1400-1499
c1400: Population estimate: 1,500-2,000
1410: The wooden bridge across the River Clyde is replaced by an arched stone bridge.
1431: William Elphinstone is born. He later obtained a papal bull for the University of Aberdeen in 1494, and introduced printing to Scotland in 1507
1438: Bishop's Palace is built
1450: Glasgow is a "burgh of regality"
1451: the University of Glasgow is established by bull of Pope Nicholas V, and founded by Bishop Turnbull, beside Blackfriars monastery
1453: John Stewart, Glasgow's first Provost, gives a grant of privileges to the university
1460: There is a Grammar School in the city; "fulling" is carried on; an extension to the college is begun (finished 1660)
1464: St Nicholas Hospital is in the city
1471: Provands Lordship, Glasgow's oldest dwelling-house, is built
1475: The Greyfriars (Franciscans)are granted a tenement and lands on the High Street; St Ninian's Hospital is established
1478: Other stone houses are built in Glasgow
1492: Pope Innocent VIII makes the See of Glasgow an Archbishopric - Robert Blackadder is the city's first archbishop
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