Oxford University

Oxford established Honours examination schools in mathematics and science, ending the academic monopoly of the classics.

The Oxford University Reform Act first allowed Jews to matriculate and take degrees.

Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report on the Organization of the Permanent Civil Service.

The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine was published; it sold for a shilling.

Oxford University included midwifery in its medical degree.

Thomas Hill Green became one of the first laymen to hold a fellowship at Balliol College .

Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries : this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London , Edinburgh , St Andrews , Oxford , and Cambridge .

Oxford University permitted the Delegacy of Local Examinations to examine girls in secondary education.

The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England ) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford and Cambridge ) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.

The first issue of the Oxford University literary periodical entitled The Dark Blue was published.

Administrative consternation was caused when the top-ranked candidate in the Oxford Senior Local Examination turned out to be a woman, or girl: the seventeen-year-old Annie Rogers . Girls had been eligible to sit these exams...

Oxford University instituted separate examinations for women at every level.

Lady Margaret Hall , a women's college at Oxford University named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , was founded.

J. S. Burdon Sanderson 's election as Professor of Physiology at Oxford prompted the most publicized nineteenth-century debate between anti-vivisectionists and the proponents of vivisection as an educational tool for studying medicine.

Oxford University began admitting women to honours examinations for degrees, although they were still not awarded the actual degree.