New Spain · event 5 of 9

1553

The university. The Real y Pontificia Universidad de México is founded, the first university in North America.

The New Spain era

  1. 13 August 1521
  2. 1524
  3. 1531
  4. 1535
  5. 1553
  6. 1573
  7. 1607
  8. 1629
  9. 1692

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