The following is a of the history of the city of Odesa, Ukraine.
13th to 17th century
- 1240 â Tatars begin settling herds in the region.
- 1415 â A settlement of Kachibei (Khadjibey, Hacñbey, Kotsiubiyiv) was first mentioned.
- 15th century â Khadjibey ceded to Lithuania.
- 1529 â Ottoman conquest.
18th century
19th century
- 1802 â Population: 9,000.
- 1803 â Duc de Richelieu in power.
- 1804 â Commercial school founded.
- 1805
- Odesa becomes administrative center of New Russia.
- Theatre opens.
- Russian Orthodox church built.
- 1808 â Troitzkaya Church active.
- 1809
- Cathedral built.
- Opera house built.
- 1812 â Plague.
- 1814 â Population: 25,000.
- 1816 â Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron in power.
- 1817 â Richelieu Lyceum established.
- 1819 â Odesa becomes a free port.
- 1821
- Church of the Dormition built.
- Pogrom against Jews.
- 1824 â Odesa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia".
- 1825 â Archeological Museum founded.
- 1826
- Fyodor Palen in power.
- Jewish school established.
- Richelieu Monument unveiled.
- 1828 â Imperial Rural Association for Southern Russia founded.
- 1830
- Public library established.
- Vorontsov Palace built.
- 1838 â Plague.
- 1841 â Giant Staircase constructed.
- 1846 - Londonska Hotel opens.
- 1847 â Novobazarnaya Church built.
- 1850 â Population: 100,000.
- 1853
- Crimean War begins.
- Roman Catholic Church rebuilt.
- 1854 â Anglo-French fleet attacks Odesa.
- 1856 â Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company established.
- 1857 â August 15: Free port status revoked.
- 1859 â Pogrom against Jews.
- 1862
- Odesa Military District established.
- Vorontsov Lighthouse built.
- 1865 â Imperial Novorossiya University established.
- 1866 â OdesaâÂÂBalta railway begins operating.
- 1871
- Pogrom against Jews.
- Russian Technical Society, Odesa branch, founded.
- 1873 â Population: 162,814.
- 1874 â Theatre Velikanova built.
- 1875 â Tzar visits Odesa.
- 1876 â Turkish forces attack Odesa.
- 1880 â Horse tramway begins operating.
- 1881
- Steam tramway begins operating.
- Pogrom against Jews.
- 1882 â Population: 217,000.
- 1887 â Theatre built.
- 1894 â Odesa Committee of the Social Democratic Workers Party organized.
- 1895 â St. Panteleimon church consecrated.
- 1897 â Lutheran Church built.
- 1899
- General Post Office built.
- Exchange built.
- Bristol Hotel opens.
- 1900 â Population: 449,673.
20th century
- 1902 â Cadet School active.
- 1905
- June: Potemkin uprising.
- Pogrom against Jews.
- 1906
- Uprising.
- Municipal Library built.
- 1907 â Myrograph film studio in business.
- 1910
- Electric Tram begins operating.
- Trade fair held.
- 1913
- Conservatoire founded.
- Sergiyev Artillery School active.
- Population: 631,040.
- 1917 â City occupied by Ukrainian Tsentral'na Rada, French Army, Red Army, and White Army following the Bolshevik Revolution.
- 1918
- 13 March: Odesa occupied by Central Powers.
- Odesa becomes capital of Odesa Soviet Republic.
- Polytechnic University established.
- December: Odesa occupied by the French Army
- Consulate of Poland opened.
- 1919 â Odesa Film Studio founded.
- 1920 â Red Army in power.
- 1921 â Odesa State Economics University established.
- 1922
- Odesa State Medical Institute established.
- Odesa Zoo opens.
- 1924 â Odesa Philharmonic Theater opens.
- 1926 â State Odesa Russian Drama Theatre established.
- 1928 â Spartak Stadium opens.
- 1933 â School of Stolyarsky established.
- 1935 â Kosior Memorial Stadium built.
- 1936
- The Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases & Tissue Therapy founded.
- Dynamo football club formed.
- 1937 â Mass murder of around 1,000 Poles during the Polish Operation of the NKVD.
- 1941
- August 8-October 16: Siege of Odesa.
- October 17: Axis occupation begins.
- October 22âÂÂ24: 1941 Odesa massacre.
- Odesa becomes capital of Romanian-administered Transnistria Governorate.
- 1944
- April 10: Red Army takes city; Axis occupation ends.
- ODO Odesa football team active.
- Odesa State Maritime Academy founded.
- 1945 â Odesa designated a Hero City of the USSR.
- 1952 â Railway Station rebuilt.
- 1961
- Odesa International Airport built.
- Pushkin Museum opens.
- 1963 â Avangard rugby club formed.
- 1965 â Population: 735,000.
- 1973 â April 10: Humorina festival begins.
- 1979 â Population: 1,072,000.
- 1984 â Deribasivska Street pedestrianized.
- 1985 â Population: 1,126,000.
- 1989 â Outdoor market relocates to Odesa-Ovidiopol highway.
- 1992 â BIPA-Moda basketball club formed.
- 1994
- Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor.
- New music festival begins.
- 1998 â Rouslan Bodelan becomes mayor.
- 1999 â Odesa Numismatics Museum established.
- 2000 â Quarantine Pier designated free economic zone and port.
21st century
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References
Bibliography
Published before 1950
Published since 1950
- Dzhumyga, Ievgen. "The Home Front In Odessa During The Great War (July 1914âÂÂFebruary 1917): The Gender Aspect Of The Problem." Danubius 31 (2013):pp 223+ online
- Herlihy, Patricia. "The ethnic composition of the city of Odessa in the nineteenth century." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 1.1 (1977): 53âÂÂ78.
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