| Year | Event |
| 1960 | The ceremony, instituted the previous year as the TV Week Star Awards, now officially becomes known as "Logie Awards", in reference as an honour to TV inventor/engineer John Logie Baird, the name is chosen by entertainer Graham Kennedy, after he won what was known the previous previously year as the "Star of the Year Award", which itself would become the Gold Logie. |
| 1961 | The awards ceremony is televised for the first time, with the ABC screening the first half-hour of the awards in Sydney. |
| 1962 | Australian variety presenter, singer and actress Lorrae Desmond, later best known for her role in serial A Country Practice, becomes the first female star to win a Gold Logie, for her music variety program The Lorrae Desmond Show. |
| 1963 | The planned televised ceremony was cancelled due to the intended host, Tony Hancock cancelling a trip to Australia. |
| 1968 | There was no award for the Most Popular Female in Television. According to Bert Newton, who was hosting that year, "it appears no one was deemed worthy enough to receive it". He pleaded with the producers to never be put in that position again. |
| 1973 | The media was invited for the first time to attend the Logies. |
| 1974 | Number 96 star Pat McDonald became the first "soap star" actress (not television personality) to win the Gold Logie. |
| 1975 | The Logie Awards are broadcast in colour for the first time. |
| 1976 | The first and only fictional character to win a Logie of any kind was Norman Gunston, who won the Gold Logie, with his portrayer Garry McDonald, accepting the award in character. |
| 1981 | The Logie Awards after being held in Melbourne for 20 years return to Sydney and are broadcast for the first time on Network Ten. |
| 1984 | The Hall of Fame Logie was introduced by TV Week, awarded to recognise outstanding and continued contribution to television by an individual or program with the first induction being television pioneer and producer Hector Crawford (see below, under Logie Hall of Fame). |
| 1988 | Actress and future international pop star Kylie Minogue became the youngest person to win a Gold Logie, aged 19 for her role as Charlene Robinson in soap opera Neighbours. |
| 1989 | The Seven Network screens the Logie Awards for the first time. |
| 1997 | Agro's Cartoon Connection won its seventh consecutive Logie Award for Most Popular Children's Program, ending the longest undefeated streak of the Logies of either show or person. |
| 2010 | Actor Ray Meagher became the oldest person to win an award, at age 66, for his portrayal of Alf Stewart in Home and Away. |
| 2006 | A new Logies category was introduced, named the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer, to honour Kennedy's career and legacy and to commemorate the 50th year of continued broadcasting of television in Australia. |
| 2016 | The Logies accepted for the first time nominations from locally produced digital content. Also in 2016, presenter Waleed Aly (whose parents were born in Egypt) became the first non-Caucasian person to win the Gold Logie. |
| 2017 | TV Week announced that after 30 years, the awards ceremony will no longer be held in Melbourne, due to the withdrawal of financial support by the Victorian government. The Logie awards ceremony will be instead held at The Star Gold Coast on the Gold Coast, Queensland for four years, with support of the Queensland Government. The decade of the 2010s was the first decade where no one won the Gold Logie award more than once. |
| 2020 | It was announced on the 29 April that the Logie Awards scheduled for 28 June 2020, were being cancelled outright prior to any voting or nominations taking place, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ceremony was set to return on 28 November 2021, but was again cancelled on 4 September 2021. It later took place on 19 June 2022. |
| 2022 | The Logie Award for Most Popular Presenter is renamed as the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter, in tribute to Bert Newton, a television personality and presenter who was a Hall of Fame inductee. |
| 2023 | The first time that an Indigenous person, Mark Coles Smith, was nominated for the Gold Logie. Kween Kong from RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under, became the first drag queen nominated for a Logie. 6 of the nominees for Most Outstanding Actress are from a subscription television network. |
| 2024 | The Logies announced a major overhaul of award categories for the 2024 ceremony. Whilst the Gold Logie Award, Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter and Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent will remain publicly voted, the previous most popular and most outstanding categories will be replaced by a "best" category which will be determined using a combined score from a jury, viewing data and public voting. The acting awards will be separated into drama and comedy categories, whilst the drama and miniseries category will also be separated. The new category format is more similar to the style used in the United States Emmy Awards. |
| 2025 | Actress Lynne McGranger became the oldest person to win an award, at age 72, for his portrayal of Irene Roberts in Home and Away, after announcing her exit from the long running drama series bringing an end to her 32 year stint. The 2025 Logie Awards feature majority of women with only one male nominee. |
