| 1963 | Faculty of Science founded, with the Departments of Mathematics (1954), Chemistry (1956), Physics (1956) and Biology (1957) coexisting in the respective Colleges as independent yet closely affiliated units |
| 1969 | The first M.Phil. programmes introduced |
| 1970 | Department of Electronic Engineering established |
| 1971 | Department of Biochemistry – a joint venture of the Faculties of Science and Medicine – established |
| 1972 |
University Science Centre opened |
| 1973 | Department of Computer Science established |
| 1981 | The first Ph.D. programmes introduced |
| 1982 | Department of Statistics established |
| 1989 | First part-time programme, in Mathematics and Statistics, launched |
| 1990 | Second part-time programme, in Biology and Chemistry, launched |
| 1991 | Departments of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science left the Faculty of Science to form the new Faculty of Engineering |
| 1995-1998 | Part-time programmes phased out in view of increased provision of similar courses by other tertiary institutions, and later redeployed the resources to developing new full-time programmes |
| 1994 | Environmental Science and Food & Nutritional Sciences, first two out of seven new undergraduate interdisciplinary programmes, launched |
| 1998 | Materials Science (later renamed Materials Science and Engineering in 2001) and Molecular Biotechnology programmes launched |
| 1999 | Chinese Medicine programme launched (administered under the School of Chinese Medicine) |
| 2000 |
UGC-AoE Centre for Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology established under the support of first round of UGC AoE scheme launched in 1999. The first Areas of Excellence (AoE) project in CUHK and the Faculty of Science Centre for Promoting Science Education established Risk Management Science programme launched |
| 2001 | Applied Chemistry with Management Studies programme launched, which was subsequently phased out by 2007 |
| 2006 | Double Degree Programme in Mathematics and Information Engineering launched (jointly administered by the Faculties of Science and Engineering) |
| 2008 | State Key Laboratory (SKL) of Agrobiotechnology (CUHK) established, the first SKL of CUHK Science |
| 2009 | Cell and Molecular Biology Programme launched; Interdisciplinary Major Programme in Quantitative Finance and Risk Management Science launched (jointly administered by the Faculties of Science and Business Administration) |
| 2010 |
Establishment of the School of Life Sciences by merging Biochemistry and Biology departments, and four programmes, Cell and Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, Food and Nutritional Sciences and Molecular Biotechnology, under the Faculty of Science Science Academy for Young Talent established |
| 2011 | The centralized laboratory building of CUHK was officially named as the Run Run Shaw Science Building |
| 2012 | SCIENCE broad-based admission scheme and Earth System Science programme launched |
| 2013 |
Science Faculty 50th Anniversary; The research facility was officially renamed as the Shiu-Ying Hu Herbarium for the extension of the legacy of the late Prof. Hu’s contribution in plant taxonomy |
| 2014 | Natural Sciences, the first programme at the Science Faculty for articulation of local Associate Degree/Higher Diploma Holders, launched |
| 2017 | Science, Technology And Research Stream (STARS) launched |
| 2022 | Earth System Science programme and Environmental Science programme were integrated to form a new programme: Earth and Environmental Sciences; Double Major Programme in Biology and Chemistry launched; Three joint-faculty programmes, (i) Biotechnology, Entrepreneurship and Healthcare Management, (ii) Computational Data Science, and (iii) Learning Design and Technology, launched |
| 2023 | Science Faculty 60th Anniversary |
