context: A map showing scientific research projects in Harvard University’s oldest and oldest American university, one of the world's oldest and best universities, and the largest university in the world in terms of area and equipment, and one of the eight universities in the Ivy League. It located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the American city. It was founded by Protestant pastor John Harvard in 1636 to match the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in Britain. [1]. The university is one of the most difficult universities in the world to accept students, as it is ranked fifth globally in terms of difficulty of admission.
question: When was the Harvard University founded?
answers.text: 1636