Timeline of Iași

Prior to 20th century

1408 - Iași first mentioned in a document.

1513 - Town "burned by the Tatars."

1538 - Town sacked by Turks.

1541 - Dancu Monastery founded.

1562 - Socola Monastery built.

1564 - Seat of Moldavian principality relocated to Iași from Suceava by Alexandru Lăpușneanu (approximate date).

1628 - Bârnova Monastery built.

1639 - Trei Ierarhi Monastery built.

1640 - Vasilian College founded.

1640s - Printing press in operation.

1660 - Golia Monastery built.

1670 - Great Synagogue built.

1686 - Town sacked by Russians.

1710 - July: Forces muster near Iași at start of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11.

1714 - Princely Academy of Iași founded.

1739 - City taken by Russians.

1752 - Church of Saint Spiridon built.

1755 - Saint Spiridon Hospital established.

1769 - City taken by Russians.

1792 - 9 January: Treaty of Jassy signed in city, ending Russo-Turkish War (1787–92).

1806 - Iași occupied by Russian forces.

1822 - City besieged by Turkish forces.

1827 - Fire.

1828 - City taken by Russians.

1833

Physicians and Naturalists Society founded.

Roznovanu Palace built.

1834

Academia Mihăileană founded.

Copou Park laid out.

1844 - Fire.

1846 - Copou Theatre opens.

1855

Normal School "Vasile Lupu" Iași established.

Yiddish-language Korot Haitim newspaper begins publication.

1856 - Iași Botanical Garden established.

1859 - City becomes seat of the Romanian United Principalities.

1860

University of Iași founded.

Music and Declamation School and School for Sculpture and Painting founded.

1861 - Seat of Romanian government relocated from Iași to Bucharest.

1864 - Central State Library of Iași in operation.

1870 - Iași railway station opens.

1884 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Iași founded.

1887 - Metropolitan Cathedral consecrated.

1888 - 17 February: Copou Theatre burns down.

1896 - Iași National Theatre building constructed.

20th century

1900

Electric Trams in Iași begin operating.

Population: 78,067.

1906 - Toynbee Hall Association founded.

1916

Capital of Kingdom of Romania relocated to Iași from Bucharest.

Moldova History Museum established.

1918 - Capital of Romania relocated from Iași back to Bucharest.

1920 - Tătărași Athenaeum founded.

1923 - Iași Exhibition Park opens.

1925 - Palace of Justice built.

1927 - Union Monument and Attacking Cavalryman Statue unveiled.

1937 - Polytechnic Institute established.

1941 - 27 June: Iași pogrom of Jews.

1943 - Ethnographic Museum of Moldavia established.

1944 - 21 August: City taken by Soviet forces.

1946 - Gara Socola (railway station) built.

1948 - Population: 94,075.

1949 - Puppet Theatre opens.

1950 - Gara Nicolina (railway station) built.

1956 - Romanian National Opera debuts.

1957 - Iași Museum of Art moves into the Palace of Culture.

1960 - Stadionul Emil Alexandrescu (stadium) opens.

1966 - Population: 161,023.

1970 - Moldova Mall in business.

1977 - Population: 265,002.

1992 - Population: 344,425.

1995 - Polirom publisher in business.

21st century

2000 - Iulius Mall Iași in business.

2002 - Population: 320,888.

2010 - CSM Studențesc Iași football club formed.

2011 - Population: 290,422.

2012 - Palas Iași shopping mall in business.

2014 - Iași-Ungheni, Moldova gas pipeline launched.