The Saxons called Cambridge 'Grantabrycge' (bridge over the river Granta). The name of the town gradually changed to Cambridge. The name of the river then changed to Cam, so it may be said that the river is named after the town, not the town after the river.
The precise beginnings of Cambridge University are obscure, but it is known that in 1209 a party of students arrived from Oxford, where there had been disturbances. At this time students made their own arrangements with individual masters and lived in whatever lodgings they could find.
The first residential college was Peterhouse, which was founded in 1284.
The saintly King Henry VI of England founded Kings College at Cambridge University in 1441. He left instructions for a choir of six lay clerks and 16 boys to be trained at the college school and to sing at daily services.
Sir Christopher Wren's first architectural design was the chapel at Pembroke College, Cambridge, which he was commissioned to do by his uncle the Bishop of Ely.
Trinity College's apple tree is descended from the tree under which Isaac Newton is said to have observed an apple fall, inspiring his theory of gravity. Newton spent 30 years at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Written exams were first used at Cambridge University by the professor of chemistry in 1792..
Lord Byron, while a student at Trinity College, kept a pet bear in his rooms. Dogs were banned under college rules, but the rules said nothing about bears. He reportedly planned to enter the bear for a college fellowship.
England's first football club was formed by a group of Cambridge University old boys who met up in Sheffield in 1857.
In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson announced their discovery of the structure of DNA to fellow drinkers in the Eagle pub on Bene't Street. A plaque on the wall commemorates the moment.
The university library (built 1931–34) is a copyright library, and is entitled to a copy of every book published in the UK.
The precise beginnings of Cambridge University are obscure, but it is known that in 1209 a party of students arrived from Oxford, where there had been disturbances. At this time students made their own arrangements with individual masters and lived in whatever lodgings they could find.
The first residential college was Peterhouse, which was founded in 1284.
The saintly King Henry VI of England founded Kings College at Cambridge University in 1441. He left instructions for a choir of six lay clerks and 16 boys to be trained at the college school and to sing at daily services.
Sir Christopher Wren's first architectural design was the chapel at Pembroke College, Cambridge, which he was commissioned to do by his uncle the Bishop of Ely.
Trinity College's apple tree is descended from the tree under which Isaac Newton is said to have observed an apple fall, inspiring his theory of gravity. Newton spent 30 years at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Written exams were first used at Cambridge University by the professor of chemistry in 1792..
Lord Byron, while a student at Trinity College, kept a pet bear in his rooms. Dogs were banned under college rules, but the rules said nothing about bears. He reportedly planned to enter the bear for a college fellowship.
England's first football club was formed by a group of Cambridge University old boys who met up in Sheffield in 1857.
In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson announced their discovery of the structure of DNA to fellow drinkers in the Eagle pub on Bene't Street. A plaque on the wall commemorates the moment.
The university library (built 1931–34) is a copyright library, and is entitled to a copy of every book published in the UK.
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