Timeline of Odessa
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Odessa, Ukraine.
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Prior to 19th century
- 1240 - Tatar settlement Hacıbey founded by Hacı I Giray of Crimea.
- 15th century - Khadjibey ceded to Lithuania.
- 1529 - Turks in power.
- 1764 - Fortress Yeni Dünya built at Khadjibey by Turks.[1][2]
- 1789 - Russian forces take fortress.[2]
- 1791 - Khadjibey annexed to Novorossiya.[2]
- 1794 - Odessa founded by decree of Catherine II of Russia.
- 1795
- Population: 2,250.[1]
- Cathedral of the Transfiguration founded.[3]
19th century
- 1802 - Population: 9,000.[4]
- 1803 - Duc de Richelieu in power.
- 1804 - Commercial school founded.[4]
- 1805
- 1808 - Troitzkaya Church active.[3]
- 1809
- 1812 - Plague.[4]
- 1814 - Population: 25,000.[1]
- 1816 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron in power.
- 1817 - Richelieu Lyceum established.[5]
- 1819 - Odessa becomes a free port.[6]
- 1821
- Church of the Dormition built.
- Pogrom against Jews.
- 1824 - Odessa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia."[1]
- 1825 - Archeological Museum founded.
- 1826
- Fyodor Palen in power.
- Jewish school established.[5]
- Richelieu Monument unveiled.
- 1828 - Imperial Rural Association for Southern Russia founded.[7]
- 1829 - Provincial library founded.[5]
- 1830 - Vorontsov Palace built.
- 1838 - Plague.[8]
- 1841 - Giant Staircase constructed.
- 1846 - Londonskaya Hotel opens.
- 1847 - Novobazarnaya Church built.[3]
- 1850 - Population: 100,000.[1]
- 1853
- Crimean War begins.
- Roman Catholic Church rebuilt.[3]
- 1854 - Anglo-French fleet attacks Odessa.
- 1856 - Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company established.
- 1857 - August 15: Free port status revoked.[6]
- 1859 - Pogrom against Jews.
- 1862
- Odessa Military District established.
- Vorontsov Lighthouse built.
- 1865 - Imperial Novorossiya University established.[1]
- 1866 - Odessa-Balta railway begins operating.[1]
- 1871
- 1873 - Population: 162,814.[9]
- 1874 - Theatre Velikanova built.
- 1875 - Tzar visits Odessa.[3]
- 1876 - Turkish forces attack Odessa.[1]
- 1880 - Horse tramway begins operating.
- 1881
- Steam tramway begins operating.
- Pogrom against Jews.
- 1882 - Population: 217,000.[10]
- 1887 - Theatre built.[11]
- 1894 - Odessa Committee of the Social Democratic Workers Party organized.[12]
- 1895 - St. Panteleimon church consecrated.
- 1897 - Lutheran Church built.[3]
- 1899
- General Post Office built.[3]
- Exchange built.[3]
- Bristol Hotel opens.
20th century
- 1900 - Population: 449,673.[1]
- 1902 - Cadet School active.[3]
- 1905
- June: Potemkin uprising.
- Pogrom against Jews.[13]
- 1906
- 1907 - Myrograph film studio in business.
- 1910
- 1913
- 1917 - City occupied by Ukrainian Tsentral'na Rada, French Army, Red Army, and White Army following the Bolshevik Revolution.
- 1918
- 13 March: Odessa occupied by Central Powers.[16]
- Odessa becomes capital of Odessa Soviet Republic.
- Polytechnic University established.
- 1919 - Odessa Film Studio founded.
- 1920 - Red Army in power.
- 1921 - Odessa State Economics University established.
- 1922
- Odessa State Medical Institute established.
- Odessa Zoo opens.
- 1924 - Odessa Philharmonic Theater opens.
- 1926 - State Odessa Russian Drama Theatre established.
- 1928 - Spartak Stadium opens.
- 1933 - School of Stolyarsky established.
- 1935 - Kosior Memorial Stadium built.
- 1936
- The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases & Tissue Therapy founded.
- Dynamo football club formed.
- 1941
- August 8-October 16: Siege of Odessa.
- October 17: Axis occupation begins.
- October 22–24: 1941 Odessa massacre.
- Odessa becomes capital of Romanian-administered Transnistria Governorate.
- 1944
- April 10: Red Army takes city; Axis occupation ends.
- ODO Odessa football team active.
- Odessa State Maritime Academy founded.
- 1945 - Odessa designated a Hero City of the USSR.
- 1952 - Railway Station rebuilt.
- 1961
- Odessa International Airport built.
- Pushkin Museum opens.
- 1963 - Avangard rugby club formed.
- 1973 - April 10: Humorina festival begins.[17]
- 1979 - Population: 1,072,000.[18]
- 1984 - Deribasivska Street pedestrianized.
- 1989 - Outdoor market relocates to Odessa-Ovidiopol highway.
- 1992 - BIPA-Moda basketball club formed.
- 1994
- Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor.
- New music festival begins.[19]
- 1998 - Rouslan Bodelan becomes mayor.
- 1999 - Odessa Numismatics Museum established.
21st century
- 2000 - Quarantine Pier designated free economic zone and port.
- 2001 - Al-Salam Mosque opens.
- 2003 - Rebuilt Odessa Cathedral consecrated.
- 2005 - Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor again.[20]
- 2007 - Privoz Market rebuilt.
- 2010 - Odessa International Film Festival begins.
- 2011
- Chornomorets Stadium built.
- FC SKA Odesa formed.
- Aleksey Kostusyev becomes mayor.[21]
- Population: 1,003,705.
- 2014 - 2014 Odessa clashes.[22]
See also
- Odessa history
- History of Odessa
- List of mayors of Odessa, Ukraine
- Other cities in Ukraine
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Odessa". Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.). New York. 1910. OCLC 14782424.
- 1 2 3 "Odessa". Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. 1868.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Odessa". Russia. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Annette M. B. Meakin (1906). "Odessa". Russia, Travels and Studies. London: Hurst and Blackett. OCLC 3664651.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Steve J. Zipperstein (1982). "Jewish Enlightenment in Odessa: Cultural Characteristics, 1794-1871". Jewish Social Studies 44. JSTOR 4467153.
- 1 2 Patricia Herlihy (1973). "Odessa: Staple Trade and Urbanization in New Russia". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. Neue Folge, Bd. 21.
- ↑ Department of Agrigulture Ministry of Crown Domains for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago (1893), The Industries of Russia: Agriculture and Forestry 3, St. Petersburg
- ↑ Charles W. Koch (1855), The Crimea: with a visit to Odessa, London: Routledge, OCLC 12097882
- ↑ "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1880.
- ↑ "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
- ↑ "Aged Beauty Gets a Face Lift From a Geologist". New York Times. November 1, 1999.
- ↑ "Odessa". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved February 2015.
- ↑ "Odessa". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on October 2014.
- ↑ http://www.odessapage.com/new/en/node/807
- ↑ "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- ↑ Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
- ↑ "New York Times". 1 April 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ↑ Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
- ↑ Thea Derks (1998). "Odessa". Tempo. New Series, No. 206.
- ↑ "Odessa Mayor". Odessa Сity Сouncil. Archived from the original on August 14, 2009.
- ↑ "Odessa Mayor". Odessa Сity Сouncil. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011.
- ↑ "Ukraine Crisis: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved February 2015.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- H. A. S. Dearborn (1819), "Odessa", A Memoir on the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea, Boston: Wells & Lilly
- Charles Sicard (1819), An Account of Odessa, Newport, R.I., USA: Printed by William Simons
- Robert Bremner (1840), "Odessa", Excursions in the interior of Russia (2nd ed.), London: H. Colburn
- "Odessa", Hand-book for Northern Europe; including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia (New ed.), London: John Murray, 1849
- Anatole de Demidoff (1853), "Odessa", Travels in southern Russia and the Crimea, London: J. Mitchell, OCLC 14437725
- "The Steppes, Odessa, and the Crimea". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 1854.
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1877), "Odessa", in Hugh G. Reid, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. – via Hathi Trust
- Published in the 20th century
- William Eleroy Curtis (1911). "Odessa". Around the Black Sea. New York: Hodder & Stoughton.
- Ruth Kedzie Wood (1912). "Odessa". The Tourist's Russia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. OCLC 526774.
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Map of Odessa region, 1809
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