| 1920 | Naming of the faculty’s first professors, Bohumil Navrátil elected as the first dean |
| 1921 | Classes at the faculty begin |
| 1923-1925 | Existence of the faculty endangered by saving measures enacted by the government |
| 1925 | First honorary doctorate graduation at the faculty and at the University |
| 1932 | Donation fund established for the benefit of the faculty thanks to a generous message from Leoš Janáček |
| 1933 | Proposal of the government’s economizing commission to close down the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University |
| 1936 | Honorary doctorate given to the president Edvard Beneš by the faculty |
| 1939 | The faculty closed down by the occupying forces |
| 1939-1945 | Nine teachers from the faculty perish as a result of Nazi persecution |
| 1945 | Classes resume after the war |
| 1947 | Branch of the State Archive School established at the faculty |
| 1948 | Within the framework of the post-February purge, fifteen students from the faculty expelled (mainly student clubs’ officials) |
| 1949 | One quarter of students from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year expelled due to an initiative to verify student results |
| 1950 | Establishment of departments following the Soviet model |
| 1954 | Launch of archeological research organized by the faculty at an old-Slavic fort in Znojmo |
| 1968 | Summer school of Slavic Studies introduced |
| 1969-1971 | As a result of consolidation twenty teachers at the faculty made redundant |
| 1986 | International Summer School of Museology (ISSOM) established |
| 1995 | Journalism as a study field launched at the faculty |
| 2002 | Construction of the faculty library finished |
