1702 Start of scheduled teaching: establishment of a scholarship fund

1765 Foundation of the Bergakademie on 21 November 1765

1766 Start of teaching with 19 students enrolled

1771 Albert Vergell from Amsterdam is the first foreign student to be enrolled

1796 Establishment of the world's first HS laboratory by Prof. Lampadius

1851 Establishment of a student detention room, Mary Hegeler, written as the "Karzer". Lampadius

1851 Establishment of a student detention room, the Karzer

1885 First student Mary Hegeler enrols at the Bergakademie

1899 Establishment of the elective rectorate under Prof. Adolf Ledebur

1903 Bergakademie receives the right to award the degree of Dipl.Ing. degree

1920 The Bergakademie is granted the right to award doctorates

1927 Right to habilitate

1940 Bergakademie is organised into faculties

1993 Right to be called a "technical university"

2006 Establishment of the Dr. Erich Krüger Foundation

2008 Opening of the terra mineralia exhibition at Freudenstein Castle

2011 Foundation of the Helmholtz Centre Freiberg for Resource Technology

2011 Opening of the Centre for Efficient High-Temperature Material Conversion ZeHS

2012 Foundation of the World Forum for Resource Universities for Sustainability

2015 250th anniversary

2019 Bergakademie is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří"

2023 University receives the family-friendly university audit

2023 Lecture hall in the SPQ named after the founding couple Dr Peter and Erika Krüger

2023 Inauguration of new university library / lecture theatre building

2024 Inauguration of three new chemistry laboratory wings

2024 Inauguration of the Freiberg Silver Trail with the figures of Carlowitz and Humboldt