Question: Which was founded first, Ohio State University or University of Cape Town?

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.  The college began with a focus on training students in various agricultural and mechanical disciplines but was developed into a comprehensive university under the direction of then Governor (later, President) Rutherford B. Hayes, and in 1878 the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the name to "The Ohio State University".  It has since grown into the third-largest university campus in the United States.  Along with its main campus in Columbus, Ohio State also operates a regional campus system with regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster.  Founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College (Mech). <SEP> The Heart of Cape Town Museum is a museum complex in the Observatory, Cape Town suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.  It is in the Groote Schuur Hospital on Main Road.  The hospital was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human heart transplant took place, conducted by University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky.  The museum opened on December 3, 2007 marking the 40th anniversary of the heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard.  The Heart of Cape Town Museum honors everyone who played a major role in a surgical feat that created a new medical era.  It also brings attention to ethical and moral implications that came up at the time.  It also highlights the ways in which Barnard's accomplishment put South Africa and the University of Cape Town on an international stage. <SEP> The Ohio State University at Mansfield is a regional campus of The Ohio State University located in Mansfield, Ohio.  It was founded in 1958 as a land-grant college.  Its 644 acre campus is situated in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, the North Central Ohio region, with easy access to Columbus and Cleveland.  The campus offers seven bachelor degree programs and two master degree programs.  Students can start at Mansfield and finish their degrees at The Ohio State University, Columbus, with one or more of Ohio State’s 170 majors.  The Bromfield Library of the OSU mansfield campus provides access to all the resources of The Ohio State University and Ohio Link. <SEP>  UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College making it the oldest higher education institute in South Africa, it is jointly the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa alongside Stellenbosch University which received full university status on the same day in 1918.  UCT is the highest-ranked African university in the QS World University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and its Law and Commerce Faculties are consistently placed among the hundred best internationally.  The language of instruction is English. The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.