Charles IV founds Charles University in Prague
April 1348
Modeled on Paris, the new studium generale was the first university in Central Europe, attracting scholars from across the German-speaking lands. Charles wanted Prague to rival any imperial city in learning and prestige. Within a generation it would attract masters from across the German lands and become the cradle, in another fifty years, of Hussite reformation.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.