Timeline of Kyiv

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Prior to 13th century[]

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  • 882 - Capital of Rus'.
  • 988 - Kyiv becomes a Christian town.
  • 996 - Church of the Tithes consecrated.[1]
  • 1017 - Fire.[2]
  • 1018 - .
  • 1037
    • Cathedral of St. Sophia built.[3]
    • Golden Gate erected.[4]
  • 1051
    • Kyiv Pechersk Lavra founded.
    • Hilarion appointed Metropolitan bishop.
  • 1052 - St. George church built (approximate date).[2]
  • 1077 - Vydubychi Monastery established.
  • 1089 - Uspenski Cathedral consecrated.[4]
  • 1108
  • 1125 - Church of the Saviour at Berestove built (approximate date).
  • 1140 - St. Cyril's Monastery founded.
  • 1169 - Town sacked by forces of Andrey Bogolyubsky.[4]
  • 1171 - Town sacked by forces of .[4]

13th-16th centuries[]

  • 1204 - Town sacked by forces of Rurik Rostislavich.[4]
  • 1240 - Town besieged by forces of Mongol Batu Khan.[5]
  • 1299 - Metropolitan bishop Maximus relocates to Vladimir.[4]
  • 1320 - Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania in power.[2]
  • 1362 - Kyiv becomes part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
  • 1397 - created.
  • 1471 - Kyiv Voivodeship established.
  • 1483 - Town sacked by forces of Meñli I Giray, Khan of the Crimea.[4]
  • 1496 - Town besieged by Tartars.[2]
  • 1500 - Town besieged by Tartars.[2]
  • 1516 - Magdeburg rights granted by Sigismund I the Old.[4]
  • 1569 - Kyiv becomes part of Poland.[2]

17th-18th centuries[]

19th century[]

  • 1810
  • 1811 - Great fire of Podil.
  • 1817 - Contracts House rebuilt.
  • 1833 - Baikove Cemetery established.
  • 1834 - Vladimir University relocates to Kiev from Vilna.[4]
  • 1835
    • Town government format replaces Magdeburg rights.[8]
    • Population: 29,000.[9]
  • 1837 - City expands.[8]
  • 1838 - Institute for Noble Maidens organized.[citation needed]
  • 1839 - Botanical Garden established.
  • 1840
    • Kiev subject to common civil law.[8]
    • Medical society organized.[8]
  • 1843 - Archaeological commission organized.[8]
  • 1844 - Mariinsky Palace built.
  • 1846 - Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius active.
  • 1849 - Church of St. Alexander built.[4]
  • 1853 - Vladimir Monument erected.[4]
  • 1853 - Nicholas Chain Bridge built.[2]
  • 1857 - Lutheran Church built.[4]
  • 1862 - Population: 70,341.[8]
  • 1863
  • 1864 - Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas founded.
  • 1866 - City public library opens.[citation needed]
  • 1869 - Naturalists' society organized.[8]
  • 1870
  • 1874 - Population: 127,251.[10]
  • 1875 - Horticultural society organized.[8]
  • 1876
  • 1877 - City Hall built.[4]
  • 1879
  • 1881 - Pogrom against Jews.[citation needed]
  • 1882
  • 1883 - Exchange building constructed.[4]
  • 1887 - Palais Khanenko established.[4]
  • 1891 - Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
  • 1892 - Electric trams inaugurated.
  • 1896 - Cathedral of St. Vladimir built.[3][4]
  • 1897 - Population: 248,750.
  • 1898
    • Brodsky Choral Synagogue built.
    • Polytechnic Institute and City Museum of Antiques and Art founded.
  • 1899
    • Darnytsia Railway Station opens.
    • National Folk Decorative Art Museum established.
  • 1900 - Museum of Art and Archaeology and Municipal Theatre built.[4]

20th century[]

1900s-1940s[]

1950s-1990s[]

21st century[]

2000s[]

2010s[]

See also: Ukrainian crisis

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Callmerr 1987.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Murray 1868.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Meakin 1906.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Baedeker 1914.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M
  6. ^ "Kiev". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on November 2014.
  7. ^ George Gajecky (1984). "The Kiev Mohyla Academy and the Hetmanate". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 8.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m Britannica 1910.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c Shulgin 1939.
  10. ^ "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590469.
  11. ^ Chris Cook; John Stevenson (2003). "Russian Revolution (chronology)". Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89224-3.
  12. ^ "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
  13. ^ "Ukraine Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  14. ^ Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. p. 523+. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b Lyudmila Shpilevaya (2010), "Ukraine: Libraries", in Marcia J. Bates (ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127
  16. ^ "State-sponsored Anti-Semitism in Postwar USSR. Studies and Research Perspectives; Antonella Salomoni". Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History / Questioni di storia ebraica contemporanea. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  17. ^ Amir Weiner. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton University Press. 2008. p. 192.
  18. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
  19. ^ "National Library of Ukraine for Children". Kiev. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  20. ^ Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
  21. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  22. ^ "Cases: Ukraine". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Pennsylvania, USA: Swarthmore College. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  23. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
  24. ^ "Nine Dead as Mayhem Grips Ukrainian Capital", New York Times, 18 February 2014
  25. ^ "Ukraine Crisis: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  26. ^ "Cyberattack Hits Ukraine Then Spreads Internationally", New York Times, 27 June 2017

Bibliography[]

Published in 19th century
  • Mary Holderness (1823), "Kiev", New Russia: Journey from Riga to the Crimea, by way of Kiev, London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones and Co., OCLC 5073195
  • David Brewster (1830), "Kiof", Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood
  • Josiah Conder (1830), "Kiev", Russia, The Modern Traveller, 17, London: J.Duncan
  • "Kief". Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. 1868.
Published in 20th century
  • Annette M. B. Meakin (1906). "Kieff". Russia, Travels and Studies. London: Hurst and Blackett. OCLC 3664651.
  • "Kiev", Jewish Encyclopedia, 7, New York, 1907, hdl:2027/osu.32435029752888
  • "Kiev", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • Ruth Kedzie Wood (1912). "Kiev". The Tourist's Russia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. OCLC 526774.
  • Nevin O. Winter (1913). "Little Russia". The Russian Empire of To-day and Yesterday. Boston: L.C. Page.
  • "Kiev". Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
  • Basil Shulgin (1939–1940). "Kiev, Mother of Russian Towns". Slavonic and East European Review. 19.
  • Johan Callmerr (1987). "Archaeology of Kiev to the End of the Earliest Urban Phase". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 11 (3/4): 323–364. JSTOR 41036279.

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