Timeline

2000 - Name changes to University of Queensland Gatton or UQ Gatton.

1999 - University of Queensland Senate approves key recommendations in (Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Ted Brown) Brown Report. Plans for future development include $13 million funds injection, new Centre for Rural and Regional Innovation and new professorship in Rangelands Management.

1996 - Centenary celebrations.

1990 - QAC amalgamates with the University of Queensland as part of the new unified national system, name changes to the University of Queensland, Gatton College.

1970 - Agricultural focus expands, research capacity strengthens, domestic and overseas student numbers increase.

1970 - Original name resumed, QAC becomes self-governing as one of Queensland's first Colleges of Advanced Education.

1969 First women enrolled.

1963 - Fire destroys ex-army huts and eight-year rebuilding program begins.

1962 - High-school teaching phases out, heralding future role as tertiary institution.

1950/51 -Two more land acquisitions.

1946 - 50th anniversary celebrations.

1945 - 296 acres (120ha) adjoining property (now Darbarlara Farm) purchased.

1943 - Post-requisition building program begins.

1942 - Most of campus requisitioned for U.S. Army hospitals.

1939 - 45 World War II - war effort includes intensive crop and livestock production.

1927 - University of Queensland's Agriculture Faculty opens, ending Gatton's state monopoly on tertiary agricultural education.

1923 - Control transferred to Department of Public Instruction (renamed Department of Education 1964) and institution becomes Queensland Agricultural High School and College.

1921 - Low student numbers lead to advice QAC be closed.

1897 - July 9: Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland opens QAC as a combined agricultural college and experimental farm and the first 23 students begin a routine which includes three days in class, three days farm work. College administered by State Department of Agriculture (renamed Department of Agriculture and Stock 1905).

1896 - August 22: Minister for Agriculture A.J.Thynne conducts stump-capping ceremony for the Foundation Building, and, November 11: State Parliment approves funding.

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