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Bologna University in the Kingdom of Italy, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, was the first Western European institution generally considered a university. Founded in 1088, it was the first place of study to use the term universitas for a place of learning involving students and masters.

A university class, Bologna (1350s).

In the early part of the 13th century Oxford and Cambridge students found their own lodgings and made their own arrangements with individual masters in these two university towns. The first residential colleges was established later in the century: Merton set the pattern in Oxford in 1264, followed by Peterhouse in Cambridge twenty years later.

Italian Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684) was the first woman in history to receive a PhD. Fluent in French, ish, and Hebrew, she also studied astronomy, mathematics, music, philosophy,  and theology. As the fame of her intellectual accomplishment spread, and Piscopia was invited to join several scholarly societies. Upon the recommendation of Carlo Rinaldini, at that point the Chairman of Philosophy at the University of Padua, she was conferred a doctor of philosophy of degree in Philosophy on June 25, 1678, in Padua Cathedral. Piscopia was presented with the traditional laurel wreath, ermine cape, gold ring, and book of philosophy in the presence of the University authorities, the professors of all the faculties, the students, and most of the Venetian Senators, together with many invited guests.

Ritratto di Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, Ignoto 

In 1812, two Cambridge University colleges ordered that students appearing in pantaloons or trousers should be considered as absent.

The Edinburgh Seven were the first women to matriculate at a British university on November 2, 1869. They were led by Sophia Jex-Blake, who had been denied admission to the University of Edinburgh Medical School because of her gender. The other six women were Margaret Todd, Edith Pechey, Helen Evans, Isabel Thorne, Louisa Stevenson, and Mary Anderson.

The Edinburgh Seven faced a great deal of discrimination from the university and the male students. They were charged higher fees than the male students, and they were not allowed to use the same facilities. They were also subjected to harassment and intimidation.

On the day of their anatomy exam on November 18, 1870, several hundred male students pelted them with mud and other objects and shoved a sheep into the exam hall. The women were forced to leave the exam, but they refused to give up. They continued their studies and eventually graduated from the university.

The Edinburgh Seven's fight for women's rights was a major victory. They paved the way for other women to study at universities, and they helped to change the way society views women's education.

Born in England, Kate Millington Edger (1857-1935) studied in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1877 she became the first woman university graduate in New Zealand, and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a BA.

The first three women in Britain to graduate from university received their Bachelor of Arts degrees at London University in 1880.

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. Two years after it was founded, Oberlin became in 1835 the first college in the United States to admit African-Americans. It was the first to admit women in 1837.

Helen Magill White (November 28, 1853 – October 28, 1944) was the first American woman to earn a PhD. Raised by a Quaker father who believed she should have the same education as her brothers, Helen attended Boston University, where in 1877, she earned a doctorate in Greek. Her thesis "The Greek Drama" was discovered at Cornell in 2018.

International Students' Day is an international observance of the student community, held annually on November 17. It remembers the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague after student demonstrations against the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Germans closed all Czech universities and colleges, sent over 1200 students to Nazi concentration camps, and had nine students and professors executed on November 17.

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On November 16, 1949, students in Ghent (Belgium) stormed the medieval castle, lowered the portcullis and threw fruit from the walls at the police to protest a new tax on beer. The event is still commemorated yearly by the city as the greatest student prank in its history.

Ingeborg Rapoport, the oldest person to ever receive a regular Doctorate degree. She submitted her thesis on diphtheria in Nazi Germany in 1937 but was refused oral examination because she was Jewish. Rapoport successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102.

Students at Christ's Hospital Boarding School in England have been wearing the same uniform since 1556.

The composer Constant Lambert as a pupil, wearing the traditional uniform

There's a perpetual student named Michael W. Nicholson who has earned 29 degrees.

Iran has the highest female to male ratio in universities among all sovereign nations. More than 70% of students in engineering and pure sciences are women.

Every November in South Korea, there's a day where everyone makes silence to help students concentrate for their most important exam of their lives. Planes are grounded, constructions are paused, banks close and even military training ceases. This day is called Suneung.

College students have a reputation for engaging in binge drinking. In a survey in the US it was discovered that in the course of a few weeks nearly 65 percent of college students had experienced a hangover from excessive drinking, and over 55.percent reported having been nauseated or vomiting due to alcohol over indulgence.

Every high school student in Sweden aged 16-20 is entitled to "study grant" of $139 monthly. The only requirement is to attend the school.

In Sweden, some students let out a primal scream at 10 PM every night. The 'Flogsta Scream' is when students at some universities stop what they're doing at exactly 10 PM and collectively scream from their windows to help blow off steam and ease the stresses of college life.

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