Timeline of Kiev

Prior to 13th century

882 CE

Capital of Kievan Rus' relocates to Kiev from Novgorod.

Oleg of Novgorod in power.

968 - Siege of Kiev.

988 - Kiev becomes a Christian town.

996 - Church of the Tithes consecrated.

1017 - Fire.

1018 - Boleslaw I intervenes in Kievan succession crisis.

1037

Cathedral of St. Sophia built.

Golden Gate erected.

1051

Kiev Pechersk Lavra founded.

Hilarion appointed Metropolitan bishop.

1052 - St. George church built (approximate date).

1077 - Vydubychi Monastery established.

1089 - Uspenski Cathedral consecrated.

1108

Monastery of St. Michael founded.

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.

1171 - Town sacked by forces of Svyetoslav Vsevolodovitch.

13th-16th centuries

1204 - Town sacked by forces of Rurik Rostislavich.

1240 - Town besieged by forces of Mongol Batu Khan.

1299 - Metropolitan bishop Maximus relocates to Vladimir.

1320 - Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania in power.

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.

1496 - Town besieged by Tartars.

1500 - Town besieged by Tartars.

1516 - Magdeburg rights granted by Sigismund I the Old.

1569 - Kiev becomes part of Poland.

17th-18th centuries

1619 - Jews expelled from Kiev.

1632 - Mohyla Collegium formed.

1667 - Truce of Andrusovo. Kiev temporary becomes part of the Tsardom of Russia.

1686 - Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686. The transfer becomes permanent.

1693 - Cathedral of the Epiphany built.

1696 - St. Nicholas Cathedral consecrated.

1701 - Imperial Theological Academy formed.

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.

1797 - Contracts fair transferred to Kiev from Dubno.

19th century

1810

City subdivided into 4 administrative districts.

Chapel built at Askold's Tomb.

1811 - Great fire of Podil.

1817 - Contracts House rebuilt.

1833 - Baikove Cemetery established.

1834 - Vladimir University relocates to Kiev from Vilna.

1835

Town government format replaces Magdeburg rights.

Population: 29,000.

1837 - City expands.

1838 - Institute for Noble Maidens organized.

1839 - Botanical Garden established.

1840

Kiev subject to common civil law.

Medical society organized.

1843 - Archaeological commission organized.

1844 - Mariinsky Palace built.

1846 - Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius active.

1849 - Church of St. Alexander built.

1853 - Vladimir Monument erected.

1855 - Nicholas Chain Bridge built.

1857 - Lutheran Church built.

1862 - Population: 70,341.

1863

Philharmonic Society founded.

Lukyanivska Prison commissioned.

1864 - Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas founded.

1866 - City public library opens.

1869 - Naturalists' society organized.

1870

Railroad station built.

Struve Railroad Bridge constructed.

1874 - Population: 127,251.

1875 - Horticultural society organized.

1876

Juridical society organized.

Kiev City Duma building constructed.

1877 - City Hall built.

1879

Kurenivka, Lukyanovka, Shuliavka, and Solomenka become part of Kiev.

Dramatic society organized.

1881 - Pogrom against Jews.

1882

St Volodymyr's Cathedral built.

Philharmonic building constructed.

1883 - Exchange building constructed.

1887 - Palais Khanenko established.

1891 - Horse-drawn tram begins operating.

1892 - Electric trams inaugurated.

1896 - Cathedral of St. Vladimir built.

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.

1900s-1940s

1900

Museum of Art and Archaeology and Municipal Theatre built.

1901 - Kiev Opera House opens.

1902

People's Palace and Synagogue of the Karaites built.

Population: 319,000.

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.

1911

Library built.

September: Assassination of Pyotr Stolypin.

1912

Besarabsky Market, Museum of Pedagogy, and St. Panteleimon's Cathedral built.

Sports Ground opens.

1913

Kiev Conservatory founded.

All-Russian (Imperial) Olympiad held.

Population: 610,190.

1917

17 March: Central Rada established.

17 July: Polubotkivtsi Uprising.

7 November: Kiev becomes capital of Ukrainian People's Republic.

8–13 November: Kiev Bolshevik Uprising.

Population: 640,000.

1918

29 January-4 February: Kiev Arsenal January Uprising.

1 March–December: German occupation.

National Library of Ukraine established.

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.

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.

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.

1945 - on September 4–7, an anti-semitic pogrom occurred around one hundred Jews were beaten, of whom thirty-six were hospitalized and five died of wounds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2000s

2000 - Ukraine without Kuchma protests begin.

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

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.

2013

May: Rise up protest.

21 November: Euromaidan pro-European Union protest begins.

2014

Hrushevskoho Street riots.

Vitali Klitschko becomes mayor.

2015 - Population: 2,890,432.