Timeline of Białystok


 * This is a sub-article to History of Białystok

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

Prior to 19th century

 * 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 –, 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

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 - 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 - 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
 * founded.
 * becomes mayor.
 * 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).
 * 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.
 * 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).