Cambridge in the Fifteenth Century

1422: King Henry VI
1423: Town belatedly granted a seal
1428: College for monks founded in St Giles parish by the Abbot of Crowlands, the Bishop of Norwich and the Bishop of Durham; later becoming Buckingham College and then Magdalene College

1441: King Henry VI founded the College of St Nicholas, later to be King's College
c1445: First movable metallic type printing press by Johann Gutenberg
1446: Godshouse moved to Preachers Street (now St Andrew's Street), just outside the Barnwell Gate as the land was required by the King for his college: a vast project consuming wharves, streets and many houses (Godshouse was later refounded as Christ's College)
1446: College of St Bernard founded by Andrew Dockett, Rector of St Botolph's, on the site now occupied by St Catharine's
1447: foundation stone of King's Chapel laid - the King would have performed it but for the stink and unsanitary conditions in the town
1448: St Bernard's became the College of St Margaret & St Bernard, refounded by Queen Margaret and moved to its present site, later being refounded as Queens' College

1492: Discommoning - a new weapon for the University
1497: The Bishop of Ely closed the decayed Priory of St Radegund (only two nuns left) and founded the College of St Mary the Virgin, St John the Evangelist and St Radegund the Virgin (Jesus College)