# Timeline of Białystok

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Białystok, Poland.

## Prior to 19th century

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* 1320 - Settlement founded in Lithuania.
* 1569 – part of the Lesser Poland Province of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
* 1692 – Białystok granted city rights by Polish King John III Sobieski
* 1697 - Branicki Palace built.
* 1745 – the first military technical school in Poland founded in Białystok
* 1748 – one of the oldest theaters in Poland, the Komedialnia, founded
* 1749 – King Augustus III of Poland extended the city limits
* 1753 - Center of the city burns down
* 1756 - Jan Klemens Branicki, owner of Białystok, divorces his third wife
* 1763–1768 – Municipal hospital founded by Jan Klemens Branicki.
* 13 July 1769 – Battle of Białystok (1769) [pl], part of the War of the Bar Confederation
* 1770 – midwifery school founded under the auspices of Izabella Poniatowska
* 9 October 1771 – Jan Klemens Branicki dies
* 1776 – Polish 5th Regiment of Fusiliers of Crown Artillery stationed in Białystok.
* 1789 – the epidemic of smallpox, the 22 children died
* 1795 – City annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition of Poland and made the administrative seat of the Białystok Department
* 26 January 1796 – Prussian administration takes over the town, but it remains formally owned by Izabella Poniatowska-Branicka

## 19th century

* 1805 – Institute of Obstetrics established based on the midwifery school
* 1807 - Town becomes part of Russia, per Peace of Tilsit; and capital of the Belostok Oblast.
* 14 February 1808 – Izabella Poniatowska-Branicka dies
* 3 July 1812 – Napoleon's army enters the city,
* 13 July 1812 – Declaration of the inhabitants of communication with the Commonwealth,
* 4 August 1812 – Russian army enters the city
* 8 August 1812 – giving a new coat of the city by Tsar Alexander I
* 13 December 1830 – announcement of martial law by the Russian authorities in connection with the outbreak of the November Uprising,
* 1 February 1831 – setting up headquarters in the Russian army commander, Field Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch, whose task was to suppress the November Uprising
* 1834 – a ban on teaching in schools in the Polish language
* 1842 - City becomes administratively part of the Grodno Governorate.
* 1845 - Woollen mill built.
* 1857 - Population: 13,787.
* 15 December 1859 – Ludwik Zamenhof, the creator of the international language Esperanto, was born
* 13 June 1860 – the beginning of a patriotic demonstration under the banner of national unity and fight against colonization,
* 1861
** 16 March: Prayers were held by local Poles and Jews in memory of Polish protesters massacred by the Russians in Warsaw a few weeks earlier.
** 3 May: The Russians arrested several Polish students during the celebration of the Polish 3 May Constitution Day.
** 9 June: Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, representative of the Whites, arrives in the city
* 1862 – Opening of the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway through the city
* 24 April 1863 – the beginning of the Polish January Uprising in the Białystok area
* 15 February 1864 - Battle of the January Uprising was fought near Białystok.
* 1877 – expanding the city limits: integrated railway station, the village of Piaski and Las Zwierzyniecki
* 1886 – the railway line Bialystok – Vawkavysk – Baranovichi
* 1889 - Population: 56,629.
* 1891 – Launch of the first telephone exchange
* 1895 – launch of three lines of horse tram
* 1897 - Population: 63,927.
* 1898 – establishment of the Volunteer Fire Department

## 20th century
### 1901–1939

* 1901 - Population: 65,781.
* 1905 - Chernoe Znamia political group formed.
* 1906 - 14–16 June: Białystok pogrom of Jews by the Russians.
* 1910 - Białystok Power Station commissioned.
* 1912
** Tsarist prison built.
** Population: 98,170.
* 1913
** City's first Polish scout troop founded.
** Great Synagogue built.
* 1915
** City becomes capital of the Bialystok-Grodno District of the German-controlled territory of Ober-Ost during World War I.
** 29 November: Polish Real Gymnasium founded.
* 1918
** 11–13 November: Poles disarmed the Germans following the restoration of Polish independence.
** 14 November: City re-occupied by Germany.
* 1919
** Białystok part of the re-established Polish state, capital of the Białystok Voivodeship
** Białostoczek becomes part of city.
* 1920
** 22 September: Battle of Białystok - Polish victory over the invading Russian forces.
** Jagiellonia Białystok football club formed.
* 1921 - Białystok confirmed as part of Poland.
* 1928 - Polmos Białystok founded.
* 1934 - Seweryn Nowakowski, considered one of the greatest mayors of Białystok, becomes mayor.
* 1937
** Podlaska Cavalry Brigade of the Polish Army formed and stationed in Białystok.
** Population: 100,101.
* 1938 - Białystok Municipal Theatre built.

### World War II (1939–1945)

* 1939
** September: German occupation after the invasion of Poland, which started World War II
** 20–21 September: The German Einsatzgruppe IV entered the city to commit crimes against the population.
** 22 September: City handed over by the Germans to the Soviet Union in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Soviet occupation begins.
** October: Pre-war mayor Seweryn Nowakowski arrested by the NKVD and probably deported to the USSR; his fate remains unknown.
** November: City annexed to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; and capital of the Belastok Region.
* 1940 - 17 July: Ryszard Kaczorowski, member of the local Polish resistance movement and future President of Poland in exile, arrested by the NKVD.
* 1940–1941 - Mass deportations of some 20,000 Polish citizens by the Russians from the Białystok Fabryczny railway station to the USSR, incl. Siberia (see Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946)).
* 1941
** 27 June: City occupation by German forces begins. On that day, approximately 2,000 to 3,000 of Białystok's Jews were massacred by the Ordnungspolizei.
** City becomes capital of Bezirk Białystok.
** July: Jewish ghetto established by occupying Nazi Germans.
** Autumn: Oflag 57 prisoner-of-war camp moved from Ostrołęka to Białystok.
* 1942
** 25 May: Oflag 57 POW camp dissolved.
** July: Stalag 316 POW camp moved from Wołkowysk to Białystok.
** 2 November: The Germans established a forced labour camp for Jewish men.
* 1943
** February: The German Sicherheitspolizei begins deporations of Poles including teenage boys from the local Nazi prison to the Stutthof concentration camp.
** 20 February: Stalag 316 POW camp dissolved.
** 16 August: Białystok Ghetto Uprising.
** 21 August: Transport of Białystok children. Jewish children deported by the occupiers from Białystok to Theresienstadt concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia.
* 1944
** July: occupied by the Soviets
** mass arrests of Polish resistance members by the Soviets, around 1,200 Poles placed in the local prison by 7 November.
** September: the city returned to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, capital of the part of the Białystok Voivodeship
** 8 November: deportation of 1,030 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Ostashkov.
** 12 November: deportation of 1,014 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Ostashkov.
** 24 November: deportation of 900 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Ostashkov.
** 27 December: deportation of 790 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Novomoskovsk (then Stalinogorsk).
* 1945 - 30 January: deportation of 1,242 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Skopin.

### 1945–2000

* 1946 - Population: 56,759.
* 1948 - Hetman Białystok football club formed.
* 1949 - Podlaskie Museum in Białystok founded.
* 1950 - Medical University of Białystok established.
* 1951 - Gazeta Współczesna newspaper begins publication.
* 1953 - Białystok Puppet Theatre established.
* 1956 - Manifestation of support for the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Mass raising of funds, food, medical supplies and blood donation for Hungarian insurgents (see also Hungary–Poland relations).
* 1960 - Islamic Religious Community in Białystok [pl] established.
* 1972 - Białystok City Stadium opens.
* 1974
** Białystok University of Technology active.
** Population: 187,100.
* 1975 - City becomes capital of the Białystok Voivodeship (1975–98).
* 1990
** Białystok History Museum [pl] founded.
** Lech Rutkowski becomes mayor.
** Piłsudski monument, Białystok [pl] installed at Kościuszko Square.
* 1991 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Białystok established.
* 1992 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Białystok elevated to Archdiocese.
* 1998 - Population: 283,937 (estimate).
* 1999 - City becomes capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship.

## 21st century

* 2004 - City divided into 27 administrative districts.
* 2006 - Tadeusz Truskolaski becomes mayor.
* 2008 - Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok created.
* 2009
** Zamenhof Centre opens.
** World Congress of Esperanto held in city.
* 2011 - 4 March: Honorary Consulate of Croatia opened (see Croatia–Poland relations).
* 2012 - Population: 294,900.
* 2013 - 10 July: Honorary Consulate of Finland opened (see Finland–Poland relations).
* 2015 - December: Honorary Consulate of Luxembourg opened (see Luxembourg–Poland relations).
* 2018
** 1 March: Danuta Siedzikówna monument unveiled.
** 11 April: Monument to the victims of Soviet deportations of Poles during World War II unveiled at the Białystok Fabryczny railway station.
* 2020 - Monument to Polish mothers deported to Siberia unveiled.
* 2021 - 19 September: Khachkar commemorating the victims of the Armenian genocide and Armenian soldiers fallen in the battle for Artsakh unveiled.
* 2022
** 29 May: Monument to soldiers of the pre-war Polish 42nd Infantry Regiment-footballers of Jagiellonia Białystok unveiled in front of the municipal stadium.
** 23 June: Honorary Consulate of Kazakhstan opened (see Kazakhstan–Poland relations).
** 29 June: Honorary Consulate of Serbia opened (see Poland–Serbia relations).
* 2023
** 24 May: Polish–Uzbekistani Historical Commission founded (see Poland–Uzbekistan relations).
** 23 November: Honorary Consulate of Latvia opened (see Latvia–Poland relations).
* 2024 - 25 May: Jagiellonia Białystok won its first Polish football championship.