Timeline of Moscow

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

Prior to 16th century

* 1147 – Yuri Dolgoruki had a meeting with Sviatoslav Olgovich in a place called Moscow. First mentioning about Moscow in manuscript.
* 1237 – The 'grad of Moscow' destroyed by the Mongols.
* 1272 – Daniil Aleksandrovich becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
* 1283 – Grand Duchy of Moscow territory established.
* 1300 – The Kremlin, or fort, was enclosed by a strong wall of earth and timber.
* 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.
* 1339 – The 'grad of Moscow' rebuilt in oak.
* 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).
* 1386 – Nativity Convent (Rozhdestvensky convent) founded.
* 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.
* 1492 – Palace of Facets (Granovitaya Palata) – state banqueting hall.
* 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.
* 1520 – Moscow said to contain "45,000 houses and 100,000 inhabitants".
* 1524/5 – Novodevichy Convent constructed.
* 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 from Crimea.
* 1576 – Paper mill established. (timeline)
* 1591 – Donskoy Monastery founded.
* 1593 – Bely Gorod wall built.
* 1598 – Time of Troubles (ended 1613).
* 1600 – Zaikonospassky monastery founded.
* 1601 – Famine.
* 1611 – City taken by forces of Sigismund III of Poland.
* 1612 – Moscow Uprising of 1612.
* 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.
* 1672 – Chorina Comedy Theatre is founded.
* 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.
** Peter the Great "encounters opposition" in Moscow which compels him to leave.
* 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.
* 1750 – Population: (approx) 150,000.
* 1752 – Fire.
* 1755 – Imperial University founded.
* 1764 – Foundling Hospital built.
* 1764 – Moscow Orphanage founded.
* 1765 – Novodevichii Institute founded.
* 1765 – Maiden Field Theatre founded.
* 1766 – Russian Theatre founded.
* 1769 – Znamensky Theatre founded.
* 1771
** Chudov Monastery re-built.
** Plague.
** September: Plague Riot.
** Vvedenskoye Cemetery in use (approximate date).
* 1772 – Commercial School founded.
* 1773 – Catherine Palace reconstruction begins.
* 1775 – Platon Levshin becomes Metropolitan of Moscow.
* 1777 – Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery inaugurated near city.
* 1780 – Petrovsky Palace founded.
* 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).
** Population: 250,000
* 1816 – Kremlin rebuilt.
* 1817 – Excise office built.
* 1821 – Philaret Drozdov becomes Metropolitan of Moscow.
* 1823 – Alexander Garden laid out.
* 1825 – Bolshoi Theatre opens.
* 1830 – Moscow Craft School established.
* 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.
** Tretyakov Gallery initiated.
* 1861
** Petushki–Moscow railway built.
** Public museum established.
* 1862
** Nizhny Novgorod-Moscow railway built.
** Rumiantsev Library established.
** Moscow 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.
* 1867 – Einem brothers chocolate factory founded.
* 1868 – Borodinsky Bridge built.
* 1870 – Belorussky railway station opens.
* 1871
** Trade Bank founded.
** Population: 611,970.
* 1872
** State Historical Museum founded.
** Moscow University for Women founded.
* 1877 – Premiere of Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'' ballet.
* 1878 – Sokolniki Park established.
* 1880 – Pushkin statue installed in Strastnaya Square.
* 1882 – Population: 753,469.
* 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.
** 30 May: Khodynka Tragedy.
** 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
** 6 April: First electric Moscow tram begins operating.
** 7 November: Premiere of Chekhov's ''Uncle Vanya''.
** Moscow City Chess Championship active.
** "Student agitation" begins.
* 1900
** Paveletsky railway station built.
** Population: 1,023,817.

20th century

1900s–1940s

* 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.
** Population: 1,359,254.
* 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.
* 1916 – Automobile Moscow Society factory established.
* 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.
* 1920 – Treaty of Moscow (1920)
* 1921
** Moscow Children's Theatre opens.
** Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies established.
* 1921 – Treaty of Moscow (1921)
* 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
** Moscow Central Clinical Hospital opened.
** City hosts Ice hockey world championship
** 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, Lyublino became parts of Moscow.
** Over five million Muscovites are vaccinated in order to end the .
* 1961
** Rossiya Cinema built.
** October: American Committee for Non-Violent Action peace walkers arrive in Moscow.
* 1962
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** Moscow Domodedovo Airport opens.
* 1963 – Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow.
* 1964 – Taganka Theatre founded.
* 1965 – Population: 6,366,000.
* 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.
* 1985 – Population: 8,642,000.
* 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.
** Triumph Palace erected in the Sokol neighborhood.
* 2007
** Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines establishe

** 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.
* 2014 – Peace Procession against war in Ukraine
** Population: 11,794,282.
* 2015
** 27 February: Politician Nemtsov assassinated.
** Gulag museum opens.
* 2016 – 10 September: Moscow Central Ring of the Little Ring of the Moscow Railway begins operating.
* 2018
** 5 May – Cossack consplayers attacking to people, mainly to scholars.
** FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. Luzhniki and Spartak stadiums host matches.
* 2020
** August – Destroying of the Moscow trolley system.

See also

* History of Moscow
* List of heads of Moscow
* List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow
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* Timelines of other cities in the Central Federal District of Russia: Smolensk, Voronezh

References

''This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.''

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