Timeline of Kiev

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Prior to 13th century

• 882 CE
  • Capital of Kyivan Rus' relocates to Kyiv from Novgorod.
  • Oleg of Novgorod in power.[1]
• 968 - Siege of Kyiv.
• 988 - Kyiv 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
  • Kyiv 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
  • Monastery of St. Michael founded.[5]
  • Gate Church of the Trinity (Pechersk Lavra) built.
• 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 - Kyiv becomes part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
• 1397 - Spiridon Psalter created.
• 1471 - Kyiv 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 - Kyiv becomes part of Poland.[3]

17th-18th centuries

• 1619 - Jews expelled from Kyiv.[7]
• 1632 - Mohyla Collegium formed.[8]
• 1667 - Truce of Andrusovo. Kyiv temporary becomes part of the Tsardom of Russia.
• 1686 - Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686. The transfer becomes permanent.
• 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 - Kyiv Arsenal established.
• 1782 - Coat of arms of Kyiv redesigned.
• 1797 - Contracts fair transferred to Kyiv 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
  • Town government format replaces Magdeburg rights.[9]
  • Population: 29,000.[1]
• 1837 - City expands.[9]
• 1838 - Institute for Noble Maidens organized.
• 1839 - Botanical Garden established.
• 1840
  • Kiev subject to common civil law.[9]
  • Medical society organized.[9]
• 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]
• 1853 - 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]
  • Kyiv 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 Choral Synagogue built.
  • Polytechnic Institute and City Museum of Antiques and Art founded.
• 1899
  • Darnytsia Railway Station opens.
  • National Folk Decorative Art Museum established.
• 1900 - Museum of Art and Archaeology and Municipal Theatre built.[5]

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1901 - Kyiv Opera House opens.
• 1902
  • People's Palace and Synagogue of the Karaites built.[5]
  • Population: 319,000.[9]
• 1905
  • October: Pogrom against Jews.
  • 12–16 December: Shuliavka Republic.
  • Kiev Funicular begins operating.
• 1906 - Ipolit Dyakov becomes City's Governor.
• 1909
  • Kyiv 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
  • Kyiv Conservatory founded.
  • All-Russian (Imperial) Olympiad held.
  • Population: 610,190.[12]
• 1917
  • 17 March: Central Rada established.[13]
  • 17 July: Polubotkivtsi Uprising.
  • 7 November: Kyiv 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.
• 1923
  • Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic becomes part of the Soviet Union.
  • Trotsky Red Stadium opens.
  • Darnytsia, Lanky, Chokolivka, and Nikolska slobidka become part of Kiev.
• 1924 - Zhuliany Airport in operation.
• 1926 - National Academic Theater of Russian Drama founded.
• 1927
  • Dovzhenko Film Studios founded.
  • Kyiv Fortress museum and Kyiv Academic Puppet Theatre established.
• 1932
  • City designated administrative center of Kyiv Oblast.
  • Central Railway Station built.
  • Holodomor begins.
• 1933 - Kyiv Aviation Institute organized.
• 1934
  • Capital of Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic relocates to Kiev from Kharkov.[6]
  • Vsevolod Balitsky Dynamo Stadium built.
  • Kyiv 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 Kyiv begins.
  • 19 September: Occupation by forces of Nazi Germany begins.[6]
  • 29–30 September: Babi Yar massacre.
• 1942 - Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period active.
• 1943
  • Battle of Kyiv.
  • 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 - Kyiv 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
  • Kyiv Metro begins operating.
  • Palace of Sports opens.
  • Population: 846,293.[6]
• 1961
  • 13 March: Kurenivka mudslide.
  • Kyiv River Port passenger terminal and Hotel Moscow built.
• 1965
  • Kiev Metro Bridge built.
  • Population: 1,332,000.[18]
• 1967 - State Library of Ukraine for Children founded.[15][19]
• 1968 - Hydropark opens.
• 1972 - Feofaniya becomes a park.
• 1973 - Kyiv TV Tower constructed.
• 1976 - Moskovskyi Bridge built.
• 1978 - Kyiv Light Rail begins operating.
• 1979
  • Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy and Kyiv Academic Youth Theatre founded.
  • Population: 2,248,000.[20]
• 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 - Kyiv Academic Theatre of Ukrainian Folklore founded.
• 1985
  • Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth founded.
  • Population: 2,448,000.[21]
• 1986 - 26 April: Chernobyl disaster.
• 1990
  • Pivdennyi Bridge built.
  • October: Student anti-government protest.[22]
• 1991
  • Kyiv becomes capital of independent Ukraine.
  • Mikhail Bulgakov Museum opens.
• 1992 - Chornobyl Museum organized.
• 1993 - Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge construction begins.
• 1994
  • Leonid Kosakivsky becomes mayor (Chairperson the Kyiv City Council).
  • Bykivnia memorial opens.
• 1997
  • Leonid Kosakivsky becomes mayor (Head of the Kyiv City).
  • Trinity Cathedral built.
• 1999
  • Oleksandr Omelchenko becomes mayor (Head of the Kyiv City).
  • St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery rebuilt.
• 2000 - Ukraine without Kuchma protests begin.

21st century

2000s

• 2001
  • March 2001 UbK Unrest (Ukraine).
  • Redistricting.
• 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
  • Kyiv Urban Electric Train begins operating.
  • Population: 2,797,553.
• 2011 - New Darnytskyi Bridge and Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ open.
• 2012 -
  • Football European Championship in Poland and Ukraine. Final in Kyiv.
  • July: Protest against Language policy in Ukraine.[23]
• 2013
  • May: Rise up protest.
  • 21 November: Euromaidan pro-European Union protest begins.
• 2014
  • Hrushevskoho Street riots.[24][25]
  • Vitali Klitschko becomes mayor.
• 2015 - Population: 2,890,432.
• 2017 - 27 June: Cyberattacks affect some Kyiv entities.[26]

See also

• History of Kyiv
• List of mayors of Kyiv
• Pale of Settlement

References

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2. Callmerr 1987.
3. Murray 1868.
4. Meakin 1906.
5. Baedeker 1914.
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Bibliography

Published in 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
• "Kief". Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. 1868.

Published in 20th century

• Annette M. B. Meakin (1906). "Kieff". Russia, Travels and Studies. London: Hurst and Blackett. OCLC 3664651.
• "Kiev", Jewish Encyclopedia, 7, New York, 1907, hdl:2027/osu.32435029752888
• "Kiev", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• 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.
• "Kiev". Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
• Basil Shulgin (1939–1940). "Kiev, Mother of Russian Towns". Slavonic and East European Review. 19.
• Johan Callmerr (1987). "Archaeology of Kiev to the End of the Earliest Urban Phase". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 11 (3/4): 323–364. JSTOR 41036279.

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