page_title: Timeline of Oxford
section_title: 1400s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Oxford / 1400s
caption_attribution_description: New College, Oxford
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city, University and colleges of Oxford, England.
context_section_description: 1403 – Rebuilding of Hythe Bridge in stone completed.
  1410 – University students forbidden to lodge with townspeople.
  1427 – 13 October: Lincoln College is founded in the university by Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln, for his secular clergy.
  1435 – St Mary's College is founded in the university for Augustinians.
  1437 – St Bernard's College is founded in the university for Cistercians.
  1438 – 10 February: All Souls' College is founded in the university by Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, and King Henry VI as a graduate institution.
  1458 – 15 July: Magdalen College is founded in the university by William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England.
  1461 – 3 July: The university chancellor is authorised to ban prostitutes within 10 miles of the city.
  1465 – First mention of an Osney Bridge.
  By 1476 – New Inn Hall rebuilt and first known under this name.
  1478
  Severe outbreak of plague.
  Lincoln College is re-endowed by Thomas Rotherham, Bishop of Lincoln.
  Chapel and cloister of Magdalen College completed by architect William Orchard.
  17 December: First book printed in Oxford.
  1480 – Magdalen College School established by William Waynflete. Waynflete also establishes a Grammar Hall at his college which by the early 16th century becomes known as Magdalen Hall.
  c.1480 – St George's College founded in the University, served by Augustinians of Osney Abbey.
  1481 – 11 October: The printer Theoderic Rood from Cologne is known to be established in Oxford.
  1485–1487 – Outbreaks of plague or epidemics in each of these years.
  1486 – Magdalen College provides places for commoners (fee-paying students).
  1488 – The university's Divinity School is completed with Duke Humfrey's Library on the upper floor as decreed in 1444 by the university to accommodate the manuscripts given by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (died 1447) and begun in 1478.
  1490 – Construction begins on the tower of Magdalen College. John Colet receives his M.A. from the college.
caption: New College Dining Hall
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