Timeline of Odessa

Prior to 19th century

1240 - Tatar settlement Hacıbey founded by Hacı I Giray of Crimea.

15th century - Khadjibey ceded to Lithuania.

1529 - Turks in power.

1764 - Fortress Yeni Dünya built at Khadjibey by Turks.

1789 - Russian forces take fortress.

1791 - Khadjibey annexed to Novorossiya.

1794 - Odessa founded by decree of Catherine II of Russia.

1795

Population: 2,250.

Cathedral of the Transfiguration founded.

19th century

1802 - Population: 9,000.

1803 - Duc de Richelieu in power.

1804 - Commercial school founded.

1805

Odessa becomes administrative center of New Russia.

Theatre opens.

Russian Orthodox church built.

1808 - Troitzkaya Church active.

1809

Cathedral built.

Opera house built.

1812 - Plague.

1814 - Population: 25,000.

1816 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron in power.

1817 - Richelieu Lyceum established.

1819 - Odessa becomes a free port.

1821

Church of the Dormition built.

Pogrom against Jews.

1824 - Odessa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia."

1825 - Archeological Museum founded.

1826

Fyodor Palen in power.

Jewish school established.

Richelieu Monument unveiled.

1828 - Imperial Rural Association for Southern Russia founded.

1830

Public library established.

Vorontsov Palace built.

1838 - Plague.

1841 - Giant Staircase constructed.

1846 - Londonskaya Hotel opens.

1847 - Novobazarnaya Church built.

1850 - Population: 100,000.

1853

Crimean War begins.

Roman Catholic Church rebuilt.

1854 - Anglo-French fleet attacks Odessa.

1856 - Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company established.

1857 - August 15: Free port status revoked.

1859 - Pogrom against Jews.

1862

Odessa Military District established.

Vorontsov Lighthouse built.

1865 - Imperial Novorossiya University established.

1866 - Odessa-Balta railway begins operating.

1871

Pogrom against Jews.

Russian Technical Society, Odessa branch, founded.

1873 - Population: 162,814.

1874 - Theatre Velikanova built.

1875 - Tzar visits Odessa.

1876 - Turkish forces attack Odessa.

1880 - Horse tramway begins operating.

1881

Steam tramway begins operating.

Pogrom against Jews.

1882 - Population: 217,000.

1887 - Theatre built.

1894 - Odessa Committee of the Social Democratic Workers Party organized.

1895 - St. Panteleimon church consecrated.

1897 - Lutheran Church built.

1899

General Post Office built.

Exchange built.

Bristol Hotel opens.

20th century

1900 - Population: 449,673.

1902 - Cadet School active.

1905

June: Potemkin uprising.

Pogrom against Jews.

1906

Uprising.

Municipal Library built.

1907 - Myrograph film studio in business.

1910

Electric Tram begins operating.

Trade fair held.

1913

Conservatoire founded.

Sergiyev Artillery School active.

Population: 631,040.

1917 - City occupied by Ukrainian Tsentral'na Rada, French Army, Red Army, and White Army following the Bolshevik Revolution.

1918

13 March: Odessa occupied by Central Powers.

Odessa becomes capital of Odessa Soviet Republic.

Polytechnic University established.

1919 - Odessa Film Studio founded.

1920 - Red Army in power.

1921 - Odessa State Economics University established.

1922

Odessa State Medical Institute established.

Odessa Zoo opens.

1924 - Odessa Philharmonic Theater opens.

1926 - State Odessa Russian Drama Theatre established.

1928 - Spartak Stadium opens.

1933 - School of Stolyarsky established.

1935 - Kosior Memorial Stadium built.

1936

The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases & Tissue Therapy founded.

Dynamo football club formed.

1941

August 8-October 16: Siege of Odessa.

October 17: Axis occupation begins.

October 22–24: 1941 Odessa massacre.

Odessa becomes capital of Romanian-administered Transnistria Governorate.

1944

April 10: Red Army takes city; Axis occupation ends.

ODO Odessa football team active.

Odessa State Maritime Academy founded.

1945 - Odessa designated a Hero City of the USSR.

1952 - Railway Station rebuilt.

1961

Odessa International Airport built.

Pushkin Museum opens.

1963 - Avangard rugby club formed.

1973 - April 10: Humorina festival begins.

1979 - Population: 1,072,000.

1984 - Deribasivska Street pedestrianized.

1989 - Outdoor market relocates to Odessa-Ovidiopol highway.

1992 - BIPA-Moda basketball club formed.

1994

Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor.

New music festival begins.

1998 - Rouslan Bodelan becomes mayor.

1999 - Odessa Numismatics Museum established.

21st century

2000 - Quarantine Pier designated free economic zone and port.

2001 - Al-Salam Mosque opens.

2003 - Rebuilt Odessa Cathedral consecrated.

2005 - Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor again.

2007 - Privoz Market rebuilt.

2010 - Odessa International Film Festival begins.

2011

Chornomorets Stadium built.

FC SKA Odesa formed.

Aleksey Kostusyev becomes mayor.

Population: 1,003,705.

2014 - 2014 Odessa clashes.