 For a short time 1744-1745 Munich was the imperial residence again under Charles VII.The city's first academic institution, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, was founded in 1759 by Maximilian III Joseph, who abandoned his forefather's imperial ambitions and made peace.From 1789 onwards, when the old medieval fortification was demolished, the English Garden was laid out—it is one of the world's largest urban public parks.