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| 2025 | RUMS RFC wins the United Hospitals Cup for the third time since the merger of constituent medical schools (fourth overall), defeating Bart's and The London RFC 27-0 in the final. |
| 2024 | Received a Choice Outstanding Academic Titles seal for 'Becoming a Historian: An Informal Guide' by Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock. |
| 2024 | Received the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award in the History category for 'Freedom Seekers' by Simon P. Newman. |
| 2024 | City St George's, University of London is formed through a merger of City, University of London and St George's, University of London. |
| 2024 | King's Business School changed its academic dress color from Teal to Emerald Green |
| October 2024 | Brunel University of London becomes a member institution of the University of London. |
| July 2024 | Documentary film 'Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory' was released, written by Nigerian writer and linguist Kola Tubosun, focusing on the historic street and Soyinka's former residence. |
| 2023 | Simon P. Newman's 'Freedom Seekers' was named joint winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize awarded by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. |
| 2023 | The Press rebrands with a new logo, website, and mission to 'open up humanities research'. |
| 2023 | Nii Ashie Kotey concludes his active service as a justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana |
| 2023 | University College London achieves university status within the University of London. |
| 2022 | Published 'Becoming a Historian: An Informal Guide' by Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock, which later won a Choice Outstanding Academic Titles seal in 2024. |
| 2022 | Published 'Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London' by Simon P. Newman, which won multiple prestigious awards in 2023-2024. |
| 2022 | The London School of Economics achieves university status within the University of London. |
| 2022 | Lumumba Hall was declared defunct, marking the end of its operational status as a men's residence hall at Makerere University. |
| October 7 2022 | Centenary celebration ceremony held at Freedom Square, attended by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. A statue monument was unveiled at the university's Freedom Square to commemorate 100 years of the institution's existence. |
| April 2022 | Reconstruction of the Main Building began with Excel Construction Company Limited awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract. The process started by demolishing the structurally unsound original building, which was initially constructed in the 1930s and commissioned in 1941. |
| 2021 | Anita Annet Among became Deputy Speaker of the 11th Parliament of Uganda |
| August 2021 | The Ugandan Cabinet resolved to demolish the remaining structure of the Main Building and approved plans to construct a new building that will replicate the original design, with a budget of approximately UGX:21 billion (US$6 million). |
| 2020 | Charles Barugahare concluded his tenure as university secretary. |
| 2020 | József Váradi made a significant philanthropic contribution by donating £1 million to support external scholarships and financial aid at the university. |
| September 20 2020 | The main building of Makerere University (the Ivory Tower) was severely damaged by fire, allegedly following a Uganda Parliament probe into financial mismanagement by university authorities. |
| 2019 | University of London Press is relaunched as an open access publisher. |
| 2019 | Eliza Manningham-Buller, former Director General of MI5, received an honorary degree from the University of London. |
| 2019 | The assessment methodology was modified to allow coursework and forum participation to make up a percentage of the overall assessment, in addition to in-person or online examinations. |
| 2019 | University of London Worldwide and LSE established a partnership with 2U to deliver a fully online bachelor's degree in data science and business analytics through 2U's online platform. |
| 2019 | Wendy Thomson becomes Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 2019 onwards. |
| January 2019 | Heythrop College closed, resulting in the University of London directly providing academic direction for distance learning courses in divinity, rather than through a specific college. |
| 2018 | Sue Black, Pro Vice-Chancellor at Lancaster University, received an honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from the University of London. |
| 2018 | Nii Ashie Kotey becomes an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana |
| 2018 | Ernest Krausz passed away in this year. |
| 2018 | Heythrop College, University of London was closed. |
| 2018 | University of London Act 2018 introduces the term 'member institutions', allowing institutions to change status from colleges to universities while remaining part of the University of London. |
| 2018 | King's Business School introduced Teal as its academic dress color |
| 2018 | University of London, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Coursera announced a collaboration to offer the first undergraduate Computer Science degree on the Coursera platform. |
| 2018 | RUMS RFC wins the United Hospitals Cup for the second time, defeating Barts 34-18 in the final. |
| 2018 | Peter Kopelman serves as Interim/Acting Vice-Chancellor from 2018 to 2019. |
| 2018 | Prof Sir Adrian Smith concludes his term as Vice-Chancellor after serving from 2012 to 2018. |
| February 2018 | University of London International Programmes was renamed to simply University of London, with a corresponding update to its logo. |
| January 2018 | London Student exposed secret conferences on eugenics and intelligence at UCL, featuring speakers including white supremacists, which was then reported by national newspapers. |
| 2017 | David Cannadine, President of the British Academy, received an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of London. |
| September 2017 | William Bazeyo was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, responsible for Finance and Administration. |
| February 2017 | A special commission appointed by President Museveni was due to submit its report on the university situation. |
| January 2017 | Makerere University was reopened after being closed since November 2016. |
| 2016 | Guðni Th. Jóhannesson became President of Iceland |
| 2016 | Andrew Felix Kaweesi became Spokesperson of Uganda Police Force |
| 2016 | Total enrollments for University of London's online courses crossed 1 million. |
| 2016 | Rolph Payet awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science (HonDSc) by the University of London. |
| November 1 2016 | President Yoweri Museveni declared the university closed indefinitely following ongoing student unrest and faculty issues. |
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