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.
• 1732 – State capital moves back to St. Petersburg from Moscow, after only 4 years, and will remain there for nearly two centuries.
• 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

• 2000
  • The 2000 IIHF Men's World Championships are held in Saint Petersburg.
• 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.
• 2017
  • A bombing attack hits Saint Petersburg's metro.

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)