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.