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On June 20, 1214, the University of Oxford receives its charter. From the article:
"Oxford is the world's third-oldest university after the University of Bologna, and the world's second-oldest surviving university.[6]

There is no known date of foundation, but there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096.[7] It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.[7] English students were not allowed to continue studying in Paris after Thomas Becket was murdered.

There were fights between the students in Oxford and the people who lived there in the early 13th century. Some students and teachers left the university in 1209, and made a new university in Cambridge. These two universities are now great rivals, and together are sometimes known as "Oxbridge".

Until 1920, women were not allowed to take degrees at Oxford, although some women studied at Oxford before that time. Nowadays, all the colleges allow both men and women as students, and the number of male and female students is roughly equal.

One of the most famous teachers at the university was Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, nonsense stories for children."