Older Than deck / Places, institutions and traditions
University of Aberdeen
Founded (King’s College)
1495
Its King’s College was founded under a pope’s decree.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“a Papal Bull issued by Pope Alexander VI on 10 February 1495”University of Aberdeen — original King’s College institutional history: source, retrieved 2026-10-30; quote re-found by the server check
“the University of Aberdeen, founded in 1495 by Bishop William Elphinstone”VisitAberdeenshire — original official Old Aberdeen destination history: source, retrieved 2026-10-30; quote re-found by the server check
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