Timeline of Kharkiv
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- 1654 - Kharkiv founded by Cossacks (regiment's capital of Kharkiv Regiment).
- 1689 - Church of the Intercession (Kharkiv) built.[1]
- 1734 - Kharkiv Collegium founded.[2]
- 1764 - Church of the Holy Trinity built.[1]
- 1765 - Town becomes capital of Sloboda Ukraine province.[2]
- 1777 - Assumption Cathedral built.[1]
- 1797 - Town becomes part of the Kharkov Governorate.
- 1805 - Kharkiv University established.[2]
- 1817 - Population: 12,892.[3]
- 1820 - Building of Noble Assembly, Kharkiv constructed on Market Square, Kharkiv.
- 1835 - Town becomes capital of Kharkov Governorate.[2]
- 1867 - Population: 59,968.[4]
- 1868 - Railway begins operating.[2]
- 1878 - Student protest.[5]
- 1882
- 1885 - Technological Institute founded.[8]
- 1886 - Kharkiv Public Library[9] and Museum of Art and Industry[10] established.
- 1893 - Myronosytska Church rebuilt.[1]
- 1895 - Kharkov Locomotive Factory begins operating.
- 1897 - Population: 170,682.
- 1900
20th century
- 1901 - Annunciation Cathedral consecrated.[1]
- 1903 - "People's palace" established.[4]
- 1906 - Tram begins operating.
- 1913
- Choral Synagogue built.
- Population: 258,360.[11]
- 1917 - December: First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (Kharkiv) held in city.
- 1918
- February: City becomes capital of Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.[2]
- April: troops loyal to the Ukrainian People's Republic take control of Kharkiv together with the German Army.[12]
- 1919
- January : Kharkiv taken by the Red Army.
- March : Annual congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) begins in Kharkiv.
- June : Kharkiv taken by the White Army.
- December : Kharkiv retaken by the Red Army.
- 1920
- City becomes capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[2]
- Museum of History opens.[10]
- 1921 - Futurist Komkosmos group formed.[13]
- 1922 - City becomes part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
- 1924 - Kharkov Steam Locomotive Plant housing built.[1]
- 1925 - Football Club Metalist Kharkiv formed.
- 1926
- Traktor Stadium opens.
- Population: 417,342.[14]
- 1927
- Nova Generatsiia literary journal begins publication.[1]
- Morozov Design Bureau (arms industry) established.
- 1928
- 1929
- Institute of Political Education established.
- Palace of Labor, and textile workers' club built.[1]
- 1930
- International Conference of Revolutionary Writers held in city.[13]
- National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute founded.
- 1932
- Holodomor (famine).[17]
- City becomes part of the Kharkiv Oblast.
- 1933 - House of Trade and House of Planning Organizations[1] and KhTZ Stadium built.
- 1934
- 1935
- College of Textile and Design established.
- Shevchenko monument erected in Postyshev Park.[1]
- 1939 - Population: 833,432.[14]
- 1940 - April–May: Execution of Polish officers in Kharkov.
- 1941 - 20–24 October: First Battle of Kharkov; Germans in power.
- 1942 - 12–28 May: Second Battle of Kharkov.
- 1943
- 19 February-15 March: Third Battle of Kharkov.
- 12–23 August: Fourth Battle of Kharkov; Soviets in power.
- 1947 - Zerkalʹnaya struya (fountain) built.
- 1954
- Kharkov Airport opens.
- Institute of Fire Safety established.[18]
- 1959 - Population: 934,136.
- 1962 - Institute of Radioelectronics established.
- 1964
- Lenin monument erected in Dzerzhinsky Square.
- Kharkiv State Academy of Culture active.
- 1965 - Population: 1,070,000.[19]
- 1972 - 18 May: Airplane crash occurs near city.
- 1975 - Kharkiv Metro begins operating.
- 1979 - Population: 1,485,000.[20]
- 1981 - Kharkiv TV Tower erected.
- 1984 - Kharkiv Metro Bridge opens.
- 1985 - Population: 1,554,000.[21]
- 1988 - Museum of Literature established.[10]
- 1989
- Population: 1,609,959.
- Sister city relationship established with Cincinnati, USA.[22]
- 1990
- UkrSibbank (bank) headquartered in city.
- Mykola Lysenko Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre built.
- 1991 - City becomes part of independent Ukraine.[23]
- 1995 - 1995 Kharkiv drinking water disaster.
21st century
- 2001 - Population: 1,470,902.
- 2002 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia established.[24]
- 2004 - Palace of Sports "Lokomotiv" arena opens.
- 2006 - 22 April: 2006 Kharkiv supermarket bombings.
- 2010 - Hennadiy Kernes becomes mayor.
- 2012 - June: Some UEFA Euro 2012 football games played in Kharkiv.
- 2014
- 28 April: Attempted assassination of mayor Kernes.
- Kharkiv Battalion established.
- Population: 1,451,132.
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See also
- History of Kharkiv (ru)
- Other names of Kharkiv (e.g. Charkow, Harkov, Kharkoff, Kharkow)
- List of mayors of Kharkiv
References
- Hewryk 1992.
- Ivan Katchanovski; et al. (2013). "Kharkiv". Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.
- Hamm 1981.
- Britannica 1910.
- "Russia". Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1878. 18. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1886 – via HathiTrust.
- "Khar'kiv". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
- Samuel D. Kassow (1989). Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-05760-9 – via Google Books. (fulltext)
- "Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 477–478.
- Ivanova 2003.
- "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- (in Ukrainian) 100 years ago Bakhmut and the rest of Donbass liberated, Ukrayinska Pravda (18 April 2018)
- George S. N. Luckyj (1990). Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1099-6.
- Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Kharkov", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 937, OL 6112221M
- "A history of cities in 50 buildings", The Guardian, UK, 2015
- Chris Michaelides, ed. (2007). "Chronology of the European Avant Garde, 1900─1937". Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937. Online Exhibitions. British Library.
- Sheila Fitzpatrick (1999). Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-505000-4.
- Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 575+. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
- "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
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- Henry W. Morton; Robert C. Stuart, eds. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
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- "Cincinnati USA Sister City Association". Archived from the original on 19 May 2013.
- Ivan Katchanovski; et al. (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.
- "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Ukraine". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 28 February 2015.
This article incorporates information from the Ukrainian Wikipedia and Russian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- Johann Georg Kohl (1844). "Kharkoff". Russia: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkoff, Riga, Odessa, the German Provinces on the Baltic, the Steppes, the Crimea, and the Interior of the Empire. Chapman and Hall.
- D. I. Bagalei & D. I. Miller (1905). Istoriia goroda Khar'kova za 250 let ego sushchestvovaniia s 1655 do 1905 g. [History of Kharkov] (in Ukrainian). Khar'kov. OCLC 16583341.
- Annette M. B. Meakin (1906). "Kharkoff". Russia, Travels and Studies. London: Hurst and Blackett. OCLC 3664651.
- "Kharkov", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- "Kharkov". Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
- Michael F. Hamm (1981). "Khar'kov's Progressive Duma, 1910-1914: A Study in Russian Municipal Reform". Slavic Review. 40 (1): 17–36. doi:10.2307/2496425. JSTOR 2496425.
- Titus D. Hewryk (1992). "Planning of the Capital in Kharkiv". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 16 (3/4): 325–359. JSTOR 41036482.
- Elena Ivanova (2003). "Changes in Collective Memory: The Schematic Narrative Template of Victimhood in Kharkiv Museums". Journal of Museum Education. 28 (1): 17–22. doi:10.1080/10598650.2003.11510471. JSTOR 40479276.
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