SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - FOUNDATION
1917 - Historic speech by Milan Rojc in the Croatian Parliament in which he put forward a proposal for the foundation of the School of Medicine in Zagreb. Ten months later the Croatian Parliament endorsed the foundation of the School of Medicine by proposing to the Court Office of Vienna three professors, Mašek, Wichkerhauser, Čačković, the future founding fathers of the Zagreb School of Medicine, who were assigned the task to establish and staff the school and appoint its dean.
1918 - On 12 January a young anatomy teacher, Dr. Drago Perović, delivered the first lecture in the University lobby entitled, Guidelines for Teaching and Research in Anatomy. That date marked the beginning of the institutionalized teaching and study of medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Zagreb. The first three proposed teachers were appointed by the King and the first session of the School's Academic Senate took place on 11 May when Professor Miroslav Čačković was appointed the first dean and Professor Dragutin Mašek the vice dean of the Zagreb School of Medicine.
1918-1919 years characterized by intensive adaptation works on the buildings at the Šalata premises; the former convent school housed the Institute of Anatomy and later the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology and Pharmacology, whereas the former women's lycée housed the Institutes of Morphology and Biology, Physiology and Medical Chemistry.
1920-1922 the establishment of the majority of university departments, such as: Department of Internal Medicine (1921), Gynecology and Obstetrics (1920), Surgery (1921), Neuropsychiatry (1921), Otorhinolaryngology (1921), Pediatrics (1922), Dermatovernerology (1922), Orthopedics (1922), Maxillofacial Surgery and Stomatology (1922), Institute of Radiology and Radiotherapy (1922). In 1922 the building of the Institute of Pathological Anatomy was completed.
