University of Oxford

2021: Murder of a Russian medical technician 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. Read more 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 Librorum Prohibitorum index of banned books, replenishing it with more and more new publications. In 1627, the director of the Oxford Bodleian library suggested using this index as a guide - and automatically purchasing all the books included in it for the university.

1096: Establishing a university