With the constitution of its first Senate, the 30th of October 1979 marked the birth of the University of Cadiz (UCA), the culmination of a long process in the demand for a university institution that would recover the fruitful tradition of higher education studies initiated and developed with the support of maritime and commercial activities in modern and contemporary times for Cadiz and its province.
The historical background of higher education studies in Cadiz goes back to the 15th Century, with the creation of the College of the Pilots of the Sea of the East and West, within the Basque brotherhood, whose cosmography and mathematics studies achieved fame and prestige, as was certified by the Brief Treaty of the Sphere and Art of Navigation by Martin Cortes, printed in 1545 in Seville, and the Geometric Analysis of Antonio Hugo of Omerique – born in 1698- as an expression of the Nautical Chair that existed from 1682 in the College of Santiago of the Company of Jesus, founded in 1566.
