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Timeline of Moscow

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Moscow, Russia.

Contents

Prior to 16th century

  • 1272 – Daniil Aleksandrovich becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1283 – Grand Duchy of Moscow territory established.
  • 1303 – Yuriy Danilovich becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1325 – Seat of "metropolitan of Central Russia" relocated to Moscow.
  • 1327 – Uspensky Church consecrated.
  • 1328 – Ivan I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1333 – St. Michael cathedral built.
  • 1341 – Simeon Ivanovich Gordyi becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1353 – Ivan II becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1358 – Chudov Monastery founded.
  • 1362 – Dmitry Donskoy becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1367 – Moscow Kremlin (citadel) founded.
  • 1369 – Moscow besieged.
  • 1382 – Siege of Moscow (1382).
  • 1389
  • Vasily I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • Ascension Convent founded in the Kremlin (approximate date).
  • 1397
  • Sretensky Monastery founded.
  • Blagovyeshchensk Cathedral built.
  • 1425 – Vasily II becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1462 – Ivan III becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1479 – Dormition Cathedral built in the Kremlin.
  • 1491 – Spasskaya Gate built.
  • 1495 - "Dungeons built under the Kremlin's Trinity Tower."

    • 16th–17th centuries

  • 1502 – 14 April: Coronation of Ivan III as Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1505 – Vasili III becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1508 – Cathedral of the Archangel and Ivan the Great Bell Tower built.
  • 1533 – Ivan the Terrible becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • 1547
  • City becomes capital of the grand duchy of Russia.
  • Fire.
  • 1555 – Muscovy Trading Company of England active.
  • 1560 – Saint Basil's Cathedral built.
  • 1564 – Ivan Fyodorov (printer) active; Moscow Print Yard established.
  • 1571 – City taken by Tartar forces.
  • 1576 - Paper mill established.
  • 1591 – Donskoy Monastery founded.
  • 1593 – Bely Gorod wall built.
  • 1600 – Zaikonospassky monastery founded.
  • 1601 – Famine.
  • 1611 – City taken by forces of Sigismund III of Poland.
  • 1612 – Moscow Uprising of 1612.
  • 1626 – Spasskaya Tower built.
  • 1636 – Kazan Cathedral consecrated.
  • 1652
  • Nativity Church at Putinki built.
  • German Quarter developed near city.
  • 1656 – Church of the Twelve Apostles dedicated in the Kremlin.
  • 1661 – Saviour Cathedral built.
  • 1662 – Copper Riot.
  • 1682 – Moscow Uprising of 1682.
  • 1687 – Greek Latin School established.
  • 1689 - Moscow Theological Academy Library established.
  • 1692 – Vysokopetrovsky Monastery katholikon (church) built.
  • 1698 – Streltsy Uprising.

    • 18th century

  • 1701 – Sukharev Tower built.
  • 1702 – Public theatre active.
  • 1703 – Vedomosti newspaper begins publication.
  • 1708 – Moscow Governorate established.
  • 1712 – Russian capital relocated from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.
  • 1721 – Moscow Synodal Choir founded.
  • 1728 - Russian capital moved back to Moscow under influence of the Supreme Privy Council.
  • 1732 - Russian capital relocated back to Saint Petersburg.
  • 1735 – Tsar Bell cast.
  • 1739 – Fire.
  • 1742 – Rampart built.
  • 1748 – Fire.
  • 1752 – Fire.
  • 1755 – Imperial University founded.
  • 1764 – Foundling Hospital built.
  • 1771
  • Plague.
  • September: Plague Riot.
  • Vvedenskoye Cemetery in use (approximate date).
  • 1772 – Commercial School founded.
  • 1775 – Platon Levshin becomes Metropolitan of Moscow.
  • 1777 – Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery inaugurated near city.
  • 1782 – Police Board established.
  • 1786 – Pashkov House built.
  • 1787 – Senate House built.
  • 1790 – Peterburskoye Schosse road paved.
  • 1792 – Tverskaya Square laid out.

    • 19th century

  • 1805 - Moscow Society of Naturalists founded.
  • 1806 – Maly Theatre founded.
  • 1809 – Shchepkin Theatre School established.
  • 1812
  • French invasion.
  • September: Fire of Moscow (1812).
  • 1816 – Kremlin rebuilt.
  • 1817 – Excise office built.
  • 1821 – Philaret Drozdov becomes Metropolitan of Moscow.
  • 1823 – Alexander Garden laid out.
  • 1825 – Bolshoi Theatre opens.
  • 1849 – Grand Kremlin Palace built.
  • 1851
  • Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway begins operating.
  • Saint Petersburg railway station and Kremlin Armoury building constructed.
  • 1856 – The Russian Messenger (literary magazine) begins publication.
  • 1861
  • Petushki-Moscow railway built.
  • Public museum established.
  • 1862
  • Nizhny Novgorod-Moscow railway built.
  • Rumiantsev Library established.
  • Yaroslavsky railway station built.
  • 1864 – Kazansky railway station opens.
  • 1865
  • Golitzyn museum established.
  • Industrial exhibit held.
  • Tolstoy's War and Peace begins publication in The Russian Messenger.
  • 1866 – Moscow Conservatory and Merchant Bank founded.
  • 1868 – Borodinsky Bridge built.
  • 1870 – Belorussky railway station opens.
  • 1871
  • Trade Bank founded.
  • Population: 611,970.
  • 1872 – State Historical Museum founded.
  • 1877 – Premiere of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet.
  • 1878 – Sokolniki Park established.
  • 1880 – Pushkin statue installed in Strastnaya Square.
  • 1883
  • Cathedral of Christ the Saviour consecrated.
  • Redesign of coat of arms of Moscow adopted.
  • 1885 – Private Opera established.
  • 1887 – Morozovtsi Orekhovo-Zuevo Moskva (football club) formed.
  • 1891 – May: French exhibit opens.
  • 1892 – City Hall built.
  • 1893 – Bazaar built in Kitay-Gorod.
  • 1894 – Moscow Hermitage Garden opens.
  • 1896
  • 26 May: Coronation of Nicholas II.
  • December: Student demonstration.
  • Museum of History of Moscow founded.
  • Kursky railway station built.
  • 1897
  • Russian Electrical Theatre (cinema) opens.
  • Population: 988,610.
  • 1898
  • Moscow Art Theatre founded.
  • All-Russia Insurance Company building constructed.
  • Novodevichy Cemetery inaugurated.
  • 1899
  • 7 November: Premiere of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.
  • First Moscow tram begins operating.
  • Moscow City Chess Championship active.
  • "Student agitation" begins.

    • 1900s–1940s

  • 1900
  • Paveletsky railway station built.
  • Population: 1,023,817.
  • 1901 – Rizhsky railway station built.
  • 1902 – Savyolovsky railway station built.
  • 1903
  • Zimin Opera founded.
  • Hotel National in business.
  • 1904
  • 29 June: 1904 Moscow tornado.
  • Yaroslavsky railway station rebuilt.
  • 1905 – Moscow Uprising of 1905.
  • 1907
  • Moscow Little Ring Railway begins operating.
  • Hotel Metropol built.
  • 1908 – Moscow Public University established.
  • 1912
  • Durov Animal Theater founded.
  • Museum of Fine Arts opens.
  • Borodinsky Bridge rebuilt.
  • 1913
  • Spaso House (residence) built.
  • Population: 1,817,100.
  • 1914 – Shchukin Theatre Institute founded.
  • 1917 – 25 October-2 November: Moscow Bolshevik Uprising.
  • 1918
  • March: City becomes capital of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • July: Left SR uprising.
  • Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies established.
  • Kiyevsky railway station built.
  • Izvestia newspaper in publication.
  • 1919
  • March: Founding Congress of the Comintern held.
  • Moscow State Jewish Theater established.
  • 1921
  • Moscow Children's Theatre opens.
  • Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies established.
  • 1922 – Moscow Sport Circle (football club) formed.
  • 1923 – Moscow Municipal Council of Professional Unions theatre founded.
  • 1924
  • Lenin Mausoleum established.
  • All-Union Radio begins broadcasting.
  • 1925
  • Lenin Library active.
  • Yermolova Theatre founded.
  • 1928 – Rusakov Workers' Club and Zuev Workers' Club buildings constructed.
  • 1929
  • Moscow Oblast and Moscow Circus School established.
  • Kauchuk Factory Club built.
  • 1930 – Moscow State Institute for History and Archives and Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys established.
  • 1934 – Museum of Architecture founded.
  • 1935
  • 15 May: Moscow Metro begins operating.
  • Hotel Moskva in business.
  • 1936
  • Moscow Trials begin in the House of the Unions.
  • 2 May: Premiere of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
  • 1937
  • Smolensky Metro Bridge built.
  • Volga-Moscow canal opens.
  • 1938 – Gorbunov Palace of Culture (concert hall), Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, and Bolshoy Ustinsky Bridge built.
  • 1939 – Population: 4,137,018.
  • 1941 – October: Battle of Moscow begins.
  • 1942 – January: Battle of Moscow ends.
  • 1943 - Laboratory No. 2 of the USSR Academy of Sciences established.
  • 1945 – 24 June: Moscow Victory Parade of 1945.
  • 1948 – Museum of Lenin's funeral train founded.

    • 1950s–1990s

  • 1953 - 5 March: Joseph Stalin dies.
  • 1954 – Hotel Leningradskaya built.
  • 1957 – City hosts 6th World Festival of Youth and Students.
  • 1959
  • Moscow International Film Festival officially starts with its debut edition.
  • Population: 5,032,000.
  • 24 July: Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate occurs at the American National Exhibition.
  • 1960 – Peoples' Friendship University founded.
  • Moscow Ring Road is the new city border. Tushino, Babushkin, Perovo, Kuntsevo become parts of Moscow.
  • 1961
  • Rossiya Cinema built.
  • October: American Committee for Non-Violent Action peace walkers arrive in Moscow.
  • 1962 - Moscow City Archives established.[1]
  • 1963 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow.
  • 1964 – Taganka Theatre founded.
  • 1966 – Gorizont Cinema opens.
  • 1968 – 25 August: 1968 Red Square demonstration.
  • 1970 – Population: 6,941,961.
  • 1971 – Great Moscow State Circus auditorium opens.
  • 1979
  • Spartak Tennis Club built.
  • Moscow Virtuosi orchestra formed.
  • 1980 – 1980 Summer Olympics held.
  • 1981 – Moscow International Peace Marathon begins.
  • 1982 – Satyricon Theatre opens its doors.
  • 1988 – Moscow People's Front organized.
  • 1989
  • August: Moscow Music Peace Festival.
  • Population: 8,967,332.
  • 1990
  • Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov becomes mayor.
  • Moscow Federation of Trade Unions and Sobinbank founded.
  • Kremlin Cup tennis tournament begins.
  • 1991
  • August: 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.
  • Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Russian State University for the Humanities established.
  • Prix Benois de la Danse (ballet contest) begins.
  • 1992
  • Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange and Russian Institute of Strategic Studies established.
  • Yury Luzhkov becomes mayor.
  • Moscow Times English-language newspaper begins publication.
  • Figure Skating Federation of Russia headquartered in city.
  • 1993
  • Moscow designated capital of the Russian Federation per Constitution.
  • TV-6 begins broadcasting.
  • Moscow City Duma and American Center in Moscow founded.
  • Kazan Cathedral reconstructed.
  • 1995
  • Arch Moscow exhibit begins.
  • Hungry Duck bar in business.
  • Monument erected in Victory Park.
  • 1996 – 11 November: Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing.
  • 1997
  • Memorial Mosque built on Poklonnaya Hill.
  • Moscow Marathon Luzhniki begins.
  • 1999 – September: Apartment bombing.
  • 2000 - City becomes part of the Central Federal District.

    • 21st century

  • 2002 – 23–26 October: Moscow theater hostage crisis.
  • 2003
  • Moscow International Performing Arts Centre opens.
  • 9 December: 2003 Red Square bombing.
  • Federation Tower construction begins.
  • 2004
  • Moscow Monorail begins operating.
  • Grand Prix of Moscow cycling race begins.
  • February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing.
  • August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing.
  • 2005
  • Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art begins.
  • 2 July: Live 8 concert, Moscow held in Red Square.
  • 2006
  • 21 August: 2006 Moscow market bombing.
  • Protest against ban of Moscow Pride.
  • IgroMir (gaming exhibit) begins.
  • 2007
  • Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines established.[2]
  • Naberezhnaya Tower built.
  • 2009
  • City of Capitals built.
  • Eurovision Song Contest held.
  • Kirill becomes Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
  • 2010
  • 29 March: 2010 Moscow Metro bombings.
  • Vladimir Resin becomes mayor, succeeded by Sergey Sobyanin.
  • 2011
  • 24 January: Domodedovo International Airport bombing.
  • Moscow Exchange established.
  • 2012 – March: Arrest of Pussy Riot (musical group) performers.
  • 2013
  • 8 September: Moscow mayoral election, 2013.
  • Population: 11,794,282.
  • 2015
  • 27 February: Politician Nemtsov assassinated.
  • Gulag museum opens.
  • 2016
  • 10 September: Moscow Central Ring begins operated in Little Ring of the Moscow Railway

    • References

    Timeline of Moscow Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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