Timeline of Minsk explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Minsk, Belarus.

Prior to 19th century

• 1066 - Vladimir the Great, Prince of Kiev, devastates the town.
• 1067 - The Battle on the Nemiga River occurs near Minsk.^[1]
• 1101 - Gleb Vseslavich becomes the prince of Minsk.
• 1104 - Town besieged by Kiev forces.
• 1115 - Town besieged by Kiev forces again.
• 1129 - Town becomes part of Kievan Rus'.
• 1242 - Town becomes part of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
• 1413 - Minsk becomes part of the Vilnius Voivodeship.
• 1441 - City charter granted.
• 1499 - Magdeburg rights granted.
• 1505 - City besieged by Crimean Khanate army.
• 1508 - City besieged by Muscovy forces.
• 1552 - Town privileges extended.
• 1566 - City becomes capital of Minsk Voivodeship.
• 1569 - City becomes part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1591 - granted.
• 1616 - founded.
• 1642 - Holy Spirit Cathedral (Minsk) built.
• 1654 - Russo-Polish War (1654–1667): City occupied by the Russians.
• 1667 - City restored to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1673 - Church built at Kalvaryja.
• 1685 - Yeshiva founded.^[2]
• 1708 - Great Northern War: City occupied by the Swedes.
• 1709 - Great Northern War: City occupied by the Russians.
• 1710 - Jesuit church built.
• 1775 - 3rd Lithuanian Infantry Regiment stationed in Minsk.^[3]
• 1789 - 1st Lithuanian National Cavalry Brigade stationed in Minsk.^[4]
• 1790 - 1st Lithuanian National Cavalry Brigade relocated from Minsk to Kiejdany.^[4]
• 1791 - 4th Lithuanian Infantry Regiment relocated from Borysów to Minsk.^[3]
• 1792 - 4th Lithuanian Infantry Regiment relocated from Minsk to Słuck.^[3]
• 1793
  • City annexed by the Russian Empire following the Second Partition of Poland.^[5]
  • Orthodox Diocese of Minsk (Belarusian Orthodox Church) established.
• 1796 - City becomes capital of Minsk Governorate.
• 1798 - Catholic diocese of Minsk formed.^[6]

19th century

• 1801 - Independence Avenue (Minsk) opened, then called Zahariy Street
• 1805 - Governor's Garden established.
• 1808 - Kalvaryja cemetery in use (approximate date).
• 1812
  • Napoleon in power.
  • November: Russian forces oust the French.
• 1821 - Population: 2,000 (approximate).
• 1825 - Pischalauski Castle built, now a prison.
• 1827 - Population: 3,000 (approximate).
• 1831 - Polish November Uprising.
• 1836 - established.
• 1837 - Fire brigade in operation.
• 1838 - Minskiye gubernskiye vedomosti newspaper begins publication.
• 1840 - Military Cemetery established.
• 1844 - Theatre opens.
• 1845
  • Public library established.
  • Population: 20,000 (approximate).

• 1846 - Moscow-Warsaw road laid out.
• 1857 - Greek Catholic Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul rebuilt.
• 1860 - Population: 27,000.
• 1864 - Church of Holy Trinity consecrated.
• 1871 – Minsk railway station opened.
• 1872 - Municipal water supply introduced.
• 1873 - Vilnius railway station built.
• 1882 - Population: 53,328.^[7]
• 1886 - newspaper begins publication.
• 1890 - Kupala Theatre opens.
• 1892 – Horse tram begins operating.
• 1897 - Population: 91,494.
• 1898 - Russian Social Democratic Labour Party founded in Minsk.^[8]

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1902 - "All-Russian Congress of Zionists" held in Minsk.
• 1910 - Church of Saints Simon and Helena consecrated.
• 1911 - Tolstoy library founded.
• 1913 - Population: 117,600.^[9]
• 1914 - Minsk teachers institute founded.
• 1917
  • November: "Bolshevik troops arrive in Minsk."
  • December: First All-Belarusian Congress meets in city.
• 1918
  • February: German forces oust Bolsheviks.
  • 25 March: "First All-Belarusian Congress declares independence of the Belarusian Democratic Republic."
• 1919
  • 8 January: City becomes capital of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • August: City captured by Polish troops during Operation Minsk, part of the Polish–Soviet War.
• 1920
  • July: Soviet forces take city.
  • Belarusian State Polytechnic Institute established.
  • Theatre opens.
• 1921
  • Aleksandrovsky, Lyakhovsky, and Central administrative districts created.
  • Belarusian State University established.
  • City hosts first All-Belarusian Conference of Librarians.
• 1923 - founded.^[10]
• 1924 - Consulate-General of Poland established.^[11]
• 1926 - January: City hosts first Congress of Belarusian Archeologists and Archeographers.
• 1927 - Sovetskaya Belorussiya newspaper begins publication.
• 1929 – Electric tram begins operating.
• 1930 - Minsk State Medical Institute founded.
• 1931 - Belarusian Young Spectators' Theatre established.
• 1932 - Belarusian State Conservatory,,^[12] and Kamaroúski Park established.
• 1933
  • Minsk-1 Airport begins operating.
  • Opera and Ballet Theatre and Belarusian Institute for National Economy established.
• 1934
  • Dynama Stadium built.
  • Government House, Minsk completed.
• 1937 - Kurapaty death camp begins operating near city.
• 1938 - Kaganovich, Stalin, and Voroshilov administrative districts created.
• 1939
  • Soviet Belarus film studio relocates to Minsk.
  • National Opera and Ballet of Belarus building opens.
  • Belarusian State Art Gallery established.
  • Population: 238,948.

• 1940 - Soviet executions of Polish officers and intelligentsia during the Katyn massacre.^[13]
• 1941
  • June: Bombing of Minsk.
  • June 28: German occupation begins.
  • July 17: Reichskommissariat Ostland established.
  • July 20: Minsk Ghetto established.
  • August: Forced labour camp for Jews established.^[14]
• 1942
  • January: Stalag 352 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.^[15]
  • May: Maly Trostenets extermination camp in operation.
• 1943
  • State Archive for Film established.^[16]
  • November: Stalag 352 camp dissolved.^[15]
• 1944
  • 4 July: Red Army takes city.
  • Minsk Automobile Plant established.
  • Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum opens.
  • Zvyazda newspaper in publication.
• 1945 - Belarus Theatrical Institute founded.
• 1946
  • Minsk Tractor Works established.
  • Belarusian Institute of Technology relocates to Minsk.
• 1948 - Minsk Institute for Foreign Languages founded.

1950s-1990s

• 1950
  • Yanka Kupala Park and Pobieda Kino (cinema)^[17] established.
  • Tarpeda Stadium built.
  • active.
• 1954
  • Minsk Wheeled Tractor Plant founded.
  • Victory Square monument erected.
• 1955
  • Children's Railroad opens.
  • Vasily Ivanovich Sharapov becomes mayor.
• 1957 - Belarusian State History Museum established.
• 1959
  • Minsk Refrigerator Plant established.
  • Population: 509,667.
• 1961 - October Square, Minsk construction completed.
• 1963 - MKAD (Minsk) ring road constructed.
• 1964 - Radioengineering Institute established.
• 1967 - Vecherniy Minsk newspaper begins publication.^[18]
• 1968 - Stadium of the VSS Red Banner opens.
• 1970
  • Belarusian State Musical Comedy Theatre active.
  • Population: 917,428.
• 1971 - Belarus Optical & Mechanical Enterprise founded.
• 1979
  • Belarusian History Museum opens.
  • Population: 1,333,000.^[19]

• 1981 - Biennial puppet festival begins.^[20]
• 1982 - Minsk National Airport begins operating.
• 1984
  • Minsk Metro begins operating.
  • Minsk Zoo opens.
• 1988 - 30 October: Demonstration; crackdown.
• 1989
  • 19 February: "Rally of 'informals.'"
  • 30 September: Environmental protest.^[21]
  • 1989 - Population: 1,607,077.
• 1990 - Public Library of the City of Minsk established.
• 1991
  • April: Labor strike.
  • City becomes capital of Republic of Belarus.
  • City "becomes the headquarters of the successor to the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States."
  • State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (KGB HQ) formed.
  • Belarusian Nature and Environment Museum and Academy of Public Administration founded.
• 1992 - International Sakharov Environmental University and Republican Institute for Vocational Education established.
• 1993
  • July: Belarusians of the World congress held in city.
  • Listapad (Minsk International Film Festival) begins.
• 1994 - Polish Institute in Minsk established.
• 1995 - Vladimir Yermoshin becomes mayor.
• 1996
  • November: "Chernobyl march."^[22]
  • National Academic Bolshoi Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus and National Academic Opera Theatre of Belarus formed.
• 1999
  • 30 May: Nyamiha metro disaster.^[23]
  • built.
• 2000
  • 15 March: Political demonstration held.^[24]
  • Mikhail Pavlov becomes mayor.^[25]
  • Darida Stadium opens.

21st century

2000s

• 2001 - March: Anti-Lukashenko demonstration.
• 2002
  • Minsk Passazhirsky railway station and Football Manege arena built.
  • MKAD (Minsk) ring road rebuilt.
  • Independence Square, Minsk reconstruction completed.
  • October: Library of the Polish Institute in Minsk established.^[26]
• 2004
  • Kurapaty monument installed.
  • IIHF World U18 Championships held.
• 2005 - 14 May: Water féerie demonstration.
• 2006
  • March: Jeans Revolution.
  • November: Summit of Commonwealth of Independent States.
  • National Library of Belarus building opens.
• 2007 - March: Anti-Lukashenko demonstration.
• 2008 - 4 July: Bombing.
• 2009 - Ў Gallery founded.^[27]

2010s

• 2010
  • December: Post-election demonstration.^[28]
  • Minsk-Arena opens.
  • becomes mayor.
• 2011
  • 11 April: Metro bombing.
  • Protests against Lukashenko regime.^[29]
• 2012
  • 4 July: Teddy bear airdrop.^[30]
  • Population: 1,901,700.
• 2014
  • May: 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship held in city.
  • Andrei Shorets becomes mayor.
  • Population: 1,921,807 city; 2,101,018 metro.
• 2015 - 12 February: International meeting produces ceasefire agreement ("Minsk II") related to the War in Donbass.^[31]
• 2019 - Minsk hosts the 2019 European Games.

See also

• History of Minsk
  • Timeline of Minsk governance
  • Timeline of technology in Minsk
  • Minsk population growth
• History of Minsk with timeline (in Belarusian Taraškievica)

References

This article incorporates information from the Belarusian Wikipedia and the Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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External links

• • Europeana. Items related to Minsk, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Minsk, various dates

Notes and References

1. Book: Vitali Silitski . Jan Zaprudnik. A to Z of Belarus . 2007 . . 978-1-4617-3174-0 . Chronology . Vitali Silitski.
2. Encyclopedia: Minsk . . . 28 February 2015 .
3. Book: Gembarzewski, Bronisław. Rodowody pułków polskich i oddziałów równorzędnych od r. 1717 do r. 1831. 1925. pl. Towarzystwo Wiedzy Wojskowej. Warszawa. 34.
4. Gembarzewski, p. 10
5. Web site: About Minsk . Minsk.gov.by . 30 September 2015 . .
6. Web site: Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Russia . . Norway . 30 September 2015 .
7. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1885 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Russia . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590469?urlappend=%3Bseq=448 . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/nyp.33433081590469?urlappend=%3Bseq=448 . Hunter . Brian . Paxton . John . Steinberg . S. H. . Epstein . Mortimer . Renwick . Isaac Parker Anderson . Keltie . John Scott . Martin . Frederick .
8. Book: James C. Docherty . Peter Lamb . Historical Dictionary of Socialism . 2006 . 2nd . . 978-0-8108-6477-1 . Chronology .
9. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 .
10. Book: Russia & Belarus. 2006. Lonely Planet. 978-1-74104-291-7.
11. Book: Wasilewski, Aleksander. 2010. Polskie Konsulaty na Wschodzie 1918-1939. pl,en,ru. Warszawa. 53. 978-83-7585-140-3.
12. Web site: Garden Search . . London . 30 September 2015 .
13. Book: . 2020. Zbrodnia katyńska. pl. Warszawa. IPN. 17. 978-83-8098-825-5.
14. Web site: Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden Mínsk. Bundesarchiv.de. 10 July 2022. de.
15. Web site: German Stalag Camps. 31 July 2022.
16. Book: Film and Television Collections in Europe: the MAP-TV Guide. 1995 . Routledge. 978-1-135-37262-0.
17. Web site: Movie Theaters in Minsk, Belarus . CinemaTreasures.org . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . 30 September 2015 .
18. Book: Europa World Year Book . 2004. . 978-1-85743-254-1 . Belarus . 729+ .
19. Book: Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart . The Contemporary Soviet City. registration . 4 . 1984. M.E. Sharpe . New York . 978-0-87332-248-5.
20. Book: World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe . Don Rubin . 1994 . Routledge . 9780415251570 . Belarus . 94–106 . https://books.google.com/books?id=1fDaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 . etal . Vankarem Nikiforovich .
21. Web site: Marchers in Minsk Demand Further Chernobyl Cleanup . 1 October 1989 . New York Times .
22. Book: David R. Marples . Belarus: A Denationalized Nation . 2012. Routledge . 978-1-134-41197-9 . Chronology . David R. Marples .
23. Book: . Political Chronology of Europe . 2003. 978-1-135-35687-3 . Belarus . https://books.google.com/books?id=hVNvCz0c_gsC&pg=PA16 . 16+ .
24. Book: Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia . Regional Surveys of the World . 2002. . 978-1-85743-137-7 . Belarus: Chronology . 132–136 .
25. Web site: History of the Minsk City authorities since 1879 . Minsk.gov.by . 13 May 2013.
26. Web site: Biblioteka. Instytut Polski w Mińsku. 31 July 2022. pl.
27. Web site: Belarus . Art Spaces Directory . New York . . 30 September 2015 .
28. Book: World Report 2012: Belarus . 22 January 2012 . Human Rights Watch .
29. Web site: Hundreds arrested in Belarus at anti-Lukashenko rallies . 7 July 2011 . BBC News .
30. Web site: Teddy Bears Fall From Sky, and Heads Roll in Minsk . 1 August 2012 . New York Times.
31. Book: Annual Register . UK . 0266-6170 . 2016 . 257 . Chronicle of 2015 . Annual Register . The Annual Register: World Events in .