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1355 The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1976 The trial of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther, begins at Oxford Crown Court .