8 May 1438: #Cambridge university protests the preaching of Philip Norris of #Dundalk against the friars. #Oxford had praised his preaching 2 years earlier as ‘sonora sancte praedicacionis tuba’ - the resounding trumpet of sacred eloquence! (BM)
4 May 1549: Date originally fixed for a debate between Peter Martyr Vermigli & more conservative members of #Oxford University about the nature of the Eucharist. It didn't come off, however. (NPG)
29 Apr 1663: Christopher Wren displays a wooden model of what would be the Sheldonian Theatre #Oxford to the Royal Society #London#otd (Prosthetic Head)
27 Apr 1583: Marmaduke Midleton Bishop of St. David's former Bishop of #Waterford & Lismore, alleged bigamist & simoniac, created DTh by #Oxford university #otd probably in the hope he'd appoint more Oxford graduates to his diocese (AThomas)
I love that #UK lawyers are pre warning the police that if they act like American police did against #student protestors they will help the students immediately. #Oxford#Solidarity#BDS#Palestine
21 Apr 1521: Assembly of theologians summoned by Cardinal Wolsey condemns Luther's doctrines #otd To commemorate the occasion, they commissioned a sundial for St. Mary's University Church #Oxford (CCO)
20 Apr 1567: Lord Deputy of #Ireland Henry Sidney reports that Archbishop Hugh Curwen of #Dublin was now both 'speechless & senseless' #otd (NPG) He was then transferred to the see of #Oxford, dying at Swinbrook in Oct 1568.
17 Apr 1634: Laying of the foundation stone of a quad for University College #Oxford Abraham Woodhead gives a Latin oration with the myth of foundation by Alfred the Great: 'when our little sister Cambridge, fantasy of the brain was not thought of' "Sororcula" Love it. (Man vyi )
17 Apr 1556: Seth Holland, who had been in Cardinal Reginald Pole's service in #Rome is elected Warden of All Souls #Oxford#otd Also Dean of #Worcester, present at Pole's deathbed.
He died himself in Marshalsea gaol #London in 1561