King's College London
Public university in London
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| March 2025 | The London Varsity Series expanded to include over 30 sporting fixtures played across one week in March. |
| 2024 | UCL defeated KCL in Men's Varsity match with a narrow score of 10-7 |
| 2024 | King's Business School changed its academic dress color from Teal to Emerald Green |
| December 2024 | Awarded the titles of Sixth Form College of the Year 2025 and Sixth Form College of the Year for Academic Excellence 2025 by The Sunday Times in the Parent Power schools guide. |
| November 2024 | Simon Tanner appointed as Interim Dean of Faculty for Digital Humanities, serving from November 2024 to present day |
| November 2024 | Professor Simon Tanner assumed an interim position as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, succeeding Professor Marion Thain. |
| 2023 | UCL defeated KCL in Men's Varsity match with a score of 17-12 |
| 2023 | Petr Pavel became President of the Czech Republic |
| 2023 | Matthew Moran takes over as Head of Department, serving from 2023 to the present. |
| 2023 | Following the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke at the London Defence Conference, describing the People's Republic of China as an 'epoch defining challenge'. |
| 2023 | Launched the Digital Futures Institute and the Global Cultures Institute as part of a new Faculty vision to address societal challenges through arts and humanities expertise. |
| 2022 | UCL defeated KCL in Men's Varsity match with a close score of 12-8 |
| 2022 | Natalia Gherman served as Acting Prime Minister of Moldova |
| 2022 | Launched the London Defence Conference in collaboration with Reaction, a current affairs analysis and news site. |
| 2022 | The department received recognition from the Public Relations and Communications Association for its 'Ukraine Explained' series, which compiled over 40 essays from its academics on the Ukraine conflict. |
| 2022 | Department celebrated its 60th anniversary with a series of events. |
| 2022 | The Complete University Guide ranked Classics at 16th and history at 10th nationally. |
| February 2022 | Department academics began providing extensive research and commentary on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, contributing expertise to over 26,120 articles and news broadcasts across major international media outlets. |
| 2021 | Selected as the Best State Sixth Form College of the Decade by The Sunday Times. |
| 2021 | UCL decisively defeated KCL in Men's Varsity match with a score of 49-7 |
| 2021 | KCL completely shut out UCL in Women's Varsity match with a score of 38-0 |
| 2021 | Augustus Jaspert concluded his term as Governor of the British Virgin Islands |
| 2021 | Guardian University Guide improved ranking to 15th out of 25 for Classics & ancient history. |
| 2020 | KCL defeated UCL in Men's Varsity match with a score of 27-12 |
| 2020 | Sir Michael Houghton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of Hepatitis C and the Hepatitis D genome. |
| 2020 | Ed Davis ended his tenure as Governor of Gibraltar |
| 2020 | Guardian University Guide rated Classics & ancient history at King's 22nd out of 26. |
| 2019 | The school achieved exceptional academic results, with 60% of A-level entries graded A* and 91% graded A*/A. Over 25% of leavers received Oxbridge places. |
| 2019 | UCL defeated KCL in Women's Varsity match with a score of 15-10 |
| 2019 | No Men's or Women's Varsity match was played this year |
| 2019 | John Freeman concluded his term as Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 2019 | Michael Goodman becomes Head of Department, leading from 2019 to 2023. |
| 2019 | The Complete University Guide ranked Classics at King's 11th nationally. |
| 2018 | The school received nearly 500 applications for 70 places and was selected as the State Sixth Form College of the Year by The Sunday Times School Guide. |
| 2018 | UCL defeated KCL in Men's Varsity match with a score of 15-11 |
| 2018 | King's Business School introduced Teal as its academic dress color |
| 2018 | Launch of Kerberos, a new undergraduate research journal by the Classics Society. |
| 2018 | QS World University Rankings ranked the Classics department 5th nationally and 21st globally. |
| 2018 | Roderick Beaton concludes his thirty-year tenure as the Koraes Chair holder, with Gonda Van Steen becoming the new chair. |
| December 2018 | Marion Thain (English) becomes Dean of Faculty, serving until October 2024 |
| September 2018 | Jo Malt (French) serves as Interim Dean of Faculty from September to December 2018 |
| 2017 | KCL completely shut out UCL in Women's Varsity match with a score of 17-0 |
| 2017 | UCL defeated KCL in Men's Varsity match with a score of 16-10 |
| 2016 | KCL defeated UCL in Men's Varsity match with a score of 23-11 |
| 2016 | KCL completely shut out UCL in Women's Varsity match with a score of 48-0 |
| 2016 | Michael Rainsborough assumes leadership of the Department of War Studies, serving as Head from 2016 to 2019. |
| 2015 | KCL significantly defeated UCL in Men's Varsity match with a score of 37-10 |
| 2014 | King's College London Mathematics School was established, specializing in mathematics education and inspired by the Kolmogorov Physics and Mathematics School in Moscow. |
| 2014 | University College London Union and King's College London Students' Union jointly decided to expand the varsity competition from the traditional rugby fixture to include six additional sports. |
| 2014 | UCL defeated KCL in Men's Varsity match with a score of 16-9 |
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