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By what year is teaching known to have existed at Oxford?

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1096

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Oxford has no definite foundation date, but the university records teaching there in some form by 1096.

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Oxford expanded rapidly after Henry II restricted English students from attending the University of Paris.

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Sources: ox.ac.uk