Timeline of Saint Petersburg

• 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. ==20th century==

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. ==See also==