People were teaching at Oxford in 1096.
Oxford’s earliest evidence of teaching goes back more than nine centuries.
The University of Oxford traces evidence of teaching in the city to 1096. A precise founding date is unknown, so 1096 marks the evidence we have for teaching at Oxford.
The university grew rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. Oxford’s earliest colleges came later, in the thirteenth century.