# Timeline of Odesa

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

## 13th to 17th century

* 1240 – Tatars begin settling herds in the region.
* 1415 – A settlement of Kachibei (Khadjibey, Hacıbey, Kotsiubiyiv) was first mentioned.
* 15th century – Khadjibey ceded to Lithuania.
* 1529 – Ottoman conquest.

## 18th century

* 1764 – Fortress Yeni Dünya built at Khadjibey by Turks.
* 1789 – Russian forces take fortress.
* 1791 – Khadjibey annexed to Novorossiya.
* 1794 – Odessa founded by decree of Catherine II of Russia.
* 1795
** Population: 2,250.
** Cathedral of the Transfiguration founded.

## 19th century

* 1802 – Population: 9,000.
* 1803 – Duc de Richelieu in power.
* 1804 – Commercial school founded.
* 1805
** Odessa becomes administrative center of New Russia.
** Theatre opens.
** Russian Orthodox church built.
* 1808 – Troitzkaya Church active.
* 1809
** Cathedral built.
** Opera house built.
* 1812 – Plague.
* 1814 – Population: 25,000.
* 1816 – Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron in power.
* 1817 – Richelieu Lyceum established.
* 1819 – Odessa becomes a free port.
* 1821
** Church of the Dormition built.
** Pogrom against Jews.
* 1824 – Odessa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia".
* 1825 – Archeological Museum founded.
* 1826
** Fyodor Palen in power.
** Jewish school established.
** Richelieu Monument unveiled.
* 1828 – Imperial Rural Association for Southern Russia founded.
* 1830
** Public library established.
** Vorontsov Palace built.
* 1838 – Plague.
* 1841 – Giant Staircase constructed.
* 1846 - Londonska Hotel opens.
* 1847 – Novobazarnaya Church built.
* 1850 – Population: 100,000.
* 1853
** Crimean War begins.
** Roman Catholic Church rebuilt.
* 1854 – Anglo-French fleet attacks Odessa.
* 1856 – Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company established.
* 1857 – August 15: Free port status revoked.
* 1859 – Pogrom against Jews.
* 1862
** Odessa Military District established.
** Vorontsov Lighthouse built.
* 1865 – Imperial Novorossiya University established.
* 1866 – Odessa-Balta railway begins operating.
* 1871
** Pogrom against Jews.
** Russian Technical Society, Odessa branch, founded.
* 1873 – Population: 162,814.
* 1874 – Theatre Velikanova built.
* 1875 – Tzar visits Odessa.
* 1876 – Turkish forces attack Odessa.
* 1880 – Horse tramway begins operating.
* 1881
** Steam tramway begins operating.
** Pogrom against Jews.
* 1882 – Population: 217,000.
* 1887 – Theatre built.
* 1894 – Odessa Committee of the Social Democratic Workers Party organized.
* 1895 – St. Panteleimon church consecrated.
* 1897 – Lutheran Church built.
* 1899
** General Post Office built.
** Exchange built.
** Bristol Hotel opens.
* 1900 – Population: 449,673.

## 20th century

* 1902 – Cadet School active.
* 1905
** June: Potemkin uprising.
** Pogrom against Jews.
* 1906
** Uprising.
** Municipal Library built.
* 1907 – Myrograph film studio in business.
* 1910
** Electric Tram begins operating.
** Trade fair held.
* 1913
** Conservatoire founded.
** Sergiyev Artillery School active.
** Population: 631,040.
* 1917 – 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 – Odesa Film Studio founded.
* 1920 – Red Army in power.
* 1921 – Odesa State Economics University established.
* 1922
** Odesa State Medical Institute established.
** Odesa Zoo opens.
* 1924 – Odesa Philharmonic Theater opens.
* 1926 – State Odesa 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.
* 1937 – 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 22–24: 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 – Odesa designated a Hero City of the USSR.
* 1952 – Railway Station rebuilt.
* 1961
** Odesa International Airport built.
** Pushkin Museum opens.
* 1963 – Avangard rugby club formed.
* 1965 – Population: 735,000.
* 1973 – April 10: Humorina festival begins.
* 1979 – Population: 1,072,000.
* 1984 – Deribasivska Street pedestrianized.
* 1985 – Population: 1,126,000.
* 1989 – Outdoor market relocates to Odesa-Ovidiopol highway.
* 1992 – BIPA-Moda basketball club formed.
* 1994
** Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor.
** New music festival begins.
* 1998 – Rouslan Bodelan becomes mayor.
* 1999 – Odesa Numismatics Museum established.
* 2000 – Quarantine Pier designated free economic zone and port.

## 21st century

* 2001 – Al-Salam Mosque opens.
* 2003 – Rebuilt Odesa Cathedral consecrated.
* 2005 – Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor again.
* 2007 – Pryvoz Market rebuilt.
* 2010 – Odesa International Film Festival begins.
* 2011
** Chornomorets Stadium built.
** FC SKA Odesa formed.
** Aleksey Kostusyev becomes mayor.
** Population: 1,003,705.
* 2014 – 2014 Odesa clashes.
* 2014 – after Crimea annexation by Russia, Odesa become the main naval base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
* 2018 – Population: 993,831 (estimate).
* 2022 – Odesa is being constantly shelled by Russian missiles and the Odessa port is blocked.