The University of Glasgow was founded by a papal bull of Pope Nicholas V, issued at the request of King James II of Scotland and Bishop William Turnbull. It is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world, after Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews. It first taught near Glasgow Cathedral and moved to its present Gilmorehill site in the 1870s, where George Gilbert Scott designed the Gothic Revival main building. It was a center of the Scottish Enlightenment. Adam Smith was both a student and professor there, James Watt worked as a instrument maker at the university, and Lord Kelvin held the chair of natural philosophy for more than fifty years. Joseph Lister and John Logie Baird are also among its notable alumni.
Before and after
- from May 1450 to July 1450Jack Cade's Rebellion
- from 1451 to 1526Lodi dynasty
- from 1451 to 1950Construction of Berlin Palace
- 1451Birth of Christopher Columbus
- 7 January 1451Founding of University of Glasgow
- 22 April 1451Birth of Isabella I of Castile
- 15 April 1452Birth of Leonardo da Vinci
- 21 September 1452Birth of Girolamo Savonarola
- from 1453 to 1454Morea revolt of 1453–1454
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- from 541 CE to 750 CEPlague of Justinian
- 20 April 571 CEBirth of Muhammad
- 8th centuryRise of Neo-Confucianism
- c. 970 CEFounding of Al-Azhar University
- 7 April 1348Founding of Charles University
- 1477Founding of University of Tübingen
The era
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