Timeline of Saint Petersburg

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

17th–18th centuries

 * 1611 – Nyenschantz built by Swedes.
 * 1703
 * City founded by Tsar Peter the Great
 * Cabin of Peter the Great built.
 * Artillery museum formed.
 * 1709 – Petrischule founded.
 * 1710 – Saint Sampson's Church built.
 * 1711 – Menshikov Palace opens.
 * 1712
 * City becomes capital of Russian Empire.
 * Winter Palace built.
 * 1714
 * Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences founded.
 * Summer Palace of Peter the Great built.
 * 1716 – Catholic Church of St. Catherine founded.
 * 1718 – Saint Petersburg Police established.
 * 1719 – Summer Garden laid out.
 * 1720
 * Hermitage Bridge opens.
 * New Holland Island created.
 * 1721 – Ligovsky Canal constructed.
 * 1724
 * Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences founded.
 * Saint Petersburg Mint founded.
 * 1725
 * Peterhof Palace built (approximate date).
 * Death of Peter the Great.
 * 1727 – Kunstkamera built.
 * 1728 – State capital moves to Moscow from St. Petersburg.
 * 1731 – Cadet Corps founded.
 * 1732 – State capital moves back to St. Petersburg from Moscow, after only 4 years, and will remain there for nearly two centuries.
 * 1733 – Peter and Paul Cathedral built.
 * 1736 – Fire.
 * 1738 – Imperial Ballet School established.
 * 1740
 * Peter and Paul Fortress built.
 * Mariinsky Ballet founded (approximate date).
 * 1744
 * Lomonosov Porcelain Factory founded.
 * Twelve Collegia built.
 * 1748 – Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery opens.
 * 1754
 * Stroganov Palace built.
 * Anichkov Palace built.
 * Transfiguration Cathedral built.
 * 1756 – Alexandrinsky Theatre founded.
 * 1757
 * Academy of the Three Noblest Arts founded.
 * Vorontsov Palace built.
 * 1759 – Page Corps founded.
 * 1762 – Winter Palace built.
 * 1764
 * Hermitage Museum established.
 * Institute for Noble Maidens founded.
 * 1770
 * Foundling Hospital established.
 * Moika Palace built.
 * 1771 – Chicherin House built.
 * 1773
 * Mining School established.
 * Volkovo Cemetery established.
 * 1774 – Roller coaster pavilion built at Oranienbaum.
 * 1777
 * The Karl Knipper Theatre is founded.
 * The Neva caused flooding.
 * 1779 – Free Russian Theatre opens.
 * 1780
 * Saint Andrew's Cathedral consecrated.
 * Chesme Church built.
 * 1782 – Bronze Horseman monument unveiled.
 * 1783
 * Russian Imperial Opera Orchestra formed.
 * Kamenny Theatre opens.
 * 1785
 * City Duma established.
 * Hermitage Theatre opens.
 * Great Gostiny Dvor built.
 * Marble Palace built.

19th century

 * 1801
 * Friendly Society of Aficionados of Elegance formed.
 * Saint Michael's Castle built.
 * Tsarina's Meadow renamed Field of Mars.
 * 1802 – Saint Petersburg Philharmonia formed.
 * 1804 – Petersburg Pedagogical Institute established.
 * 1805 – Russian Naval Museum established.
 * 1806 – Police Bridge rebuilt.
 * 1807 – Constantine Palace built.
 * 1808 – Smolny Institute building constructed.
 * 1810
 * Military Engineering school established.
 * Stock Exchange built.
 * 1811 – Kazan Cathedral built.
 * 1812 – Syn otechestva begins publication.
 * 1813 – Red Bridge built.
 * 1814
 * Imperial Public Library opens.
 * Narva Triumphal Arch erected.
 * 1818
 * Otechestvennye Zapiski begins publication.
 * Blue Bridge built.
 * Asiatic Museum founded.
 * 1819 – Saint Petersburg University formed.
 * 1822 – Yelagin Palace built.
 * 1823 – Admiralty building rebuilt.
 * 1824 - The Neva caused flooding.
 * 1825
 * December – Interregnum.
 * Decembrist revolt.
 * Northern Bee begins publication.
 * Mikhailovsky Palace built.
 * 1826 – Kamenny Island Theatre building constructed.
 * 1829 – General Staff Building constructed.
 * 1832 – Zoological Museum established.
 * 1833
 * Obvodny Canal opens.
 * Mikhaylovsky Theatre founded.
 * 1834 – Alexander Column unveiled.
 * 1835
 * Imperial School of Jurisprudence founded.
 * Trinity Cathedral built.
 * 1836
 * Sovremennik begins publication.
 * Premiere of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar.
 * 1838 – Moscow Triumphal Gate erected.
 * 1839
 * Observatory opens.
 * Bolshoi Zal built.
 * 1842 – Alexander Park established.
 * 1844 – Mariinsky Palace built.
 * 1848 – Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace expanded.
 * 1850 – Blagoveshchensky Bridge built.
 * 1851
 * Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway begins operating.
 * Nicholaevsky rail terminal opens.
 * 1858 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral built.
 * 1860 – Mariinsky Theatre opens.
 * 1861 – Nicholas Palace built.
 * 1862
 * Saint Petersburg Conservatory founded.
 * New Michael Palace built.
 * November: Premiere of Verdi's opera La forza del destino.
 * 1863 – Pavel Military School established.
 * 1866
 * Vestnik Evropy begins publication.
 * Dostoyevsky's fictional Crime and Punishment published.
 * 1867 – Khlebnikov founded.
 * 1869 - Population: 667,926.
 * 1870 – Riihimäki – Saint Petersburg Railway constructed.
 * 1874 – Premiere of Musorgsky's opera Boris Godunov.
 * 1876 – School of Technical Drawing founded.
 * 1877 – Ciniselli Circus opens.
 * 1878 – Bestuzhev Courses and Stieglitz Museum established.
 * 1879
 * Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography established.
 * Nobel Brothers Petroleum Company headquartered in city.
 * 1881 - Population: 861,303.
 * 1882 – Imperial Music Choir formed.
 * 1888 - Ship canal completed.
 * 1890
 * Saint Petersburg Prison for Solitary Confinement built.
 * Population: 954,400.
 * 1893 - Premiere of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6.
 * 1894 – Ves Peterburg directory begins publication.
 * 1895 – Conversion of Mikhailovsky Palace into Russian Museum.
 * 1897 - Population: 1,267,023.
 * 1900
 * Russian cruiser Aurora launched.
 * Suvorov Museum founded.

1900s–1940s

 * 1905
 * January – Bloody Sunday.
 * October – Saint Petersburg Soviet formed.
 * Population: 1,429,000.
 * 1907 – Electric trams begin operating.
 * 1909 – Na Liteinom Theatre founded.
 * 1910 – March: Soyuz Molodyozhi art exhibit held.
 * 1913 – Population: 2,318,645.
 * 1914 – City renamed "Petrograd."
 * 1916
 * Grigori Rasputin assassinated.
 * Palace Bridge built.
 * 1917
 * February Revolution begins.
 * March – Petrograd Soviet formed.
 * July Days.
 * August – Golos Truda begins publication.
 * October Revolution.
 * 1918
 * State capital moves to Moscow from Petrograd.
 * Osobaya Drammaticheskaya Truppa organized.
 * Ioffe Institute established.
 * 1920 – Theatrical re-enactment of Storming of the Winter Palace.
 * 1921 – Art Culture Museum opens.
 * 1922 – Leningrad Young People's Theatre opens.
 * 1923 – Russian Museum of Ethnography opens.
 * 1924 – City renamed Leningrad.
 * 1928 – Circus museum opens.
 * 1929 – Young Theatre founded.
 * 1931 – Komarov Botanical Institute and Leningrad Radio Orchestra established.
 * 1932
 * Shosseynaya Airport begins operating.
 * Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists and St Petersburg Union of Composers founded.
 * Bolshoy Dom built.
 * Avrora Cinema active.
 * 1934
 * Sergey Kirov assassinated.
 * Leningrad Secondary Art School established.
 * Premiere of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
 * 1936
 * Arctic and Antarctic Museum opens.
 * Memorial Lenin Komsomol Theatre established.
 * 1938 – Museum of History and Development of Leningrad established.
 * 1941
 * Siege of Leningrad begins.
 * Road of Life begins operating.
 * 1942 – Russian Museum of Military Medicine founded.
 * 1944
 * Siege of Leningrad ends.
 * State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales established.
 * 1946 – Moskovsky Victory Park opens.
 * 1949 – Leningrad Affair.

1950s–1990s

 * 1953
 * Pavlovsky District becomes part of city.
 * Pushkin Museum established.
 * 1954 – Levashovo, Pargolovo, and Pesochny become part of city.
 * 1955 – Saint Petersburg Metro begins operating.
 * 1962 – Saint Petersburg TV Tower constructed.
 * 1963 – Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-124 Neva river ditching.
 * 1965 – Population: 3,329,000 city; 3,641,000 urban agglomeration.
 * 1967 – Museum of Electrical Transport established.
 * 1971
 * Dostoevsky Museum opens.
 * Rimsky-Korsakov Museum established.
 * 1974 – Na Fontanke Youth Theatre founded.
 * 1981 – Leningrad Rock Club opens.
 * 1984
 * Teatralnaya laboratoriya founded.
 * Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, United States.
 * 1985 – Population: 4,867,000.
 * 1987
 * Na Neve Theatre opens.
 * Zazerkalie (theatre) opens.
 * 1988 – Xenia of Saint Petersburg canonized.
 * 1989
 * Komedianty Theatre founded.
 * Akhmatova Museum opens.
 * 1990 – Ostrov Theatre opens.
 * 1991
 * City renamed Saint Petersburg.
 * Flag design adopted.
 * Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak becomes mayor.
 * 1993 – Tunnel nightclub opens.
 * 1994
 * Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg formed.
 * St Petersburg Ballet Theatre founded.
 * 1996 – Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlev becomes city governor.
 * 1997 – Toy Museum established.
 * 1998
 * Politician Galina Starovoytova assassinated.
 * Nabokov Museum opens.
 * 2000 – City designated administrative center of Northwestern Federal District.

21st century

 * 2000
 * The 2000 IIHF Men's World Championships are held in Saint Petersburg.
 * 2003
 * Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Beglov becomes city governor, succeeded by Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko.
 * Peter & Paul Jazz Festival begins.
 * Museum of Optical Technologies opens.
 * Saint Petersburg Children´s Hospice opens.
 * 2004
 * Big Obukhovsky Bridge opens.
 * Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art established.
 * 2005 – Gas incident.
 * 2006 – 32nd G8 summit held.
 * 2007 – Dissenters' March.
 * 2008 – Side by Side (film festival) begins.
 * 2009 – Gallery of Contemporary Sculpture and Plastic Arts opens.
 * 2010
 * Yota Space art festival begins.
 * Erarta art museum established.
 * 2011
 * Georgy Sergeyevich Poltavchenko becomes city governor.
 * Saint Petersburg Dam inaugurated.
 * Saint Petersburg Ring Road opens.
 * St. Petersburg International Legal Forum begins.
 * 2013 – September: 2013 G-20 Saint Petersburg summit.
 * 2017
 * A bombing attack hits Saint Petersburg's metro.

Published in 20th century

 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)
 * Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)

Published in 21st century

 * Julie A. Buckler. Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape. 2005
 * George E. Munro. The Most Intentional City: St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008
 * Paul Keenan. St Petersburg and the Russian Court, 1703–1761. 2013
 * Charles Emerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) compares it to 20 major world cities on the eve of World War I; pp 110–132.
 * Catriona Kelly. St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past. 2014
 * Steven Maddox. Saving Stalin's Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad. 2014
 * Steven Maddox. Saving Stalin's Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad. 2014