Timeline of Minsk

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Minsk, Belarus.

Prior to 19th century

 * 1066 - Vladimir the Great, Prince of Kiev, devastates the town.
 * 1067 - The Battle on the Nemiga River occurs near Minsk.
 * 1101 - Gleb Vseslavich becomes the prince of Minsk.
 * 1104 - Town besieged by Kiev forces.
 * 1115 - Town besieged by Kiev forces again.
 * 1129 - Town becomes part of Kievan Rus'.
 * 1242 - Town becomes part of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
 * 1413 - Minsk becomes part of the Vilnius Voivodeship.
 * 1441 - City charter granted.
 * 1499 - Magdeburg rights granted.
 * 1505 - City besieged by Crimean Khanate army.
 * 1508 - City besieged by Muscovy forces.
 * 1552 - Town privileges extended.
 * 1566 - City becomes capital of Minsk Voivodeship.
 * 1569 - City becomes part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
 * 1591 - granted.
 * 1616 - founded.
 * 1642 - Holy Spirit Cathedral (Minsk) built.
 * 1654 - Russo-Polish War (1654–1667): City occupied by the Russians.
 * 1667 - City restored to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
 * 1673 - Church built at Kalvaryja.
 * 1685 - Yeshiva founded.
 * 1708 - Great Northern War: City occupied by the Swedes.
 * 1709 - Great Northern War: City occupied by the Russians.
 * 1710 - Jesuit church built.
 * 1775 - 3rd Lithuanian Infantry Regiment stationed in Minsk.
 * 1789 - 1st Lithuanian National Cavalry Brigade stationed in Minsk.
 * 1790 - 1st Lithuanian National Cavalry Brigade relocated from Minsk to Kiejdany.
 * 1791 - 4th Lithuanian Infantry Regiment relocated from Borysów to Minsk.
 * 1792 - 4th Lithuanian Infantry Regiment relocated from Minsk to Słuck.
 * 1793
 * City annexed by the Russian Empire following the Second Partition of Poland.
 * Orthodox Diocese of Minsk (Belarusian Orthodox Church) established.
 * 1796 - City becomes capital of Minsk Governorate.
 * 1798 - Catholic diocese of Minsk formed.

19th century

 * 1801 - Independence Avenue (Minsk) opened, then called Zahariy Street
 * 1805 - Governor's Garden established.
 * 1808 - Kalvaryja cemetery in use (approximate date).
 * 1812
 * Napoleon in power.
 * November: Russian forces oust the French.
 * 1821 - Population: 2,000 (approximate).
 * 1825 - Pischalauski Castle built, now a prison.
 * 1827 - Population: 3,000 (approximate).
 * 1831 - Polish November Uprising.
 * 1836 - established.
 * 1837 - Fire brigade in operation.
 * 1838 - Minskiye gubernskiye vedomosti newspaper begins publication.
 * 1840 - Military Cemetery established.
 * 1844 - Theatre opens.
 * 1845
 * Public library established.
 * Population: 20,000 (approximate).
 * 1846 - Moscow-Warsaw road laid out.
 * 1857 - Greek Catholic Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul rebuilt.
 * 1860 - Population: 27,000.
 * 1864 - Church of Holy Trinity consecrated.
 * 1871 – Minsk railway station opened.
 * 1872 - Municipal water supply introduced.
 * 1873 - Vilnius railway station built.
 * 1882 - Population: 53,328.
 * 1886 -  newspaper begins publication.
 * 1890 - Kupala Theatre opens.
 * 1892 – Horse tram begins operating.
 * 1897 - Population: 91,494.
 * 1898 - Russian Social Democratic Labour Party founded in Minsk.

1900s-1940s

 * 1902 - "All-Russian Congress of Zionists" held in Minsk.
 * 1910 - Church of Saints Simon and Helena consecrated.
 * 1911 - Tolstoy library founded.
 * 1913 - Population: 117,600.
 * 1914 - Minsk teachers institute founded.
 * 1917
 * November: "Bolshevik troops arrive in Minsk."
 * December: First All-Belarusian Congress meets in city.
 * 1918
 * February: German forces oust Bolsheviks.
 * 25 March: "First All-Belarusian Congress declares independence of the Belarusian Democratic Republic."
 * 1919
 * 8 January: City becomes capital of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
 * August: City captured by Polish troops during Operation Minsk, part of the Polish–Soviet War.
 * 1920
 * July: Soviet forces take city.
 * Belarusian State Polytechnic Institute established.
 * Theatre opens.
 * 1921
 * Aleksandrovsky, Lyakhovsky, and Central administrative districts created.
 * Belarusian State University established.
 * City hosts first All-Belarusian Conference of Librarians.
 * 1923 - founded.
 * 1924 - Consulate-General of Poland established.
 * 1926 - January: City hosts first Congress of Belarusian Archeologists and Archeographers.
 * 1927 - Sovetskaya Belorussiya newspaper begins publication.
 * 1929 – Electric tram begins operating.
 * 1930 - Minsk State Medical Institute founded.
 * 1931 - Belarusian Young Spectators' Theatre established.
 * 1932 - Belarusian State Conservatory,, and Kamaroúski Park established.
 * 1933
 * Minsk-1 Airport begins operating.
 * Opera and Ballet Theatre and Belarusian Institute for National Economy established.
 * 1934
 * Dynama Stadium built.
 * Government House, Minsk completed.
 * 1937 - Kurapaty death camp begins operating near city.
 * 1938 - Kaganovich, Stalin, and Voroshilov administrative districts created.
 * 1939
 * Soviet Belarus film studio relocates to Minsk.
 * National Opera and Ballet of Belarus building opens.
 * Belarusian State Art Gallery established.
 * Population: 238,948.
 * 1940 - Soviet executions of Polish officers and intelligentsia during the Katyn massacre.
 * 1941
 * June: Bombing of Minsk.
 * June 28: German occupation begins.
 * July 17: Reichskommissariat Ostland established.
 * July 20: Minsk Ghetto established.
 * August: Forced labour camp for Jews established.
 * 1942
 * January: Stalag 352 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.
 * May: Maly Trostenets extermination camp in operation.
 * 1943
 * State Archive for Film established.
 * November: Stalag 352 camp dissolved.
 * 1944
 * 4 July: Red Army takes city.
 * Minsk Automobile Plant established.
 * Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum opens.
 * Zvyazda newspaper in publication.
 * 1945 - Belarus Theatrical Institute founded.
 * 1946
 * Minsk Tractor Works established.
 * Belarusian Institute of Technology relocates to Minsk.
 * 1948 - Minsk Institute for Foreign Languages founded.

1950s-1990s

 * 1950
 * Yanka Kupala Park and Pobieda Kino (cinema) established.
 * Tarpeda Stadium built.
 * active.
 * 1954
 * Minsk Wheeled Tractor Plant founded.
 * Victory Square monument erected.
 * 1955
 * Children's Railroad opens.
 * Vasily Ivanovich Sharapov becomes mayor.
 * 1957 - Belarusian State History Museum established.
 * 1959
 * Minsk Refrigerator Plant established.
 * Population: 509,667.
 * 1961 - October Square, Minsk construction completed.
 * 1963 - MKAD (Minsk) ring road constructed.
 * 1964 - Radioengineering Institute established.
 * 1967 - Vecherniy Minsk newspaper begins publication.
 * 1968 - Stadium of the VSS Red Banner opens.
 * 1970
 * Belarusian State Musical Comedy Theatre active.
 * Population: 917,428.
 * 1971 - Belarus Optical & Mechanical Enterprise founded.
 * 1979
 * Belarusian History Museum opens.
 * Population: 1,333,000.
 * 1981 - Biennial puppet festival begins.
 * 1982 - Minsk National Airport begins operating.
 * 1984
 * Minsk Metro begins operating.
 * Minsk Zoo opens.
 * 1988 - 30 October: Demonstration; crackdown.
 * 1989
 * 19 February: "Rally of 'informals.'"
 * 30 September: Environmental protest.
 * 1989 - Population: 1,607,077.
 * 1990 - Public Library of the City of Minsk established.
 * 1991
 * April: Labor strike.
 * City becomes capital of Republic of Belarus.
 * City "becomes the headquarters of the successor to the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States."
 * State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (KGB HQ) formed.
 * Belarusian Nature and Environment Museum and Academy of Public Administration founded.
 * 1992 - International Sakharov Environmental University and Republican Institute for Vocational Education established.
 * 1993
 * July: Belarusians of the World congress held in city.
 * Listapad (Minsk International Film Festival) begins.
 * 1994 - Polish Institute in Minsk established.
 * 1995 - Vladimir Yermoshin becomes mayor.
 * 1996
 * November: "Chernobyl march."
 * National Academic Bolshoi Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus and National Academic Opera Theatre of Belarus formed.
 * 1999
 * 30 May: Nyamiha metro disaster.
 * built.
 * 2000
 * 15 March: Political demonstration held.
 * Mikhail Pavlov becomes mayor.
 * Darida Stadium opens.

2000s

 * 2001 - March: Anti-Lukashenko demonstration.
 * 2002
 * Minsk Passazhirsky railway station and Football Manege arena built.
 * MKAD (Minsk) ring road rebuilt.
 * Independence Square, Minsk reconstruction completed.
 * October: Library of the Polish Institute in Minsk established.
 * 2004
 * Kurapaty monument installed.
 * IIHF World U18 Championships held.
 * 2005 - 14 May: Water féerie demonstration.
 * 2006
 * March: Jeans Revolution.
 * November: Summit of Commonwealth of Independent States.
 * National Library of Belarus building opens.
 * 2007 - March: Anti-Lukashenko demonstration.
 * 2008 - 4 July: Bombing.
 * 2009 - Ў Gallery founded.

2010s

 * 2010
 * December: Post-election demonstration.
 * Minsk-Arena opens.
 * becomes mayor.
 * 2011
 * 11 April: Metro bombing.
 * Protests against Lukashenko regime.
 * 2012
 * 4 July: Teddy bear airdrop.
 * Population: 1,901,700.
 * 2014
 * May: 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship held in city.
 * Andrei Shorets becomes mayor.
 * Population: 1,921,807 city; 2,101,018 metro.
 * 2015 - 12 February: International meeting produces ceasefire agreement ("Minsk II") related to the War in Donbass.
 * 2019 - Minsk hosts the 2019 European Games.