# Timeline of Iași

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Iași, Romania.

## Before the 20th century

* 1408 – Iași first mentioned in a document.
* 1513 – Town "burned by the Tatars."
* 1538 – Town sacked by Turks.
* 1541 – Dancu Monastery founded.
* 1562 – Socola Monastery built.
* 1564 – Seat of Moldavian principality relocated to Iași from Suceava by Alexandru Lăpușneanu (approximate date).
* 1628 – Bârnova Monastery built.
* 1639 – Trei Ierarhi Monastery built.
* 1640 – Vasilian College founded.
* 1640s – Printing press in operation.
* 1642 – Synod of Iași
* 1660 – Golia Monastery built.
* 1670 – Great Synagogue built.
* 1686 – Town sacked by Russians.
* 1710 – July: Forces muster near Iași at start of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11.
* 1707 – Princely Academy of Iași founded.
* 1739 – City taken by Russians.
* 1752 – Church of Saint Spiridon [ro] built.
* 1755 – Saint Spiridon Hospital [ro] established.
* 1769 – City taken by Russians.
* 1792 – 9 January: Treaty of Jassy signed in city, ending Russo-Turkish War (1787–92).
* 1806 – Iași occupied by Russian forces.
* 1813 – First engineering classes at the School of Surveying and Civil Engineers (part of the Princely Academy)
* 1822 – City besieged by Turkish forces.
* 1827 – Fire.
* 1828 – City taken by Russians.
* 1832 – The first theatre, the Théâtre des Variétés (Iași), is inaugurated.
* 1833
** Physicians and Naturalists Society [ro] founded.
** Roznovanu Palace built.
* 1834
** Academia Mihăileană founded.
** Copou Park laid out.
* 1844 – Fire.
* 1846 – Iași National Theatre in the Copou Theatre [ro] opens.
* 1855
** Normal School "Vasile Lupu" Iași [ro] established.
** Yiddish-language Korot Haitim newspaper begins publication.
* 1856 – Iași Botanical Garden established.
* 1859 – City becomes seat of the Romanian United Principalities.
* 1860
** University of Iași founded.
** Music and Declamation School and School for Sculpture and Painting founded.
* 1861 – Seat of Romanian government relocated from Iași to Bucharest.
* 1864 – Central State Library of Iași in operation.
* 1870 – Iași railway station opens.
* 1884 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Iași founded.
* 1887 – Metropolitan Cathedral consecrated.
* 1888 – 17 February: Copou Theatre [ro] burns down.
* 1896 – Iași National Theatre building constructed.
* 1900
** Electric Trams in Iași [ro] begin operating.
** Population: 78,067.

## 20th century

* 1906 – Toynbee Hall Association founded.
* 1916
** Capital of Kingdom of Romania relocated to Iași from Bucharest.
** Moldova History Museum [ro] established.
* 1918 – Jassy Conference
* 1918 – Capital of Romania relocated from Iași back to Bucharest.
* 1920 – Tătărași Athenaeum founded.
* 1923 – Iași Exhibition Park opens.
* 1925 – Palace of Justice built.
* 1927 – Union Monument and Attacking Cavalryman Statue unveiled.
* 1937 – Polytechnic Institute established.
* 1941 – 27 June: Iași pogrom of Jews.
* 1943 – Ethnographic Museum of Moldavia [ro] established.
* 1944 – 21 August: City taken by Soviet forces.
* 1946 - Gara Socola [ro] (railway station) built.
* 1948 - Population: 94,075.
* 1949 – Puppet Theatre opens.
* 1950 – Gara Nicolina [ro] (railway station) built.
* 1956 – Romanian National Opera debuts.
* 1957 – Iași Museum of Art [ro] moves into the Palace of Culture.
* 1960 – Stadionul Emil Alexandrescu (stadium) opens.
* 1964 – Population: 123,558 city; 157,017 urban agglomeration.
* 1970 – Moldova Mall in business.
* 1977 – Population: 264,947 city; 284,308 urban agglomeration.
* 1992 – Population: 344,425.
* 1995 – Polirom publisher in business.
* 2000 – Iulius Mall Iași in business.

## 21st century

* 2002 – Population: 320,888.
* 2010 – CSM Studențesc Iași football club formed.
* 2011 – Population: 290,422.
* 2012 – Palas Iași shopping mall in business.
* 2014 – Iași–Ungheni gas pipeline launched.