Timeline of Moscow

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 founded.
• 1369 – Moscow besieged.
• 1382 – Siege of Moscow (1382).
• 1386 – Nativity Convent founded.
• 1389
• * Vasily I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.
• * Ascension Convent founded in the Kremlin.
• 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 – 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.
• 1591 – Donskoy Monastery founded.
• 1593 – Bely Gorod wall built.
• 1598 – Time of Troubles.
• 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 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: 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.
• 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 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 Moscow 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 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 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 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 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, 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
• * established.
• * 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 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 begins.
• * Triumph Palace erected in the Sokol neighborhood.
• 2007
• * Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines established.
• * 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 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.

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