Timeline of Kiev
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kiev, Ukraine.
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Prior to 13th century
- 882 CE
- Capital of Kievan Rus' relocates to Kiev from Novgorod.
- Oleg of Novgorod in power.[1]
- 968 - Siege of Kiev.
- 988 - Kiev becomes a Christian town.
- 996 - Church of the Tithes consecrated.[2]
- 1017 - Fire.[3]
- 1018 - Boleslaw I intervenes in Kievan succession crisis.
- 1037
- Cathedral of St. Sophia built.[4]
- Golden Gate erected.[5]
- 1051
- Kiev Pechersk Lavra founded.
- Hilarion appointed Metropolitan bishop.
- 1052 - St. George church built (approximate date).[3]
- 1077 - Vydubychi Monastery established.
- 1089 - Uspenski Cathedral consecrated.[5]
- 1108
- 1125 - Church of the Saviour at Berestove built (approximate date).
- 1140 - St. Cyril's Monastery founded.
- 1169 - Town sacked by forces of Andrey Bogolyubsky.[5]
- 1171 - Town sacked by forces of Svyetoslav Vsevolodovitch.[5]
13th-16th centuries
- 1204 - Town sacked by forces of Rurik Rostislavich.[5]
- 1240 - Town besieged by forces of Mongol Batu Khan.[6]
- 1299 - Metropolitan bishop Maximus relocates to Vladimir.[5]
- 1320 - Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania in power.[3]
- 1362 - Kiev becomes part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- 1397 - Spiridon Psalter created.
- 1471 - Kiev Voivodeship established.
- 1483 - Town sacked by forces of Meñli I Giray, Khan of the Crimea.[5]
- 1496 - Town besieged by Tartars.[3]
- 1500 - Town besieged by Tartars.[3]
- 1516 - Magdeburg rights granted by Sigismund I the Old.[5]
- 1569 - Kiev becomes part of Poland.[3]
17th-18th centuries
- 1619 - Jews expelled from Kiev.[7]
- 1632 - Mohyla Collegium formed.[8]
- 1667 - Kiev becomes part of Imperial Russia.
- 1693 - Cathedral of the Epiphany built.[5]
- 1696 - St. Nicholas Cathedral consecrated.[5]
- 1701 - Imperial Theological Academy formed.[5]
- 1732 - Florivsky Convent church dedicated.
- 1745 - Great Lavra Bell Tower built.
- 1749 - Fountain of Samson constructed.
- 1752 - Mariyinsky Palace built.
- 1754 - St Andrew's Church built.
- 1756 - Klov Palace built.
- 1764 - Kiev Arsenal established.
- 1782 - Coat of arms of Kiev redesigned.
- 1793 - Kiev becomes part of Russia.[3]
- 1797 - Contracts fair transferred to Kiev from Dubno.[9]
19th century
- 1810
- City subdivided into 4 administrative districts.
- Chapel built at Askold's Tomb.[5]
- 1811 - Great fire of Podil.
- 1817 - Contracts House rebuilt.
- 1833 - Baikove Cemetery established.
- 1834 - Vladimir University relocates to Kiev from Vilna.[5]
- 1835
- 1837 - City expands.[9]
- 1838 - Institute for Noble Maidens organized.
- 1839 - Botanical Garden established.
- 1840
- 1843 - Archaeological commission organized.[9]
- 1844 - Mariinsky Palace built.
- 1846 - Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius active.
- 1849 - Church of St. Alexander built.[5]
- 1853 - Vladimir Monument erected.[5]
- 1855 - Nicholas Chain Bridge built.[3]
- 1857 - Lutheran Church built.[5]
- 1862 - Population: 70,341.[9]
- 1863
- Philharmonic Society founded.
- Lukyanivska Prison commissioned.
- 1864 - Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas founded.
- 1866 - City public library opens.
- 1869 - Naturalists' society organized.[9]
- 1870
- Railroad station built.[4]
- Struve Railroad Bridge constructed.
- 1874 - Population: 127,251.[10]
- 1875 - Horticultural society organized.[9]
- 1876
- Juridical society organized.[9]
- Kiev City Duma building constructed.
- 1877 - City Hall built.[5]
- 1879
- Kurenivka, Lukyanovka, Shuliavka, and Solomenka become part of Kiev.[9]
- Dramatic society organized.[9]
- 1881 - Pogrom against Jews.
- 1882
- St Volodymyr's Cathedral built.
- Philharmonic building constructed.
- 1883 - Exchange building constructed.[5]
- 1887 - Palais Khanenko established.[5]
- 1891 - Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
- 1892 - Electric trams inaugurated.
- 1896 - Cathedral of St. Vladimir built.[4][5]
- 1897 - Population: 248,750.
- 1898
- Brodsky Synagogue built.
- Polytechnic Institute and City Museum of Antiques and Art founded.
- 1899
- Darnytsia Railway Station opens.
- National Folk Decorative Art Museum established.
20th century
1900s-1940s
- 1900
- Museum of Art and Archaeology and Municipal Theatre built.[5]
- 1901 - Kiev Opera House opens.
- 1902
- 1905
- October: Pogrom against Jews.
- 12–16 December: Shuliavka Republic.
- Kiev Funicular begins operating.
- 1906 - Ipolit Dyakov becomes City's Governor.
- 1909
- Kiev Zoo opens.
- St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral built.[5]
- 1911
- Library built.
- September: Assassination of Pyotr Stolypin.[11]
- 1912
- Besarabsky Market, Museum of Pedagogy, and St. Panteleimon's Cathedral built.[5]
- Sports Ground opens.
- 1913
- Kiev Conservatory founded.
- All-Russian (Imperial) Olympiad held.
- Population: 610,190.[12]
- 1917
- 17 March: Central Rada established.[13]
- 17 July: Polubotkivtsi Uprising.
- 7 November: Kiev becomes capital of Ukrainian People's Republic.[6]
- 8–13 November: Kiev Bolshevik Uprising.
- Population: 640,000.[1]
- 1918
- 29 January-4 February: Kiev Arsenal January Uprising.
- 1 March–December: German occupation.[1][14]
- National Library of Ukraine established.[15]
- 1920 - City taken by Soviets, then by Polish Army, then by Red Army during Polish–Soviet War.
- 1921 - Kiev becomes part of the Soviet Union.
- 1923 - Trotsky Red Stadium opens.
- 1924 - Zhuliany Airport in operation.
- 1926 - National Academic Theater of Russian Drama founded.
- 1927
- Darnytsia, Lanky, Chokolivka, and Nikolska slobidka become part of Kiev.
- Dovzhenko Film Studios founded.
- Kiev Fortress museum and Kiev Academic Puppet Theatre established.
- 1932
- City designated administrative center of Kiev Oblast.
- Central Railway Station built.
- Holodomor begins.
- 1933 - Kyiv Aviation Institute organized.
- 1934
- Capital of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic relocates to Kiev from Kharkov.[6]
- Vsevolod Balitsky Dynamo Stadium built.
- Kiev National Academic Theatre of Operetta founded.
- Demolition of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery begins.
- 1935 - Demolition of Fountain of Samson.
- 1936 - National Botanical Garden founded.
- 1941
- 23 August: Battle of Kiev begins.
- 19 September: Occupation by forces of Nazi Germany begins.[6]
- 29–30 September: Babi Yar massacre.
- 1942 - Kiev Archive Museum of Transitional Period active.
- 1943
- Battle of Kiev.
- 6 November: City recaptured by Soviet Army; German occupation ends.[6]
- 1945 - on September 4–7, an anti-semitic pogrom occurred[16] around one hundred Jews were beaten, of whom thirty-six were hospitalized and five died of wounds.[17]
1950s-1990s
- 1952 - Kiev Planetarium opens.
- 1953 - Paton Bridge built.
- 1957 - Trukhaniv Island pedestrian bridge constructed.
- 1958 - Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of Ukrainian SSR opens.
- 1959 - Kyiv-Tsentralnyi airport begins operating.
- 1960
- Kiev Metro begins operating.
- Palace of Sports opens.
- Population: 846,293.[6]
- 1961
- 13 March: Kurenivka mudslide.
- Kiev River Port passenger terminal and Hotel Moscow built.
- 1965 - Kiev Metro Bridge built.
- 1967 - State Library of Ukraine for Children founded.[15][18]
- 1968 - Hydropark opens.
- 1972 - Feofaniya becomes a park.
- 1973 - Kiev TV Tower constructed.
- 1976 - Moskovskyi Bridge built.
- 1978 - Kiev Light Rail begins operating.
- 1979
- Kiev National Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy and Kiev Academic Youth Theatre founded.
- Population: 2,248,000.[19]
- 1981
- Museum of the Great Patriotic War established; Mother Motherland statue erected.
- Fountain of Samson rebuilt.
- 1982
- All-Union Lenin Museum built.
- Golden Gate rebuilt.
- 1983 - Kiev Academic Theatre of Ukrainian Folklore founded.
- 1985 - Kiev Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth founded.
- 1986 - 26 April: Chernobyl disaster.
- 1990
- Pivdennyi Bridge built.
- October: Student anti-government protest.[20]
- 1991
- Kiev becomes capital of independent Ukraine.
- Mikhail Bulgakov Museum opens.
- 1992 - Chornobyl Museum organized.
- 1993 - Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge construction begins.
- 1994 - Bykivnia memorial opens.
- 1996 - Oleksandr Omelchenko becomes mayor.
- 1997 - Trinity Cathedral built.
- 1999 - St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery rebuilt.
21st century
2000s
- 2000 - Ukraine without Kuchma protests begin.
- 2001
- 2002 - Obolon Arena opens.
- 2003 - Ukraine State Aviation Museum opens.
- 2004 - Orange Revolution protests.
- 2005 - City hosts Eurovision Song Contest.
- 2006
- Leonid Chernovetskyi becomes mayor.
- PinchukArtCentre and Kyiv in Miniature open.
- House of Football inaugurated.
2010s
See also: Ukrainian crisis
- 2010
- Kiev Urban Electric Train begins operating.
- Population: 2,797,553.
- 2011 - New Darnytskyi Bridge and Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ open.
- 2012 - July: Protest against Language policy in Ukraine.[21]
- 2013
- May: Rise up protest.
- 21 November: Euromaidan pro-European Union protest begins.
- 2014
- Hrushevskoho Street riots.[22][23]
- Vitali Klitschko becomes mayor.
- 2015 - Population: 2,890,432.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 Basil Shulgin (1939–1940). "Kiev, Mother of Russian Towns". Slavonic and East European Review 19.
- ↑ Johan Callmerr (1987). "The Archaeology of Kiev to the End of the Earliest Urban Phase". Harvard Ukrainian Studies 11. JSTOR 41036279.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Kief". Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. 1868.
- 1 2 3 Annette M. B. Meakin (1906). "Kieff". Russia, Travels and Studies. London: Hurst and Blackett. OCLC 3664651.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 "Kiev". Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M
- ↑ "Kiev". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on November 2014.
- ↑ George Gajecky (1984). "The Kiev Mohyla Academy and the Hetmanate". Harvard Ukrainian Studies 8.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Kiev". Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.). New York. 1910. OCLC 14782424.
- ↑ "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
- ↑ Chris Cook; John Stevenson (2003). "Russian Revolution (chronology)". Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89224-3.
- ↑ "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- ↑ "Ukraine Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved February 2015.
- ↑ Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
- 1 2 Lyudmila Shpilevaya (2010), "Ukraine: Libraries", in Marcia J. Bates, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127
- ↑ "State-sponsored Anti-Semitism in Postwar USSR. Studies and Research Perspectives; Antonella Salomoni". Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History / Questioni di storia ebraica contemporanea. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
- ↑ Amir Weiner. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton University Press. 2008. p. 192.
- ↑ "National Library of Ukraine for Children". Kiev. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
- ↑ Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
- ↑ "Cases: Ukraine". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Pennsylvania, USA: Swarthmore College. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
- ↑ "Nine Dead as Mayhem Grips Ukrainian Capital", New York Times, 18 February 2014
- ↑ "Ukraine Crisis: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved February 2015.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Mary Holderness (1823), "Kiev", New Russia: Journey from Riga to the Crimea, by way of Kiev, London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones and Co., OCLC 5073195
- David Brewster (1830), "Kiof", Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood
- Josiah Conder (1830), "Kiev", Russia, The Modern Traveller 17, London: J.Duncan
- Published in the 20th century
- "Kiev", Jewish Encyclopedia 7, New York, 1907
- Ruth Kedzie Wood (1912). "Kiev". The Tourist's Russia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. OCLC 526774.
- Nevin O. Winter (1913). "Little Russia". The Russian Empire of To-day and Yesterday. Boston: L.C. Page.
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