| 1897 | Founded as Kyoto Imperial University College of Science and Engineering established |
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| 1899 | Colleges of Law and Medicine established University Library and Hospital established |
| 1906 | College of Letters established |
| 1914 | College of Science and Engineering separated into the College of Engineering and the College of Science |
| 1919 | Colleges renamed Faculties Faculty of Economics established |
| 1923 | Faculty of Agriculture established |
| 1925 | Clock Tower completed |
| 1933 | Takikawa incident |
| 1936 | Alumnus Naoto Tajima (Faculty of Economics 1936) won gold in men's triple jump at the Berlin Olympics |
| 1940 | University flag and song adopted |
| 1943 | Student mobilization for World War II begun following the termination of temporary conscription exemption |
| 1946 | First female students matriculated |
| 1947 | Kyoto Imperial University renamed Kyoto University. |
| 1949 | Reorganized under the new educational system, with the Third High School (Dai San Kou) merged into the University Faculty of Education and the University's branch school (Bunko, precursor to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) established Hideki Yukawa awarded Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first Japanese laureate |
| 1950 | Bunko opened in Uji (with initial courses for first-year students) |
| 1960 | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences established |
| 1969 | Period of significant student protest |
| 1984 | Student American football club won the Rice Bowl national championship |
| 1992 | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reorganized into the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies Policy of prioritizing graduate schools implemented |
| 1993 | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences closed |
| 1997 | Centennial anniversary commemorated |
| 2003 | Relocation of Graduate School of Engineering to Katsura Campus begun Clock Tower Centennial Hall completed |
| 2004 | Kyoto University incorporated to become a National University Corporation |
| 2006 | Kyoto University Alumni (KUA) established |
| 2007 | Kyoto University Fund established |
| 2017 | Kyoto University granted Designated National University (DNU) status by the education ministry |
| 2022 | 125th anniversary of the University's founding |
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to support these anniversary initiatives, bolstering human capital development
and the long-term enhancement of Kyodai-ryoku.
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