Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (1676)

The third university of Spanish America, ordered instituted by cédula of 31 January 1676 after a century of refused petitions and one merchant's legacy of 20,000 pesos. Eight chairs were filled by competition on 6 December 1678, and one of them was Cakchiquel — a Maya language endowed on the same day as canon law and medicine. It read nothing but scholastic method until 1768.