Timeline of Saint Petersburg

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

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 Moscow from St. Petersburg.
* 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.
* 1777
** The Karl Knipper Theatre is founded.
** The Neva caused flooding.
* 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.
* 1824 - The Neva caused flooding.
* 1825
** December – Interregnum.
** Decembrist revolt.
** ''Northern Bee'' begins publication.
** Mikhailovsky 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 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.
* 1881 - Population: 861,303.
* 1882 – Imperial Music Choir formed.
* 1888 - Ship canal completed.
* 1890
** Saint Petersburg Prison for Solitary Confinement built.
** Population: 954,400.
* 1893 - Premiere of Tchaikovsky's '' Symphony No. 6''.
* 1894 – '' Ves Peterburg'' directory begins publication.
* 1895 – Conversion of Mikhailovsky Palace into Russian Museum.
* 1897 - Population: 1,267,023.
* 1900
** Russian cruiser Aurora launched.
** Suvorov Museum founded.

20th century

1900s–1940s

* 1905
** January – Bloody Sunday.
** October – Saint Petersburg Soviet formed.
** Population: 1,429,000.
* 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.
* 1965 – Population: 3,329,000 city; 3,641,000 urban agglomeration.
* 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.
* 1985 – Population: 4,867,000.
* 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.
* 2000 – City designated administrative center of Northwestern Federal District.

21st century

* 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.

See also

* History of Saint Petersburg
* Governor of Saint Petersburg
* Floods in Saint Petersburg
* List of theatres in Saint Petersburg
* Timelines of other cities in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia: Kaliningrad, Pskov

;Disambiguation pages
* Convention of St Petersburg (disambiguation)
* Saint Petersburg Declaration (disambiguation)
* Treaty of Saint Petersburg (disambiguation)

References

Bibliography

Published in 18th–19th centuries

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* Duncan Fallowell, ''One Hot Summer in St Petersburg'' (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)

Published in 21st century

* Julie A. Buckler. Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape. 2005
* George E. Munro. The Most Intentional City: St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008
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* Paul Keenan. St Petersburg and the Russian Court, 1703–1761. 2013
* Charles Emerson, ''1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War'' (2013) compares it to 20 major world cities on the eve of World War I; pp 110–132.
* Catriona Kelly. St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past. 2014
* Steven Maddox. Saving Stalin's Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad. 2014

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