University of Oxford

2021: Murder of a Russian medical specialist at Oxford University

At the end of October 2021, it became known about the murder of a Russian citizen Leonid Laboshin, who worked at Oxford University, engaged in technologies for early diagnosis and surgical treatment of cancer. More details here.

1971

Future terrorist Osama bin Laden (first right), Oxford, 1971.

1627

From the middle of the XVI century. the Catholic Church begins to publish the index of banned books Index Librorum Prohibitorum, adding to it with new and new editions. In 1627, the director of the Oxford Bodleian library offered to use this index as a guide - and automatically purchase for the university all the books included in it.