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Timeline of Saint Petersburg

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

Contents

17th-18th centuries

  • 1611 – Nyenschantz built by Swedes.
  • 1703
  • City founded by Tsar Peter the Great
  • Cabin of Peter the Great built.
  • Artillery museum formed.
  • 1709 – Petrischule founded.
  • 1710 – Saint Sampson's Church built.
  • 1711 – Menshikov Palace opens.
  • 1712
  • City becomes capital of Russian Empire.
  • Winter Palace built.
  • 1714
  • Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences founded.
  • Summer Palace of Peter the Great built.
  • 1716 – Catholic Church of St. Catherine founded.
  • 1718 – Saint Petersburg Police established.
  • 1719 – Summer Garden laid out.
  • 1720
  • Hermitage Bridge opens.
  • New Holland Island created.
  • 1721 – Ligovsky Canal constructed.
  • 1724
  • Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences founded.
  • Saint Petersburg Mint founded.
  • 1725
  • Peterhof Palace built (approximate date).
  • Death of Peter the Great.
  • 1727 – Kunstkamera built.
  • 1728 – State capital moves to St. Petersburg from Moscow.
  • 1731 – Cadet Corps founded.
  • 1733 – Peter and Paul Cathedral built.
  • 1736 – Fire.
  • 1738 – Imperial Ballet School established.
  • 1740
  • Peter and Paul Fortress built.
  • Mariinsky Ballet founded (approximate date).
  • 1744
  • Lomonosov Porcelain Factory founded.
  • Twelve Collegia built.
  • 1748 – Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery opens.
  • 1754
  • Stroganov Palace built.
  • Anichkov Palace built.
  • Transfiguration Cathedral built.
  • 1756 – Alexandrinsky Theatre founded.
  • 1757
  • Academy of the Three Noblest Arts founded.
  • Vorontsov Palace built.
  • 1759 – Page Corps founded.
  • 1762 – Winter Palace built.
  • 1764
  • Hermitage Museum established.
  • Institute for Noble Maidens founded.
  • 1770
  • Foundling Hospital established.
  • Moika Palace built.
  • 1771 – Chicherin House built.
  • 1773
  • Mining School established.
  • Volkovo Cemetery established.
  • 1774 – Roller coaster pavilion built at Oranienbaum.
  • 1779 – Free Russian Theatre opens.
  • 1780
  • Saint Andrew's Cathedral consecrated.
  • Chesme Church built.
  • 1782 – Bronze Horseman monument unveiled.
  • 1783
  • Russian Imperial Opera Orchestra formed.
  • Kamenny Theatre opens.
  • 1785
  • City Duma established.
  • Hermitage Theatre opens.
  • Great Gostiny Dvor built.
  • Marble Palace built.

    • 19th century

  • 1801
  • Friendly Society of Aficionados of Elegance formed.
  • Saint Michael's Castle built.
  • Tsarina's Meadow renamed Field of Mars.
  • 1802 – Saint Petersburg Philharmonia formed.
  • 1804 – Petersburg Pedagogical Institute established.
  • 1805 – Russian Naval Museum established.
  • 1806 – Police Bridge rebuilt.
  • 1807 – Constantine Palace built.
  • 1808 – Smolny Institute building constructed.
  • 1810
  • Military Engineering school established.
  • Stock Exchange built.
  • 1811 – Kazan Cathedral built.
  • 1812 – Syn otechestva begins publication.
  • 1813 – Red Bridge built.
  • 1814
  • Imperial Public Library opens.
  • Narva Triumphal Arch erected.
  • 1818
  • Otechestvennye Zapiski begins publication.
  • Blue Bridge built.
  • Asiatic Museum founded.
  • 1819 – Saint Petersburg University formed.
  • 1822 – Yelagin Palace built.
  • 1823 – Admiralty building rebuilt.
  • 1825
  • December – Interregnum.
  • Decembrist revolt.
  • Northern Bee begins publication.
  • Mikhaylovsky Palace built.
  • 1826 – Kamenny Island Theatre building constructed.
  • 1829 – General Staff Building constructed.
  • 1832 – Zoological Museum established.
  • 1833
  • Obvodny Canal opens.
  • Mikhaylovsky Theatre founded.
  • 1834 – Alexander Column unveiled.
  • 1835
  • Imperial School of Jurisprudence founded.
  • Trinity Cathedral built.
  • 1836
  • Sovremennik begins publication.
  • Premiere of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar.
  • 1838 – Moscow Triumphal Gate erected.
  • 1839
  • Observatory opens.
  • Bolshoi Zal built.
  • 1842 – Alexander Park established.
  • 1844 – Mariinsky Palace built.
  • 1848 – Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace expanded.
  • 1850 – Blagoveshchensky Bridge built.
  • 1851
  • Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway begins operating.
  • Nicholaevsky rail terminal opens.
  • 1858 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral built.
  • 1860 – Mariinsky Theatre opens.
  • 1861 – Nicholas Palace and New Michael Palace built.
  • 1862
  • Saint Petersburg Conservatory founded.
  • New Michael Palace built.
  • November: Premiere of Verdi's opera La forza del destino.
  • 1863 – Pavel Military School established.
  • 1866
  • Vestnik Evropy begins publication.
  • Dostoyevsky's fictional Crime and Punishment published.
  • 1867 – Khlebnikov founded.
  • 1869 - Population: 667,926.
  • 1870 – Riihimäki – Saint Petersburg Railway constructed.
  • 1874 - Premiere of Musorgsky's opera Boris Godunov.
  • 1876 – School of Technical Drawing founded.
  • 1877 – Ciniselli Circus opens.
  • 1878 – Bestuzhev Courses and Stieglitz Museum established.
  • 1879
  • Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography established.
  • Nobel Brothers Petroleum Company headquartered in city.
  • 1882 – Imperial Music Choir formed.
  • 1890 – Saint Petersburg Prison for Solitary Confinment built.
  • 1893 - Premiere of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6.
  • 1894 – Ves Peterburg directory begins publication.
  • 1895 – Russian Museum established.
  • 1897 - Population: 1,267,023.

    • 1900s–1940s

  • 1900
  • Russian cruiser Aurora launched.
  • Suvorov Museum founded.
  • 1905
  • January – Bloody Sunday.
  • October – Saint Petersburg Soviet formed.
  • 1907 – Electric trams begin operating.
  • 1909 – Na Liteinom Theatre founded.
  • 1910 - March: Soyuz Molodyozhi art exhibit held.
  • 1913 - Population: 2,318,645.
  • 1914 – City renamed "Petrograd."
  • 1916
  • Grigori Rasputin assassinated.
  • Palace Bridge built.
  • 1917
  • February Revolution begins.
  • March – Petrograd Soviet formed.
  • July Days.
  • August – Golos Truda begins publication.
  • October Revolution.
  • 1918
  • State capital moves to Moscow from Petrograd.
  • Osobaya Drammaticheskaya Truppa organized.
  • Ioffe Institute established.
  • 1920 – Theatrical re-enactment of Storming of the Winter Palace.
  • 1921 – Art Culture Museum opens.
  • 1922 – Leningrad Young People's Theatre opens.
  • 1923 – Russian Museum of Ethnography opens.
  • 1924 – City renamed Leningrad.
  • 1928 – Circus museum opens.
  • 1929 – Young Theatre founded.
  • 1931 – Komarov Botanical Institute and Leningrad Radio Orchestra established.
  • 1932
  • Shosseynaya Airport begins operating.
  • Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists and St Petersburg Union of Composers founded.
  • Bolshoy Dom built.
  • Avrora Cinema active.
  • 1934
  • Sergey Kirov assassinated.
  • Leningrad Secondary Art School established.
  • Premiere of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
  • 1936
  • Arctic and Antarctic Museum opens.
  • Memorial Lenin Komsomol Theatre established.
  • 1938 – Museum of History and Development of Leningrad established.
  • 1941
  • Siege of Leningrad begins.
  • Road of Life begins operating.
  • 1942 – Russian Museum of Military Medicine founded.
  • 1944
  • Siege of Leningrad ends.
  • State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales established.
  • 1946 – Moskovsky Victory Park opens.
  • 1949 – Leningrad Affair.

    • 1950s–1990s

  • 1953
  • Pavlovsky District becomes part of city.
  • Pushkin Museum established.
  • 1954 – Levashovo, Pargolovo, and Pesochny become part of city.
  • 1955 – Saint Petersburg Metro begins operating.
  • 1962 – Saint Petersburg TV Tower constructed.
  • 1963 – Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-124 Neva river ditching.
  • 1967 – Museum of Electrical Transport established.
  • 1971
  • Dostoevsky Museum opens.
  • Rimsky-Korsakov Museum established.
  • 1974 – Na Fontanke Youth Theatre founded.
  • 1981 – Leningrad Rock Club opens.
  • 1984
  • Teatralnaya laboratoriya founded.
  • Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, United States.
  • 1987
  • Na Neve Theatre opens.
  • Zazerkalie (theatre) opens.
  • 1988 – Xenia of Saint Petersburg canonized.
  • 1989
  • Komedianty Theatre founded.
  • Akhmatova Museum opens.
  • 1990 – Ostrov Theatre opens.
  • 1991
  • City renamed Saint Petersburg.
  • Flag design adopted.
  • Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak becomes mayor.
  • 1993 – Tunnel nightclub opens.
  • 1994
  • Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg formed.
  • St Petersburg Ballet Theatre founded.
  • 1996 – Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlev becomes city governor.
  • 1997 – Toy Museum established.
  • 1998
  • Politician Galina Starovoytova assassinated.
  • Nabokov Museum opens.

    • 21st century

  • 2000 – City designated administrative center of Northwestern Federal District.
  • 2003
  • Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Beglov becomes city governor, succeeded by Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko.
  • Peter & Paul Jazz Festival begins.
  • Museum of Optical Technologies opens.
  • 2004
  • Big Obukhovsky Bridge opens.
  • Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art established.
  • 2005 – Gas incident.
  • 2006 – 32nd G8 summit held.
  • 2007 – Dissenters' March.
  • 2008 – Side by Side (film festival) begins.
  • 2009 – Gallery of Contemporary Sculpture and Plastic Arts opens.
  • 2010
  • Yota Space art festival begins.
  • Erarta art museum established.
  • 2011
  • Georgy Sergeyevich Poltavchenko becomes city governor.
  • Saint Petersburg Dam inaugurated.
  • Saint Petersburg Ring Road opens.
  • St. Petersburg International Legal Forum begins.
  • 2013 – September: 2013 G-20 Saint Petersburg summit.

    • References

    Timeline of Saint Petersburg Wikipedia
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