1869 First university
The University of Otago, founded in 1869 by an ordinance of the Otago Provincial Council, is New Zealand's oldest university. The new university was given 100,000 acres of pastoral land as an endowment and was authorised to grant degrees in arts, medicine, law and music. The university opened in July 1871.
Months later the University of New Zealand was created by statute, affiliating Otago as one of its four constituent colleges. The new national university was to be partially supported by land endowments around the country, including some set aside in the lands recently confiscated after the wars in the 1860s.
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