Timeline of Kyiv

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Prior to 13th century

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• 882 - Capital of Rus'.
• 968 - Town besieged by the Pechenegs.
• 988 - Kyiv becomes a Christian town.
• 996 - Church of the Tithes consecrated.^[1]
• 1017 - Fire.^[2]
• 1018 - Bolesław I's intervention in the Kyivan succession crisis.
• 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
  • Monastery of St. Michael founded.^[4]
  • Gate Church of the Trinity (Pechersk Lavra) built.
• 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 Svyetoslav Vsevolodovitch.^[4]

13th-16th centuries

• c. 1200–1204 – Roman the Great, prince of Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, captured Kyiv from the grand prince of Kyiv.^[5] According to Magocsi (2010), this happened in 1200;^[5] according to Katchanovski et al. (2013) in 1203;^[6] according to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (1993) in 1204.^[7]
• c. 1203–1204 – Town sacked by forces of Rurik Rostislavich.^[5][4] According to Magocsi (2010), this happened in 1203 after Roman had captured Kyiv, and so Rurik 'retook' it with the help of Cumans (Polovtsians) and Chernihivians;^[5] according to Baedeker (1914), it happened in 1204.^[4]
• 1239 – Danylo of Galicia captured Kyiv.^[8][9]
• 1240 – Siege and sack of Kyiv by Mongol forces under Batu Khan.^[10][8][9]
• 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 - Spiridon Psalter 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]

Monument to Magdeburg Rights

• 1516 - Magdeburg rights granted by Sigismund I the Old.^[4]
• 1569 - Kyiv becomes part of Poland.^[2]

17th-18th centuries

• 1619 - Jews expelled from Kyiv.^[11]
• 1632 - Mohyla Collegium formed.^[12]
• 1660 - Russo-Polish War (1654–1667): Armenians expelled by Tsar Alexis of Russia.^[13]
• 1667 - Truce of Andrusovo leads to Kyiv temporarily becoming part of the Tsardom of Russia.
• 1686 - Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686 makes the transfer to Russia permanent.
• 1693 - Cathedral of the Epiphany built.^[4]
• 1696 - St. Nicholas Cathedral consecrated.^[4]
• 1701 - Imperial Theological Academy formed.^[4]
• 1708 - Kiev Governorate founded.
• 1732 - Florivsky Convent church dedicated.
• 1745 - Great Lavra Bell Tower built.
• 1749 - Fountain of Samson constructed.
• 1752 - Mariinskyi Palace built.
• 1754 - St Andrew's Church built.
• 1756 - Klov Palace built.
• 1764 - Kyiv Arsenal established.
• 1782 - Coat of arms of Kyiv redesigned.
• 1797 - Contracts fair transferred to Kyiv from Dubno.^[14]

19th century

• 1806 - The First City Theatre (Kyiv) inaugurated.
• 1810
  • City subdivided into 4 administrative districts.
  • Chapel built at Askold's Tomb.^[4]
• 1811 - Great fire of Podil.
• 1817 - Contracts House rebuilt.
• 1833 - Baikove Cemetery established.
• 1834 - Vladimir University relocates to Kyiv from Vilna.^[4]
• 1835
  • Town government format replaces Magdeburg rights.^[14]
  • Population: 29,000.^[15]
• 1837 - City expands.^[14]
• 1838 - Kyiv Institute for Noble Maidens organized.^{[citation needed]}
• 1839 - Botanical Garden established.
• 1840
  • Kyiv subject to common civil law.^[14]
  • Medical society organized.^[14]
• 1843 - Archaeological commission organized.^[14]
• 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.^[14]
• 1863
  • Philharmonic Society founded.^{[citation needed]}
  • Lukyanivska Prison commissioned.
• 1864 - Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas founded.
• 1866 - City public library opens.^{[citation needed]}
• 1869 - Naturalists' society organized.^[14]

Kyiv in the 1870s (by Napoleon Orda)

• 1870
  • Railroad station built.^[3]
  • Struve Railroad Bridge constructed.
• 1874 - Population: 127,251.^[16]
• 1875 - Horticultural society organized.^[14]
• 1876
  • Juridical society organized.^[14]
  • Kyiv City Duma building constructed.^{[citation needed]}
• 1877 - City Hall built.^[4]
• 1879
  • Kurenivka, Lukyanovka, Shuliavka, and Solomenka become part of Kiev.^[14]
  • Dramatic society organized.^[14]
• 1881 - Pogrom against Jews.^{[citation needed]}
• 1882
  • St Volodymyr's Cathedral built.
  • Philharmonic building constructed.^{[citation needed]}
• 1883 - Exchange building constructed.^[4]
• 1887 - Palais Khanenko established.^[4]
• 1891 - Horse-drawn tram begins operating.
• 1892 - Electric trams are inaugurated, becoming the first electric tram system in the Russian empire.
• 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 Kyiv Municipal Theatre built.^[4]

20th century

Kyiv at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

1900s-1940s

• 1901 - Kyiv Opera House opens.
• 1902
  • People's Palace and Synagogue of the Karaites built.^[4]
  • Population: 319,000.^[14]
• 1905
  • October: Pogrom against Jews.
  • 12–16 December: Shuliavka Republic.
  • Kyiv Funicular begins operating.
• 1906 - Ipolit Dyakov becomes the city's governor.
• 1909
  • Kyiv Zoo opens.
  • St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral built.^[4]
• 1911
  • The National Library of Ukraine is built.
  • September: Assassination of Pyotr Stolypin.^[17]
• 1912
  • Besarabsky Market, Museum of Pedagogy, and St. Panteleimon's Cathedral built.^[4]
  • Sports Ground opens.
• 1913
  • Kyiv Conservatory founded.
  • All-Russian (Imperial) Olympiad held.
  • Beilis affair.
  • Population: 610,190.^[18]
• 1917
  • 17 March: Central Rada established.^[19]
  • 17 July: Polubotkivtsi Uprising.
  • 7 November: Kyiv becomes the capital of the Ukrainian People's Republic.^[10]
  • 8–13 November: Kyiv Bolshevik Uprising.
  • Population: 640,000.^[15]
• 1918
  • 29 January-4 February: Kyiv Arsenal January Uprising.
  • 1 March–December: German occupation.^[15][20]
  • National Library of Ukraine established.^[21]

Polish-Ukrainian military parade in 1920

• 1919
  • 5 February: City captured by the Soviet Red Army.
  • 31 August: City captured by the Russian White Army.
  • 16 December: City captured by the Soviet Red Army.
• 1920
  • 7 May: City captured by joint Polish-Ukrainian forces during the Kyiv offensive, part of the Polish–Soviet War.
  • 9 May: Kyiv Victory Parade, a joint Polish-Ukrainian military parade in the liberated city.
  • City captured by the Red Army.
• 1922
  • 30 December: Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic becomes part of the Soviet Union.
• 1923
  • Trotsky Red Stadium opens.
  • Darnytsia, Lanky, Chokolivka, and Nikolska slobidka become part of Kyiv.
• 1924 - Zhuliany Airport in operation.^{[citation needed]}
• 1925 - Consulate of Poland established.^[22]
• 1926 - National Academic Theater of Russian Drama founded.
• 1927
  • Dovzhenko Film Studios founded.
  • Kyiv Fortress museum and Kyiv Academic Puppet Theatre established.
• 1932
  • City designated administrative center of Kyiv Oblast.
  • Central Railway Station built.
  • Holodomor begins.
• 1933 - Kyiv Aviation Institute organized.
• 1934
  • Capital of Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic relocates to Kyiv from Kharkiv.^[10]
  • Vsevolod Balitsky Dynamo Stadium built.
  • Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta founded.
  • Demolition of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery begins.
• 1935 - Demolition of Fountain of Samson.
• 1936 - National Botanical Garden founded.
• 1939 - Staff of the Consulate of Poland in Kyiv arrested by the Soviets following the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II.^[23]
• 1940 - Soviet executions of Polish officers and intelligentsia during the Katyn massacre.^[24]

German troops entering Kyiv in 1941

• 1941
  • 22 June: German invasion of the Soviet Union starts, with Kyiv bombed.
  • 23 August: Battle of Kyiv begins.
  • 19 September: Occupation by forces of Nazi Germany begins.^[10]
  • 29–30 September: Babi Yar massacre.
  • Nazi prison established by the Sicherheitsdienst.^[25]
• 1942
  • January: Stalag 339 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.^[26]
  • April: Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period active.
• 1943
  • February: Stalag 339 camp dissolved.^[26]
  • Battle of Kyiv.
  • 6 November: City recaptured by Soviet Army, ending the German occupation.^[10]
• 1945 - 4-7 September: An anti-semitic pogrom occurred, with approximately one hundred Jews beaten, of whom thirty-six were hospitalized and five died of wounds.^[27][28]

1950s-1990s

• 1952 - Kyiv Planetarium opens.
• 1953 - Paton Bridge built.
• 1957 - Trukhaniv Island pedestrian bridge constructed.
• 1958 - Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of Ukrainian SSR opens.
• 1959 - Kyiv-Tsentralnyi airport begins operating.
• 1960
  • Kyiv Metro begins operating.
  • Palace of Sports opens.
  • Population: 846,293.^[10]
• 1961
  • 13 March: Kurenivka mudslide.
  • Kyiv River Port passenger terminal and Hotel Moscow built.
• 1965
  • Kyiv Metro Bridge built.
  • Population: 1,332,000.^[29]
• 1967 - State Library of Ukraine for Children founded.^[21][30]
• 1968 - Hydropark opens.
• 1972 - Feofaniya becomes a park.
• 1973 - Kyiv TV Tower constructed.
• 1975 - FC Dynamo Kyiv wins the UEFA Winners' Cup and becomes the first Soviet team to earn the cup.
• 1976 - Moskovskyi Bridge built.
• 1978 - Kyiv Light Rail begins operating.
• 1979
  • Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy and Kyiv Academic Youth Theatre founded.
  • Population: 2,248,000.^[31]
• 1981
  • Museum of the Great Patriotic War established.
  • Mother Motherland statue erected.
  • Fountain of Samson rebuilt.
• 1982
  • All-Union Lenin Museum built.
  • Golden Gate rebuilt.
• 1983 - Kyiv Academic Theatre of Ukrainian Folklore founded.
• 1985
  • Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth founded.
  • Population: 2,448,000.^[32]
• 1986 - 26 April: Chernobyl disaster.
• 1990
  • The Pivdennyi Bridge is built.
  • October: Student anti-government protests.^[33]

City centre in 1991

• 1991
  • Kyiv becomes the capital of independent Ukraine.
  • The Mikhail Bulgakov Museum opens.
• 1992 - The Chernobyl Museum organized.
• 1993 - Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge construction begins.
• 1994
  • Leonid Kosakivsky becomes mayor.
  • Bykivnia memorial opens.
• 1997
  • Leonid Kosakivsky becomes mayor.
  • Trinity Cathedral is built.
• 1998 - The Polish Institute in Kyiv is established.
• 1999
  • Oleksandr Omelchenko becomes mayor.
  • St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is rebuilt.
• 2000 - Ukraine without Kuchma protests begin.

21st century

2000s

• 2001
  • 9 March: Ukraine without Kuchma end.
  • The city undergoes redistricting.
• 2002 - Obolon Arena opens.
• 2003 - The Ukraine State Aviation Museum opens.
• 2004
  • April: City hosts the 2004 European Weightlifting Championships.
  • June: City hosts the 2004 European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.
  • November: Orange Revolution protests begin.
• 2005 - City hosts Eurovision Song Contest.
• 2006
  • Leonid Chernovetskyi becomes mayor.
  • PinchukArtCentre and Kyiv in Miniature open.
  • The House of Football is inaugurated.
• 2007 - City hosts the 2007 World Orienteering Championships.
• 2008 - City hosts the 2008 European Fencing Championships.

2010s

• 2010
  • Kyiv Urban Electric Train begins operating.
  • Population: 2,797,553.
• 2011 - The New Darnytskyi Bridge and Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ open.
• 2012 -
  • The UEFA Euro 2012 final is held in the city.
  • July: Protest against language policy in Ukraine.^[34]
• 2013
  • May: Rise up protest.
  • 21 November: Euromaidan protests begin.
• 2014
  • Hrushevskoho Street riots.^[35][36]
  • Vitali Klitschko becomes mayor.

War damages after Russian shelling in 2022

• 2015 - Population: 2,890,432.
• 2017 - 27 June: Cyberattacks affect some Kyiv entities.^[37]
• 2017 - 13 October: City council renames 39 streets, among them Kuchmyn Yar Street.^[38]
• 2018 - Population: 2,893,215 (estimate).^[39]
• 2019 - The 2019 European Diving Championships is held in the city.

2020s

• 2020 - The 2020 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships is hosted in the city.
• 2021 - The 2021 European Badminton Championships is held in the city.
• 2022
  • 24 February: Kyiv comes under attack by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[40]
  • 10 October: October 2022 Kyiv missile strikes.

See also

• History of Kyiv
• List of mayors of Kyiv
• Pale of Settlement