Timeline of Oxford

19th century

• 1800 – New University examination statute establishes rigorous written examinations in mathematics and Literae Humaniores.
• 1806 – Sir Roger Newdigate founds the university's Newdigate Prize for English Poetry. The first winner is 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. 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.
• 1812 – William Carter opens the ironmongers that becomes Eagle Ironworks.
• 1813 – 14 November: A continuous series of meteorological records for Oxford is begun at the Radcliffe Observatory.
• 1814 – 14 June: Allied sovereigns' visit to England: Banquet in Radcliffe Library for The Prince Regent, 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.
• 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. The business goes into liquidation in February 2020.
• 1816 – 4 May: The first Hertford College is declared to have been dissolved on 28 June 1805.
• 1818 – 23 May: Oxford gas company established by Act with riverside works in St. Ebbes. Public gas street lighting begins in 1819.
• 1819 – 10 February: Apollo University Lodge consecrated.
• 1820
• 9 January: Much of Magdalen Hall is destroyed by fire; soon afterwards part of the old Hertford College collapses and on 3 May the foundation stone of a new Magdalen Hall is laid on the Hertford site (completed 1822).
• November: Residential development of Summertown begins; 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 built.
• 1826 – July: Warneford Hospital opened as Oxford Lunatic Asylum.
• 1827
• February: A University oath requiring those seeking to become MAs to swear never to be reconciled with Henry Symeonis is abolished, presumably because its purpose has long been forgotten.
• 4 June: The University Match (cricket) is first played between Oxford University Cricket Club and Cambridge at Lord's; a draw.
• October: Swimming bath opened in St Clement's by this date.
• 1828–1837 – Beaumont Street laid out.
• 1828
• 14 March: 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.
• c. Summer: New St Clement's Church completed on a new site; as former curate, J. H. Newman had collected most of the funds.
• 1829
• 10 June: The Boat Race 1829 – The newly established Oxford University Boat Club wins the first inter-university Boat Race, rowed at Henley-on-Thames; the crew wear dark blue.
• Oxford University Police established.
• 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. His supporters – Bulteelers – build the St. Ebbes chapel in Commercial Road for him.
• 1832 – 24 June–28 November: Cholera outbreak.
• 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.
• 1834 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, is appointed 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 makes the city a municipal borough with effect from 1 January 1836, removing the jurisdiction of the university over tradespeople.
• 19–20 October: Queen Adelaide makes an official visit to Oxford. Her escort, the 1st Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, is granted the style of Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry on 7 November.
• Quaking Bridge rebuilt in iron.
• Iffley Wesleyan Methodist Church on Rose Hill is founded; 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 brought within city boundary.
• 8 February: Commencement of Hampden Controversy: Prime Minister Lord Melbourne's appointment of Renn Dickson Hampden (a supporter of toleration for Dissenters) as Regius Professor of Divinity in the university splits the Church of England into high church and liberal factions.
• 22 September: Anglican Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Littlemore, founded by J. H. Newman, is consecrated.
• First New Theatre in George Street opens, the city's first purpose-built theatre.
• 1837
• 26 March: J. H. Newman introduces the weekly celebration of communion at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
• Redesign of the newly renamed Botanic Garden by Charles Daubeny, Sherardian Professor of Botany.
• 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.

• 1841
• 6 June (Sunday): Marian Hughes becomes the first woman to take religious vows in communion with the Anglican Province of Canterbury since the Reformation, making them privately to E. B. Pusey in Oxford. 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 Ã‚°C.
• June: Visit of Queen Victoria.
• 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.
• 1 July: Copyright Act confirms the Bodleian as a legal deposit library.
• 29 July: Henry Fox Talbot takes the earliest known photographs of Oxford.
• 1843
• April: Protestant Martyrs' Memorial completed.
• 14 May: E. B. Pusey preaches a sermon on "The Holy Eucharist, a Comfort to the Penitent" before the university at Christ Church Cathedral which causes him to be suspended from preaching university sermons for two years but sells 18,000 copies.
• By 1844 – Jewish community served by a rabbi.
• 1844 – 12 June: Great Western Railway opens its branch from Didcot to a terminus in Grandpont. Residential development of New Hinksey follows.
• 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. On 23 February 1846 he spends his last night in Oxford until 1878 at the Radcliffe Observatory.
• 1846
• County Pauper Lunatic Asylum established at Littlemore.
• St Ebbe's bathing place opened, the city's first rate-supported public river bathing place.
• 1847–1849 – Holywell, Osney and 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 constituency, which seat he will hold until July 1865.
• 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.
• 1849
• August–October: Cholera outbreak.
• c. September–October: Painter John Everett Millais visits Oxford and meets the university printer Thomas Combe, who becomes a patron of the Pre-Raphaelites.
• William Sewell, Dean of Exeter College and novelist, burns a copy of J. A. Froude's novel of religious doubt The Nemesis of Faith.
• 1850
• June–November: Millais again visits and works in the city.
• 18 August: First railway excursion to Oxford, from London.
• 27 September: Folly Bridge freed of tolls.
• November: Undergraduates at Exeter College arrange a "foot grind" (a cross-country steeplechase) at Binsey, the first organised university athletic event in Britain.
• 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 Rewley Road station.
• Osney Town laid out.
• 1852
• 1 October: Great Western Railway opens a new through Oxford railway station on its modern-day site.
• December: Severe flooding.
• 1853–1855 – Park Town built, the first significant planned residential development in North Oxford; the architect/developer is Samuel Lipscomb Seckham.
• 1853
• Enclosure of Cowley Field encourages residential development in the south-east.
• Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gypsy is written.
• 'Cuthbert Bede, M.A.' (Edward Bradley)'s novel The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green begins publication.
• The Tumbling Bay swimming area opens.
• 1854
• Whit Sunday: Thomas Chamberlain, vicar of St Thomas the Martyr's Church, controversially wears a chasuble for celebration of the Eucharist.
• 1 June: Free public library opened.
• 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.
• September: Cholera outbreak combined with smallpox.
• Corporation waterworks established at South Hinksey.
• 1855 – University statute allows M.A.s aged over 28 to open private halls.
• 1856
• 15 March: The Boat Race 1856, first of the annual series rowed between Cambridge and Oxford University Boat Clubs on the Championship Course of the River Thames in London; Cambridge wins.
• St John's College begins residential development of its Walton Manor estate in North Oxford.
• "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 – Salter Bros. set up as boatbuilders and hirers at Folly Bridge.
• 1859
• 18 October: New chapel at Exeter College, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is consecrated.
• First Chichele Professorships established.

• 1860
• 30 June: Evolution debate at the new University Museum.
• 24 December: Coldest night on record in Oxford, -17.8 Ã‚°C.
• St John's College begins residential development of its Norham Manor estate in North Oxford.
• 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.
• Hythe Bridge rebuilt in iron.
• 1862
• 27 January: Radcliffe Camera reopens as an undergraduate reading room of the Bodleian Library.
• 4 July: Charles Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takes Alice Liddell and her sisters on a 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).
• Michaelmas: William Spooner becomes the first non-Wykehamist to enter New College, where he will remain for more than 60 years, serving as warden from 1903 to 1924.
• The Oxford Times founded.
• 1863
• 24 March: Last public hanging at Oxford Castle.
• April: 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.
• Laying out of University Parks completed.
• Oxford School of Art, the ancestor of Oxford Brookes University, begins to function located in the Taylor Institution.
• December: Matthew Arnold's poem Thyrsis, with its reference to the "dreaming spires" of Oxford, is written.
• 1866
• 15 February: Randolph Hotel opened.
• The Society of St. John the Evangelist ("Cowley Fathers") is founded by Richard Meux Benson at Cowley, the first stable Anglican religious order for men in England since the Reformation.
• The Meadow Building at Christ Church is completed.
• 1867
• 12 August: Christ Church (Oxford) Act modernises administration of Christ Church and its cathedral.
• November–December: Town and gown and bread riots.
• 1868
• 11 June: University 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.
• Walter Eddison and Richard Noddings from Yorkshire form the partnership that by 1874 becomes the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Company, based at Cowley.
• 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.
• 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, announcing his intention to establish what becomes the Ruskin School of Drawing.
• 27 August: Oxford University Boat Club wins the first international boat race held on the Thames against Harvard University.
• 19 October: St Barnabas Church, Jericho, designed by Arthur Blomfield for Thomas Combe, consecrated.
• Oxford University Rugby Football Club founded.

• 1870
• 6 & 23 June: 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, based in New Inn Hall Street.
• Oxford University Gazette first published.
• Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis juvenile dinosaur fossil found in Summertown.
• 1871
• 18 June: The 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).
• 24 December: Merton College passes a special statute enabling four fellows to hold office after marrying. Historian Mandell Creighton (on 8 January 1872) is the first to be married.
• Ruskin School of Drawing established in the University Galleries.
• First issue of Oxford and Cambridge college stamps for postage by Keble College.
• 1872
• 10 February: First of The Varsity Matches in rugby union played against Cambridge in The Parks; Oxford wins.
• 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.
• 1873–1880
• Christian Cole becomes the first black African to study at the university.
• First city sewerage system laid, with pumping station at Littlemore.
• 1873
• 29 March: 1873 FA Cup Final at Lillie Bridge in London: Oxford University A.F.C. loses; in the afternoon, the 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 to Keble College.
• 1874
• 7 August: Second Hertford College founded in the university by Act changing the status of Magdalen Hall (on the site of the former Hart Hall).
• Frank Cooper's Oxford marmalade first produced by his wife Sarah.
• John Ruskin recruits a group of "diggers" from university undergraduates to repair the road to North Hinksey, including Oscar Wilde, Alfred Milner, Hardwicke Rawnsley, W. G. Collingwood and Arnold Toynbee.
• 1875
• Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga established by Jesuits in Woodstock Road, designed by Joseph Hansom.
• 3 November: Oxford High School opened by Girls' Day School Trust.
• 1876
• 25 April (St Mark's Day): Keble College Chapel dedicated.
• 7 June: Cowley Barracks opened. The 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry Regiment is among the forces first stationed here.
• 7 September: Oxford Military College established as a private boarding school at Cowley; it goes bankrupt in 1896.
• 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 with 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 founded as a Church of England theological college, beginning its teaching in January 1878.
• First house built in New Marston.
• Dragon School founded as the Preparatory School.
• First telephone in Oxford.
• 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.
• 26 September: First Oxford University Extension Lecture delivered, in Birmingham.
• 18 October: Wesley Memorial Church opened in New Inn Hall Street.
• Construction of houses on Cripley Meadow begins.

• 1879
• 1 January: B. H. Blackwell (son of the city's first public librarian) opens the first Blackwell's bookshop.
• 13 March: Gerard Manley Hopkins, at this time a curate at the new Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga, writes the poem "Binsey Poplars", marking their felling.
• 13 October: First women students admitted to the newly opened Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville Hall and Society of Oxford Home-Students.
• New General Post Office built in St Aldate's.
• 1881
• 18 January: Severe gale.
• May: First cricket matches in 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 (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 absorbs St Alban Hall.
• 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.
• 14 October: Indian Institute opened.
• Pitt Rivers Museum established by donation of Augustus Pitt Rivers' anthropological and archaeological collections to the university.
• Pusey House established to promote high church learning and worship.
• 1885
• 29 April: Women first permitted to the take the university entrance examination.
• May: Oxford University Dramatic Society's first production, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 produced by Alec MacKinnon in the old Town Hall.
• 11 June: James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, moves to a house on the Banbury Road to work full-time on the project.
• 2 December: Osney Bridge collapses with one fatality.
• 1886
• 13 February: Second New Theatre in George Street opens with an Oxford University Dramatic Society performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
• October: Mansfield College, a nonconformist institution, moves to Oxford from Birmingham and adopts this name, originally setting up in The High.
• St Hugh's College founded as St Hugh's Hall in Norham Road by Elizabeth Wordsworth for women of limited means.
• Gasworks Bridge built.
• 1887 – Balliol College absorbs New Inn Hall.
• 1888
• 13–14 February: Greatest snow depth on record in Oxford, 61 cm.
• 31 December: Replacement iron Osney Bridge opened.
• 1889
• 14–16 October: Mansfield College opens its new premises in Oxford.
• 9 November: Oxford becomes a county borough under the Local Government Act 1888. 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.
• 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 and Botley Cemetery, outside the city boundary at this time; they are dedicated in 1894 under the Interments Act (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.
• 1891
• Winter: River freezes solid at Folly Bridge.
• Jane Willis Kirkaldy and Catherine Pollard become the first women to sit final examinations in biology at the university (and achieve first class honours).
• 1892
• 27 April: The magazine Isis is established by university students.
• 18 June: Oxford Electric Light Company established with riverside works at Osney.
• "Battle of Wolvercote": Resistance to reduction of Wolvercote Common.
• First Romanes Lecture (founded by George Romanes in the university) delivered, by William Ewart Gladstone.
• 1893
• 14 June: Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford.
• 13 October: First women enter 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.
• 27 December: Death of Thomas Combe's widow, Martha, who bequeaths most of their collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings to the Ashmolean Museum.

• 1894
• 14 August: Oliver Lodge demonstrates radio transmission (of Morse code) from the Clarendon Laboratory to the University Museum for the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
• October: William Holman Hunt's painting The Light of the World is first displayed in the side chapel constructed for it at Keble College.
• November: Severe flooding. 126.1 mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.
• 1895
• September: Corn Exchange and Fire Station complex opens in George Street.
• 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 Ã‚°C.
• Roman Catholics are permitted by their hierarchy to attend the ancient universities.
• Castle Mill Bridge rebuilt.
• Oxford's first public toilet opened in St Giles'.
• 1896
• 5 March: City of Oxford Drapers' Association adopts regular Thursday early closing (at 4pm) in its members' shops.
• 7 September: The first film shown in Oxfordshire is screened as part of an entertainment at the New Theatre in George Street.
• 9 September: Campion Hall established as Clarke's Hall in 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 is demolished, except for the tower.
• 1897
• 12 May: New Oxford Town Hall, designed by Henry Hare, officially opened. It incorporates a pipe organ by Henry Willis & Sons.
• 1 October: John Allen takes over the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Company.
• October: The predecessor of St Benet's Hall is founded by Benedictines of Ampleforth for their members to study for secular degrees of the university, initially at 103 Woodstock Road.
• 1899
• 27 February: Ruskin Hall begins to offer classes for mature working-class students.
• 26 December: Headington Quarry morris dancer and concertina player William Kimber is first heard by musicologist Cecil Sharp, an important moment in the English folk dance and music revival. The Headington team had been revived for an exhibition dance on 13 March.

20th century

• 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, last survivor of the medieval academic halls in the university, is closed and reincorporated into Oriel College.
• 1903
• June: Severe flooding. 141.8 mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.
• 19 September: South African War Memorial unveiled at The Plain in St Clement's to commemorate the 33 men killed in action and 109 who died of disease serving with the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry in the Second Boer War, 1899–1902.
• The university establishes a faculty of modern languages, based in the Taylor Institution.
• 1904
• Spring: Severe flooding. 81.7 mm of rain falls in Oxford in May.
• Thornton and Thornton, a constituent of global accountancy business Grant Thornton, is established in Oxford.
• Approximate date: Logic Lane covered bridge built for University College.
• 1905 – Order of Friars Minor Capuchin establish a friary, St Anselm's.
• 1906
• 24 March: Oxford City F.C. win the FA Amateur Cup.
• 12 May: Home for the Feeble-Minded at Cumnor, designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, officially opened.
• 1907
• 27 June–3 July: Historical Pageant staged in grounds of Magdalen College School by Frank Lascelles.
• 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.
• 1 November: First female city councillor elected (Sophia Merivale).
• North Oxford Golf Club founded.
• 1908
• 26 April: Heavy snowfall.
• 20 May: Iffley Mill destroyed by fire.
• 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.
• The first intelligence quotient test in England is administered to Oxford schoolchildren by Cyril Burt (based on the Binet system).
• 1909
• March: Marxist students at Ruskin College, members of the Plebs' League, begin a strike in support of the dismissed Principal, Dennis Hird.
• 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.
• 11 December: "Poulton's Match": In the 37th annual 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.
• 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 Oxford Picture Palace off the Cowley Road, opens. (On 25 March, the first purpose-built cinema in central Oxford, the Electra Palace in Queen Street, opens.)
• 14 June: A Farnham pusher biplane lands on Port Meadow, the first aeroplane to land in Oxfordshire.
• July: 1911 United Kingdom heat wave: Sunniest month on record in Oxford, 310.45 hours of sunshine.
• 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
• 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 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. 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.
• C. Violet Butler publishes Social Conditions in Oxford.

• 1913
• February: Ruskin College opens its new premises in Walton Street.
• 28 March: William Morris's Morris Oxford 2-seater car, assembled in Cowley, goes on sale.
• c. October: Mansfield College admits its first woman student (Constance Todd). The first admitted on the same terms as men are in October 1979.
• 5 December: William Morris and Frank Gray begin the city's first regular service of motor buses.
• 1914
• 14 January: Hertford College's "Bridge of Sighs" opened.
• 3 June: Encaenia: The majority of honorary doctorands are German or Austrian, including Richard Strauss.
• 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 trams, having replaced them with motor buses.
• 16 August: 3rd Southern General Hospital, a military hospital headquartered in the Examination Schools, set up. First patients arrive 13 September.
• October: First refugees from Belgium arrive in Oxford; they are accommodated at Ruskin College and elsewhere.
• 1915
• April: Somerville College is requisitioned for military hospital use and its members are evacuated to the former St Mary Hall in Oriel College until 1919.
• Headington School established for girls by a group of evangelical Christians.
• 1916
• May: Refugees from Serbia arrive in Oxford; they are accommodated at Wycliffe Hall initially.
• 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.
• The university introduces the Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) degree on the American model.
• 1918 – 14 May: St Benet's Hall and Campion Hall are approved as Permanent Private Halls of the university under a statute of 5 February permitting such establishments.
• 1919
• 1 April: Short-story writer A. E. Coppard (of Combe) leaves the clerical post he has held since 1907 at the Eagle Ironworks to become a professional author.
• Ancient Greek ceases to be an entrance requirement for the university.
• 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 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.
• October: Subscription concert series begins.
• 9 November: Student newspaper Cherwell first published as a magazine.
• 1921
• 11 March: Queen Mary becomes the first woman to be awarded an honorary degree by the university.
• 13 July: City war memorial unveiled in St Giles'.
• 15 August: The Dominican Order refounds 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.
• 1922
• The University acquires Southfield Farm and commissions Harry Colt to lay out Southfield Golf Club, origin of Oxford Golf Club.
• The city council buys the land for Botley Park.
• 1923
• St Benet's Hall moves to the former St Ursula's Convent school in St Giles'.
• 23 October: Oxford Playhouse opens as The Red Barn in the former Big Game Museum in Woodstock Road under the direction of J. B. Fagan with a performance of Shaw's Heartbreak House.
• 11 November: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry war memorial at the foot of Rose Hill, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is dedicated.
• 1924
• 1 May: MG Cars established in Oxford. Production moves to Abingdon-on-Thames in 1929.
• Christmas: Douglas Byng creates the first of his many camp pantomime dames as Eliza in Dick Whittington and His Cat at the New Theatre.
• City of Oxford Motor Services opens a bus garage in Cowley Road, replacing the tram depot in Leopold Street. The Cowley Road garage closes in September 2004.
• 1925
• 20 May: Oxford graduate C. S. Lewis is elected a Fellow of Magdalen College, where he serves as a tutor in English language and literature until 1954.
• 7 September: City Council adopts Regional and Special Area Planning Schemes, including proposals for bypass roads.
• 1 October: Oxford graduate J. R. R. Tolkien returns to the University as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon.
• First council houses in Oxford built in Headington.
• 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 (from 2019 known as the History of Science Museum).
• 1926
• May: Oxford University Women's Boat Club founded.
• 3–13 May: UK general strike.
• 11 May: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien meet for the first time in Oxford.
• Women's colleges are granted self-government by royal charter.
• Pressed Steel Company plant at 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.
• June: 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; it is incorporated on 14 November 1927.
• Hide and Skin Market opened in St Thomas's.
• 1928
• 15 February: The Oxford English Dictionary is completed after 70 years.
• October: 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.
• 12 December: Oxford Mail founded as a successor to Jackson's Oxford Journal.
• Ferry to Ferry Hinksey ceases operation.

• 1929
• 10 May: Rhodes House opened. Its library is a dependant of the Bodleian.
• 20 May: Consecration of Blackfriars chapel.
• City boundary extensions incorporate most of Cowley, Headington (including its cemetery) and New Marston together with portions of Iffley, Wolvercote and Cutteslowe. On 5 March, the Wolvercote Commoners' Committee is established to manage Wolvercote Common and preserve other village amenities.
• 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
• 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.
• 4 July: Oxford Zoo opens at Gosford, just outside the city; it closes at the end of summer 1936 and most of the animals are transferred to Dudley Zoo.
• c. 1 August: Widow Annie Kempson is bludgeoned to death at her home in St Clement's, a crime for which Henry Seymour is tried and hanged in Oxford.
• September: Franciscans open a new Greyfriars.
• Non-collegiate students of the university recognised as St Catherine's Society.
• Oxpens Road and bridge open as part of an inner ring road.
• 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 Ã‚°C.
• c. September: Merze Tate becomes the first African American woman to matriculate at the University of Oxford, as a member of the Society of Oxford Home-Students.
• 14 December: South Park acquired by Oxford Preservation Trust.
• Cattle market moved from Gloucester Green to Oxpens.
• 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."
• November
• First female mayor of Oxford (Lily Tawney).
• Oxford becomes the first place in Britain to introduce a 30 mph speed limit in its built-up areas.
• An early school crossing patrol lady is introduced.
• The name Inklings is taken by an informal university literary discussion group.
• 1934
• 26 February: Rebuilt New Theatre in George Street opens.
• 13–30 July: Pressed Steel Company workers take strike action.
• 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 Walls first built.
• Florence Park estate ("Little Wales") at Cowley built.
• "Dame's Delight" opens as the Ladies' Pool, a family bathing place on the Cherwell (closed 1970).
• 1935 – Bus station at Gloucester Green opens (replacing that established in Castle Street in 1929), with the former Central School building retained as a waiting room.
• 1936
• c. January: First Oxford Farming Conference held.
• 15 February: Exhibition Abstract and Concrete, curated by Nicolete Gray, opens at 41 St Giles', prior to touring England. It is the first showing of abstract art, and of the work of Mondrian, in the country.
• 25 May: A meeting addressed by fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley at the Carfax Assembly Rooms (on the corner of Cornmarket) turns violent in the Battle of Carfax.
• June: New building for Campion Hall, designed by Edwin Lutyens for Fr. Martin D'Arcy, opened.
• 6 October: New building for St Catherine's Society in St Aldate's, designed by Lutyens' pupil Hubert Worthington, opened. A new police station is built next door.
• 1 December: Site clearance in Broad Street for the New Bodleian Library building begins, with an early instance of archaeological site monitoring.
• Belsyre Court, the first large block of flats in central Oxford, is completed on the Woodstock Road.
• 1937 – 16 November: Nuffield College is founded in the University by 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. 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.
• 27 October: Parliamentary by-election, triggered by the death in August of Robert Bourne, member of parliament for Oxford since 1924 and held a month after the signing of the Munich Agreement. Pro-Appeasement candidate Quintin Hogg (Fellow of All Souls) retains the seat for the Conservatives but his majority is halved by 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.
• 21 November–3 December: Picasso's Guernica (in facsimile) is exhibited with preliminary sketches at Oriel College by Denis Healey to raise awareness of the Spanish Civil War.
• 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.
• September: C. S. Lewis first narrates stories which will form The Chronicles of Narnia to child 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.
• Summer: New Bodleian Library building is substantially completed. Books stored on the ground floor of the Radcliffe Camera since 1863 are moved in and the remainder of the new building used for various wartime functions.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1941
• 12 February: Reserve Constable 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.
• 4 May: A bomber from RAF Abingdon crashes at the eastern end of Linton Road with fatalities.
• 5 May: Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin meet while both reading English at St John's College.
• May: Ground floor of the Radcliffe Camera is opened as an additional reading room for the Bodleian Library.
• 17 October: Harris Manchester College is requisitioned for use by Naval Intelligence and the Inter-Services Topographical Department.

• 1942
• 1 January: New Churchill Hospital buildings occupied as 2nd General Hospital of the United States Army Medical Department.
• 5 October: Oxford Committee for Famine Relief is founded in the old library of the University Church.
• Probable date: Prisoner-of-war camp 43 built at Harcourt Hill (North Hinksey).
• 1943
• c.6–7 March: In "Exercise Spartan", a major rehearsal for next year's 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.
• 1945
• January: First woman given a professorship in the university, ophthalmologist Ida Mann.
• 8 May: Victory in Europe Day is celebrated in the city with bonfires, illuminations and street parties.
• 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.
• 1946
• 26 March: City twinned with Leiden in the Netherlands.
• September: Thomas Sharp produces a plan for postwar rebuilding of Oxford.
• 1 October: 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, in Oxford.
• 24 October: New Bodleian Library building is officially opened by George VI. It is linked by tunnel under Broad Street to the old library.
• 1947
• March: Severe flooding. 132.9 mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.
• December: First permanent Oxfam charity shop begins trading, in Broad Street. Its first dedicated bookshop opens in 1987, in St Giles'.
• City twinned with Bonn, West Germany.
• The university's Oxford Swift Research Project, based on the colony at the University Museum, is started by David and Elizabeth Lack. It will still be running more than sixty years later.
• 1948 – 20 September: New Morris Minor launched.
• 1949
• 21 April: Foundation stone of 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 lake, directed by Nevill Coghill.
• Footbridge over Cherwell near Parson's Pleasure, probably the world's first prestressed concrete fixed-arch bridge, designed by Alfred Goldstein of R. Travers Morgan & Partners.

• 1950
• 3 February: Oxford University parliamentary constituency abolished; the last sitting members (since 1945) are Sir Arthur Salter and A. P. Herbert.
• 9 October: 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 (a former convent at this time leased from St John's College).
• 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.
• September–October: Small epidemic of Bornholm disease.
• 1 October: Rewley Road railway station closed to passengers.
• 1952
• Early: Jacob Epstein's sculpture Lazarus (1948) is installed in the antechapel of New College.
• 9 April: Keble College's statutes are amended to give it full rights as a constituent college of the university.
• 19 May: St Anne's College chartered as a full college for women in the university.
• 12 August: Last hanging at Oxford Prison.
• 1953
• 1 April: St Antony's College chartered.
• 9 October: Severe fire at St Michael at the North Gate caused by arson.
• St Clare's opened as a tutorial institution, The Oxford English Centre for Foreign Students.
• City Council completes a 20-year Development Plan.
• 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.
• October: City of Oxford Motor Services recruit bus conductors from Jamaica.
• November: Severe flooding. 112.2 mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.
• 1955
• 20 August: Dorothy Hodgkin publishes the structure of vitamin B₁₂, for which she will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Mansfield College becomes a Permanent Private Hall of the university.
• 1956
• 21 April
• Delegates agree to incorporate St Catherine's College as a full college within the university.
• Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin visit Oxford as part of a Soviet state visit to Britain.
• 23 April: Civil marriage of C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham at Oxford register office.
• 14 August: Iris Murdoch marries 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.
• 1957
• 15 February: 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.
• May: Oxford Historic Buildings Fund established to assist replacement of decayed stonework.
• c. October: Blackbird Leys estate construction begins; first houses occupied 1958.
• Regent's Park College becomes a permanent private hall of the university.
• 1958 – Green belt adopted in planning.
• 1959
• 9 March: Cutteslowe Walls demolished permanently.
• April: Visit of Queen Elizabeth II.
• 8 May: First production Morris Mini-Minor from the Cowley plant.
• July: 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 Headington United F.C. under manager Arthur Turner. Atkinson will spend his entire playing career (until 1971) at Oxford, rapidly rising to captain; his brother 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'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.
• 4 November: Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to lay the foundation stone for St Catherine's College.
• Oxford College of Further Education founded.
• The university abolishes Responsions.
• 1961
• 24 January: 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.
• Brasenose College Staircases 16, 17 and 18 completed, first academic building by Powell and Moya.
• A34 Road Bridge over the Thames built.
• 1962
• 29 January: Oxford transmitting station at 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 League, are elected to The Football League in place of Accrington Stanley.
• 1 August: Linacre College is founded as Linacre House, a graduate society in the university.
• October: 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.
• 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 Assembly Rooms (on the corner of Cornmarket).
• 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.
• 1964 – University's St Cross Building, designed by Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson, completed.
• 1965
• March: Ring road over Isis Bridge opened.
• Trinity Term: Wolfson College (as Iffley College) is founded as a graduate institution in the university.
• 11 May: Cowley Centre opened.
• 1 October: St Cross College is founded as a graduate institution in the university.
• Templeton College is founded as Oxford Centre for Management Studies.
• Telephone House built.
• 1966
• 3 January: Last steam train operated by the Western Region of British Railways from Oxford.
• 14 February: Oxford University Dramatic Society production of Marlowe's 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 Lord Franks completes its report.
• 31 March: UK general election: Evan Luard becomes the only person to take the undivided Oxford parliamentary constituency for Labour.
• 16 June: Blackwell's open the 930 m² underground Norrington Room in their main bookshop in Broad Street as part of a joint development with Trinity College.
• September: Museum of Modern Art Oxford established in the former City Brewery in Pembroke Street, following the use of a temporary exhibition space since late 1965.
• October: Seacourt Tower opened by Hartwell Motors.
• 1967 – University's Nuclear Physics Laboratory in Banbury Road built.
• 1968
• 2 May: The largely underground Christ Church Picture Gallery, designed by Powell and Moya, is opened.
• 10 July: Wettest day on record in Oxford, 87.9 mm of rain.
• 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 provides the first women's rowing crew to qualify for Eights Week.
• 27 November: Oxford Civic Society formed.
• Dorothy Hodgkin and university colleagues determine the structure of insulin.
• 1970–72 – Original Westgate Shopping Centre built.

• 1970
• 27 February–1 March: First National Women's Liberation Conference held at Ruskin College.
• 24 April: Oxford College of Technology at Headington becomes Oxford Polytechnic.
• 29 October: BBC Radio Oxford begins broadcasting, from studios in Summertown.
• 1971
• Florey Building in St Clement's completed as residential accommodation for Queen's College, one of architect James Stirling's "red trilogy" of English academic buildings.
• October–November: Inner relief road through Christ Church Meadow, a scheme first officially proposed in 1945, is finally rejected.
• 12 November: Marston Ferry Road opened, replacing the ferry over the Cherwell.
• 1972 – July: Phase 1 of the John Radcliffe Hospital, the maternity unit, opens at Headington. Main block opens 1979.
• 1973
• September: J. R. R. Tolkien buried in Wolvercote Cemetery alongside his wife 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.
• 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, initially on a trial basis (Brasenose, Hertford, Jesus, St Catherine's and Wadham).
• Building of 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 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.
• 1976
• 2 January: Severe gale.
• 19 July–27 August: 1976 British Isles heat wave: Longest period of absolute drought on record in Oxford.
• 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.
• 1977
• The university permits colleges to extend co-educational admissions.
• City of Oxford Motor Services introduces a direct Oxford to London coach route via the M40 motorway.
• French chef Raymond Blanc opens the first restaurant of his own, Les Quat' Saisons in 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 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 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.
• First commercial MRI whole body scanner manufactured by Oxford Instruments at Osney Mead for installation at Hammersmith Hospital, London.
• 1981
• 4 April: The Boat Race 1981 – Susan Brown, a 23-year-old biology student, becomes the first female cox in a winning Boat Race crew.
• September: St Cross College moves to part of the Pusey House site in St Giles' as its main location.
• Susan Hurley becomes the first female Fellow of All Souls.
• 1982
• 20 July: Allen Hill and colleagues at the university develop a glucose biosensor.
• September: Privileged, the first release for the Oxford University Film Foundation, provides significant screen debuts for Hugh Grant, Imogen Stubbs, Mark Williams and composer Rachel Portman.
• November: Helen House, the world's first children's hospice, is set up by Sister Frances Dominica.
• 1983 – Oxford Centre for Management Studies renamed Templeton College.
• 1984
• John Allen ceases production at its Cowley works.
• 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.
• 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.
• Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies established.
• 1986
• 20 April: Oxford United, in the First Division for the first time, win the Football League Cup with a 3–0 victory over Queens Park Rangers at Wembley.
• 1 August: Linacre College chartered as a full college in the university.
• 9 August: The Headington Shark, designed by John Buckley, is installed on the roof of Bill Heine's home.
• Late: Alternative rock band Radiohead, as "On a Friday", play their first gig, at the Jericho Tavern.
• City formally twinned with León, Nicaragua.
• 1987
• 6 January: The 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.
• 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.
• 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: Fox FM begins radio broadcasting from Cowley.
• 26 October: Gloucester Green reopens after redevelopment with shops and flats.
• City twinned with Grenoble, France.
• 1990
• 1 March: 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 Ã‚°C.
• Pembroke College opens its Geoffrey Arthur Building beside the Isis in Grandpont.
• Oxford Science Park established.
• Tumbling Bay swimming area is closed down.
• 1991
• 3 September: National outbreaks of rioting extend to Blackbird Leys.
• "Parson's Pleasure" gentlemen's nude bathing place on the Cherwell is closed.
• 1992 – 4 June: Oxford Polytechnic, in common with most British polytechnics, is given the power to award degrees in its own right, giving it the status of a 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 so named.
• Blackfriars Hall becomes a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford.
• Oxford University Press last uses flatbed letterpress printing.

• 1995
• 11 April: Mansfield College chartered as a full college in the University of Oxford.
• July: Philip Pullman's young-adult fantasy 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).
• 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 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.
• North Commission of Inquiry into the University of Oxford.
• 1998
• April: Severe flooding. 107.7 mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.
• Morrells cease brewing at the Lion Brewery.
• 1999
• 18 June: Oxford Broadcasting launches The Oxford Channel as the UK's last free-to-air analogue terrestrial television operation under a Restricted Service Licence, operating from a studio converted from a wartime bunker on the Woodstock Road; it shuts down on 3 April 2009.
• 31 December: Cézanne's painting View of Auvers-sur-Oise is stolen from the Ashmolean Museum.
• Cornmarket pedestrianised and most through traffic diverted from The High.

21st century

• 2000
• 5 April: Westminster College merges into Oxford Brookes University.
• 7 July: Millennium foot and cycle bridge over A40 ring road at Cutteslowe is opened.
• End: BMW begin production of the new Mini car at Plant Oxford (on the former Pressed Steel site at Cowley).
• Hertford College opens its adjacent to Folly Bridge.
• 2001
• First Cowley Road Carnival.
• 4 August: Oxford United F.C. move from Manor Ground to the Kassam Stadium.
• 1 November: The University of Oxford's Saïd Business School new building is opened on the site of Rewley Road railway station.
• 4 November: Release of the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with scenes filmed earlier in the year in parts of the Bodleian Library. 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.
• The Story Museum founded, initially as a virtual museum.
• Oxford Buddha Vihara founded.
• 2004 – Late: Oxford Central Mosque in Manzil Way opens.
• 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; the site is fully redeveloped for housing by December 2008.

• 2006
• 5 May: Official inauguration of Oxford Castle quarter (the former prison, closed 1996) as a mixed-use heritage, hotel and restaurant complex.
• 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.
• 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 in South Parade, Summertown, is opened to the public.
• July: Severe flooding. 105.5 mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.
• 2008
• 1 June: Jamie Oliver opens the first of his Jamie's Italian restaurant chain, in George Street; it closes in 2019.
• June: Greyfriars ceases to be a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford; students transfer to Regent's Park College.
• September: 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 Colleges.
• October: St Hilda's, the last female-only college in the University of Oxford (since Somerville admitted men in 1994), starts to admit male undergraduates.
• 2009
• St Bede's Hall opens as a Catholic college at 42 St Giles' but survives only for a year.
• May: Oxford Fashion Week launched.
• 7 November: Ashmolean Museum reopens to the public after major reconstruction by architect Rick Mather.
• 2010
• Spring: ECB Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence (established in 2000 in 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.
• 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' 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.
• 2013
• 23 April: Pembroke College opens its Rokos Quad with a glass-sided footbridge over Brewer Street.
• 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.
• 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.
• 26 February: Oxford Brookes University's John Henry Brookes Building opened.
• March: First woman appointed as director of a University of Oxford museum, Silke Ackermann at the Museum of the History of Science.
• May: Harris Manchester College's Siew-Sngiem Clock Tower and Sukum Navapan Gate completed.
• 20 June: Christ Church opens the Jubilee Bridge, a footbridge over the Cherwell in Christ Church Meadow.
• 29 September: The New Bodleian Library building reopens to readers of rare books and manuscripts after major reconstruction as the Weston Library by WilkinsonEyre.
• October: 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 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.
• 30 November: Blavatnik School of Government in the University of Oxford begins to move into its new Radcliffe Observatory Quarter building in 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.
• 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.
• 7 May: Oxford United F.C. wins promotion to Football League One.
• October: St Benet's Hall admits its first women undergraduates (resident in Norham Gardens), ending single-sex education in the University of Oxford.
• 2017
• 14 February: An explosion destroys a 3-storey block of flats at Osney with one fatality.
• 18–19 March: Exeter College's Cohen Quad, on Ruskin College's former Walton Street site (designed by Alison Brooks Architects), is formally opened (occupied from 8 January).
• 29–30 March: 17 men arrested in connection with an Oxford child sex abuse ring; 8 are convicted in February–March 2018.
• 18 October: Worcester College opens the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre.
• 24 October: Opening of new Westgate shopping centre (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.
• 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.
• October: 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 and formally with Padua.
• 7 May: The University of Oxford establishes Reuben College (known until 2020 as Parks College), an interdisciplinary graduate society, which will partly share the premises of the Radcliffe Science Library. 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.
• 2020
• March: 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 "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.
• 2021
• 3 August: Ruskin College announces that it is becoming part of the University of West London.
• 27 August: Closure of Oxuniprint, the last printing operation of Oxford University Press.
• 1 November: Linacre College announces its intention to change its name to Thao College in recognition of a major benefaction.
• 2022
• 28 February
• Oxford zero emission zone launched by Oxfordshire County Council.
• Announcement confirming that national bookshop chain Waterstones is acquiring Blackwell's.
• 28 May: University of Oxford announces launch of a Pandemic Sciences Institute.
• Autumn: Jesus College completes its Northgate development in Cornmarket and Market Streets.
• 2023
• 11 April: Long-term closure of the Botley Road at the railway bridge by Network Rail.
• 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.
• 16–17 October: The Radcliffe Science Library reopens in its refurbished premises, now shared with Reuben College.

Births

• 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 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, 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, lawyer, radical politician, soldier and regicide (died 1680)
• 1606 – 3 March (bapt.): William Davenant, dramatist (died 1668)
• 1632 – 17 December: Anthony Wood, antiquary (died 1695)
• 1651/2 – 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 in colonial America (died 1774)
• 1753 – 27 February (bapt.): James Sadler, balloonist (died 1828)
• 1758 – 28 October: John Sibthorp, botanist (died 1796)
• 1787 – Eliza Salmon, née Munday, soprano (died 1849)
• 1826 – 17 December: 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)
• 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, 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 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, 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 (died 2025)
• 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, 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, Duchess of Edinburgh, 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

• 727 – 19 October: 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
• 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, poet and playwright (b. 1570/4)
• 1680 – 4 February: Jacob Bobart the Elder, botanist (b. 1599 in Brunswick)
• 1686 – 10 July: 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, 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, 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, educationalist, Master of University College (b. 1861)
• 1944 – 26 June: Edward Brooks, soldier, winner of the Victoria Cross (b. 1883)
• 1945 – 15 May: Charles Williams, writer (b. 1886)
• 1946 – 20 February: Hugh Allen, conductor, died of effects of road accident (b. 1869)
• 1952
• 18 July: 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)
• 1972 – 13 November: Arnold Strode-Jackson, Olympic middle-distance runner, British Army officer and lawyer (b. 1891)
• 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: 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 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)
• 2001 – 15 October: Anne Ridler, poet (b. 1912)
• 2005 – 24 July: Sir Richard Doll, epidemiologist (b. 1912)
• 2006 – 31 January: Moira Shearer, ballerina (b. 1926)
• 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)
• 2024 – 11 April: Paddy Summerfield, photographer (b. 1947)

See also

• History of Oxford
• of other cities in South East England: Portsmouth, Reading, Southampton

References

Further reading

• See also List of books about Oxford

Published before 1800

Published in the 19th century

Published in the 20th century

• "Oxford" by Pevsner. 2nd edn by Simon Bradley (2023). Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East. New Haven: Yale University Press. .
• T. H. Aston, ed. (1984– ). The History of the University of Oxford. Oxford University Press.

Published in the 21st century

External links