24 July 1888 : Sir Asman Jah Bahadur, Prime Minister of Hyderabad visited the College.
6 February 1889 : Sir Syed along with his friends staged a drama in Aligarh Exhibition to raise funds for the College.
21 December 1889 : Trustee Bill passed and Board of Trustees replaced the College Fund Committee. Sir Syed was elected life Honorary Secretary and Syed Mahmud life Joint Secretary.
November 1890 : Duty Society was inaugurated at the initiative of Sahibzada Aftab Ahmad Khan.
1891 : Aligarh Magazine started its publication under the editorship of Maulana Shibli Nomani.
25June 1891 : The brotherhood or 'The Ikhwanussafa' was set up. Its membership was open to the present and past AMU students and teachers. It was later on converted into Old Boys' Association.
29 December 1891 : The Chief Justice of Allahabad Mr. Douglas Straight visited to inaugurate the Law Classes.
12 November 1894: The Lt. Governor, Sir Charles Crosthwait, performed the opening ceremony of the Strachey Hall.
7 August 1895 : Sir Allen Cadell, Governor of U.P. visited the College and presided over the Annual Prize distribution function. (Sir) Ziauddin received the Strachey Gold Medal for securing Honours in Mathematics.
27 March 1898 : Sir Syed breathed his last at 10 P.M. His funeral prayer was performed in the Cricket ground on 28th March.
31 March 1898 : Efforts started to make the College a Muslim University by Sahabzada Aftab Ahmad Khan.
31 January 1899 : Mohsinul Mulk appointed Secretary of M.A.O. College and Syed Mahmud was granted Life Presidentship.
2 July 1901 : H. H. Siyaji Rao Gaikwad of Baroda visited the College.
10 August 1903 : A deputation headed by Mir Wilayat Husain was sent to Iran, on whose persuasion 12 students from the Royal family came to study at Aligarh.
7 March 1906 : Prince of Wales visited the College and Science Section was established. Sir Adamji Peer Bhoi of Bombay donated Rs. One Lakh ten thousand. H.H. Agha Khan and Raja Saheb of Mahmoodabad gave Rs. 36 thousand cash and a grant of Rs. 64,611 per annum to the College.
1 October 1906 : A delegation headed by Agha Khan called upon Lord Minto, the Viceroy and Governor General of India in Shimla to seek help in establishing a Muslim University.
  f 16 January 1907 : His Majesty Habeebullah Khan, Shah of Afghanistan visited the College and announced a grant of Rs. 20,000.
10 February 1907 : Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah established Girls' School, which in 1921 became a High School and was recognized as Undergraduate College in 1937.
1907 : Students’ strike against European Staff.

1 December 1907 : Nawab Viqarul Mulk was appointed Secretary of the College.
20 July 1908 : Government handed over General Peron's residence, Sahib Bagh, built in 1803 to the College, which after some alteration became Sulaiman Hall.
13 November 1909 : Mir Imam Baksh of Talpur, ruler of Khairpur Sindh visited the College and donated a property of Rs 500 per month. So impressed was he by the high standard of the College that he decided to admit his son to this college.
15 December 1909 : Mr J. C. Gupta, Member of the Indian Council visited and was highly impressed by the secular character of the College.
1 January 1910 : Sir Pratap Singh Inder Mahendra Bahadur, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir donated Rs 2,000 to the college during his visit.
18 March 1910 : Mr. Chirol, Foreign Editor of the London Times visited the College.
10 January 1911 : A Committee constituted to establish Muslim University with Sir Agha Khan as the President and Nawab Viqarul Mulk as Hony. Secretary. Nawab Muzammilullah Khan, Haji Mohd. Musa Khan, Shaikh Mohd. Abdullah and Mr. Shaukat Ali were appointed Joint Secretaries.
16 February 1911 : University Constitution Committee was formed and held its first meeting at Lucknow.
9 June 1912 : Sir Rameshwar Singh, Maharaja of Darbhanga, who was the President of B.H.U. Committee, visited the College.
21 July 1912 : The Trustees accepted Nawab Viqarul Mulk's resignation and unanimously elected Nawab Ishaq Khan as Secretary.
27 February 1914 : Begum Sultan Jahan of Bhopal laid the foundation stone of the Educational Conference Building which she declared open on 19.2.1916.
25 July 1914 : The main gate of the College was named as Victoria Gate.
Feb 1915 : The Mosque was formally declared open.
6 January 1917 : Mrs. Sarojni Naidu delivered a lecture on 'the glories of Islam and the Hindu-Muslim amity' at Strachey Hall.
29 January 1918 : The Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Usman Ali Khan, visited the College and donated Rs one lakh for Arabic teaching and Rs five thousand for renovating rooms of the hostel named later as Osmania hostel.
25 October 1920 : Mahatma Gandhi visited the College and was made the first Honorary Life Member of the Students' Union.
29 October 1920 : Inauguration of Jamia Millia Islamia at University Mosque. Shaikh-ul-Hind Maulana Mahmoodul Hasan presided over the function.

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