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1954

• September 13 – Dr. Gaylerd Falde, President of the California District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC), calls for the organization of a "Committee of Twenty–Five" from the five national Lutheran Church bodies to plan for a Lutheran College on the West Coast.
• October 29 – The Committee of Twenty–Five meets for the first time but is unable to decide whether the college should be nationally or regionally controlled.

1957

• June 4 – The California Lutheran Educational Foundation (CLEF) is formed with the purpose of establishing a Lutheran college within the Los Angeles area.

• September 25 – Richard Pederson hands the deed to his 130–acre ranch to Orville Dahl for a new Lutheran college.
• November 3 – The first Board of Governors of CLEF is installed with Dr. Dahl as President. CLEF moves into temporary offices in Los Angeles.

1958

• February – The offices of CLEF are moved to the ranch in Thousand Oaks.
• March 7 – The Board of Governors meets on the campus for the first time. The opening of the school is anticipated for September 1961.

1959

• February 27 – The CLEF Board of Governors holds its last meeting, adjourning at 4:37 p.m. The Board of Regents of California Lutheran College is established at exactly 4:38 p.m. with the singing of the Doxology.

• Spring – Ventura County newspapers begin to refer to the school as California Lutheran College instead of the original name of Ventura University.
• August 4 – The College is formally incorporated, and Dr. Dahl is elected President.

1961

• August – Alpha and Beta (now Pederson and Thompson) dormitories are completed.
• September – Three hundred thirty students begin classes at the new college.
• October 27 – Dr. Dahl announces the contract for construction of the $550,000 Centrum to be located on a 12–acre site between Memorial Parkway and Olsen Road. The completed Centrum is dedicated November 11, 1962.
• October 29 – Four thousand attend the formal dedication of the college.

1962

• February 22 – CLC receives notice that it has been accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges as a senior liberal arts college.
• April 12 – California Legislature passes a resolution commending CLC.
• April 13 – CLC's Choir begins its first annual tour with 50 students singing their first concert at Messiah Lutheran Church, Bakersfield.
• June – Dr. Dahl submits his resignation as President to the Board of Regents and agrees to stay for six months while a successor is found.
• Fall – Students arrange giant volcanic rocks on the south side of Mt. Clef Ridge to form the letters "CLC" as a beacon not only for the Conejo but also for pilots.
• November 20 – Students select "Kingsmen" as CLC's nickname.

1963

• January 1 – Dr. Seth Eastvold from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, is named acting President while a search committee meets to select a president.
• February 18 – Dr. Eastvold passes away after suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage while at a meeting in Minneapolis. Dr. Carl Segerhammar is named interim President.
• Summer – The Dallas Cowboys arrive for their first training camp on campus.
• November 4 – Dr. Raymond Olson is inaugurated as President of CLC. He serves until 1971.
• Dr. Olson forms the Community Leaders Club to support the college and to sponsor the "Welcome Cowboys" dinner each summer. Later, the club hosts an annual auction to benefit the college, and sponsors many CLC events and scholarships.

1964

• May 5 – First Honors Day Convocation is held.
• May 31 – The first Baccalaureate Service and Commencement are held.
• May 31 – The graduates form the Alumni Association, elect a board and plan for the first homecoming celebration in the fall.
• August – The College Union and new Post Office are being finished; music rooms and a theater are being readied for use.
• October 7 – CLC enrolls 736 students from 24 states, with 650 coming from California, and 137 from Ventura County. International students come from the Republic of China and Sweden.
• November 20–22 – CLC holds its first Homecoming.

1966

• August 3 – CLC receives notice from the State Board of Education, Sacramento, that the college has been accredited to offer the standard teaching credential with a specialization in elementary and secondary teaching.

1967

• February 20 – Some 200 students stage a sit–down strike in front of the gymnasium during chapel services to protest the attendance policy, the closing of the coffee shop, book store and library during chapel, and to demand more say in the formation of college policies.

1968

• April 9 – Three hundred CLC students march from the campus down Moorpark Boulevard to commemorate the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1970

• May – For Conejo Valley Days, a festival and carnival celebrating the valley's country roots, Tom Farmer '74 organizes a Kazoo Band of nearly 100 students to march in the annual parade.
• July – CLC's indebtedness is $3,600,000, and bankruptcy is predicted. At the invitation of sponsoring church bodies, Maurice Knutson arrives and is named Executive Vice President to set CLC on a more secure financial footing.
• Faculty salaries are frozen and the size of the faculty is cut from 70 to 63. 1970–71 is known as the year of "tight money." By the end of the academic year, the college ends in the black for the first time in ten years, and the debt is reduced by $80,000. Enrollment nears 1,000.
• Dr. Rudolph Edmund, Dean of the College and Vice President for Academic Affairs, expands the curriculum to include graduate degrees and fifth year programs for teachers to earn their California credentials
• The women athletes adopt the name Regals.
• Early in the decade, noted UCLA basketball coach John Wooden conducts basketball camps at CLC for men and women.

1971

• May – President Raymond Olson submits his resignation to the Board.
• Fall – CLC's Kingsmen win their first and only NAIA football championship under the guidance of Coach Bob Shoup.

1972

• February – The Board of Regents appoints Dr. Mark A. Mathews, Chair of the Business Administration and Economics Department, as Acting President of the College.
• February – It's announced that the college's indebtedness is reduced by $1,500,000, reversing its deficit trend.
• Acting President Mathews initiates the annual Business Management Forum to build bridges to the business community.

1973

• Plans for a commercial radio station begin with the hiring of ºÚÁÏÍø student Tim Schultz as engineer.
• April – Nygreen Hall is dedicated.
• October – Dr. Mathews is inaugurated as President of CLC.

1974

• Due to the national energy crisis, the lights on the CLC rocks on Mt. Clef Ridge are extinguished.
• Spring – The first Scandinavian Days celebration draws more than 1,000 people to the gymnasium for music, dancing and displays. The festival will grow to be the largest in the state.

1975

• The "House on the Hill" preschool is opened in the old B. E. Albertson home on the north campus.
• December 4 – The million dollar note owed to the Bank of America is burned. The mortgage is lit by Maurice Knutson, the Wyoming banker who had assisted the college five years earlier.

1970s

• Late in the decade – CLC is placed under probation by WASC for its Continuing Education Program. The program is dissolved and reorganized within a year, and probation is lifted.

1979

• Spring – Governor Ronald Reagan speaks at CLC's first Benefit Banquet at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.
• Summer – The Upward Bound Program is inaugurated.

1980

• The first Creative Options for Women is held.
• The College establishes the Landry Medal, to honor those who have been an inspiration to youth.
• May – President Mark Mathews resigns effective May 31. He is given a year's sabbatical before returning to the classroom at CLC. The Board appoints the Rev. Dr. Carl Segerhammar, Bishop Emeritus of the Pacific Southwest Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, as Acting President effective August 31.

1981

• May 9 – Dr. Jerry H. Miller is inaugurated as the fourth President of California Lutheran College.
• May 14 – A post–inaugural Benefit Banquet is held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with President Gerald Ford as guest speaker.
• October 23 – The 6,050–square–foot Peters Hall classroom and faculty office building is dedicated.

1982

• The student newspaper, The Echo, receives the prestigious All American Award, the highest possible award.

1983

• Spring – Roger Staubach, quarterback of the championship Dallas Cowboys, is awarded the Landry Medal.
• The Women's softball team wins first place in the NAIA, District 3.
• The student literary magazine, Morning Glory, receives the Pacemaker Award, one of six publications to be so honored in the nation.
• August 18 – The Hansen Administration Center is dedicated in the building formerly occupied by the Bank of A. Levy.
• CLC has its best year in Development, with $3,250,000 in gifts and grants.
• Fall – The college purchases its first computer, a VAX 11/750, to assist academic computing and faculty research. A major in computer science is established.

1984

• April 8 – Ground is broken for the library/learning resources center, designed by Don DeMars '64, President of the first graduating class.
• May 10 – Bob Hope is guest speaker for the CLC Benefit Banquet and receives the Tom Landry Medal.
• The Kingsmen football team celebrates a record of winning the NAIA District III Championship 13 of the past 14 years. They join the NCAA Division II Western Football Conference.
• December – Representatives from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) visit the campus to determine the accreditation of the school. The results are positive and, in February 1985, the school receives its first 10–year accreditation in recognition of its strong academic programs.

1985

• April 14 – Pearson Library and Preus–Brandt Forum are dedicated.
• Alumni Hall is remodeled, installing classrooms and offices.

1986

• January 1 – The school's name is changed to ºÚÁÏÍø.
• Fall – ºÚÁÏÍø joins the newly formed Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC) and begins competition in five team sports and six individual sports. The Kingsmen football team remains a member of the NCAA Division II Western Football Conference, and softball and golf remain independent.
• October 17 – Founders Day, the Enormous Luther bronze statue, designed by art professor emeritus Sir Bernardus Weber and located outside Pearson Library, is dedicated.

1987

• February 2 – ºÚÁÏÍø opens a graduate center in Ventura.
• The Pederson Ranch House and Water Tower are moved to the corner of Regents Avenue and Faculty Street to make room for a new academic facility.
• April 4 – Ground is broken for the Ahmanson Science Building.
• The Regals volleyball team posts first GSAC Championship.

1988

• October 28 – Ahmanson Science Center is dedicated.

1989

• May 13 – Groundbreaking is held for Samuelson Chapel.
• ºÚÁÏÍø opens a second off–site graduate center in Woodland Hills.
• The Dallas Cowboys conduct their last year of summer camp at ºÚÁÏÍø.
• October 29 – The Board of Regents votes to have ºÚÁÏÍø join the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC).

1990

• May 3 – With her husband, President Ronald Reagan, in attendance, former First Lady Nancy Reagan receives the Landry Medal at a benefit dinner at the Regent Beverly Wilshire, Los Angeles.
• The student literary magazine, Morning Glory, is inducted into the All American Hall of Fame after winning All American awards for 10 consecutive years.
• July – Permission is granted from the FCC and the Mexican government to start a radio station. The call letters are changed to KºÚÁÏÍø. An application is filed with the city of Thousand Oaks.

1991

• April 13 – Samuelson Chapel is dedicated.
• May 9, the President of Nicaragua Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is presented with the Landry Medal at a black–tie dinner at the Regent Beverly Wilshire, Los Angeles.