Timeline of Moscow

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