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The "Casa de Moneda de México" year is off by 1 I think (1534), or the Wikipedia entry ( https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_Moneda_de_M%C3%A9xico#... ) is wrong (1535).

Interesting trivia tidbit to know that the oldest company in the Americas is actually in Mexico.

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The oldest continuously operating university in the Western Hemisphere is in Peru, established in 1551.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_University_of_San_Mar...

The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, in Mexico City, was founded several months later, the same year.

If I were feeling pedantic I'd mention the universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen... As well as a handful in Spain and Portugal ;)

Few of those are in the Americas.

They are in the Western Hemisphere though, hence the pedantry (presumably).

Pedant! ;-)

Your comment got me interested in where the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (alma mater to Copernicus) placed in these standings which led me to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22428584 ;-)

Ouch. Either I need to stop commenting while in a conference call or I'm going senile. Or both.

No worries.

I'm mirthed, however.

Cambridge is pretty old as well.

1209 (it celebrated its 800th while I was there, so the date has stuck with me).

It's not in the Western Hemisphere though - it's about 0.1E.

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