Timeline of Kharkiv

Prior to 20th century

1654 - Kharkiv founded by Cossacks.

1689 - Church of the Intercession (Kharkiv) built.

1734 - Kharkiv Collegium founded.

1764 - Church of the Holy Trinity built.

1765 - Town becomes capital of Sloboda Ukraine province.

1777 - Assumption Cathedral built.

1797 - Town becomes part of the Kharkov Governorate.

1805 - Kharkiv University established.

1817 - Population: 12,892.

1820 - Building of Noble Assembly, Kharkiv constructed on Market Square, Kharkiv.

1835 - Town becomes capital of Kharkov Governorate.

1867 - Population: 59,968.

1868 - Railway begins operating.

1878 - Student protest.

1882

Jewish Bilu group moves to Palestine.

Population: 133,139.

1885 - Technological Institute founded.

1886 - Kharkov Public Library and Museum of Art and Industry established.

1893 - Myronosytska Church rebuilt.

1895 - Kharkov Locomotive Factory begins operating.

1897 - Population: 170,682.

20th century

1900

Revolutionary Ukrainian Party founded in city.

Population: 197,405.

1901 - Annunciation Cathedral consecrated.

1903 - "People's palace" established.

1906 - Tram begins operating.

1913

Choral Synagogue built.

Population: 258,360.

1917 - December: First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (Kharkiv) held in city.

1918 - February: City becomes capital of Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.

1919 - Annual congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) begins in Kharkov.

1920

City becomes capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Museum of History opens.

1921 - Futurist Komkosmos group formed.

1922 - City becomes part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

1924 - Kharkov Steam Locomotive Plant housing built.

1925 - Football Club Metalist Kharkiv formed.

1926

Traktor Stadium opens.

Population: 417,342.

1927

Nova Generatsiia literary journal begins publication.

Morozov Design Bureau (arms industry) established.

1928

Modernist Derzhprom building and Construction Workers Club built.

Literaturnyi iarmarok journal begins publication.

1929

Institute of Political Education established.

Palace of Labor, and textile workers' club built.

1930

International Conference of Revolutionary Writers held in city.

National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute founded.

1932

Holodomor (famine).

City becomes part of the Kharkiv Oblast.

1933 - House of Trade and House of Planning Organizations and KhTZ Stadium built.

1934

Ukrainian SSR capital relocated from Kharkov to Kiev.

Kharkov Opera House opens.

International Hotel built.

Red Factory Theatre built (approximate date).

1935

College of Textile and Design established.

Shevchenko monument erected in Postyshev Park.

1939 - Population: 833,432.

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.

1959 - Population: 934,136.

1962 - Institute of Radioelectronics established.

1964

Lenin monument erected in Dzerzhinsky Square.

Kharkiv State Academy of Culture active.

1970 - Population: 1,222,852.

1972 - 18 May: Airplane crash occurs near city.

1975 - Kharkiv Metro begins operating.

1979 - Population: 1,485,000.

1981 - Kharkiv TV Tower erected.

1984 - Kharkiv Metro Bridge opens.

1988 - Museum of Literature established.

1989

Population: 1,609,959.

Sister city relationship established with Cincinnati, USA.

1990

UkrSibbank (bank) headquartered in city.

Mykola Lysenko Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre built.

1991 - City becomes part of independent Ukraine.

1995 - 1995 Kharkiv drinking water disaster.

21st century

2001 - Population: 1,470,902.

2002 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia established.

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.