellor of the University of Oxford]], which office he holds until his death in 1852.
* 1835
** c. April: The [[Elliston & Cavell]] partnership is formed as a drapers' stores.
** 9 September: [[Municipal Corporations Act 1835|Municipal Corporations Act]] makes the city a [[municipal borough]] with effect from 1 January 1836, removing the jurisdiction of the university over tradespeople.
** [[Quaking Bridge]] rebuilt in iron.<ref name=OHW4/>
** [[Iffley]] [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)|Wesleyan Methodist Church]] on [[Rose Hill, Oxfordshire|Rose Hill]] is founded;<ref name=EO/> as Rose Hill Methodist Church it will still be in use into the 21st century as the city's oldest surviving Methodist church building.
** [[Thornton's Bookshop]] opened.
* 1836
** 1 January?: [[St Clement's, Oxford|St Clement's]] brought within city boundary.<ref name=Graham64/>
** 8 February: Commencement of Hampden Controversy: Prime Minister [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|Lord Melbourne]]'s appointment of [[Renn Dickson Hampden]] (a supporter of [[toleration]] for [[Dissenter]]s) as [[Regius Professor of Divinity]] in the university splits the Church of England into [[high church]] and liberal factions.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Richard|last=Brent|title=Hampden, Renn Dickson (1793–1868)|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12171|access-date=6 June 2012|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12171}}</ref>
** 22 September: Anglican [[Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Littlemore]], founded by [[J. H. Newman]], is consecrated.<ref name=NO/>
** First [[New Theatre Oxford|New Theatre]] in [[George Street, Oxford|George Street]] opens, the city's first purpose-built theatre.<ref name=EO/>
* 1837
** 26 March: [[J. H. Newman]] introduces the weekly celebration of [[Mass (liturgy)#Communion rite|communion]] at the [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]].<ref name=NO/>
** Redesign of the newly renamed [[University of Oxford Botanic Garden|Botanic Garden]] by [[Charles Daubeny]], [[Sherardian Professor of Botany]].<ref name=OBGG/>
* 1839
** July: First ever [[Royal Show]] ([[agricultural show]]) held in Oxford.
** September: [[John Brande Morris]], deputising for [[J. H. Newman]] at the [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]], preaches controversial sermons on [[fasting]] and [[transubstantiation]].
** [[Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society]] founded as the Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture.
[[File:1822 Oxford Eights cropped.jpg|thumb|On the river – an early view]]
* 1841
** 6 June (Sunday): Marian Hughes becomes the first woman to take [[religious vows]] in communion with the [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] [[Province of Canterbury]] since the [[English Reformation|Reformation]], making them privately to [[E. B. Pusey]] in Oxford.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Valerie|last=Bonham|title=Hughes, Marian Rebecca (1817–1912)|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/39553 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39553|access-date=26 November 2010}}</ref> In 1849 she founds the Convent of the [[Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity]].
** 8 June: Coldest day on record in Oxford, -9.6&nbsp;°C.<ref name=Burt>{{cite book|first1=Stephen|last1=Burt|first2=Tim|last2=Burt|title=Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2019|isbn=978-0-19-883463-2}}</ref>
** June: Visit of [[Queen Victoria]].<ref name=VCH/>
** Oxfordshire County Hall built.
* 1842
** February: [[J. H. Newman]] withdraws to [[Littlemore]] and establishes a semi-[[monastic community]] (leased 29 September 1841), "the house of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Littlemore". He preaches his last Anglican sermon on 22 September 1843 and takes his last Anglican communion 2 weeks later.<ref name=NO/>
** 1 July: [[Copyright Act 1842|Copyright Act]] confirms the [[Bodleian Library|Bodleian]] as a [[legal deposit]] library.
** 29 July: [[Henry Fox Talbot]] takes the earliest known photographs of Oxford.
* 1843
** April: [[Protestant]] [[Martyrs' Memorial]] completed.<ref>{{cite web|first=Darcy|last=Lewis|title=Timeline: Oxford|publisher=TimeTravel-Britain.com|url=http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/towns/oxtime.shtml|year=2006|access-date=18 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Martyr's Memorial|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|issue=4694|date=15 April 1843|page=3}}</ref>
** 14 May: [[E. B. Pusey]] preaches a sermon on "The Holy [[Eucharist]], a Comfort to the Penitent" before the university at [[Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford|Christ Church Cathedral]] which causes him to be suspended from preaching university sermons for two years but sells 18,000 copies.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Eucharistic Theology of Edward Bouverie Pusey: Sources, Context and Doctrine within the Oxford Movement and beyond|first=Brian|last=Douglas|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|year=2015|isbn=9789004304574|series=Anglican-Episcopal theology and history, '''1'''|pages=95–6}}</ref>
* By 1844 – Jewish community served by a rabbi.<ref>{{cite web|title=Timeline Modern|url=http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/oxford-jewish-heritage/modern-period-1656-/timeline/134-timeline-modern|work=Oxford Jewish Heritage|access-date=20 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1844 – 12 June: [[Great Western Railway]] opens its branch from Didcot to a terminus in [[Grandpont]].<ref name=Waters>{{cite book|first=Laurence|last=Waters|title=Rail Centres: Oxford|location=Shepperton|publisher=Ian Allan|year=1986|isbn=0-7110-1590-2}}</ref> Residential development of [[New Hinksey]] follows.<ref name=Graham64/>
* 1845 
** April–August: The university opens the [[Taylor Institution]] for the study of European languages (established under the will of [[Robert Taylor (architect)]], died 1788) and the adjacent new [[Ashmolean Museum]] building as the University Galleries.
** 9 October: [[J. H. Newman]] is received into the Roman Catholic church at his college at Littlemore by [[Dominic Barberi]].<ref name=Tames/> On 23 February 1846 he spends his last night in Oxford until 1878 at the [[Radcliffe Observatory]].<ref name=NO/>
* 1846
** County Pauper Lunatic Asylum established at [[Littlemore]].
** St Ebbe's bathing place opened, the city's first rate-supported public river bathing place.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1847–1849 – [[Holywell Cemetery|Holywell]], [[Osney Cemetery|Osney]] and [[St Sepulchre's Cemetery|St Sepulchre's]] cemeteries open.
* 1847
** 9 August: [[William Ewart Gladstone]] (possessor of an Oxford double first degree and at this time a Peelite Conservative) is elected as a member of parliament for the [[Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford University constituency]], which seat he will hold until July 1865.<ref name=EO/>
** Community of St Thomas the Martyr, the second High Anglican sisterhood in England, established by Thomas Chamberlain, vicar of [[St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford|St Thomas the Martyr's Church]].<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1849
** August–October: [[Cholera outbreak]].<ref name=Cholera/>
** c. September–October: Painter [[John Everett Millais]] visits Oxford and meets the university printer [[Thomas Combe]], who becomes a patron of the [[Pre-Raphaelites]].<ref>{{cite web|work=Tate Etc.|location=London|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/ophelia/millais_print.htm|title=John Everett Millais 1829–1896|access-date=4 October 2014}}</ref>
** [[William Sewell (author)|William Sewell]], Dean of [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]] and novelist, burns a copy of [[J. A. Froude]]'s novel of religious doubt ''[[The Nemesis of Faith]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=John Sutherland (author)|first=John|last=Sutherland|title=The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction|location=London|year=1988}}</ref>
* 1850
** June–November: Millais again visits and works in the city.
** 18 August: First railway excursion to Oxford, from London.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Waters|first=Lawrence|title=The first broad gauge excursion trains to and from Oxford|journal=81F|issue=60|date=March 2017|pages=5–10}}</ref>
** 27 September: [[Folly Bridge]] freed of tolls.<ref name=TC>{{cite book|first=Geoffrey|last=Phillips|title=Thames Crossings|location=Newton Abbot|publisher=David & Charles|year=1981|isbn=0-7153-8202-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thamescrossingsb0000phil}}</ref>
** November: Undergraduates at [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]] arrange a "foot grind" (a cross-country steeplechase) at Binsey, the first organised university athletic event in Britain.<ref>{{cite book|first=Montague|last=Shearman|title=Athletics and Football|url=https://archive.org/details/athleticsandfoo00sheagoog|location=London|publisher=Longman|year=1887}}</ref>
** The university establishes an Honour School (i.e. an undergraduate course) in [[Natural Science]] and a combined School in Law and Modern History, first examined in 1853.
* 1851
** 20 May: The [[London and North Western Railway]] begins services to [[Oxford Rewley Road railway station|Rewley Road station]].<ref name=Waters/>
** [[Osney]] Town laid out.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1852
** 1 October: [[Great Western Railway]] opens a new through [[Oxford railway station]] on its modern-day site.<ref name=Waters/>
** December: Severe flooding.<ref name=Floods>{{cite web|title=Floods in Oxford|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/floods/index.html|access-date=11 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1853–1855 – [[Park Town, Oxford|Park Town]] built, the first significant planned residential development in [[North Oxford]]; the architect/developer is [[Samuel Lipscomb Seckham]].<ref name=Pevsner/> 
* 1853
** Enclosure of Cowley Field encourages residential development in the south-east.<ref name=Graham64>{{cite book|first=Malcolm|last=Graham|chapter=The Growth and Impact of Oxford after 1800|pages=146–7|editor=Tiller, Kate |editor2=Darkes, Giles |title=An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire|publisher=Oxfordshire Record Society|year=2010|location=Chipping Norton|series=ORS vol. '''67'''|isbn=978-0-902509-68-9}}</ref>
** [[Matthew Arnold]]'s poem ''[[The Scholar Gypsy]]'' is written.
** 'Cuthbert Bede, M.A.' ([[Edward Bradley (writer)|Edward Bradley]])'s novel ''[[The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green]]'' begins publication.
** The [[Tumbling Bay]] swimming area opens.<ref name="Tum">{{cite news |last1=Ffrench |first1=Andrew |title=Swimmers share happy memories of Tumbling Bay in city |url=https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/24418792.swimmers-share-happy-memories-tumbling-bay-city/ |work=ThisisOxfordshire |date=29 June 2024}}</ref>
* 1854
** Whit Sunday: Thomas Chamberlain, vicar of [[St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford|St Thomas the Martyr's Church]], controversially wears a [[chasuble]] for celebration of the [[Eucharist]].
** 1 June: Free public library opened.<ref>{{cite news|title=Opening of the Oxford Public Library|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|date=3 June 1854|issue=5275}}</ref>
** August: The [[Oxford University Act 1854]] reforms the university, opening it to undergraduates outside the [[Church of England]] by abolishing the requirement to undergo a [[religious test]] or take the [[Oath of Supremacy]].<ref name=Timeline19>{{cite web|title=Timeline History of Oxford – 19th Century|work=Welcome to Oxford|access-date=20 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/19th-century-T1380.html}}</ref>
** September: [[Cholera outbreak]]<ref name=Cholera/> combined with [[smallpox]].
** Corporation waterworks established at [[South Hinksey]].<ref name=OWP/>
* 1855 – University statute allows M.A.s aged over 28 to open [[Private halls of the University of Oxford|private halls]].<ref name=EO/>
* 1856
** 15 March: [[The Boat Race 1856]], first of [[The Boat Race|the annual series]] rowed between [[Cambridge University Boat Club|Cambridge]] and [[Oxford University Boat Club]]s on [[the Championship Course]] of the [[River Thames]] in London; Cambridge wins.
** [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]] begins residential development of its [[Walton Manor]] estate in [[North Oxford]].<ref name=Pevsner/>
** "A" Wing of [[Oxford Prison]] completed on the [[separate system]].
* c.1857–Spring 1858 – [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] and Pre-Raphaelite friends paint the [[Oxford Union murals]].
* 1858 – [[Salters Steamers|Salter Bros.]] set up as boatbuilders and hirers at [[Folly Bridge]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wenham|first=Simon|title=Pleasure Boating on the Thames: a History of Salter Bros, 1858–Present Day|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud|year=2014|isbn=978-0-7509-5833-2}}</ref>
* 1859
** 18 October: New chapel at [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]], designed by [[George Gilbert Scott]], is consecrated.
** First [[Chichele Professorship]]s established.
[[File:Alice par John Tenniel 09.png|thumb|[[Dodo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|The Dodo (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'')]]]]
* 1860
** 30 June: [[1860 Oxford evolution debate|Evolution debate]] at the new [[Oxford University Museum of Natural History|University Museum]].
** 24 December: Coldest night on record in Oxford, -17.8&nbsp;°C.<ref name=Burt/>
** [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]] begins residential development of its [[Norham Manor]] estate in [[North Oxford]].<ref name=Pevsner/>
* 1861
** August: The Radcliffe Library's science books are moved to the new museum and on 25 October the older building is taken over by the university's [[Bodleian Library]] (by agreement of 12 June 1860) to become the [[Radcliffe Camera]].<ref name=RC/>
** [[Hythe Bridge]] rebuilt in iron.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1862
** 27 January: [[Radcliffe Camera]] reopens as an undergraduate reading room of the Bodleian Library.<ref name=RC/>
** 4 July: [[Lewis Carroll|Charles Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll')]] takes [[Alice Liddell]] and her sisters on a [[Watercraft rowing|rowing]] trip on [[The Isis]] from [[Folly Bridge]] to [[Godstow]] on which he tells the story that becomes ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' (published 3 years later, with the first copies printed in Oxford).<ref>{{cite book|first=Mark J.|last=Davies|title=Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford|location=Oxford|publisher=Signal Books|year=2010|isbn=978-1-904955-72-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Works of Charles Dodgson: ''Alice''|url=http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/aboutcharlesdodgson/works/alice.html|publisher=The Lewis Carroll Society|date=20 September 2014|access-date=21 October 2014|archive-date=14 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014031643/http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/aboutcharlesdodgson/works/alice.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** Michaelmas: [[William Spooner (don)|William Spooner]] becomes the first non-[[Wykehamist]] to enter [[New College, Oxford|New College]], where he will remain for more than 60 years, serving as [[Warden (college)|warden]] from 1903 to 1924.
** ''[[The Oxford Times]]'' founded.
* 1863
** 24 March: Last public [[hanging]] at [[Oxford Castle]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Execution of Noah Austin, for the murder of Mr. Allen|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|date=28 March 1863|issue=5735}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Pamela|last=Horn|title=Oxford's last public hanging: The case of Noah Austin|journal=Cake and Cockhorse|publisher=Banbury Historical Society|volume=12|issue=5|date=Spring 1993}}</ref>
** April: [[St Edward's School, Oxford|St Edward's School]] admits its first pupils, initially at Mackworth Hall in [[New Inn Hall Street]].
* 1864 – [[Summer Fields School]] opened as a boys' preparatory school.
* 1865
** [[Local board of health]] established.
** New city [[workhouse]] opened on the [[Cowley Road, Oxford|Cowley Road]].
** Laying out of [[University Parks]] completed.
** Oxford School of Art, the ancestor of [[Oxford Brookes University]], begins to function located in the [[Taylor Institution]].<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/history/|publisher=Oxford Brookes University|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
** December: [[Matthew Arnold]]'s poem ''[[Thyrsis (poem)|Thyrsis]]'', with its reference to the "dreaming spires" of Oxford, is written.
* 1866
** 15 February: [[Macdonald Randolph Hotel|Randolph Hotel]] opened.<ref>{{cite news|title=Opening of the Randolph Hotel|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|date=17 February 1866|issue=5886}}</ref>
** The [[Society of St. John the Evangelist]] ("Cowley Fathers") is founded by [[Richard Meux Benson]] at [[Cowley, Oxford|Cowley]], the first stable [[Anglican religious order]] for men in England since the [[English Reformation|Reformation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ssje.org.uk/About_Us.htm |title=About Us |publisher=Society of St. John the Evangelist |location=UK |access-date=25 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121030303/http://www.ssje.org.uk/About_Us.htm |archive-date=21 November 2008 }}</ref>
** [[The Meadow Building]] at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] is completed.
* 1867 – November–December: Town and gown and bread riots.<ref name=VCH/>
* 1868
** 11 June: University [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|Delegacy of Non-Collegiate Students]] founded to offer university education without the costs of college membership.
** Convent of the Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity occupies its new premises in [[Woodstock Road (Oxford)|Woodstock Road]].
** Walter Eddison and Richard Noddings from Yorkshire form the partnership that by 1874 becomes the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Company, based at [[Cowley, Oxford|Cowley]].<ref name=OSP>{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Jonathan|title=Allen's of Oxford|location=Stonehouse|publisher=Road Locomotive Society|year=2012|isbn=978-0-9508480-5-1}}</ref>
** Police Act establishes a unified city police force with effect from 1 January 1869. On 4 February 1869 newly appointed police constable Joseph Gilkes drowns while fleeing a mob.
[[File:Keble College Chapel - Oct 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]] Chapel]]
* 1869
** August: [[John Ruskin]] appointed first [[Slade Professor of Fine Art]] in the university; he delivers his first visiting lecture on 8 February 1870 in the [[Sheldonian Theatre|Sheldonian]], announcing his intention to establish what becomes the [[Ruskin School of Drawing]].<ref name=HUO7>{{cite book|title=The History of the University of Oxford|volume=7|year=1984|quote=to the general dismay of his listeners.}}</ref>
** 27 August: [[Oxford University Boat Club]] wins the first international boat race held on the Thames against [[Harvard University]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
** 19 October: [[St Barnabas Church, Oxford|St Barnabas Church]], [[Jericho, Oxford|Jericho]], designed by [[Arthur Blomfield]] for [[Thomas Combe]], consecrated.
** [[Oxford University Rugby Football Club]] founded.
* 1870
** 6 & 23 June: [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]], is incorporated and opens as a new foundation, the first new college in the university for more than a century. The first students enter in October.
** Volunteer city fire brigade established,<ref name=VCH/> based in [[New Inn Hall Street]].
** ''[[Oxford University Gazette]]'' first published.
** ''[[Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis]]'' juvenile dinosaur fossil found in [[Summertown, Oxford|Summertown]].<ref name=G0VT>{{cite book|first=John|last=Phillips|author-link=John Phillips (geologist)|title=Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames|url=https://archive.org/details/geologyoxfordan00philgoog|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1871}}</ref><ref name=OUM>Display in [[Oxford University Museum of Natural History|University Museum]].</ref>
* 1871
** 18 June: The [[Universities Tests Act 1871|Universities Tests Act]] removes restrictions which limited access to the ancient universities to members of the [[Church of England]] (although the [[Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith]] at this time discourages attendance by Catholics).<ref name=Evenett>{{cite book|first=H. O.|last=Evenett|chapter=Catholics and the Universities, 1850–1950|title=The English Catholics, 1850–1950|editor-first=George Andrew|editor-last=Beck|location=London|publisher=Burns Oates|year=1950}}</ref>
** [[Ruskin School of Drawing]] established<ref name=EO/> in the [[Ashmolean Museum|University Galleries]].
** First issue of [[Oxford and Cambridge college stamps]] for postage by [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Oxford College Stamps|first=Arthur S.|last=Napier|journal=[[Gibbons Stamp Monthly|Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal]]|volume=4|issue=42|date=30 December 1893|pages=120–123}}</ref>
* 1872
** 10 February: First of [[The Varsity Match]]es in [[rugby union]] played against [[Cambridge University R.U.F.C.|Cambridge]] in [[University Parks|The Parks]]; [[Oxford University RFC|Oxford]] wins.<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.thevarsitymatch.com/History/|work=The Varsity Match|access-date=22 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022160140/http://www.thevarsitymatch.com/History/|archive-date=22 October 2014}}</ref>
** [[Oxford University A.F.C.]] established.
** University's [[Clarendon Laboratory]] completed as the oldest purpose-built physics laboratory in England.
** Oxford [[Cooperative]] & Industrial Society established with retail premises in [[George Street, Oxford|George Street]].<ref name=EO/>
* 1873–1880
** [[Christian Cole (barrister)|Christian Cole]] becomes the first black African to study at the university.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrvABQAAQBAJ&pg=PT34|title=Black Oxford: The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars|last=Roberts|first=Pamela|date=2013|publisher=Signal Books|location=Oxford|isbn=9781908493835|chapter=Christian Frederick Cole, 1852-85}}</ref>
** First city sewerage system laid, with pumping station at [[Littlemore]].<ref name=VCH/>
* 1873
** 29 March: [[1873 FA Cup Final]] at [[Lillie Bridge Grounds|Lillie Bridge]] in London: [[Oxford University A.F.C.]] loses; in the afternoon, the [[Oxford University Boat Club|University Boat Club]] loses [[The Boat Race]].
** Oxfordshire Band of Hope & Temperance Union publish a ''Drink Map of Oxford'' showing 312 licensed premises and 7 breweries.
** In the year following his death, [[Thomas Combe]]'s widow, Martha, presents [[William Holman Hunt]]'s painting ''[[The Light of the World (painting)|The Light of the World]]'' to [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]].
* 1874
** 7 August: Second [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]] founded in the university by Act changing the status of Magdalen Hall (on the site of the former Hart Hall).<ref name=Hamilton/>
** [[Frank Cooper's]] Oxford [[marmalade]] first produced by his wife [[Sarah Cooper (marmalade maker)|Sarah]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/high/tour/south/084.html|title=84: The Grand Café|work=Oxford History: The High|access-date=20 October 2014}}</ref>
** [[John Ruskin]] recruits a group of "diggers" from university undergraduates to repair the road to [[North Hinksey]], including [[Oscar Wilde]], [[Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner|Alfred Milner]], [[Hardwicke Rawnsley]], [[W. G. Collingwood]] and [[Arnold Toynbee (historian, born 1852)|Arnold Toynbee]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Literary giants tried building a road|date=16 September 2011|newspaper=[[Oxford Mail]]|first=Rhianne|last=Pope|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/9254637.Literary_giants_tried_building_a_road/|access-date=22 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Wilde|first=Oscar|chapter=Art and the Handicraftsman|chapter-url=http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/2312/|title=Essays and Lectures}} Lecture delivered 1882.</ref>
* 1875
** [[Oxford Oratory|Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga]] established by [[Jesuits]] in [[Woodstock Road (Oxford)|Woodstock Road]], designed by [[Joseph Hansom]].
** 3 November: [[Oxford High School, Oxford|Oxford High School]] opened by [[Girls' Day School Trust]].
* 1876
** 25 April (St Mark's Day): [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]] Chapel dedicated.
** 7 June: [[Cowley Barracks]] opened. The [[52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry Regiment]] is among the forces first stationed here.<ref name=OWTT>{{cite book|first=Stanley C.|last=Jenkins|title=Oxfordshire at War Through Time|location=Stroud|publisher=Amberley|year=2014|isbn=978-1-4456-1946-0}}</ref>
** 7 September: [[Oxford Military College]] established as a private boarding school at [[Cowley, Oxfordshire|Cowley]]; it goes bankrupt in 1896.
** [[St Stephen's House, Oxford|St Stephen's House]] established as a Church of England theological college by supporters of the [[Oxford Movement]].
* 1877
** 24 March: For the only time in history, [[The Boat Race 1877|the Boat Race]] with [[Cambridge University Boat Club|Cambridge]] is declared a "dead heat" (i.e. a draw).
** 10 August: The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act removes most restrictions limiting fellowships in colleges of the universities to clergy of the [[Church of England]] and permits fellows to marry.
** [[Wycliffe Hall, Oxford|Wycliffe Hall]] founded as a Church of England theological college, beginning its teaching in January 1878.
** First house built in [[New Marston]].<ref name="Marston Timeline">{{cite web|title=Marston, Oxfordshire: Timeline|work=Marston history|url=http://www.headington.org.uk/history/marston_history/timeline/index.html|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
** [[Dragon School]] founded as the Preparatory School.
** First telephone in Oxford.<ref>{{cite book|first=R. A. J.|last=Earl|title=The Development of the Telephone in Oxford 1877–1977}}</ref>
* 1878
** 22 June: [[Association for the Education of Women]] (AEW) founded to arrange lectures for women taking the new Oxford Examinations for Women over 18.<ref name="VCH St Anne's">{{cite book |editor1-last=Salter |editor1-first=H. E. |editor2-last=Lobel |editor2-first=Mary D. |date=1954 |title=A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford |chapter=St Anne's College |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol3/pp347-348|location=London |publisher=Victoria County History |pages=347–348}}</ref>
** 26 September: First Oxford University Extension Lecture delivered, in Birmingham.
** 18 October: [[Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford|Wesley Memorial Church]] opened in [[New Inn Hall Street]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Opening of the New Wesleyan Chapel|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|date=19 October 1878|issue=6553}}</ref>
** Construction of houses on Cripley Meadow begins.<ref name=OHW4/>
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* 1879
** 1 January: [[Benjamin Henry Blackwell|B. H. Blackwell]] (son of the city's first public librarian) opens the first [[Blackwell UK|Blackwell]]'s bookshop.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nos. 48–51: Blackwell's Bookshop|url=http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/broad/buildings/north/48,49,50,51.htm|work=Broad Street, Oxford|year=2008|access-date=14 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702063215/http://headington.org.uk/oxon/broad/buildings/north/48,49,50,51.htm|archive-date=2 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** 13 March: [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]], at this time a curate at the new [[Oxford Oratory|Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga]], writes the poem "[[Binsey Poplars]]", marking their felling.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/news/binsey-poplars|title=Bodleian acquires manuscript of Hopkins poem 'Binsey Poplars'|publisher=Bodleian Library|location=Oxford|date=2 May 2013|access-date=20 November 2014}} Like most of Hopkins' poetry, it remains unpublished until [[Robert Bridges]] produces a posthumous collection in December 1918.</ref>
** 13 October: First women students admitted to the newly opened [[Lady Margaret Hall]], [[Somerville College|Somerville Hall]] and [[St Anne's College, Oxford|Society of Oxford Home-Students]].<ref name="British History">{{cite book |editor1-last=Salter |editor1-first=H. E. |editor2-last=Lobel |editor2-first=Mary D. |date=1954 |title=A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford |chapter=Somerville College |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol3/pp1-38|location=London |publisher=Victoria County History |pages=343–347}}</ref>
** New General Post Office built in [[St Aldate's, Oxford|St Aldate's]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Julian|last=Osley|title=Built for Service: Post Office Architecture|location=London|publisher=British Postal Museum & Archive|year=2010|isbn=978-0-9553569-3-3|pages=14–15}}</ref>
* 1881
** 18 January: Severe gale.
** May: First [[cricket]] matches in [[University Parks|The Parks]] are played.
** 1 December: [[City of Oxford Tramways Company]] opens its first route.
** [[City of Oxford High School for Boys]] opened.
* 1882
** 13 May: University [[Examination Schools]], designed by [[T. G. Jackson]], completed<ref name=EO/> (on the site of the Angel Inn). The teaching functions formerly carried out in the Old Schools Quad of the Bodleian Library are transferred here.
** [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]] absorbs [[St Alban Hall, Oxford|St Alban Hall]].<ref>Under a statute of 1881. {{cite book|title=The Historical Register of the University of Oxford: being a supplement to the Oxford University Calendar, with an alphabetical record of University honours and distinctions completed to the end of Trinity term 1888|pages=214–215}}</ref>
** Approximate date: [[Oxford City F.C.]] established.
* 1883 – 24 January: ''[[The Oxford Magazine]]'' first published.
* 1884
** 1 February: First fascicle of what will become the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' is published.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
** 14 October: [[Indian Institute]] opened.<ref>{{cite news|title=Opening of the Indian Institute|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|date=18 October 1884|issue=6865}}</ref>
** [[Pitt Rivers Museum]] established by donation of [[Augustus Pitt Rivers]]' [[Anthropology|anthropological]] and archaeological collections to the university.
** [[Pusey House, Oxford|Pusey House]] established to promote [[high church]] learning and worship.
* 1885
** 29 April: Women first permitted to the take the university entrance examination.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
** May: [[Oxford University Dramatic Society]]'s first production, Shakespeare's ''[[Henry IV, Part 1]]'' produced by Alec MacKinnon in the old [[Oxford Town Hall|Town Hall]].<ref name=Adderley>{{cite book|first=J. G.|last=Adderley|title=The Fight for the Drama at Oxford|location=Oxford|publisher=Blackwell|year=1888|url=https://archive.org/stream/fightfordramaato00addeiala/fightfordramaato00addeiala_djvu.txt|pages=30–2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Humphrey|last=Carpenter|author-link=Humphrey Carpenter|title=OUDS : a centenary history of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, 1885–1985|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1985|isbn=0-19-212241-X|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oudscentenaryhis00carp}}</ref>
** 11 June: [[James Murray (lexicographer)|James Murray]], editor of the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', moves to a house on the [[Banbury Road, Oxford|Banbury Road]] to work full-time on the project.
** 2 December: [[Osney Bridge]] collapses with one fatality.<ref name=OB>{{cite web|first=John|last=Eade|title=Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide|url=http://thames.me.uk/s01770.htm|year=2005|access-date=4 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1886
** 13 February: Second [[New Theatre Oxford|New Theatre]] in [[George Street, Oxford|George Street]] opens with an [[Oxford University Dramatic Society]] performance of Shakespeare's ''[[Twelfth Night]]''.<ref name=Adderley/>
** October: [[Mansfield College, Oxford|Mansfield College]], a nonconformist institution, moves to Oxford from Birmingham and adopts this name, originally setting up in [[High Street, Oxford|The High]].
** [[St Hugh's College, Oxford|St Hugh's College]] founded as St Hugh's Hall in [[Norham Road]] by [[Elizabeth Wordsworth]] for women of limited means.
** [[Gasworks Bridge]] built.<ref name=OWP/>
* 1887 – [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]] absorbs [[New Inn Hall]].<ref>Under a statute of 1881. {{cite web|title=Library History|url=http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/about-balliol/library-history|publisher=Balliol College|access-date=27 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1888
** 13&ndash;14 February: Greatest snow depth on record in Oxford, 61&nbsp;cm.<ref name=Burt/>
** 31 December: Replacement iron Osney Bridge opened.<ref name=TC/>
* 1889
** 14–16 October: [[Mansfield College, Oxford|Mansfield College]] opens its new premises in Oxford.<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Alden & Co.|location=Oxford|title=Alden's Oxford Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/aldensoxfordguid00alde|first=Edward C.|last=Alden|year=1903|page=[https://archive.org/details/aldensoxfordguid00alde/page/121 121]}}</ref>
** 9 November: Oxford becomes a [[county borough]] under the [[Local Government Act 1888]].<ref name=Timeline19/> City boundaries extended to incorporate part of [[Headington]] and [[New Hinksey]]. Management of [[Oxford Prison]] transfers from the county to [[Her Majesty's Prison Service]].
** [[Harris Manchester College|Manchester College]], a non-denominational institution of Presbyterian and Unitarian origins, moves to Oxford from London. Its new buildings are completed in 1893.
* 1889–1890 – Oxford county borough acquires sites for [[Wolvercote Cemetery]], [[Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford|Rose Hill cemetery]] and [[Botley, Oxfordshire|Botley]] Cemetery, outside the city boundary at this time; they are dedicated in 1894 under the Interments Act<ref name="Burial grounds">{{cite web|title=Burial grounds: churchyards and cemeteries|url=http://oxfordhistory.org.uk/burials/burial_grounds/index.html|work=Oxford Burials|access-date=12 July 2016}}</ref> (including on 1 April 1894 dedication of a Jewish burial ground at Wolvercote Cemetery).
* 1890 – December: Dullest month on record in Oxford, 5 hours of sunshine.<ref name=Burt/>
* 1891
** Winter: River freezes solid at Folly Bridge.
** [[Jane Kirkaldy|Jane Willis Kirkaldy]] and Catherine Pollard become the first women to sit final examinations in biology at the university (and achieve first class honours).<ref>{{cite journal|title=The female firsts|url=https://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=959|journal=[[Oxford Today]]|publisher=University of Oxford|volume=22|issue=1|year=2009|access-date=12 August 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927172840/https://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=959|archive-date=27 September 2011}}</ref>
* 1892
** 27 April: The magazine ''[[Isis magazine|Isis]]'' is established by university students.
** 18 June: Oxford Electric Light Company established with riverside works at [[Osney]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Electric Light in Oxford: Opening of the Works|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|date=25 June 1892|issue=7266}}</ref>
** "Battle of Wolvercote": Resistance to reduction of [[Wolvercote Common]].
** First [[Romanes Lecture]] (founded by [[George Romanes]] in the university) delivered, by [[William Ewart Gladstone]].<ref>''[[s:An Academic Sketch|An Academic Sketch]].''</ref>
* 1893
** 14 June: Opening of [[Shelley Memorial]] at [[University College, Oxford|University College]], designed by [[Basil Champneys]] with a reclining nude marble statue of [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]] by [[Edward Onslow Ford]].
** 13 October: First women enter [[St Hilda's College, Oxford|St Hilda's College]] (at this time a residential hall for students), founded by [[Dorothea Beale]]. Women may take Honours (i.e. undergraduate) examinations of the university and their results are classified but they are not formally awarded degrees.
** 27 October: [[Oxford United F.C.]] formed as Headington Football Club.<ref name=OUt>{{cite web|first=Martin|last=Brodetsky|title=Oxford United timeline|url=http://www.oufc.co.uk/club/timeline/|publisher=Oxford United Football Club|date=19 July 2012|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>
** 27 December: Death of [[Thomas Combe]]'s widow, Martha, who bequeaths most of their collection of [[Pre-Raphaelite]] paintings to the [[Ashmolean Museum]].
[[File:High Street, Oxford, England, 1890s.jpg|thumb|[[High Street, Oxford|The High]] – [[Photochrom]] of c.1900]]
* 1894
** 14 August: [[Oliver Lodge]] demonstrates radio transmission (of [[Morse code]]) from the [[Clarendon Laboratory]] to the [[Oxford University Museum of Natural History|University Museum]] for the [[British Association for the Advancement of Science]].<ref name=OUM/>
** October: [[William Holman Hunt]]'s painting ''[[The Light of the World (painting)|The Light of the World]]'' is first displayed in the side chapel constructed for it at [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]].
** November: Severe flooding.<ref name=Floods/> 126.1&nbsp;mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.<ref name="Oxford weather">{{cite web|title=Oxford|url=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/stationdata/oxforddata.txt|publisher=[[Met Office]]|access-date=29 June 2015}}</ref>
* 1895
** September: [[Corn Exchange and Fire Station, Oxford|Corn Exchange and Fire Station complex]] opens in George Street.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oldfirestation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Report-on-the-Old-Fire-Station-May-2020.pdf |title= Report on the former Fire Station and Corn Exchange George Street, Oxford|page=14|first1=Will |last1=Holborow |first2=Amanda|last2= Westcott |publisher=University of Oxford|date=1 May 2020|access-date=3 August 2023}}</ref>
**1 November: [[Thomas Hardy]]'s novel ''[[Jude the Obscure]]'' is published in book form (dated 1896) containing an unflattering portrait of Oxford as "Christminster".
** Winter: River freezes solid at Folly Bridge. The lowest February temperature in Oxford is −5.3&nbsp;°C.<ref name="Oxford weather"/>
** Roman Catholics are permitted by their hierarchy to attend the ancient universities.<ref name=CO/>
** Castle Mill Bridge rebuilt.<ref name=OHW4/>
** Oxford's first [[public toilet]] opened in [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']]. 
* 1896
** 5 March: City of Oxford Drapers' Association adopts regular Thursday early closing (at 4pm) in its members' shops.<ref>Advertisement, '' Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette'' 29 February 1896 p. 5.</ref>
** 7 September: The first film shown in Oxfordshire is screened as part of an entertainment at the [[New Theatre Oxford|New Theatre]] in [[George Street, Oxford|George Street]].<ref name=Meyrick>{{cite book|first=Ian|last=Meyrick|title=Oxfordshire Cinemas|series=Images of England|publisher=Tempus|location=Brimscombe Port|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7524-4333-1}}</ref>
** 9 September: [[Campion Hall, Oxford|Campion Hall]] established as Clarke's Hall in [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']], a private hall for [[Jesuits]] studying in the university.
** [[Francis Fortescue Urquhart]] becomes the first Roman Catholic teaching fellow in the university (at Balliol) since the Reformation.
** St Martin's Church at [[Carfax, Oxford|Carfax]] is demolished, except for the tower.
* 1897
** 12 May: New [[Oxford Town Hall]], designed by [[Henry Hare (architect)|Henry Hare]], officially opened. It incorporates a [[pipe organ]] by [[Henry Willis & Sons]].
** 1 October: John Allen takes over the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Company.<ref name=OSP/>
** October: The predecessor of [[St Benet's Hall, Oxford|St Benet's Hall]] is founded by [[Benedictines]] of [[Ampleforth Abbey|Ampleforth]] for their members to study for secular degrees of the university, initially at 103 [[Woodstock Road, Oxford|Woodstock Road]].<ref name=Benedictines>{{cite book|editor1=Wansbrough, Henry |editor2=Marett-Crosby, Anthony |title=Benedictines in Oxford|location=London|publisher=Darton, Longman & Todd|year=1977|isbn=0-232-52176-X}}</ref>
* 1899
** 27 February: [[Ruskin College|Ruskin Hall]] begins to offer classes for mature working-class students.<ref name=HRC>{{cite book|first=Harold|last=Pollins|title=The History of Ruskin College|location=Oxford|publisher=Ruskin College Library|year=1984}}</ref>
** 26 December: [[Headington Quarry]] [[morris dance]]r and [[concertina]] player [[William Kimber]] is first heard by musicologist [[Cecil Sharp]], an important moment in the English folk dance and music revival.<ref>{{cite web|title=William Kimber (1872–1961)|url=http://www.headington.org.uk/history/famous_people/kimber.htm|work=Headington history|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> The Headington team had been revived for an exhibition dance on 13 March.<ref>{{cite news|title=Exhibition of Morris Dancing|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|date=18 March 1899|issue=7618}}</ref>

==20th century ==
[[File:MHV Morris Oxford 1913 (filtered).jpg|thumb|1913 "Bullnose" [[Morris Oxford]]]]
* 1900 – 6 July: [[Tirah Memorial]] unveiled.
* 1901 – 18 June: New building for [[Radcliffe Science Library]], designed by [[T. G. Jackson]], opened adjacent to University Museum.
* 1902
** [[Rhodes Scholarship]] established for certain overseas students in the university with effect from 1 July 1903.
** [[St Mary Hall, Oxford|St Mary Hall]], last survivor of the [[academic halls of the University of Oxford|medieval academic halls]] in the university, is closed<ref name=EO/> and reincorporated into [[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel College]].
* 1903
** June: Severe flooding.<ref name=Floods/> 141.8&nbsp;mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.<ref name="Oxford weather"/>
** 19 September: South African War Memorial unveiled at The Plain in [[St Clement's, Oxford|St Clement's]] to commemorate the 33 men killed in action and 109 who died of disease serving with the 1st Battalion, [[Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry|Oxfordshire Light Infantry]] in the [[Second Boer War]], 1899–1902.<ref>The memorial is moved from Oxford to [[Abingdon-on-Thames|Abingdon]] in 2008. {{cite web|title=Oxford War Memorials: South African War|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/war/other_wars/the_plain.html|date=28 November 2014|access-date=25 August 2015}}</ref>
** The university establishes a faculty of modern languages, based in the [[Taylor Institution]].
* 1904
** Spring: Severe flooding.<ref name=Floods/> 81.7&nbsp;mm of rain falls in Oxford in May.<ref name="Oxford weather"/>
** Approximate date: [[Logic Lane covered bridge]] built for [[University College, Oxford|University College]].<ref>{{citation|first=Andrew|last=Saint|url=http://www.oahs.org.uk/oxo/vol%2035/Saint.doc|title=Three Oxford Architects|publisher=[[Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society]]|access-date=19 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030922/http://www.oahs.org.uk/oxo/vol%2035/Saint.doc|archive-date=28 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1905 – [[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin]] establish a friary, St Anselm's.<ref name=EO/>
* 1906 – 24 March: [[Oxford City F.C.]] win the [[FA Amateur Cup]].<ref>3–0 against [[Bishop Auckland F.C.|Bishop Auckland]], played at the ground of [[Stockton-on-Tees|Stockton]] (who had beaten Oxford in the 1903 final) in snowy conditions; H. F. Hodges scores the first goal. {{cite web|title=1905–06 F.A. Amateur Cup|work=Football Club History Database|url=http://fchd.info/cups/amcup1905-06.htm|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
* 1907
** 27 June–3 July: Historical Pageant staged in grounds of [[Magdalen College School, Oxford|Magdalen College School]] by [[Frank Lascelles (pageant master)|Frank Lascelles]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford Historical Pageant|work=The Redress of the Past|url=http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1142/|access-date=2019-11-09}}</ref>
** 27 June: Recipients of honorary degrees of the university at this year's [[Encaenia]] include [[Rudyard Kipling]], [[Mark Twain]], [[Camille Saint-Saëns]] and [[Auguste Rodin]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Oxford's Honours for Famous Men: The Encaenia in the Sheldonian Theatre|work=The Graphic|location=London|date=1907-07-06|page=5}}</ref> 
** 1 November: First female city councillor elected (Sophia Merivale).
** North Oxford Golf Club founded.
* 1908
** 26 April: Heavy snowfall.<ref>{{cite web|title=St Giles' in 1908|url=http://oxfordhistory.org.uk/stgiles/old_pictures/1908.html|work=St Giles', Oxford|access-date=18 March 2017}}</ref>
** 20 May: [[Iffley]] Mill destroyed by fire.<ref>{{cite web|title=Site of Iffley Mill|work=Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide|url=http://thames.me.uk/s01610.htm#top|access-date=27 July 2016}}</ref>
** The [[Ashmolean Museum]] of Art and Archaeology is formed by merger of the old Ashmolean Museum and the University Galleries at the latter's location.<ref name=Dodos/>
** The first [[intelligence quotient]] test in England is administered to Oxford schoolchildren by [[Cyril Burt]] (based on the [[Alfred Binet|Binet]] system).<ref name=INKTATE>{{cite book|title=I Never Knew That About the English|first=Christopher|last=Winn|location=London|publisher=Ebury|edition=New|year=2016|isbn=978-1-78503-392-6}}</ref>
* 1909
** March: [[Marxist]] students at [[Ruskin College]], members of the [[Plebs' League]], begin a [[Student strike|strike]] in support of the dismissed Principal, [[Dennis Hird]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Students Revolt: Novel Situation at Ruskin College|newspaper=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]]|location=Wellington, New Zealand|volume=LXXVII|issue=114|date=15 May 1909|page=6|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19090515.2.69|access-date=12 May 2015}}</ref>
** 13 March: An Amateur International Association football match between England and Germany is played at Oxford City's White House Ground: England (with Oxford City and university players in the front row) win 9–0.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Amateur International|newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal|date=20 March 1909|page=8}}</ref>
** 11 December: "[[Poulton's Match]]": In the 37th annual [[The Varsity Match|Varsity Match (rugby union)]] played in London, Oxford-born [[Ronnie Poulton]] scores a record five tries, securing the game for [[Oxford University RFC]].
* 1910
** 26 November: First permanent cinema in Oxford, the Oxford Electric Theatre in Castle Street, opens.<ref name=EO/>
** Women's halls formally recognised by the university.
** ''[[Oxford Poetry]]'' founded as a [[literary magazine]] by publisher [[Basil Blackwell]].
* 1911
** 24 February: First purpose-built cinema in Oxford, the [[Ultimate Picture Palace|Oxford Picture Palace]] off the [[Cowley Road, Oxford|Cowley Road]], opens. (On 25 March, the first purpose-built cinema in central Oxford, the Electra Palace in [[Queen Street, Oxford|Queen Street]], opens.)
** 14 June: A Farnham [[Pusher configuration|pusher]] [[biplane]] lands on [[Port Meadow, Oxford|Port Meadow]], the first aeroplane to land in Oxfordshire.<ref name=OWTT/>
** July: [[1911 United Kingdom heat wave]]: Sunniest month on record in Oxford, 310.45 hours of sunshine.<ref name=Burt/>
** 15 July: Roman Catholic parish church of St Edmund & St Frideswide (Greyfriars) opens in Iffley Road.
** 26 October: [[Max Beerbohm]]'s satirical novel ''[[Zuleika Dobson]]'' is published.
* 1912
** [[1912 Summer Olympics|Summer Olympics]] in Stockholm: [[New College Boat Club]] represent Great Britain in rowing, winning silver.
** 10 September: Two [[Royal Flying Corps]] officers are killed when their [[Bristol Coanda Monoplanes|Bristol Coanda monoplane]] crashes at Wolvercote. First aviation meeting held on [[Port Meadow]] on 24 October.
** 27 November: An underground bookstore for the [[Bodleian Library]] beneath [[Radcliffe Square]] (begun late 1909) is completed, linked with both the old library and the [[Radcliffe Camera]].<ref name=Craster>{{cite book|first=Edmund|last=Craster|author-link=Edmund Craster|title=History of the Bodleian Library 1845–1945|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbodleia0000cras|url-access=registration|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1952}}</ref> The world's largest such store at this date, it incorporates innovative [[mobile shelving]] supposedly proposed by W. E. Gladstone, designed and manufactured by [[W. Lucy & Co.]] at the [[Eagle Ironworks, Oxford|Eagle Ironworks]].
** C. Violet Butler publishes ''Social Conditions in Oxford''.<ref>London: Sidgwick & Jackson.</ref>
[[File:Salters Steamers by Folly Bridge.jpg|thumb|[[Salters Steamers|Salters steamer]] ''Wargrave'' (1913) by [[Folly Bridge]]]]
* 1913
** February: [[Ruskin College]] opens its new premises in [[Walton Street, Oxford|Walton Street]].<ref name=HRC/>
** 28 March: [[William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield|William Morris]]'s [[Morris Oxford]] 2-seater car, assembled in Cowley, goes on sale.<ref name=CBH/>
** c. October: [[Mansfield College, Oxford|Mansfield College]] admits its first woman student ([[Constance Coltman|Constance Todd]]). The first admitted on the same terms as men are in October 1979.
** 5 December: William Morris and [[Frank Gray (politician)|Frank Gray]] begin the city's first regular service of motor buses.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Stephen|last1=Jolly|first2=Nick|last2=Taylor|title=The Book of Oxford Buses and Trams|edition=Rev.|location=Long Hanborough|publisher=[[Oxford Bus Museum]] Trust|year=2003|isbn=0-9506739-2-7}}</ref>
* 1914
** 14 January: [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]]'s "[[Bridge of Sighs (Oxford)|Bridge of Sighs]]" opened.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Christopher|last=Tyerman|author-link = Christopher Tyerman|title=Hertford's bridge|journal=Hertford College Magazine|volume=93|year=2013|pages=17–21}}</ref>
** 3 June: [[Encaenia]]: The majority of honorary doctorands are German or Austrian, including [[Richard Strauss]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bostridge|first=Mark|title=The Fateful Year: England 1914|year=2014|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=978-0-14-196223-8|page=124}}</ref>
** 6 June: Barnett House established for the study of contemporary social problems.
** 7–14 August (period): [[City of Oxford Tramways Company]] runs its last [[horse tram]]s, having replaced them with motor buses.
** 16 August: 3rd Southern General Hospital, a military hospital headquartered in the [[Examination Schools]], set up.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford and the First World War: Third Southern General Hospital|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/war/military_hospitals/|date=31 August 2014|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> First patients arrive 13 September.
** October: First refugees from [[Belgium]] arrive in Oxford; they are accommodated at [[Ruskin College]] and elsewhere.<ref name=DO>{{cite book|title=Diverse Oxfordshire: the county and its people|first=Malcolm|last=Graham|location=Oxford|publisher=Registration Service of Oxfordshire County Council|year=2010}}</ref>
* 1915
** April: [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville College]] is requisitioned for military hospital use and its members are evacuated to the former [[St Mary Hall, Oxford|St Mary Hall]] in [[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel College]] until 1919.
** [[Headington School, Oxford|Headington School]] established for girls by a group of evangelical Christians.
* 1916
** May: Refugees from [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]] arrive in Oxford; they are accommodated at [[Wycliffe Hall, Oxford|Wycliffe Hall]] initially.<ref name=DO/>
** [[Dyson Perrins Laboratory]] opened in the university for the study of organic chemistry.
* 1917
** March: The city's first female police officer (Grace Costin) is employed, partly to counter the wartime rise in prostitution.<ref name=Tames/>
** The university introduces the Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) degree on the American model.<ref name=Tames/>
* 1918 – 14 May: [[St Benet's Hall, Oxford|St Benet's Hall]]<ref name=Benedictines/> and [[Campion Hall, Oxford|Campion Hall]] are approved as [[Permanent Private Hall]]s of the university under a statute of 5 February permitting such establishments.
* 1919
** 1 April: Short-story writer [[A. E. Coppard]] (of [[Combe, Oxfordshire|Combe]]) leaves the clerical post he has held since 1907 at the [[Eagle Ironworks, Oxford|Eagle Ironworks]] to become a professional author.<ref>{{cite ODNB|author-link=Thomas Moult|first=Thomas|last=Moult|title=Coppard, Alfred Edgar (1878–1957)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32561|access-date=18 November 2015|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32561}}</ref>
** Ancient Greek ceases to be an entrance requirement for the university.<ref name=Tames/>
* 1920
** 18 May: Women lecturers are given equal status to their male colleagues at the university.
** 7 October: The first one hundred women are admitted to study for full [[academic degree|degrees]] at the university.
** 14 October: The first women receive degrees at the university, these being awarded retrospectively. [[Annie Rogers]], [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] and [[Ivy Williams]] are among them.<ref name=EO/>
** October: Subscription concert series begins.<ref>{{cite book|title=Oxford Concerts: a Jubilee record|first=Frank|last=Howes|location=Oxford|publisher=Blackwell|year=1969|isbn=0-631-12220-6}}</ref>
** 9 November: Student newspaper ''[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]]'' first published as a magazine.<ref name=EO/>
* 1921
** 11 March: [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] becomes the first woman to be awarded an honorary degree by the university.
** 13 July: [[Oxford War Memorial|City war memorial]] unveiled in [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']].<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford War Memorial: St Giles|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/war/no_names/stgiles.html|date=12 January 2015|access-date=25 August 2015}}</ref>
** 15 August: The [[Dominican Order]] refounds [[Blackfriars, Oxford|Blackfriars]].
** 1 October: [[Plater College]] established as the Catholic Workers' College by Father Leo O'Hea S.J. Initially in temporary premises on [[Iffley Road]], from 1923 to 1955 it is located in [[Walton Well Road]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Dennis|last=Chiles|title=A Silken Thread: the history of Plater College 1921–1996|publisher=Plater College|location=Oxford|year=1996}}</ref>
* 1922 
** The University acquires Southfield Farm and commissions [[Harry Colt]] to lay out Southfield Golf Club, origin of Oxford Golf Club.<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=https://www.oxfordgolfclub.net/club/history/|publisher=Oxford Golf Club|accessdate=2022-05-14}}</ref>
** The city council buys the land for [[Botley Park]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Botley Park – Oxfordshire Gardens Trust |url=https://ogt.org.uk/2021/10/07/botley-park/ |website=Oxfordshire Gardens Trust |date=7 October 2021 |access-date=20 October 2024}}</ref>
* 1923
** [[St Benet's Hall, Oxford|St Benet's Hall]] moves to the former St Ursula's Convent school in [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']].
** 23 October: [[Oxford Playhouse]] opens as The Red Barn in the former Big Game Museum in [[Woodstock Road, Oxford|Woodstock Road]] under the direction of [[J. B. Fagan]] with a performance of [[George Bernard Shaw|Shaw]]'s ''[[Heartbreak House]]''.<ref name=OP>{{cite web|title=Oxford Playhouse|url=http://oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/oxford_playhouse.html|work=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme|publisher=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board|year=2013|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
** 11 November: [[Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]] war memorial at the foot of [[Rose Hill, Oxfordshire|Rose Hill]], designed by Sir [[Edwin Lutyens]], is dedicated.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire Light Infantry|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/31244|work=War Memorials Register|publisher=[[Imperial War Museums]]|access-date=15 August 2016}}</ref>
* 1924 – 1 May: [[MG Cars]] established in Oxford. Production moves to [[Abingdon-on-Thames]] in 1929.
* 1925
** 20 May: Oxford graduate [[C. S. Lewis]] is elected a Fellow of [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]], where he serves as a tutor in English language and literature until 1954.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cslewis.org/resource/chronocsl/|title=The Life of C. S. Lewis Timeline|publisher=C. S. Lewis Foundation|location=Redlands, CA|access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref>
** 7 September: City Council adopts Regional and Special Area Planning Schemes, including proposals for [[Bypass (road)|bypass road]]s.<ref name=RCCM/>
** 1 October: Oxford graduate [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] returns to the University as [[Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon]].
** First [[council house]]s in Oxford built in [[Headington]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Barton Road|work=Headington history|url=http://www.headington.org.uk/history/postcards/barton_road.htm|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
** [[Museum of the History of Science]] opens in the Old Ashmolean building, set up by [[Robert Gunther]] based largely on the collection given by Dr. [[Lewis Evans (collector)|Lewis Evans]] (from 2019 known as the History of Science Museum).<ref>{{cite book|editor=Simcock, A. V.|title=Robert T. Gunther and the Old Ashmolean|location=Oxford|publisher=Museum of the History of Science|year=1985|isbn=0-903364-04-2}}</ref>
* 1926
** May: [[Oxford University Women's Boat Club]] founded.<ref name=EO/>
** 3–13 May: [[1926 United Kingdom general strike|UK general strike]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert S.|last=Sephton|title=Oxford and the General Strike 1926|location=Oxford|year=1993|isbn=0952058006}}</ref>
** 11 May: [[C. S. Lewis]] and [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] meet for the first time in Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planet-tolkien.com/tolkien/biography|work=Planet Tolkien|title=Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien|access-date=14 June 2013}}</ref>
** Women's colleges are granted self-government by royal charter.
** [[Pressed Steel Company]] plant at [[Cowley, Oxfordshire|Cowley]] set up.
* 1927
** 15 March: Oxford is declared the winner of the first inter-university [[Women's Boat Race]] rowed against a Cambridge crew on [[The Isis]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Bevan | first1 = William Ham | year = 2015 | title = Pulling Together | url = http://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine/cam-74 | journal = Cam: Cambridge Alumni Magazine | volume = 74 | pages = 12–16 }}</ref>
** June: [[Regent's Park College, Oxford|Regent's Park College]], a Baptist institution originating in 1810, moves to Oxford from London.
** 14 June: Quota introduced restricting the number of women at the university to this year's level; it is abolished from 1957.
** 22 October: [[Oxford Preservation Trust]] holds its inaugural meeting, following preliminary moves in 1926 to secure vulnerable land around the city;<ref>{{cite news|title=Preservation of Oxford|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=24 October 1927|issue=44720|page=17}}</ref> it is incorporated on 14 November 1927.
** Hide and Skin Market opened in St Thomas's.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1928
** 15 February: The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] is completed after 70 years.
** October: [[St Peter's College, Oxford|St Peter's College]] is founded by evangelical Bishop [[Francis Chavasse]] as a hostel for students of limited means in the university, on the site of [[New Inn Hall]]. A year later, as St Peter's Hall, it becomes a Permanent Private Hall.<ref>{{cite news|first=C. M.|last=Chavasse|title=St. Peter's Hall, Oxford|newspaper=The Times|location=London|issue=45665|date=8 November 1930|page=8}}</ref>
** 12 December: ''[[Oxford Mail]]'' founded as a successor to ''Jackson's Oxford Journal''.
** Ferry to [[Ferry Hinksey]] ceases operation.
[[File:20 Northmoor Road, Oxford.JPG|thumb|[[North Oxford]] home, successively of [[Basil Blackwell]] and [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (20 [[Northmoor Road]])]]
* 1929
** 10 May: [[Rhodes House]] opened.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rhodes House|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=8 May 1929|pages=13, 20|issue=45197}}</ref> Its library is a dependant of the [[Bodleian Library|Bodleian]].
** 20 May: Consecration of [[Blackfriars, Oxford|Blackfriars]] chapel.<ref name=EO/>
** City boundary extensions incorporate most of [[Cowley, Oxford|Cowley]], [[Headington]] (including its cemetery) and [[New Marston]] together with portions of [[Iffley]], [[Wolvercote]] and [[Cutteslowe]].<ref name=VCH/> On 5 March, the Wolvercote Commoners' Committee is established to manage [[Wolvercote Common]] and preserve other village amenities.<ref name=Wolvercommon/>
** Electric light introduced to the old [[Bodleian Library]], the first installation of artificial light here.
** 'Adam Broome' (Godfrey James)'s detective novel ''The Oxford Murders'', pioneering the Oxbridge crime fiction genre, is published.
* 1930<ref name=OHW4/>
** Castle Mill demolished.
** General Post Office opens a new [[sorting office]] close to the railway stations.
* 1931
** May: [[Albert Einstein]] lectures at [[Rhodes House]] preparatory to spending the first of two summers resident at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]].
** 4 July: Oxford Zoo opens at [[Gosford, Oxfordshire|Gosford]], just outside the city; it closes at the end of summer 1936 and most of the animals are transferred to [[Dudley Zoo]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Closed collections|url=https://www.zoohistory.co.uk/projects/closed-collections|publisher=The Bartlett Society|access-date=24 May 2015}}</ref>
** c. 1 August: Widow Annie Kempson is bludgeoned to death at her home in [[St Clement's, Oxford|St Clement's]], a crime for which Henry Seymour is tried and hanged in Oxford.
** September: [[Franciscan]]s open a new [[Greyfriars, Oxford|Greyfriars]].<ref name=EO/>
** Non-collegiate students of the university recognised as [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's Society]].
** [[Oxpens Road]] and bridge open as part of an inner ring road.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1932
** July: [[Kenneth Grahame]] buried in [[Holywell Cemetery]] alongside his son Alastair; his royalties are bequeathed to the [[Bodleian Library]].
** 19 August: Joint warmest day on record in Oxford until 2022, 35.1&nbsp;°C.<ref name=Burt/>
** c. September: [[Merze Tate]] becomes the first [[African American]] woman to [[Matriculation#United Kingdom|matriculate]] at the University of Oxford, as a member of the [[St Anne's College, Oxford|Society of Oxford Home-Students]].
** 14 December: [[South Park, Oxford|South Park]] acquired by [[Oxford Preservation Trust]].
** Cattle market moved from [[Gloucester Green]] to [[Oxpens]].<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1933
** 9 February: [[The King and Country debate]]: The [[Oxford Union]] passes a resolution stating, "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and country."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ceadel|first=Martin|title=The King and Country Debate, 1933: Student Politics, Pacifism and the Dictators|journal=[[The Historical Journal]]|volume=22|issue=2|year=1979|pages=397–422|doi=10.1017/s0018246x00016885|s2cid=153490642 }}</ref>
** November
*** First female mayor of Oxford (Lily Tawney).<ref>{{cite web|title=Lily Sophia Tawney, Mayor of Oxford 1933/4|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/1836_1962/tawney_lily_1933.html|work=Oxford History: Mayors & Lord Mayors|access-date=21 February 2016}}</ref>
*** Oxford becomes the first place in Britain to introduce a 30 [[Miles per hour|mph]] [[speed limit]] in its built-up areas.<ref>48.28&nbsp;km/h. {{cite web|url=http://www.cbrd.co.uk/index.php/articles/limit/not-so-fast|title=To the Limit: Not so fast|work=cbrd|access-date=2018-07-21}}</ref>
** An early [[Crossing guard|school crossing patrol lady]] is introduced.<ref name=INKTART>{{cite book|title=I Never Knew That About the River Thames|first=Christopher|last=Winn|location=London|publisher=Ebury|year=2010|isbn=9780091933579}}</ref>
** The name [[Inklings]] is taken by an informal university literary discussion group.
* 1934
** 26 February: Rebuilt [[New Theatre Oxford|New Theatre]] in [[George Street, Oxford|George Street]] opens.<ref name=EO/>
** 13–30 July: [[Pressed Steel Company]] workers take strike action.<ref name=DO/>
** 3 November: New wing doubling the size of the [[Radcliffe Science Library]] in [[Parks Road]] (under management of the Bodleian Library from 9 March 1927), designed by [[Hubert Worthington]], opens.
** December: [[Cutteslowe#Cutteslowe Walls|Cutteslowe Walls]] first built.
** "[[Dame's Delight]]" opens as the Ladies' Pool, a family bathing place on the [[River Cherwell|Cherwell]]<ref name=EO/> (closed 1970).
** Florence Park estate ("Little Wales") at [[Cowley, Oxfordshire|Cowley]] built.<ref name=DO/>
* 1936
** c. January: First [[Oxford Farming Conference]] held.
** 15 February: Exhibition ''Abstract and Concrete'', curated by [[Nicolete Gray]], opens at 41 [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']], prior to touring England. It is the first showing of [[abstract art]], and of the work of [[Piet Mondrian|Mondrian]], in the country.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Green, Christopher |editor2=Wright, Barnaby |title=Mondrian / Nicholson in Parallel|location=London|publisher=[[Courtauld Gallery]]|year=2012|isbn=978-1-90737232-2}}</ref>
** 25 May: A meeting addressed by fascist leader Sir [[Oswald Mosley]] at the [[Carfax, Oxford|Carfax]] Assembly Rooms (on the corner of [[Cornmarket Street|Cornmarket]]) turns violent in the [[Battle of Carfax]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Injuries and arrests at Oxford Mosley meeting|newspaper=Oxford Mail|date=26 May 1936}}</ref>
** June: New building for [[Campion Hall, Oxford|Campion Hall]], designed by [[Edwin Lutyens]] for Fr. [[Martin D'Arcy]], opened.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Campion Hall|url=http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/27th-june-1936/7/campion-hall-the-departure-of-the-jesuits-from-the|journal=[[The Tablet]]|date=27 June 1936|page=7|access-date=7 July 2014}}</ref>
** 6 October: New building for [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's Society]] in [[St Aldate's, Oxford|St Aldate's]], designed by Lutyens' pupil [[Hubert Worthington]], opened.<ref name=VCH/> A new police station is built next door.<ref name=Pevsner/>
** 1 December: Site clearance in [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]] for the [[Weston Library|New Bodleian Library]] building begins, with an early instance of archaeological site monitoring.<ref name=Craster/>
** [[Belsyre Court]], the first large block of flats in central Oxford, is completed on the [[Woodstock Road, Oxford|Woodstock Road]].<ref name=CFNO2>{{cite book|title=The Changing Faces of North Oxford|volume=2|last=Symonds|first=Ann Spokes|year=1998|publisher=[[Robert Boyd Publications]]|location=Witney|isbn=1-899536-33-7}}</ref>
* 1937 – 16 November: [[Nuffield College, Oxford|Nuffield College]] is founded in the University by [[William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield|The Lord Nuffield]] as a graduate co-educational college for the study of the social sciences.
* 1938
** June: [[Oxford Airport]] opened by the city council beyond its boundary at [[Kidlington]].<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Amor|title=Well, I didn't know that! An ABC of interesting facts and figures about Kidlington|publisher=Kidlington & District Historical Society|year=2022|isbn=978-1-9160422-2-3|chapter=Airfield|page=5}}</ref> Formally inaugurated in July 1939, it will be requisitioned by the Royal Air Force on the outbreak of war.
** 22 October: [[Oxford Playhouse]] opens in purpose-built premises designed by [[Edward Maufe]] in [[Beaumont Street]] with a performance of [[J. B. Fagan]]'s ''And So To Bed''.<ref name=OP/>
** 27 October: [[1938 Oxford by-election|Parliamentary by-election]], triggered by the death in August of [[Robert Bourne (politician)|Robert Bourne]], member of parliament for [[Oxford (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford]] since 1924 and held a month after the signing of the [[Munich Agreement]]. Pro-[[Appeasement]] candidate [[Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone|Quintin Hogg]] (Fellow of All Souls) retains the seat for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]] but his majority is halved by [[Sandie Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker|Sandie Lindsay]] (Master of Balliol) standing as an [[Independent Progressive]]. Student campaigners for Lindsay include [[Denis Healey]], [[Edward Heath]] and [[Roy Jenkins]] (all from Balliol) and [[Iris Murdoch]].<ref name=NOW>{{cite book|author=Farman, Chris; Rose, Valery; Woolley, Liz|title=No Other Way: Oxfordshire and the Spanish Civil War 1936–39|publisher=Oxford International Brigade Memorial Committee|year=2015|isbn=978-1-910448-05-2}}</ref>
** 21 November–3 December: [[Picasso]]'s ''[[Guernica (Picasso)|Guernica]]'' (in facsimile) is exhibited with preliminary sketches at Oriel College by Denis Healey to raise awareness of the [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref name=NOW/>
* 1939
** 31 March: [[Oxford Stadium]] at Cowley is opened for organised [[greyhound racing]]. On 8 April dirt track [[motorcycle speedway]] racing is introduced here.
** May: Oxford Crematorium opens.<ref name="Burial grounds"/>
** September: [[C. S. Lewis]] first narrates stories which will form ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' to child [[Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II|evacuees]] sharing his home at [[The Kilns]]; [[June Flewett]] is a housekeeper.
** c. September: [[Slade School of Fine Art]] evacuated from London to join the [[Ruskin School of Drawing]] at the [[Ashmolean Museum]] for the duration of the war.
* 1940
** 17 May: John Fulljames shoots and kills a fellow student in the Front Quadrangle of [[University College, Oxford|University College]].<ref>{{cite news|date=1940-05-18|title=Oxford Shooting Murder Charge|newspaper=[[News Chronicle]]|location=London|page=5}}</ref>
** Summer: [[Weston Library|New Bodleian Library]] building is substantially completed.<ref name=Craster/> Books stored on the ground floor of the [[Radcliffe Camera]] since 1863 are moved in<ref name=RC/> and the remainder of the new building used for various wartime functions.<ref name=Craster/>
** 24 August: [[Howard Florey]] and a team including [[Ernst Chain]], [[Arthur Duncan Gardner]], [[Norman Heatley]], M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders at the university's [[Sir William Dunn School of Pathology]] publish their laboratory results showing the ''[[in vivo]]'' bactericidal action of [[penicillin]]. They have also purified the drug.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Drews|first=Jürgen|date=March 2000|title=Drug Discovery: a Historical Perspective|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|volume=287|issue=5460|pages=1960–4|doi=10.1126/science.287.5460.1960|pmid=10720314|bibcode=2000Sci...287.1960D}}</ref><ref name=SBF>{{cite book|first=Patrick|last=Robertson|title=The Shell Book of Firsts|location=London|publisher=Ebury Press|year=1974|pages=124–5}}</ref>
** 11 September: The Majestic Cinema (originally built as an ice rink) in [[Botley Road]] is taken over as emergency accommodation for evacuees from [[The Blitz]] in the [[East End of London]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Majestic Cinema|url=http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/47683|work=Cinema Treasures|access-date=19 August 2015}}</ref>
* 1941
** 12 February: Reserve Constable [[Albert Alexander (police officer)|Albert Alexander]], a sepsis patient at the [[Radcliffe Infirmary]] becomes the first person treated with [[penicillin]] intravenously, by [[Howard Florey]]'s team, injected by Dr Charles Fletcher. He reacts positively but there is insufficient supply of the drug to reverse his terminal infection. A successful treatment is achieved during May.<ref name=SBF/>
** 4 May: A bomber from [[RAF Abingdon]] crashes at the eastern end of [[Linton Road]] with fatalities.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Ann Spokes|last=Symonds|title=Remembering where the bomber crashed|journal=Wolfson College Record|location=Oxford|year=2012}}</ref>
** 5 May: [[Kingsley Amis]] and [[Philip Larkin]] meet while both reading English at [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Bradford|title=The Odd Couple: The curious friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin|location=London|publisher=Robson Press|year=2012|isbn=9781849543750}}</ref>
** May: Ground floor of the [[Radcliffe Camera]] is opened as an additional reading room for the Bodleian Library.<ref name=RC/>
** 17 October: [[Harris Manchester College, Oxford|Harris Manchester College]] is requisitioned for use by Naval Intelligence and the Inter-Services Topographical Department.
[[File:Totes Meer (Dead Sea) 1940-1 Paul Nash.jpg|thumb|Wartime aircraft scrap dump at Cowley as portrayed in [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]]'s ''[[Totes Meer]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/story-masterpiece-paul-nash-totes-meer|title=Story of a Masterpiece: Paul Nash: Totes Meer|work=[[Tate Etc.]]|date=1 February 2008|access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref>]]
* 1942
** 1 January: New [[Churchill Hospital]] buildings occupied as 2nd General Hospital of the [[Army Medical Department (United States)|United States Army Medical Department]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Our history|url=http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/hospitals/churchill/history.aspx|publisher=Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
** 5 October: [[Oxfam|Oxford Committee for Famine Relief]] is founded in the old library of the University Church.<ref name=CBH/>
* 1943
** c.6&ndash;7 March: In "Exercise Spartan", a major rehearsal for next year's [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] [[Invasion of Normandy]], Oxford is taken from the "enemy".
** University acquires [[Wytham]] Woods.
* 1944 – '[[Edmund Crispin]]' (Bruce Montgomery)'s comic detective novel ''[[The Case of the Gilded Fly]]'' (written the previous Easter while he was an undergraduate), introducing his amateur sleuth Prof. [[Gervase Fen]], is published.<ref>{{cite book|first=Philip|last=Larkin|chapter=Introduction|title=Jill: a novel|location=London|publisher=Faber|year=1975|edition=New|isbn=0-571-10691-9|title-link=Jill (novel)}}</ref>
* 1945
** January: First woman given a professorship in the university, ophthalmologist [[Ida Mann]].
** May: [[Evelyn Waugh]]'s novel ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'' is published, opening with a portrait of the 1920s Oxford set.
** 23 July: [[Dorothy Hodgkin]] publishes the first three-dimensional molecular structure of a [[steroid]], cholesteryl iodide.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Carlisle|first1=C. H.|last2=Crowfoot|first2=D.|year=1945|title=The crystal structure of cholesteryl iodide|journal=[[Proceedings of the Royal Society]]|volume=A184|issue=996|pages=64–83|jstor=97644}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Jenny P.|last=Glusker|title=Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994)|journal=[[Protein Science]]|year=1994|volume=3|issue=12|pages=2465–2469|doi=10.1002/pro.5560031233|pmid=7757003|pmc=2142778}}</ref>
* 1946
** 26 March: City twinned with [[Leiden]] in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite news|first=Callum|last=Keown|title=70th anniversary of the bond between Oxford and Leiden|newspaper=The Oxford Times|date=7 July 2016|page=22}}</ref>
** September: [[Thomas Sharp (town planner)|Thomas Sharp]] produces a plan for postwar rebuilding of Oxford.
** 1 October: [[Mensa International|Mensa]], an international organisation for people with a high [[intelligence quotient]], is founded by [[Roland Berrill]], an Australian-born eccentric, and Dr [[Lancelot Ware]], a biochemist at this time studying law at [[Lincoln College, Oxford|Lincoln College]], in Oxford.
** 24 October: [[Weston Library|New Bodleian Library]] building is officially opened by [[George VI]]. It is linked by tunnel under Broad Street to the old library.<ref name=Craster/>
* 1947
** March: Severe flooding.<ref name=Floods/> 132.9&nbsp;mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.<ref name="Oxford weather"/>
** December: First permanent [[Oxfam]] [[charity shop]] begins trading, in [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]]. Its first dedicated bookshop opens in 1987, in [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']].
** City twinned with [[Bonn]], West Germany.
** The university's Oxford [[Swift (bird)|Swift]] Research Project, based on the colony at the [[Oxford University Museum of Natural History|University Museum]], is started by [[David Lack|David and Elizabeth Lack]]. It will still be running more than sixty years later.<ref>{{cite web|title=The swifts in the tower|url=http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/swifts/index.htm|publisher=Oxford University Museum of Natural History|access-date=17 March 2011|archive-date=11 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311033849/http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/swifts/index.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Museum Swifts: the story of the swifts in the tower of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History|first1=Andrew|last1=Lack|author-link=Andrew Lack (author)|first2=Roy|last2=Overall|publisher=Oxford University Museum of Natural History|year=2002|isbn=0-9542726-0-9}}</ref>
* 1948 – 20 September: New [[Morris Minor]] launched.
* 1949
** 21 April: Foundation stone of [[Nuffield College, Oxford|Nuffield College]] is laid on the site of a canal basin; it is substantially completed in 1958.
** June: [[Oxford University Dramatic Society]] production of Shakespeare's ''[[The Tempest]]'' beside [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]] lake, directed by [[Nevill Coghill]].<ref name=EO/>
** Footbridge over [[River Cherwell|Cherwell]] near [[Parson's Pleasure]], probably the world's first [[prestressed concrete]] fixed-arch bridge, designed by Alfred Goldstein of R. Travers Morgan & Partners.
[[File:St Giles Fair in Oxford - geograph.org.uk - 1491678.jpg|thumb|[[St Giles' Fair]]]]
* 1950
** 3 February: [[Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford University parliamentary constituency]] abolished;<ref>[[Representation of the People Act 1948]].</ref> the last sitting members (since 1945) are [[Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter|Sir Arthur Salter]] and [[A. P. Herbert]].
** 9 October: [[St Antony's College, Oxford|St Antony's College]], founded by gift of Sir [[Antonin Besse]] in 1948, admits its first (graduate) students. It occupies the original Halifax House in [[Woodstock Road (Oxford)|Woodstock Road]] (a former convent at this time leased from St John's College).<ref name=HStAC>{{cite book|isbn=0-333-79183-5|title=The History of St Antony's College, Oxford, 1950-2000|first=C. S.|last=Nicholls|location=Basingstoke|publisher=Macmillan|year=2000}}</ref>
* 1951
** June: [[Arthur Lehman Goodhart]] becomes the first American and the first Jew to head an Oxford college on being elected Master of [[University College, Oxford|University College]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jewish Heads of Oxford Colleges|url=http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/oxford-jewish-heritage/modern-period-1656-/personalities/197-jewish-heads-of-oxford-colleges|work=Oxford Jewish Heritage|access-date=20 October 2014|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924062836/http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/oxford-jewish-heritage/modern-period-1656-/personalities/197-jewish-heads-of-oxford-Colleges|url-status=dead}} The second American head of house is also at University College, [[Kingman Brewster]], from 1986 to his death in 1988.</ref>
** September–October: Small epidemic of [[Bornholm disease]].
** 1 October: [[Oxford Rewley Road railway station|Rewley Road railway station]] closed to passengers.<ref name=Waters/>
* 1952
** Early: [[Jacob Epstein]]'s sculpture ''Lazarus'' (1948) is installed in the antechapel of [[New College, Oxford|New College]].
** 9 April: [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]]'s statutes are amended to give it full rights as a constituent college of the university.<ref name=EO/>
** 19 May: [[St Anne's College, Oxford|St Anne's College]] chartered as a full college for women in the university.
** 12 August: Last [[hanging]] at [[Oxford Prison]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The last man hanged in Oxfordshire|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/community/memorylane/11092412.The_last_man_hanged_in_Oxfordshire/|work=Oxford Mail|date=24 March 2014|access-date=27 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1953
** 1 April: [[St Antony's College, Oxford|St Antony's College]] chartered.<ref name=HStAC/>
** 9 October: Severe fire at [[St Michael at the North Gate]] caused by arson.
** [[St. Clare's, Oxford|St Clare's]] opened as a tutorial institution, The Oxford English Centre for Foreign Students.<ref name=Timeline20>{{cite web|title=Timeline History of Oxford – 20th Century|work=Welcome to Oxford|access-date=20 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/20th-century-T1381.html}}</ref>
** City Council completes a 20-year Development Plan.<ref name=RCCM/>
* 1954
** 6 May: Oxford graduate [[Roger Bannister]] becomes the first person in the world to break the [[four-minute mile]], at the university's [[Iffley Road Track]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_2511000/2511575.stm|title=Bannister breaks four-minute mile|work=On This Day|publisher=BBC News|access-date=6 February 2008|date=6 May 1954|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307130421/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_2511000/2511575.stm|archive-date=7 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
** October: [[Oxford Bus Company|City of Oxford Motor Services]] recruit [[bus conductor]]s from [[Jamaica]].<ref name=DO/>
** November: Severe flooding.<ref name=Floods/> 112.2&nbsp;mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.<ref name="Oxford weather"/>
* 1955
** 20 August: [[Dorothy Hodgkin]] publishes the structure of [[Vitamin B12|vitamin B<sub>12</sub>]], for which she will be awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot|year=1955|title=Structure of Vitamin B<sub>12</sub>|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=176|issue=4477|pages=325–8|doi=10.1038/176325a0|pmid=13253565|display-authors=etal|bibcode=1955Natur.176..325H|s2cid=4220926}}</ref>
** [[Mansfield College, Oxford|Mansfield College]] becomes a [[Permanent Private Hall]] of the university.
* 1956
** 21 April
*** Delegates agree to incorporate [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]] as a full college within the university.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/the_college_pages/brief_college_history.htm|title=College History|access-date=22 April 2016|publisher=St. Catherine's College, Oxford|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109231241/http://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/the_college_pages/brief_college_history.htm|archive-date=9 November 2006}}</ref>
*** [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and [[Nikolai Bulganin]] visit Oxford as part of a state visit to Britain.
** 23 April: [[Civil marriage]] of [[C. S. Lewis]] and [[Joy Gresham]] at Oxford [[register office]].<ref>At 42, [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']] from late 1955 to late 1975. {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWK59Z68ZGoC&pg=PA79|last=Hooper|first=Walter|title=C. S. Lewis: A Complete Guide to His Life and Works|page=79|access-date=3 December 2011|isbn=9780060638801|date=23 June 1998|publisher=Zondervan }}</ref>
** 14 August: [[Iris Murdoch]] marries [[John Bayley (writer)|John Bayley]] at the register office.
* 1957–1959 – First examples of [[modernist architecture]] in Oxford constructed: buildings in the university science area by [[Basil Ward]] and new college boathouses.<ref name=Tyack/>
* 1957
** 15 February: [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]] granted status as a full college of the university but retains its traditional name (charter dated 27 March).
** 21 March: [[C. S. Lewis]] marries [[Joy Gresham]] in a Christian ceremony at her bedside in the [[Churchill Hospital]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OskozFVBMYC&pg=PA287BOOK|title=C. S. Lewis: An Examined Life|last=Edwards|first=Bruce L.|year=2007|page=287|publisher=Greenwood Publishing |access-date=17 May 2012|isbn=9780275991173}}</ref>
** May: Oxford Historic Buildings Fund established to assist replacement of decayed stonework.<ref>{{cite book|title=Oxford Stone Restored: The Work of the Oxford Historic Buildings Fund, 1957-1974|editor=Oakeshott, W. F.|publisher=Oxford Historic Buildings Fund|year=1975|isbn=0950484601}}</ref>
** c. October: [[Blackbird Leys]] estate construction begins;<ref name=Graham64/> first houses occupied 1958.
** [[Regent's Park College, Oxford|Regent's Park College]] becomes a [[permanent private hall]] of the university.
* 1958 – [[Green belt]] adopted in planning.
* 1959
** 9 March: [[Cutteslowe#Cutteslowe Walls|Cutteslowe Walls]] demolished permanently.
** April: Visit of Queen [[Elizabeth II]].
** 8 May: First production Morris [[Mini]]-Minor from the [[Cowley plant]].
** July: [[Westminster College, Oxford|Westminster College]], a Methodist teacher training institution established in 1851, moves from London to new premises on [[Harcourt Hill]].
** 22 August: [[Ron Atkinson]] makes his playing debut for [[Oxford United F.C.|Headington United F.C.]] under manager [[Arthur Turner (footballer, born 1909)|Arthur Turner]]. Atkinson will spend his entire playing career (until 1971) at Oxford, rapidly rising to captain; his brother [[Graham Atkinson|Graham]] makes his playing debut on 2 September.
** 20 October: Women's colleges are granted status as full colleges of the university.
** Grandpont House becomes a study centre for the Catholic organisation [[Opus Dei]].
** [[Oxford Instruments]] established.
* 1960
** Early: [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]]'s "Beehives" completed, first substantial student accommodation in a modern architectural style (designed by [[Architects' Co-Partnership]]).
** 31 March: Oxford gasworks closes, the city receiving remote supply.<ref name=Gas/>
** 4 November: Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to lay the foundation stone for [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]].
** [[City of Oxford College|Oxford College of Further Education]] founded.<ref name=COC>{{cite web|title=History of the College|url= http://www.cityofoxford.ac.uk/about-City-of-Oxford-College/history-of-the-college|publisher=City of Oxford College|year=2013|access-date=14 October 2014}}</ref>
* 1961
** 24 January: [[St Peter's College, Oxford|St Peter's College]] granted the status of a full college in the university.
** 14 March: The [[New English Bible]] (New Testament) is co-published by [[Oxford University Press]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Geoffrey|last=Hunt|title=About the New English Bible|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1970|isbn=0-19-180015-5}}</ref>
** [[Brasenose College, Oxford|Brasenose College]] Staircases 16, 17 and 18 completed, first academic building by [[Philip Powell (architect)|Powell]] and [[Hidalgo Moya|Moya]].
** [[A34 Road Bridge]] over the Thames built.
* 1962
** 29 January: [[Oxford transmitting station]] at [[Beckley, Oxfordshire|Beckley]] begins relaying [[BBC]] radio and television.
** 9 April: Windrush Tower, the first [[tower block]] at [[Blackbird Leys]], is opened.
** 2 June: [[Oxford United F.C.]], champions of the [[Southern Football League|Southern League]], are elected to [[The Football League]]<ref name=OUt/> in place of [[Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891)|Accrington Stanley]].
** 1 August: [[Linacre College, Oxford|Linacre College]] is founded as Linacre House, a graduate society in the university.
** October: [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]] admits its first students (official opening 16 October 1964).
** 22 October: [[Donnington Bridge]] opened.
** 23 October: Style of [[Mayor of Oxford]] elevated to Lord Mayor by letters patent.<ref name=TH/>
** 5 November: Rioting.
** Women are allowed to become members of the [[Oxford Union]] student debating society.
* 1963
** 16 February: [[The Beatles]] play their only live gig in Oxfordshire, at the [[Carfax, Oxford|Carfax]] Assembly Rooms (on the corner of [[Cornmarket Street|Cornmarket]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=Live: Carfax Assembly Rooms, Oxford|url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/02/16/live-carfax-assembly-rooms-oxford/|date=16 February 1963|work=The Beatles Bible|access-date=18 November 2015}}</ref>
** [[St Antony's College, Oxford|St Antony's College]] becomes a full college of the university.
** Women are allowed to become members of the [[Oxford University Dramatic Society]].
** [[Harcourt Arboretum]] at [[Nuneham Courtenay]] (south of the city) becomes a satellite of the [[University of Oxford Botanic Garden]].<ref name=OBGG/>
* 1964 – University's St Cross Building, designed by [[Leslie Martin]] and [[Colin St John Wilson]], completed.<ref name=Pevsner/>
* 1965
** March: Ring road over [[Isis Bridge]] opened.<ref name=EO/>
** Trinity Term: [[Wolfson College, Oxford|Wolfson College]] (as Iffley College) is founded as a graduate institution in the university.
** May: [[Cowley Centre]] opened.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hearn|first=Dan|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4547787.We_re_beating_the_recession__says_Oxford_shopping_centre/|title=We're beating the recession, says Oxford shopping centre|newspaper=Oxford Mail|date=14 August 2009|access-date=7 October 2014}}</ref>
** 1 October: [[St Cross College, Oxford|St Cross College]] is founded as a graduate institution in the university.
** [[Templeton College, Oxford|Templeton College]] is founded as Oxford Centre for Management Studies.
** Telephone House built.<ref name=OHW4/>
* 1966
** 3 January: Last steam train operated by the [[Western Region of British Railways]] from Oxford.<ref name=Waters/>
** 14 February: [[Oxford University Dramatic Society]] production of Marlowe's ''[[Doctor Faustus (play)|Doctor Faustus]]'' at [[Oxford Playhouse]] with [[Richard Burton]] and [[Elizabeth Taylor]], directed by [[Nevill Coghill]], opens.
** 26 March: Commission of Enquiry into the University of Oxford chaired by [[Oliver Franks, Baron Franks|Lord Franks]] completes its report.
** 31 March: [[1966 United Kingdom general election|UK general election]]: [[Evan Luard]] becomes the only person to take the undivided [[Oxford (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford parliamentary constituency]] for [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]].
** 16 June: [[Blackwell UK|Blackwell]]'s open the 930 m<sup>2</sup> underground Norrington Room in their main bookshop in [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]] as part of a joint development with [[Trinity College, Oxford|Trinity College]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Rigby|last=Graham|title=Two views of the Norrington Room|journal=The Private Library|volume=7|issue=4|date=Winter 1966|pages=84–6}}</ref>
** September: [[Museum of Modern Art Oxford]] established in the former City Brewery in [[Pembroke Street, Oxford|Pembroke Street]], following the use of a temporary exhibition space since late 1965.<ref>{{cite web|title=Our History|url=https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/about-us/our-history|publisher=Modern Art Oxford|accessdate=2023-10-17}}</ref>
** October: Seacourt Tower opened by Hartwell Motors.
* 1967 – University's [[Nuclear Physics Laboratory]] in [[Banbury Road]] built.<ref name=Pevsner/>
* 1968
** 2 May: The largely underground [[Christ Church Picture Gallery]], designed by [[Philip Powell (architect)|Powell]] and [[Hidalgo Moya|Moya]], is opened.
** 10 July: Wettest day on record in Oxford, 87.9&nbsp;mm of rain.<ref name=Burt/>
* 1969
** 1 April: [[Thames Valley Police]] formed by amalgamation of Oxford City Police, [[Oxfordshire Constabulary]] and other local forces. Headquarters are at [[Kidlington]].
** 24 June: An explosives expert blows up himself and his house at [[Littlemore]].
** Summer: [[St Hilda's College, Oxford|St Hilda's College]] provides the first women's rowing crew to qualify for [[Eights Week]].
** 27 November: [[Oxford Civic Society]] formed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford Civic Society – Special Commemorative Issue To accompany the 100th circulation of the Society's ''Newsletter''|date=March 2005|url=http://www.oxcivicsoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/200503_newsletter_100_special.pdf|access-date=2017-07-12}}</ref>
** [[Dorothy Hodgkin]] and university colleagues determine the structure of [[insulin]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Adams, M. J.|journal=Nature|doi=10.1038/224491a0|date=1 November 1969|volume=224|issue=5218|pages=491–495|title=Structure of Rhombohedral 2 Zinc Insulin Crystals|bibcode=1969Natur.224..491A|s2cid=4216737|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
* 1970–72 – Original [[Westgate, Oxford|Westgate Shopping Centre]] built.
[[File:South Park Oxford snow.jpg|thumb|Oxford's dreaming spires from [[South Park, Oxford|South Park]]]]
* 1970
** 27 February–1 March: First National Women's Liberation Conference held at [[Ruskin College]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Forty years of women's liberation|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/26/forty-years-womens-liberation|first=Kira|last=Cochrane|author-link=Kira Cochrane|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=26 February 2010|access-date=6 April 2016}}</ref>
** 24 April: Oxford College of Technology at Headington becomes [[Oxford Polytechnic]].
** 29 October: [[BBC Radio Oxford]] begins broadcasting, from studios in [[Summertown, Oxford|Summertown]].
* 1971
** Florey Building in [[St Clement's, Oxford|St Clement's]] completed as residential accommodation for [[The Queen's College, Oxford|Queen's College]], one of architect [[James Stirling (architect)|James Stirling]]'s "red trilogy" of English academic buildings.
** October–November: Inner relief road through [[Christ Church Meadow, Oxford|Christ Church Meadow]], a scheme first officially proposed in 1945, is finally rejected.<ref name=RCCM>{{cite book|first=Roland|last=Newman|title=The Road and Christ Church Meadow|location=Minster Lovell|publisher=Bookmarque|year=1988|isbn=1-870519-01-9}}</ref>
** 12 November: [[Marston Ferry Road]] opened, replacing the ferry over the Cherwell.<ref name="Marston Timeline"/>
* 1972 – July: Phase 1 of the [[John Radcliffe Hospital]], the maternity unit, opens at Headington.<ref>{{cite web|title=Our history|url=http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/hospitals/jr/history.aspx|publisher=Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> Main block opens 1979.
* 1973
** September: [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] buried in [[Wolvercote Cemetery]] alongside his wife [[Edith Tolkien|Edith]] ("[[Beren]]" and "[[Lúthien]]").
** October: First woman elected as a [[fellow]] in a previously all-male college of the university, Dr. Carol Clark at [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol]].
** 31 October: New [[Oxford Central Library]] opened at the Westgate Shopping Centre.
** December: Permanent [[park and ride]] facility for the city begins.
* 1974
** 31 March: [[Local Government Act 1972]] comes into effect ending formal university representation on the city council.
** October: Five previously all-male colleges admit women undergraduates for the first time,<ref name=EO/> initially on a trial basis ([[Brasenose College, Oxford|Brasenose]], [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford]], [[Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus]], [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's]] and [[Wadham College, Oxford|Wadham]]).
** Building of [[Wolfson College, Oxford|Wolfson College]] beside the [[River Cherwell]] is completed (architects: [[Powell & Moya]]; foundation stone laid 2 May 1968).
* 1975
** January: [[Colin Dexter]]'s detective novel ''[[Last Bus to Woodstock]]'', introducing his Oxford police officer [[Inspector Morse]], is published.
** The university administration moves to new offices in [[Wellington Square, Oxford|Wellington Square]] from the [[Clarendon Building]], which becomes offices for the Bodleian Library.
** The [[Museum of Oxford]] is founded in [[Oxford Town Hall]].
** The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is founded as an educational charity by Drs John and Sandy Feneley, establishing a facility at the Victorian St. Michael's Hall (Shoe Street) in 1978; in 2014 it becomes part of the American [[Middlebury College]] Schools Abroad.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Middlebury-CMRS|url=http://www.cmrs.org.uk/about-cmrs|publisher=Middlebury College CMRS Oxford Humanities Research Program|access-date=2017-10-14}}</ref>
* 1976
** 2 January: Severe gale.
** 19 July&ndash;27 August: [[1976 British Isles heat wave]]: Longest period of absolute drought on record in Oxford.<ref name=Burt/>
** New underground reading room for [[Radcliffe Science Library]] (part of the university's Bodleian Library), designed by Jack Lankester, opened beneath the University Museum lawn.<ref name=Clapinson/>
* 1977
** The university permits colleges to extend co-educational admissions.
** French chef [[Raymond Blanc]] opens the first restaurant of his own, ''Les Quat' Saisons'' in [[Summertown, Oxford|Summertown]].
* 1979
** 21 March: Last cattle market at [[Oxpens]]. Last general market held here 28 July 1982, having reverted to [[Gloucester Green]].
** 1 September: [[Green Templeton College|Green College]] is opened in the university on the site of the [[Radcliffe Observatory]] for the study of human welfare, following a gift from [[Cecil Howard Green]].
* 1980
** [[St Stephen's House, Oxford|St Stephen's House]] moves to the East Oxford site vacated by the [[Society of St. John the Evangelist]].
** [[John B. Goodenough]], working with colleagues at the university's [[Inorganic Chemistry]] Laboratory, identifies the cathode material that enables development of the rechargeable [[lithium-ion battery]].<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Mizushima, K. |author2=Jones, P. C. |author3=Wiseman, P. J. |author4=Goodenough, J. B. |title=Li<sub>x</sub>CoO<sub>2</sub> (0<x≪-1): A new cathode material for batteries of high energy density|journal=Materials Research Bulletin|date=June 1980|volume=15|issue=6 |pages=783–789|doi=10.1016/0025-5408(80)90012-4|s2cid=97799722 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Alan|last=Dronsfield|title=Inorganic Chemical Laboratory, Oxford/John Goodenough Landmark Award|url=http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/rschg/Newsletter/NL1101.pdf|pages=25–27|journal=RSC Historical Group Newsletter|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|access-date=17 January 2012|date=January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924132055/http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/rschg/Newsletter/NL1101.pdf|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** First commercial [[Magnetic resonance imaging|MRI]] [[Whole body imaging|whole body scanner]] manufactured by [[Oxford Instruments]] at [[Osney Mead]] for installation at [[Hammersmith Hospital]], London.<ref>{{cite web|title=MRI Scanner (1980)|url=http://oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/mri.html|work=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme|publisher=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board|date=2 June 2011|access-date=6 January 2012}}</ref>
* 1981
** 4 April: [[The Boat Race 1981]] – Susan Brown, a 23-year-old biology student, becomes the first female cox in a winning [[The Boat Race|Boat Race]] crew.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/days/1976-2000/1981.html|title=1981 – In brief|work=Those were the days|location=Wolverhampton|year=1976|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>
** September: [[St Cross College, Oxford|St Cross College]] moves to part of the [[Pusey House, Oxford|Pusey House]] site in [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']] as its main location.
** [[Susan Hurley]] becomes the first female [[Fellow of All Souls]].
* 1982
** 20 July: [[Allen Hill (scientist)|Allen Hill]] and colleagues at the university develop a [[glucose]] biosensor.<ref>{{cite web|title=RSC honours Oxford University team behind diabetic breakthrough|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|url=http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2012/oxford-university-glucose-sensor-chemical-landmark.asp|date=16 July 2012|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>
** September: ''[[Privileged (1982 film)|Privileged]]'', the first release for the [[Oxford University Film Foundation]], provides significant screen debuts for [[Hugh Grant]], [[Imogen Stubbs]], [[Mark Williams (actor)|Mark Williams]] and composer [[Rachel Portman]].
** November: [[Helen & Douglas House|Helen House]], the world's first [[children's hospice]], is set up by [[Frances Ritchie|Sister Frances Dominica]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2009/01/09/helen_house_feature.shtml|title=The story of Helen House|first=Emma|last=Midgley|date=9 September 2009|publisher=[[BBC Berkshire]]|access-date=7 September 2013}}</ref>
* 1983 – Oxford Centre for Management Studies renamed [[Templeton College, Oxford|Templeton College]].
* 1984
** John Allen ceases production at its Cowley works.<ref name=OSP/>
** 1 December: [[Oxford Ice Rink]] opened.
* 1985
** 29 January: Somerville graduate [[Margaret Thatcher]] becomes the first post-war Prime Minister to be refused an honorary degree by the university.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/29/newsid_2506000/2506019.stm|title=Thatcher snubbed by Oxford dons|work=On This Day|publisher=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=29 January 1985|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201140335/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/29/newsid_2506000/2506019.stm|archive-date=1 February 2008|url-status=live}} The refusal was opposed by Conservative ex-Prime Minister [[Harold Macmillan]], at this time University Chancellor. David Sturdy in ''Historic Oxford'' (Tempus, 2004) pp. 180–1 claims that Macmillan's earlier nomination for an honorary degree was quietly withdrawn as a result of his approving (as Minister of Housing and Local Government up to 1954) demolition of the Clarendon Hotel in [[Cornmarket Street|Cornmarket]] around 1955 for a [[Woolworths Group (United Kingdom)|Woolworth]] store opened in December 1957 and closed in 1983 to accommodate the [[Clarendon Shopping Centre]].</ref>
** 4 July: 13-year-old [[Ruth Lawrence]] of St Hugh's College achieves a first in Mathematics, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_2492000/2492853.stm|title=Teenage genius gets a first|work=On This Day|publisher=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2008|date=4 July 1985|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307120833/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_2492000/2492853.stm|archive-date=7 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies]] established.
* 1986
** 20 April: [[Oxford United F.C.|Oxford United]], in the First Division for the first time, win the [[Football League Cup]] with a 3–0 victory over [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]] at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]].
** 1 August: [[Linacre College, Oxford|Linacre College]] chartered as a full college in the university.
** 9 August: [[The Headington Shark]], designed by [[John Buckley (sculptor)|John Buckley]], is installed on the roof of [[Bill Heine]]'s home.<ref>{{cite book|last=Heine|first=Bill|year=2011|url=http://www.oxfordfolio.co.uk/The-Hunting-of-The-Shark|title=The Hunting of the Shark|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxfordfolio|isbn=978-0-9567405-2-6|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208162108/http://www.oxfordfolio.co.uk/The-Hunting-of-The-Shark|archive-date=8 December 2015}} The sculpture's official name is ''Untitled 1986''.</ref>
** Late: [[Alternative rock]] band [[Radiohead]], as "On a Friday", play their first gig, at the [[Jericho Tavern]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Clarke|first=Martin|title=Radiohead: Hysterical & Useless|edition=3rd|year=2006|isbn=0-85965-383-8|location=London|publisher=Plexus}}</ref>
** City formally twinned with [[León, Nicaragua]].
* 1987
** 6 January: The ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]'' television series begins airing on ITV with "The Dead of Jericho" with location scenes filmed the previous summer in Oxford.
** 7 March: [[Thames Transit]] begins operations with high-frequency minibus service in Oxford and introduction of [[Oxford Tube]] express coach service to London via the [[M40 motorway]].
* 1988
** 2 August: Oxford Summer Piano Series founded by [[Jack Gibbons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jackgibbons.com/oxfordconcerts.htm|title=Oxford Concerts |accessdate=10 June 2023}}</ref>
* 1989
** 28 April: [[Oxford University Press]] Printing House closes, being succeeded on 2 May by Oxuniprint. The last book off the press is ''Views of Oxford''.<ref>{{cite book|first=Mick|last=Belson|title=On the Press|location=Witney|publisher=Robert Boyd|isbn=1-899536-69-8|page=333}}</ref>
** May: Members of the [[National Union of Journalists]] begin a picket of [[Robert Maxwell]]'s [[Headington Hill Hall]] headquarters of [[Pergamon Press]] which lasts until September 1992.
** 15 September: [[Heart Oxfordshire|Fox FM]] begins radio broadcasting from [[Cowley, Oxfordshire|Cowley]].
** 26 October: [[Gloucester Green]] reopens after redevelopment with shops and flats.<ref name=Levellers/>
** City twinned with [[Grenoble]], France.
* 1990
** 1 March: [[Kellogg College, Oxford|Kellogg College]] established at [[Rewley House]] for the education of external part-time students in the university.
** 8 April: [[Oxford railway station]] rebuilt.
** 3 August: Joint warmest day on record in Oxford until 2022, 35.1&nbsp;°C.<ref name=Burt/>
** [[Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke College]] opens its Geoffrey Arthur Building beside the Isis in [[Grandpont]].
** [[Oxford Science Park]] established.
** [[Tumbling Bay]] swimming area is closed down.<ref name="Tum"/>
* 1991
** 3 September: National outbreaks of rioting extend to [[Blackbird Leys]].
** "[[Parson's Pleasure]]" gentlemen's nude bathing place on the [[River Cherwell|Cherwell]] is closed.
* 1992 – 4 June: Oxford Polytechnic, in common with most British [[Polytechnic (United Kingdom)|polytechnics]], is given the power to award degrees in its own right, giving it the status of a [[New universities|new university]]; on 16 November its change of name to [[Oxford Brookes University]] is approved.
* 1993
** February: Alternative rock band [[Supergrass]] formed.
** 26 March: [[Veronica Stallwood]]'s detective novel ''Death and The Oxford Box'', introducing her historical novelist sleuth Kate Ivory, is published.
** [[Oxford Oratory]] established as an independent congregation.
* 1994
** 1 October: [[Kellogg College, Oxford|Kellogg College]] so named.
** [[Blackfriars Hall]] becomes a [[permanent private hall]] of the University of Oxford.
** [[Oxford University Press]] last uses flatbed [[letterpress printing]].
[[File:Port Meadow sunset.jpg|thumb|[[Port Meadow]]]]
* 1995
** 11 April: [[Mansfield College, Oxford|Mansfield College]] chartered as a full college in the University of Oxford.
** July: [[Philip Pullman]]'s young-adult fantasy novel ''[[Northern Lights (Pullman novel)|Northern Lights]]'', opening in a parallel-universe Oxford, first of the ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' trilogy, is published.
** City twinned with [[Perm, Russia]], following academic links established since 1985 (formal twinning 2001; ''de facto'' suspended 2022).<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford and Perm – a brief history of the twinning links|url=http://www.oxfordperm-assoc.org/Oxford-perm-history-text.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714173030/http://www.oxfordperm-assoc.org/Oxford-perm-history-text.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=14 July 2015|publisher=Oxford Perm Association|date=October 2013|access-date=6 June 2015}}</ref>
* 1996
** [[Harris Manchester College]] becomes a full college of the University of Oxford under this name.
** [[Saïd Business School]] formed from the University of Oxford's School of Management Studies.
** [[Wycliffe Hall, Oxford|Wycliffe Hall]] becomes a [[permanent private hall]] of the University of Oxford.
** First Oxford Literary Festival.
* 1997
** 28 February: Lucy's make the last casting at [[Eagle Ironworks, Oxford|Eagle Ironworks]].<ref name=Lucy/>
** North Commission of Inquiry into the University of Oxford.
* 1998
** April: Severe flooding.<ref name=Floods/> 107.7&nbsp;mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.<ref name="Oxford weather"/>
** [[Morrells Brewing Company|Morrells]] cease brewing at the Lion Brewery.
* 1999
** 18 June: Oxford Broadcasting launches [[Six TV|The Oxford Channel]] as the UK's last [[free-to-air]] [[Analogue terrestrial television in the United Kingdom|analogue terrestrial television]] operation under a [[Restricted Service Licence]], operating from a studio converted from a wartime bunker on the [[Woodstock Road, Oxford|Woodstock Road]]; it shuts down on 3 April 2009.
** 31 December: [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]]'s painting ''[[View of Auvers-sur-Oise]]'' is stolen from the [[Ashmolean Museum]].
** [[Cornmarket Street|Cornmarket]] pedestrianised<ref>{{cite web|title=Cornmarket Timeline|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/cornmarket/history/timeline.html|work=Cornmarket, Oxford|access-date=15 October 2014}}</ref> and most through traffic diverted from [[High Street, Oxford|The High]].<ref name=OHW2/>

==21st century==
* 2000
** 5 April: [[Westminster College, Oxford|Westminster College]] merges into [[Oxford Brookes University]].
** 7 July: Millennium foot and cycle bridge over [[A40 road|A40 ring road]] at [[Cutteslowe]] is opened.
** End: [[BMW]] begin production of the new [[Mini (marque)|Mini]] car at [[Plant Oxford]] (on the former Pressed Steel site at Cowley).
** [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]] opens its [[:File:Hertford College student lodgings - geograph.org.uk - 1253204.jpg|graduate centre]] adjacent to [[Folly Bridge]].
* 2001
** First Cowley Road Carnival.
** 4 August: [[Oxford United F.C.]] move from [[Manor Ground (Oxford)|Manor Ground]] to the [[Kassam Stadium]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stadiumguide.com/kassam/|title=The Kassam Stadium|work=The Stadium Guide|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>
** 1 November: The University of Oxford's [[Saïd Business School]] new building is opened on the site of [[Oxford Rewley Road railway station|Rewley Road railway station]].
** 4 November: Release of the film ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' with scenes filmed earlier in the year in parts of the [[Bodleian Library]]. [[Dragon School|Dragon]] and [[Headington School]] pupil [[Emma Watson]] is cast in a major rôle.
** [[Oxford University Student Union]] radio station Oxygen FM is replaced by Fusion FM (later [[Oxide Radio]]).
* 2003
** [[Oxford University Police]] ("Bulldogs") abolished.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2002-3/weekly/270303/notc.htm#1Ref|title=Oration by the Senior Proctor|journal=[[Oxford University Gazette]]|date=27 March 2003|access-date=20 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205042758/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2002-3/weekly/270303/notc.htm#1Ref|archive-date=5 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[The Story Museum]] founded, initially as a [[virtual museum]].
** Oxford Buddha Vihara founded.
* 2004 – Late: Oxford Central Mosque in Manzil Way opens.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford Central Mosque|url=http://halalguide.me/oxfordshire/mechet/oxford-central-mosque/en|work=Halal Guide|access-date=14 July 2016}}</ref>
* 2005
** July: [[Plater College]] closes.
** 18 October: [[Jack FM]] begins radio broadcasting from Oxford.
** University of Oxford [[Future of Humanity Institute]] founded.
** Lucy's cease manufacturing at [[Eagle Ironworks, Oxford|Eagle Ironworks]]; the site is fully redeveloped for housing by December 2008.<ref name=Lucy/>
[[File:The Mathematical Institute at Oxford University.jpg|thumb|[[Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford|Mathematical Institute]] with [[Penrose tiling]] and a glimpse of the [[Radcliffe Observatory]]]]
* 2006
** 5 May: Official inauguration of [[Oxford Castle]] quarter (the former prison, closed 1996) as a mixed-use heritage, hotel and restaurant complex.<ref>{{cite web|title=Inscriptions: The Castle|url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/streets/inscriptions/central/castle.html|work=History on the streets of Oxford|year=2013|access-date=11 October 2014}}</ref>
** Oxford Office Village in Langford Lane, [[Kidlington]] is completed.
* 2007
** January: The [[Radcliffe Infirmary]] closes, hospital facilities having transferred to the [[John Radcliffe Hospital]] and other locations in the city, and the site is handed over to the University of Oxford for development as the [[Radcliffe Observatory Quarter]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Andrew|last=Moss|title=The RI: a medical history|journal=Oxford Today|volume=17|issue=3|year=2007|pages=14–15}}</ref>
** 2 July: [[North Wall Arts Centre]], designed by [[Haworth Tompkins]] on the site of a Victorian swimming pool in the grounds of [[St Edward's School, Oxford|St Edward's School]] in [[South Parade]], [[Summertown, Oxford|Summertown]], is opened to the public.
** July: Severe flooding. 105.5&nbsp;mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.<ref name="Oxford weather"/>
* 2008
** 1 June: [[Jamie Oliver]] opens the first of his Jamie's Italian restaurant chain, in [[George Street, Oxford|George Street]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Venues/Oxford-opening-for-Oliver|title=Oxford opening for Oliver|first=Becky|last=Paskin|work=BigHospitality|date=2008-06-01|access-date=2018-02-17}}</ref> it closes in 2019.
** June: [[Greyfriars, Oxford|Greyfriars]] ceases to be a [[Permanent Private Hall]] of the University of Oxford; students transfer to [[Regent's Park College, Oxford|Regent's Park College]].
** September: [[Oxford Academy, Oxfordshire|The Oxford Academy]] opens as a secondary school on the site of the failing Peers School in [[Littlemore]].
** 1 October: [[Green Templeton College]] formed by merger of Green and [[Templeton College, Oxford|Templeton College]]s.
** October: [[St Hilda's College, Oxford|St Hilda's]], the last female-only college in the University of Oxford (since Somerville admitted men in 1994), starts to admit male undergraduates.<ref>Agreed by its governing body 7 June 2006. {{cite news|first=Nicole|last=Martin|title=St Hilda's to end 113-year ban on male students|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1520628/St-Hildas-to-end-113-year-ban-on-male-students.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=2006-06-08|access-date=2010-09-13}} Amending charter October 2007.</ref>
* 2009
** St Bede's Hall opens as a Catholic college at 42 [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']] but survives only for a year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Closure of St Bede's Hall, Oxford|first=Andrew|last=Myers|date=6 January 2011|url=http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17405|work=Independent Catholic News|access-date=5 April 2017}}</ref>
** May: [[Oxford Fashion Week]] launched.
** 7 November: [[Ashmolean Museum]] reopens to the public after major reconstruction by architect [[Rick Mather]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Ashmolean Museum opens to public|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8347299.stm|work=BBC News|date=7 November 2009|access-date=8 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108143936/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8347299.stm|archive-date=8 November 2009|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/transforming/2009/|title=Transforming: Transformed|publisher=Ashmolean Museum|access-date=20 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527213326/http://www.ashmolean.org/transforming/2009/|archive-date=27 May 2014}}</ref>
* 2010
** Spring: ECB Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence (established in 2000 in [[University Parks|The Parks]]) is renamed Oxford Marylebone Cricket Club University (MCCU).
** [[Indie rock]] band [[Glass Animals]] forms.
* 2011
** January: [[Oxford Spires Academy]] opens.
** 5 July: The [[Bodleian Library]] opens its "Gladstone Link" to readers, the former underground bookstore beneath [[Radcliffe Square]] linked with both the old library and the [[Radcliffe Camera]].<ref name=Clapinson>{{cite book|first=Mary|last=Clapinson|title=A Brief History of the Bodleian Library|location=Oxford|publisher=Bodleian Library|year=2015|isbn=978-1-85124-273-3}}</ref>
* 2012
** September: [[Blavatnik School of Government]] in the University of Oxford (established 2010) takes its first students.
** 10 October: Ertegun House officially opens in [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']] as a centre attached to the University of Oxford providing an international graduate scholarship programme in the [[humanities]].
** 28 October: [[Ruskin College]] officially reopens on its new site in [[Old Headington]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Stephanie|last=Jenkins|title=Ruskin College's move to Headington|url=http://www.headington.org.uk/news/items/ruskin_move.html|work=Welcome to Headington, Oxford|year=2012|access-date=5 October 2014}}</ref>
* 2013
** 23 April: [[Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke College]] opens its Rokos Quad with a glass-sided footbridge over [[Brewer Street, Oxford|Brewer Street]].<ref>{{cite web|title=New footbridge for Pembroke College in Oxford|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22274153|work=BBC News|date=23 April 2013|access-date=19 October 2014}}</ref>
** Spring: Controversial graduate student housing at [[Castle Mill]] completed for the University of Oxford.
** May: [[Oxford child sex abuse ring]], having operated since 2006, is convicted.
** Michaelmas: Andrew Wiles building for [[Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford]] opened in [[Radcliffe Observatory Quarter]].
** November: Oxford & Cherwell Valley College renamed [[City of Oxford College]].<ref name=COC/>
* 2014
** 14 February: Community radio station [[First FM]] launches as Destiny 105 (replacing the previously licensed station OX105), operating from new studios in east Oxford using largely open-source software.<ref>{{cite web|title=About First FM|url=https://www.first105.com/about/|publisher=First FM|accessdate=2025-01-01}}</ref>
** 26 February: [[Oxford Brookes University]]'s John Henry Brookes Building opened.<ref>{{cite web|title=John Henry Brookes Building Opening Timeline|url=https://www.brookes.ac.uk/space-to-think/moves/timeline/|publisher=Oxford Brookes University|year=2014|access-date=9 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021050024/https://www.brookes.ac.uk/space-to-think/moves/timeline/|archive-date=21 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** March: First woman appointed as director of a University of Oxford museum, [[Silke Ackermann]] at the [[Museum of the History of Science, Oxford|Museum of the History of Science]].
** May: [[Harris Manchester College, Oxford|Harris Manchester College]]'s Siew-Sngiem Clock Tower and Sukum Navapan Gate completed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Harris Manchester College Siew-Sngiem Clock Tower and Sukum Navapan Gate|url=http://www.knowlesandson.co.uk/portfolio_item/harris-manchester-college-siew-sngiem-clock-tower-and-navapan-gate/#|publisher=Knowles & Son|access-date=9 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020204850/http://www.knowlesandson.co.uk/portfolio_item/harris-manchester-college-siew-sngiem-clock-tower-and-navapan-gate/|archive-date=20 October 2014}}</ref>
** 20 June: [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] opens the Jubilee Bridge, a footbridge over the [[River Cherwell|Cherwell]] in [[Christ Church Meadow, Oxford|Christ Church Meadow]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jubilee Bridge opened at Christ Church, Oxford|publisher=Christ Church|location=Oxford|date=30 June 2014|access-date=22 October 2014|url=http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/2014/jubilee-bridge-opened-christ-church-oxford}}</ref>
** 29 September: The New [[Bodleian Library]] building reopens to readers of rare books and manuscripts after major reconstruction as the [[Weston Library]] by [[WilkinsonEyre]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Weston Library opens to academics after £80m revamp|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-29384945|work=BBC News|location=Oxford|date=29 September 2014|access-date=1 October 2014}}</ref>
** October: [[St Benet's Hall, Oxford|St Benet's Hall]] admits its first women students, as graduates.
* 2015
** 11 April: [[The Boat Races 2015]], the first occasion when the women's and men's races are rowed on the same course (in London) on the same day; the Oxford crews win both.
** 26 October: [[Oxford Parkway railway station]] officially opened, giving rail passengers an alternative route from the city to London (Marylebone).
** 10 November: The [[Bodleian Library]] acquires its twelve millionth book, a unique copy of [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]]'s subversive ''[[Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things]]'' "By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford" printed in Oxford in 1811 while the poet was an undergraduate.<ref name=SPE12M/>
** 30 November: [[Blavatnik School of Government]] in the University of Oxford begins to move into its new [[Radcliffe Observatory Quarter]] building in [[Walton Street, Oxford|Walton Street]] (designed by [[Herzog & de Meuron]]).
* 2016
** 12 January: Induction of the first female [[Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford]], [[Louise Richardson]], an Irish-born Catholic, she having taken office on 4 January.<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Louise Richardson nominated as next Vice-Chancellor|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-05-28-professor-louise-richardson-nominated-next-vice-chancellor|publisher=University of Oxford|date=28 May 2015|access-date=29 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2014-2015/25june2015-no5102/congregation/#209928|title=Declaration of approval of the appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor|work=[[Oxford University Gazette]]|publisher=[[University of Oxford]]|date=25 June 2015|page=659|access-date=28 June 2015|archive-date=30 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630002022/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2014-2015/25june2015-no5102/congregation/#209928|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** From January: [[Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies]] plans staged full occupation of its new premises on [[Marston Road]], 13 years after the beginning of work on the site.<ref>{{cite news|first=Callum|last=Keown|title=Tree planting marks a symbolic step along way to Islamic centre opening|newspaper=The Oxford Times|date=29 October 2015|page=3|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/13896996.Feature__Last_touches_added_to_a___100m_Islamic_centre/|access-date=2 November 2015}}</ref>
** 7 May: [[Oxford United F.C.]] wins promotion to [[Football League One]].
** October: [[St Benet's Hall, Oxford|St Benet's Hall]] admits its first women undergraduates (resident in [[Norham Gardens]]), ending single-sex education in the University of Oxford.<ref>{{cite news|title=Male-only bastion ends|newspaper=The Oxford Times|date=6 October 2016|page=4}}</ref>
* 2017
** 14 February: An explosion destroys a 3-storey block of flats at [[Osney]] with one fatality.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford explosion|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-38978667?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-oxfordshire-38978664&link_location=live-reporting-story|work=BBC News|location=Oxford|date=15 February 2017|access-date=15 February 2017}}</ref>
** 18–19 March: [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]]'s Cohen Quad, on [[Ruskin College]]'s former [[Walton Street, Oxford|Walton Street]] site (designed by [[Alison Brooks Architects]]), is formally opened (occupied from 8 January).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/exeter-college-holds-formal-opening-of-cohen-quad/|title=Exeter College holds formal opening of Cohen Quad|date=2017-03-20|publisher=Exeter College|location=Oxford|access-date=2018-08-13}}</ref>
** 29–30 March: 17 men arrested in connection with an [[Oxford child sex abuse ring]];<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford child sex abuse raids|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39466980|work=BBC News|location=Oxford|date=1 April 2017|access-date=4 April 2017}}</ref> 8 are convicted in February–March 2018.
** 18 October: [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]] opens the [[Nazrin Shah of Perak|Sultan Nazrin Shah]] Centre.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hughes|first=Pete|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15604004.Malaysian_Sultan_and_Duchess_of_Cornwall_open_new_building/|title=Malaysian Sultan and Duchess of Cornwall open new building at Oxford University|newspaper=The Oxford Times|date=18 October 2017|access-date=19 October 2017}}</ref>
** 24 October: Opening of new [[Westgate, Oxford|Westgate]] shopping centre ([[Curzon Cinemas|Curzon Cinema]] opens 1 December; refurbished [[Oxford Central Library]] opens as Oxfordshire County Library 18 December, officially 22 February 2018).
* 2018
** 23–28 March: [[Peking University HSBC Business School]] opens a campus at [[Boars Hill]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Peking University to open new Oxford campus|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39220447|work=BBC News|location=Oxford|date=9 March 2017|access-date=10 March 2017}}</ref>
** 10 May: Agreement signed for the city to be twinned with [[Padua]] in Italy (formalised 11 April 2019).
** 20 August: The University of Oxford proposes creation of at least one new graduate college in its draft 5-year development plan.<ref>{{cite news|title=The first college for nearly 30 years planned for Oxford University|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-45246899|work=BBC News|date=20 August 2018|access-date=21 August 2018}}</ref>
** October: [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]] begins occupation of its H. B. Allen Building, graduate accommodation (designed by [[Rick Mather]]) on the site of the former [[Acland Hospital]] (official opening 3 October 2019).
** 5 October: City twinned with [[Wrocław]] in Poland.
* 2019
** 11 March: City twinned with [[Ramallah]] in Palestine<ref>{{cite web|title=Historic moment as Oxford and Ramallah in Palestine become twin cities|url=https://www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article/1027/historic_moment_as_oxford_and_ramallah_in_palestine_become_twin_cities|publisher=Oxford City Council|date=2019-03-11|accessdate=2021-12-28}}</ref> and formally with Padua.
** 7 May: The University of Oxford establishes [[Reuben College, Oxford|Reuben College]] (known until 2020 as Parks College), an interdisciplinary graduate society, which will partly share the premises of the [[Radcliffe Science Library]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford unveils plans for new graduate college|url=https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-unveils-plans-for-new-graduate-college|publisher=University of Oxford|date=2018-12-07|access-date=2018-12-07|archive-date=9 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209130600/https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-unveils-plans-for-new-graduate-college|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Parks College to benefit from transformational £80 million gift from the Reuben Foundation|url=https://www.parkscollege.ox.ac.uk/article/parks-college-benefit-transformational-ps80-million-gift-reuben-foundation|publisher=Parks College|date=2020-06-11|access-date=2020-06-11}}</ref> The first fellows are appointed this year and the first student intake is in the 2021–2022 academic year.
** 19 June: The University of Oxford announces receipt of its largest-ever donation, of £150M from American private equity company founder [[Stephen A. Schwarzman]], intended to fund a new Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence within a Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in the [[Radcliffe Observatory Quarter]], also including community performance and exhibition spaces.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford University accepts £150m from US private equity boss|first=Branwen|last=Jeffreys|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-48681893|date=2019-06-19|access-date=2019-06-19|work=BBC News}}</ref>
* 2020
** March: [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom|COVID-19 pandemic]] reaches Oxford. On 31 October the city moves to the tier 2 level of restrictions and on 26 December Oxfordshire goes up to tier 4 under the [[The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020|"all tiers regulations"]].
** 30 December: The [[COVID-19 vaccine]] [[AZD1222]], designed in January and developed by the University of Oxford's [[Jenner Institute]] and [[Oxford Vaccine Group]] in conjunction with [[AstraZeneca]], is approved for use in the [[COVID-19 vaccination programme in the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite news|first1=James|last1=Gallagher|first2=Nick|last2=Triggle|title=Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55280671|work=BBC News|date=2020-12-30|access-date=2020-12-30}}</ref>
* 2021
** 3 August: [[Ruskin College]] announces that it is becoming part of the [[University of West London]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Rice|first=Liam|date=2021-08-03|title=Oxford's Ruskin College joins University of West London|url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19486769.oxfords-ruskin-college-joins-university-west-london/|work=Oxford Mail|access-date=2023-08-06|archive-date=2021-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803083420/https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19486769.oxfords-ruskin-college-joins-university-west-london/|url-status=live}}</ref>
** 27 August: Closure of Oxuniprint, the last printing operation of [[Oxford University Press]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Alison|last=Flood|title=Oxford University Press to end centuries of tradition by closing its printing arm|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/09/oxford-university-press-to-end-centuries-of-tradition-by-closing-its-printing-arm|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=2021-06-09|accessdate=2021-06-10}}</ref>
** 1 November: [[Linacre College, Oxford|Linacre College]] announces its intention to change its name to Thao College in recognition of a major benefaction.<ref>{{cite web|title=Transformative Donation to College|url=https://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/about/news/transformative-donation-college|publisher=Linacre College|date=2021-11-01|accessdate=2021-11-03}}</ref>
* 2022
** 28 February
***[[Oxford zero emission zone]] launched by [[Oxfordshire County Council]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/britains-first-zero-emission-zone-begins-in-oxford/ | title=Britain's first zero emission zone begins in Oxford | publisher=[[Oxfordshire County Council]] | date=27 February 2025 | access-date=9 February 2025 }}</ref>
***Announcement confirming that national bookshop chain [[Waterstones]] is acquiring [[Blackwell's]].<ref>{{cite news|date=2022-02-28|title=Waterstones acquires Blackwell's, the UK's biggest independent bookseller|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/28/waterstones-acquires-blackwells-the-uks-biggest-independent-bookseller|access-date=2022-03-02}}</ref>
** 28 May: University of Oxford announces launch of a Pandemic Sciences Institute.<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Oxford to launch Pandemic Sciences Institute|date=28 May 2021 |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-05-28-university-oxford-launch-pandemic-sciences-institute|publisher=2022-05-28|accessdate=2022-07-08}}</ref>
** Autumn: [[Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus College]] completes its Northgate development in [[Cornmarket Street|Cornmarket]] and [[Market Street, Oxford|Market Street]]s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jesus College demolition scheme in Cornmarket reaches new phase|first=Andrew|last=Ffrench|url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17546517.jesus-college-demolition-scheme-in-cornmarket-reaches-new-phase/|work=Oxford Mail|date=2019-04-03|access-date=2019-09-24}}</ref>
* 2023
** 11 April: Long-term closure of the [[Botley Road]] at the railway bridge by [[Network Rail]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce81pzewxlzo | title=Botley Road to reopen August 2026 says Network Rail | work=[[BBC News]] | publisher=[[BBC]] | location=UK | date=24 January 2025 | access-date=9 February 2025 }}</ref>
** 2 October: A [[malaria vaccine]] with 77% efficacy capable of cheap bulk production, R21/Matrix-M, developed by the University of Oxford's [[Jenner Institute]] and partners, is approved by the [[World Health Organization]].<ref>{{cite web|first=James|last=Gallagher|title=Malaria vaccine big advance against major child killer|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66985273|work=BBC News|date=2023-10-02|accessdate=2023-10-02}}</ref>
** 16–17 October: The [[Radcliffe Science Library]] reopens in its refurbished premises, now shared with [[Reuben College, Oxford|Reuben College]].

==Births==
[[File:Jane Burden at 18 by William Morris.jpg|thumb|[[Jane Morris|Jane Burden]] sketched by [[William Morris]]]]
* 1157 – 8 September: [[Richard I of England]] (died 1199)
* 1166 – 24 December: [[John, King of England]] (died 1216)
* c.1477 – [[Lambert Simnel]], pretender to the English throne (probable birthplace; died c. 1525)
* c.1517 – [[Thomas Cooper (bishop)|Thomas Cooper]], Bishop of Winchester, lexicographer, controversialist and physician (died 1594)
* 1522/23 – [[John Piers]], Archbishop of York (died 1594)
* c.1560 – [[Thomas Harriot]], polymath (died 1621)
* c.1562 – [[Nicholas Owen (Jesuit)|Nicholas Owen]], carpenter and Jesuit lay brother (martyred 1606)
* 1583 – 25 December ''(bapt.)'': [[Orlando Gibbons]], composer (died 1625)
* 1602
** 12 October: [[William Chillingworth]], religious controversialist (died 1644)
** Approximate date: [[Henry Marten (regicide)|Henry Marten]], lawyer, radical politician, soldier and regicide (died 1680)
* 1606 – 3 March ''(bapt.)'': [[William Davenant]], dramatist (died 1668)
* 1632 – 17 December: [[Anthony Wood (antiquary)|Anthony Wood]], antiquary (died 1695)
* 1651/2 – [[William Turner (composer)|William Turner]], composer and countertenor (probable birthplace; died 1740)
* 1665 – 28 December: [[George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland]], an illegitimate son of Charles II (died 1716)
* 1668 – 5 January ''(bapt.)'': [[Alicia D'Anvers]], née Clarke, poet (died 1725)
* 1734 – [[William Buckland (architect)|William Buckland]], architect in colonial America (died 1774)
* 1753 – 27 February ''(bapt.)'': [[James Sadler (balloonist)|James Sadler]], balloonist (died 1828)
* 1758 – 28 October: [[John Sibthorp]], botanist (died 1796)
* 1787 – [[Eliza Salmon]], née Munday, soprano (died 1849)
* 1826 – 17 December: [[Francis Trevelyan Buckland|Frank Buckland]], natural historian (died 1880)
* 1831 – 12 January: [[Philip Webb]], Arts and Crafts architect (died 1915)
* 1837 – 12 December: [[J. R. Green]], historian (died 1883)
* 1839 – 19 October: [[Jane Morris]], née Burden, artists' model (died 1914)
* 1842 – 14 May: [[Henry Taunt]], topographical photographer (died 1922)
* 1845 – 8 December: [[Herbert Giles]], sinologist (died 1935)
* 1847 – 1 April: [[Hamilton Hamilton]], painter in the United States (died 1928)
* 1849 – 26 June: [[Sarah Angelina Acland]], pioneer colour photographer (died 1930)
* 1856 – 15 February: Annie Mary Anne Henley Rogers, pioneer of higher education for women (died in accident 1937)<ref>{{cite ODNB|last=Howarth|first=Janet|title=Rogers, Annie Mary Anne Henley (1856–1937)|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35810|access-date=8 October 2014|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35810}}</ref>
* 1861 – 25 April: [[Gertrude Tuckwell]], trade unionist (died 1951)
* 1873 – 8 May: [[Nevil Sidgwick]], theoretical chemist (died 1952)
* 1884 – 9 November: [[Christopher Chavasse]], Bishop of Rochester (died 1962) & his twin brother [[Noel Godfrey Chavasse]], surgeon, twice winner of the [[Victoria Cross]] (died of wounds 1917)
* 1888 – 25 December: [[Michael Sadleir]], né Sadler, novelist (died 1957)
* 1889
** 29 May: [[Basil Blackwell]], bookseller and publisher (died 1984)
** 12 September: [[Ronald Poulton]], rugby union footballer (killed in action 1915)
* 1892 – 5 November: [[J. B. S. Haldane]], polymath (died 1964)
* 1893
** 13 June: [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], author (died 1957)
** 21 December: [[Winifred Nicholson]], née Rosa Roberts, impressionist painter (died 1981)
** 23 December: [[Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside|Sholto Douglas]], Marshal of the Royal Air Force (died 1969)
* 1901 – 21 April: [[Gladys Mitchell]], writer of detective fiction (died 1983)
* 1903
** 22 January: [[Robin Milford]], classical composer (died 1959)
** 12 May: [[Lennox Berkeley]], classical composer (died 1989)
* 1910 – 3 April: [[Thomas Lionel Hodgkin|Thomas Hodgkin]], Marxist historian of Africa (died 1982)
* 1911 – 4 October: [[C. L. Mowat]], historian (died 1970)
* 1915 – 26 August: [[Humphrey Searle]], classical composer (died 1982)
* 1917 – 24 March: [[John Kendrew]], biochemist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (died 1997)
* 1918 – 17 February: [[Olive Gibbs]], née Cox, Labour politician, peace campaigner and twice mayor of Oxford (died 1995)
* 1920 – 3 August: [[P. D. James]], writer of detective fiction (died 2014)
* 1924
** 3 February: [[E. P. Thompson]], Marxist historian (died 1993)
** 14 May: [[Tristram Cary]], electronic composer (died 2008)
* 1927 – 30 March: [[Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster|Robert Armstrong]], civil servant (died 2020)
* 1928 – 12 November: [[Maureen Gardner]], Olympic hurdler (died 1974)
* 1929 – 22 June: [[Humphry Bowen]], chemist and botanist (died 2001)
* 1934 – 16 March: [[Roger Norrington]], orchestral conductor
* 1937 – 17 February: [[Benjamin Whitrow]], actor (died 2017)
* 1938 – 12 September: [[Patrick Mower]], né Shaw, television actor
* 1940
** 21 August: [[Dominick Harrod]], broadcast economic journalist (died 2013)
** 27 December: [[Toni Arthur]], née Antoinette Wilson, folk singer and children's television presenter
* 1941
** 18 May: [[Miriam Margolyes]], character actress
** 30 August: [[Sue MacGregor]], broadcaster
* 1942 
** 7 January: [[Will Wyatt]], chief executive, BBC broadcasting
** 8 January: [[Stephen Hawking]], theoretical physicist and cosmologist (died 2018)
** 24 February: [[David Sherwin]], screenwriter (died 2018)
* 1943 
** 21 March: [[Viv Stanshall]], musician (died 1995)
** 28 August: [[Simon LeVay]], neuroscientist
* 1944
** 12 April: [[Lisa Jardine]], née Bronowski, Renaissance historian and polymath (died 2015)
** 14 April: [[John Sergeant (journalist)|John Sergeant]], television journalist
* 1945
** 26 January: [[Jacqueline du Pré]], cellist (died 1987)
** 2 June: [[Lord David Dundas]], rock singer and screen composer
* 1946 – 29 April: [[Humphrey Carpenter]], biographer (died 2005)
* 1947 – 10 September: [[David Pountney]], opera director
* 1949 – 25 August: [[Martin Amis]], novelist (died 2023)
* 1950 – 2 January: [[Angela Gallop]], née Knowles, forensic scientist
* 1956 – 14 March: [[Jonathan Bowen]], computer scientist
* 1958 – 11 July: [[Mark Lester]], child actor
* 1959
** 11 June: [[Hugh Laurie]], actor
** 9 November: [[Frances O'Grady]], trade unionist
* 1960 – 16 October: [[Cressida Dick]], police officer, [[Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis]]
* 1961 – 7 August: [[Walter Swinburn]], flat racing jockey and trainer (died 2016)
* 1962 – [[Ray Harrison Graham]], dramatist and director
* 1964 – 29 October: [[Yasmin Le Bon]], née Parvaneh, model
* 1965 – 20 January: [[Sophie, Countess of Wessex]], née Rhys-Jones, member of the royal family
* 1966
** 24 July: [[Martin Keown]], footballer
** 30 October: [[Irene Tracey]], neuroscientist and vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford
* 1972 – [[Zinnie Harris]], dramatist
* 1975
** 26 July: [[Liz Truss]], Prime Minister of the UK in 2022
** 31 August: [[Daniel Harding]], orchestral conductor
* 1976 – 1 April: [[David Oyelowo]], actor
* 1979 – 11 September: [[Ting-Ting Hu]], film actress
* 1981 – [[Jesse Darling]], sculptor and installation artist
* 1983 – 21 April: [[Gugu Mbatha-Raw]], television actress
* 1987 – 6 March: [[Hannah England]], middle-distance runner
* 1996 – 3 January: [[Florence Pugh]], actress

==Deaths==
[[File:Osney cemetery - geograph.org.uk - 1263022.jpg|thumb|[[Osney Cemetery]] (on the site of the Abbey)]]
* 727 – 19 October: [[Frithuswith|Frideswide]], abbess (b. c.650)
* 924 – 2 August: [[Ælfweard of Wessex]], royal prince (b. c.902)
* 1002 – 13 November: [[Gunhilde]], Viking noblewoman
* 1040 – 17 March: [[Harold Harefoot]], king of England (b. c.1015)
* 1151 – [[Walter of Oxford]], archdeacon
* 1176 – [[Rosamund Clifford]], royal mistress
* 1222 – 17 April: Robert of Reading (Haggai), convert to Judaism, executed
* 1236 – 7 May: [[Agnellus of Pisa]], Franciscan friar (b. 1195)
* 1292 – June?: [[Roger Bacon]], friar, philosopher and scientist (b. c.1214)
* 1553 – 15 February: Catherine Vermigli, ex-nun<ref name="ODNB Vermigli"/>
* 1610 – 9 November: [[George Napper]], Catholic priest, executed (b. 1550)
* 1644
** 5 February: [[Sir Thomas Byron]], Royalist commander (b. c.1610)
** 4 July: [[Brian Twyne]], antiquary (b. 1581)
* 1648 – 28 May ''(bur.)'': [[William Percy (writer)|William Percy]], poet and playwright (b. 1570/4)
* 1680 – 4 February: [[Jacob Bobart the Elder]], botanist (b. 1599 in Brunswick)
* 1686 – 10 July: [[John Fell (bishop)|John Fell]], Bishop of Oxford (b. 1625)
* 1703 – 28 October: [[John Wallis]], mathematician (b. 1616)
* 1709 – 30 June: [[Edward Lhuyd]], Welsh natural historian and antiquary (b. 1660)
* 1747 – 2 April: [[Johann Jacob Dillenius]], botanist (b. 1684 in Darmstadt)
* 1773 – 10 June: [[Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)|Thomas Hearne]], antiquary (b. 1678)
* 1790 – 21 May: [[Thomas Warton]], poet laureate (b. 1728)
* 1854 – 22 December: [[Martin Routh]], classicist and president of Magdalen College (b. 1755)
* 1862 – 7 August: [[William Turner (artist)|William Turner]], topographical watercolourist (b. 1789)
* 1882 – 16 September: [[E. B. Pusey]], high churchman (b. 1800)
* 1893 – 1 October: [[Benjamin Jowett]], theologian, Master of Balliol and academic reformer (b. 1817)
* 1894 – 30 July: [[Walter Pater]], art critic (b. 1839)
* 1896 – 8 February: [[Charles Umpherston Aitchison]], colonial governor (b. 1832 in Edinburgh)
* 1899 – 6 October: [[Felicia Skene]], writer and prison reformer (b. 1821 in Aix-en-Provence)
* 1900
** 16 October: Sir [[Henry Acland]], academic physician (b. 1815)
** 28 October: [[Max Müller]], orientalist (b. 1823 in Dessau)
* 1901 – 31 March: Sir [[John Stainer]], organist, composer and professor of music (died on holiday in Verona; burial 6 April at [[Holywell Cemetery]]) (b. 1840)
* 1912 – 30 April: [[Henry Sweet]], philologist (b. 1845)
* 1919
** 8 April: [[Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet]], Anglo-Irish landowner, father of T. E. Lawrence (b. 1846)
** 29 December: Sir [[William Osler]], hospital physician, "father of modern medicine" (b. 1849 in Ontario)
* 1920 – 5 June: [[Rhoda Broughton]], popular novelist (b. 1840)
* 1930
** 21 April: [[Robert Bridges]], poet laureate (b. 1844)
** 2 December: [[Sarah Angelina Acland]], pioneer colour photographer (b. 1849)
* 1932 – 29 February: [[George Claridge Druce]], botanist, pharmacist and mayor of Oxford (b. 1850)
* 1934 – 14 March: [[Francis Llewellyn Griffith]], Egyptologist (b. 1862)
* 1936 – 19 March: [[Eleanor Constance Lodge]], promoter of women's higher education (b. 1869)
* 1941
** 16 January: [[A. G. Macdonell]], writer (b. 1895)
** 11 July: Sir [[Arthur Evans]], archaeologist of Minoan civilisation (b. 1851)
* 1943 – 14 October: [[Michael Sadler (educationist)|Michael Sadler]], educationalist, Master of University College (b. 1861)
* 1944 – 26 June: [[Edward Brooks (VC)|Edward Brooks]], soldier, winner of the Victoria Cross (b. 1883)
* 1945 – 15 May: [[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]], writer (b. 1886)
* 1946 – 20 February: [[Hugh Allen (conductor)|Hugh Allen]], conductor, died of effects of road accident (b. 1869)
* 1952
** 18 July: [[Hugh Cairns (surgeon)|Sir Hugh Cairns]], neurosurgeon (b. 1896 in Australia)
** 27 November: [[Franz Baermann Steiner]], anthropologist (b. 1909 in Prague)
* 1954 – 8 June: [[Kenneth Kirk]], Bishop of Oxford and moral theologian (b. 1886)
* 1955 – 31 March: [[Thomas Dunbabin]], classical archaeologist and resistance leader (b. 1911 in Australia)
* 1956 – 27 September: [[Gerald Finzi]], composer (b. 1901)
* 1957
** 3 July: [[Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell]], physicist (b. 1886 in Baden-Baden)
** 27 October: [[Paul Jacobsthal]], archaeologist (b. 1880 in Berlin)
* 1963
** 16 March: [[William Beveridge]], social scientist, Master of University College (b. 1963)
** 22 November: [[C. S. Lewis]], author (b. 1898 in Belfast)
* 1971 – 4 July: Sir [[Maurice Bowra]], classicist, Warden of Wadham College and wit (b. 1898)
* 1975
** 18 May: [[Christopher Strachey]], computer scientist (b. 1916)
** 29 September: [[John Henry Brookes]], educator (b. 1891)
* 1980 – 19 November: [[Edmund Bowen]], physical chemist (b. 1898)
* 1981 – 22 November: [[Hans Adolf Krebs|Sir Hans Krebs]], biochemist (b. 1900 in Hildesheim)
* 1982 – 20 November: [[John Redcliffe-Maud]], civil servant and Master of University College (b. 1906)
* 1985 – 13 April: [[Oscar Nemon]], sculptor (b. 1906 in Osijek)
* 1988
** 10 March: [[Andy Gibb]], pop singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
** 21 December: [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]], animal behaviourist (b. 1907 in The Hague)
* 1992 – 24 January: [[John Hanbury Angus Sparrow|John Sparrow]], literary scholar and Warden of All Souls (b. 1906)
* 1994 – 24 May: [[John Wain]], poet, novelist and critic (b. 1925)
* 1997 – 5 November: Sir [[Isaiah Berlin]], philosopher and president of Wolfson College (b. 1909 in Riga)
* 1999
** 27 March: [[Michael Aris]], orientalist (b. 1946)
** 30 May: [[Sonia Chadwick Hawkes]], Anglo-Saxon archaeologist (b. 1933)<ref>{{cite news|last=Welch|first=Martin|date=1999-06-23|title=Obituary: Sonia Chadwick Hawkes|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sonia-chadwick-hawkes-1102025.html|access-date=2023-01-28|work=[[The Independent]]|location=London}}</ref>
* 2001 – 15 October: [[Anne Ridler]], poet (b. 1912)
* 2005 – 24 July: Sir [[Richard Doll]], epidemiologist (b. 1912)
* 2007 – 21 August: [[Siobhan Dowd]], children's novelist (b. 1960)
* 2011 – 18 January: [[John Herivel]], cryptanalyst (b. 1918)
* 2014 – 14 October: [[A. H. Halsey]], sociologist (b. 1923)
* 2017
** 21 March: [[Colin Dexter]], detective fiction writer (b. 1930)
** 19 August: [[Brian Aldiss]], science fiction writer (b. 1925)
* 2018 – 3 March: Sir [[Roger Bannister]], mile runner, neurologist and Master of Pembroke College (b. 1929)

==See also==
* [[History of Oxford]]
* [[:Category:Timelines of cities in the United Kingdom|Timelines]] of other [[List of cities in the United Kingdom|cities]] in [[South East England]]: [[History of Portsmouth#Chronology|Portsmouth]], [[Timeline of Reading, Berkshire|Reading]], [[Timeline of Southampton|Southampton]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
[[File:Old book bindings.jpg|thumb|Books in [[Merton College Library]]]]
* ''See also'' [[List of books about Oxford]]

===Published before 1800===
* {{cite book|author=David Loggan|title=Oxonia illustrata|location=Oxford|publisher=at the Sheldonian Theatre|year=1675|author-link=David Loggan}}
* {{cite book|author=Anthony Wood|title=Historia et antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis|location=Oxford|publisher=at the Sheldonian Theatre|year=1674|author-link=Anthony Wood (antiquary)}}
* {{cite book|author=Anthony Wood|title=Athenæ Oxonienses: an Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford from 1500 to 1690|location=London|date=1691}}

===Published in the 19th century===
* {{cite book|publisher=Printed for C. Cooke|location=London|title=Topographical and statistical description of the county of Oxford|author=George Alexander Cooke|date=1800|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/oxfordtopographic00cookuoft#page/22/mode/2up|chapter=Oxford|ol=7126442M}}
* {{cite book|publisher=J. Harris|location=London|title=Beauties of England and Wales|author=J. N. Brewer|date=1813|volume=12|number=2|chapter=Oxford|title-link=Beauties of England and Wales|hdl=2027/yale.39002040781982?urlappend=%3Bseq=70|author-link=James Norris Brewer}}
* {{cite book|publisher=Printed for J. Cooke|location=Oxford|title=New Pocket Companion for Oxford|url=https://archive.org/details/anewpocketcompa00cookgoog|date=1814|oclc=43132323|ol=20441538M}}
* {{cite book|chapter=Oxford|volume=4|title=Bibliotheca Britannica|author=Robert Watt|location=Edinburgh|publisher= A. Constable|year=1824|hdl = 2027/mdp.39076005081505?urlappend=%3Bseq=375|oclc=961753|author-link = Robert Watt (bibliographer)}}
* {{cite book|author-link=James Ingram (academic)|author=James Ingram|title=Memorials of Oxford|year=1837|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008687394|location=Oxford|publisher=J. H. Parker}}
* {{cite book|location=London|publisher=James Wyld|title=Great Western Railway Guide|date=1839|oclc=12922212|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/greatwesternchel00wyld#page/84/mode/2up|chapter=Oxford}}
* {{cite book|publisher=Henry Slatter|date=1841|location=Oxford|title=Oxford University and city guide, on a new plan|url=https://archive.org/details/oxforduniversity00oxfo|ol = 13510937M}}
* {{cite book|title=Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales|edition=3rd|year=1853|publisher=Adam and Charles Black|location=Edinburgh|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/blackspicturesq00ltdgoog#page/n216/mode/2up|chapter=Oxford|title-link=Black's Guides}}
* {{cite book|publisher=Routledge, Warne, & Routledge|location=London|author=Theodore Alois Buckley|title=Great Cities of the Middle Ages|edition=2nd|date=1862|chapter=Oxford|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/greatcitiesofmid00buck#page/298/mode/2up|author-link=Theodore Alois Buckley}}
* {{cite book|publisher=T. Shrimpton and Son|location=Oxford|title=Historical handbook and guide to Oxford |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalhandb00moorgoog|author=James J. Moore|edition=2nd|date=1878|ol=6296488M}}
* {{cite book|publisher=Alden & Co.|location=Oxford|title=Alden's Oxford Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordguidealden00alde|author=Edward C. Alden|date=1890|edition=16th|oclc=10923077|ol=23324274M}}
* {{cite book|publisher=Karl Baedeker|location=Leipsic|title=Great Britain|date=1897|edition=4th|oclc=6430424|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/greatbritainhand00karl#page/224/mode/2up|chapter=Oxford}}
* {{cite book|title=Bibliography of British Municipal History|year=1897|location=New York|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co.|author=Charles Gross|chapter=Oxford|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/bibliographyofbr00grosiala#page/358/mode/2up}}
* {{cite book|publisher=Parker & Co.|location=Oxford|title=Visitor's guide to Oxford|url=https://archive.org/details/visitorsguidetoo00oxforich|date=1897|oclc=13779765|ol=25410017M}}

===Published in the 20th century===
* {{cite book|title=Oxford|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordpaintedby00fullgoog|author=Edward Thomas|location=London|publisher=A. & C. Clark|year=1903|author-link=Edward Thomas (poet)}}
* {{cite book|publisher=Cornhill Publishing Co.|location=Boston|author=Andrew Lang|author-link=Andrew Lang|title=Oxford|url=https://archive.org/details/oxford00langrich|date=1906|ol=13507496M}}
* {{cite book|publisher=Dent & Co.|location=London|title=The story of Oxford|url=https://archive.org/details/storyofoxford00head_0|author=Cecil Headlam|date=1907|ol=14043719M}}
* {{cite book|publisher=B.H. Blackwell|location=Oxford|author=Rhoda Murray|title=The making of Oxford|url=https://archive.org/details/makingofoxfordpo00murr|date=1912|ol=25402026M}}
* {{cite book|title=An Oxford University Chest|author=John Betjeman|year=1938|publisher=John Miles|location=London|author-link=John Betjeman}}
* {{cite book|title=Oxford Replanned|author=Thomas Sharp|location=London|publisher=Architectural Press|year=1948|author-link=Thomas Sharp (town planner)}}
* {{cite book|title=Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel|author=Edward Godfrey Cox|year=1949|publisher=University of Washington|location=Seattle|via=Hathi Trust|volume='''3''': Great Britain|chapter=Cambridge and Oxford|series=University of Washington publications. Language and literaturev. 9-10, 12 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015049531448?urlappend=%3Bseq=310}}
* {{cite book|title=Oxford|url=https://archive.org/details/oxford0000morr|url-access=registration|author=Jan Morris|location=London|publisher=Faber|year=1965|author-link=Jan Morris}}
* {{cite book|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman|title=Oxford in the Age of John Locke|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordinageofjoh00harg|url-access=registration|author=W. N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley|date=1973|ol=5284855M|series=Centers of Civilization Series|isbn=9780806110387 |author-link=Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley}}
* {{cite book|author=Jennifer Sherwood and [[Nikolaus Pevsner]]|title=Oxfordshire|series=[[The Buildings of England]]|location=Harmondsworth|publisher=Penguin|year=1974|isbn=0-14-071045-0}} "Oxford" by Pevsner. 2nd edn by Simon Bradley (2023). ''Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East''. New Haven: Yale University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-300-20929-7}}.
* {{cite book|author=A. R. Woolley|title=The Clarendon Guide to Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=3rd|year=1975|isbn=0-19-951047-4}}
* {{cite book|author=James Stevens Curl|title=The Erosion of Oxford|publisher=Oxford Illustrated Press|year=1977|isbn=0-902280-40-6|author-link=James Stevens Curl}}
* {{cite book|editor=Alan Crossley|title=A History of the County of Oxford. Vol. '''4''': The City of Oxford|series=[[Victoria County History]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1979|isbn=0197227147|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=10}}
* T. H. Aston, ed. (1984– ). ''The History of the University of Oxford''. Oxford University Press.
* {{cite book|title=The Encyclopædia of Oxford|publisher=Macmillan|location=London|year=1988|isbn=0-333-39917-X|editor=[[Christopher Hibbert]]|title-link=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford}}

===Published in the 21st century===
* {{cite book|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|author1=Daniel A. Bell|author2=Avner de-Shalit|title=Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age|date=2011|isbn=9780691151441|chapter=Oxford|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bf0wAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA161}}
* {{cite book|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|title=The University of Oxford: a history|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2016|isbn=978-0-19-924356-3}}

==External links==
* {{cite web|title=Introduction and history|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/introducing_oxford/a_brief_history_of_the_university/|publisher=[[University of Oxford]]|access-date=20 October 2014|archive-date=2 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302031633/http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/introducing_oxford/a_brief_history_of_the_university/|url-status=dead}}

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