Queen's University at Kingston
Public university in Kingston
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| 2025 | Queen's University ranked 193rd globally and tenth in Canada in the QS World University Rankings. |
| 2024 | Queen's University placed 251–300 globally and 12th in Canada in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. |
| 2024 | Steve Snyder leads the team to a playoff semifinal finish, continuing the team's competitive performance. |
| 2024 | Queen's Gaels football team hosts the Vanier Cup for the second consecutive year, highlighting the program's growing prominence. |
| July 2024 | Broadcast journalist Shelagh Rogers succeeded Murray Sinclair as chancellor of Queen's University. |
| March 17 2024 | Conclusion of the OUA Fencing Championship for Queen's Men's Fencing Team at the EY Centre. |
| March 16 2024 | Queen's Men's Fencing Team competed at the OUA Fencing Championship hosted by the University of Ottawa, finishing seventh overall. |
| 2023 | The university disclosed a projected deficit of $48 million for the 2024 year, leading to stringent measures including class size caps, limits on international students, and a hiring freeze. These measures sparked faculty and student protests. |
| 2023 | Queen's Debating Union won the Canadian Parliamentary National Championships. Diggory Waddle and Nicholas Abernethy broke at the World Universities Debating Championship. |
| 2023 | Queen's Gaels football team hosts the Vanier Cup, marking a significant milestone in the program's recent history. |
| 2023 | Steve Snyder coaches the Queen's Gaels to a playoff appearance. |
| February 19 2023 | Conclusion of the OUA Fencing Championships for Queen's Fencing Teams at Brock University. |
| February 17 2023 | Queen's Women's Fencing Team won Overall Bronze and Men's Team finished fourth at the OUA Fencing Championships hosted by Brock University. |
| 2022 | Queen's University ranked 359th globally and 12th in Canada in the U.S. News & World Report global university rankings. |
| 2022 | Queen's University ranked 201–300 globally and 9–12 in Canada in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. |
| 2022 | Maclean's magazine ranked Queen's eighth in its Medical-Doctoral Canadian university rankings. |
| 2022 | Owen Crawford Lem serves as Rector of Queen's University |
| 2022 | Team finishes 1st in the conference but loses Division Quarterfinal 2-3 in overtime to McGill. |
| 2022 | Diggory Waddle was the top speaker of the Canadian BP championship. Diggory Waddle and Nicholas Abernethy won the Hart House IV and made the semi-finals of the Oxford IV. |
| 2022 | The Queen's Gaels women's basketball team achieved their strongest finish ever, placing third at the U SPORTS Final 8 tournament held at the Athletics & Recreation Centre on Queen's Campus. |
| 2022 | The Queen's men's basketball team attended their first U SPORTS National Championship after upsetting the undefeated Carleton Ravens in the OUA semi-final. |
| 2022 | Queen's baseball team secured their first Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship by defeating the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. |
| 2022 | Steve Snyder leads the Queen's Gaels to their second consecutive Yates Cup appearance. |
| 2022 | Chris Patrician, a former Queen's football team player (2011-2014), was named to Canada's Olympic team. |
| 2021 | David Card shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his empirical contributions to labour economics. |
| 2021 | Murray Sinclair takes over as Chancellor |
| 2021 | Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Men's ice hockey team achieved 1st place in the East division with an impressive .895 win percentage, winning 17 out of 19 games. |
| 2021 | Queen's Gaels Cross Country men's program ranked 6th nationally. |
| 2021 | Gavin Stone was named OUA Rower of the Year. |
| 2021 | Women's rugby program won the U Sports National Championship, winning the Monilex Trophy on home soil at Nixon Field. |
| 2021 | The Queen's Gaels women's basketball team achieved their strongest finish ever, placing third at the U SPORTS Final 8 tournament held at the Athletics & Recreation Centre on Queen's Campus. |
| 2021 | Steve Snyder wins the Frank Tindall Trophy. |
| 2021 | Steve Snyder leads the team to a perfect regular season in the OUA and reaches the Yates Cup Final, losing 29-0 to Western. He is named OUA and U SPORTS Coach of the Year. |
| 2020 | Queen's University accepted 38.2% of applications for full-time first-year studies. |
| 2020 | Sam Hiemstra serves as Rector of Queen's University |
| 2020 | Tessa Virtue completed her Executive MBA (EMBA) at Queen's University. |
| 2020 | Corey Davidson and Jake Sullivan won the Leger Cup. |
| 2020 | Hosted the Central Canadian Novice Debating Championship and transitioned the annual Queen's University High School Debating Championship from Canadian Parliamentary to British Parliamentary style. |
| 2020 | Gavin Stone participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the coxless four event. |
| 2020 | Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2019 | The Queen's Journal further reduces its print schedule to once every other week, continuing to publish online content. |
| 2019 | Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities ranked Queen's 344th in the world and 14th in Canada. |
| 2019 | Patrick Deane becomes Principal of Queen's University, taking office in 2019 and continuing to serve as of the current date |
| 2019 | Team wins Division Quarterfinal series against Ontario Tech, Division Semifinal series against Ottawa, Division Final series against Carleton, and captures the Queen's Cup by defeating Guelph 4-1. |
| 2019 | Won Division Quarterfinal series 2-0 against Ontario Tech, Division Semifinal series 2-1 against Ottawa, and Division Final series 2-0 against Carleton. |
| 2019 | Won Queen's Cup 4-1 against Guelph, but lost Quarterfinal 3-5 to St. Francis Xavier. |
| 2019 | Addy Rawat won the Canadian British Parliamentary Championships. Patrick Cowley and Corey Davidson, and Jake Sullivan and Grace Li were semi-finalists at the same tournament. |
| 2019 | Men's rugby team won the OUA Championship. Women's rugby team won the OUA Championship. |
| 2019 | Pat Sheahan is dismissed as head coach following the poor 2018 season. |
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