Timeline of Odesa
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Odesa, Ukraine.
Timeline of Odesa
Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1415–84
Ottoman Empire 1484–1789
Russian Empire 1789–1917
1917-1922 Revolution
UPR Dec 1917–Nov 1918
OSR Jan–March 1918
UkSSR April–Aug 1919
UkSSR Feb 1920–Dec 1922
USSR 1922–41
Kingdom of Romania (occupation) 1941–44
USSR 1944–91
Ukraine 1991–present
13th to 17th century
18th century
- 1764 – Fortress Yeni Dünya built at Khadjibey by Turks.[4][5]
- 1789 – Russian forces take fortress.[5]
- 1791 – Khadjibey annexed to Novorossiya.[5]
- 1794 – Odesa founded by decree of Catherine II of Russia.
- 1795
- Population: 2,250.[4]
- Cathedral of the Transfiguration founded.[6]
19th century
- 1802 – Population: 9,000.[7]
- 1803 – Duc de Richelieu in power.
- 1804 – Commercial school founded.[7]
- 1805
- 1808 – Troitzkaya Church active.[6]
- 1809
- 1812 – Plague.[7]
- 1814 – Population: 25,000.[4]
- 1816 – Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron in power.
- 1817 – Richelieu Lyceum established.[8]
- 1819 – Odesa becomes a free port.[9]
- 1821
- Church of the Dormition built.[citation needed]
- Pogrom against Jews.
- 1824 – Odesa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia".[4]
- 1825 – Archeological Museum founded.[citation needed]
- 1826
- Fyodor Palen in power.
- Jewish school established.[8]
- Richelieu Monument unveiled.
- 1828 – Imperial Rural Association for Southern Russia founded.[10]
- 1830
- Public library established.[11]
- Vorontsov Palace built.
- 1838 – Plague.[12]
- 1841 – Giant Staircase constructed.
- 1846 - Londonska Hotel opens.[citation needed]
- 1847 – Novobazarnaya Church built.[6]
- 1850 – Population: 100,000.[4]
- 1853
- Crimean War begins.
- Roman Catholic Church rebuilt.[6]
- 1854 – Anglo-French fleet attacks Odesa.
- 1856 – Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company established.
- 1857 – August 15: Free port status revoked.[9]
- 1859 – Pogrom against Jews.
- 1862
- Odesa Military District established.
- Vorontsov Lighthouse built.
- 1865 – Imperial Novorossiya University established.[4]
- 1866 – Odesa–Balta railway begins operating.[4]
- 1871
- 1873 – Population: 162,814.[13]
- 1874 – Theatre Velikanova built.
- 1875 – Tzar visits Odesa.[6]
- 1876 – Turkish forces attack Odesa.[4]
- 1880 – Horse tramway begins operating.[citation needed]
- 1881
- Steam tramway begins operating.[citation needed]
- Pogrom against Jews.
- 1882 – Population: 217,000.[14]
- 1887 – Theatre built.[15]
- 1894 – Odesa Committee of the Social Democratic Workers Party organized.[16]
- 1895 – St. Panteleimon church consecrated.[citation needed]
20th century
- 1902 – Cadet School active.[6]
- 1905
- June: Potemkin uprising.
- Pogrom against Jews.[16]
- 1906
- 1907 – Myrograph film studio in business.
- 1910
- 1913
- 1917 – City occupied by Ukrainian Tsentral'na Rada, French Army, Red Army, and White Army following the Bolshevik Revolution.[citation needed]
- 1918
- 13 March: Odesa occupied by Central Powers.[19]
- Odesa becomes capital of Odesa Soviet Republic.
- Polytechnic University established.
- December: Odesa occupied by the French Army
- Consulate of Poland opened.[20]
- 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.[21]
- 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.[citation needed]
- 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.[22]
- 1973 – April 10: Humorina festival begins.[23]
- 1979 – Population: 1,072,000.[24]
- 1984 – Deribasivska Street pedestrianized.
- 1985 – Population: 1,126,000.[25]
- 1989 – Outdoor market relocates to Odesa-Ovidiopol highway.
- 1992 – BIPA-Moda basketball club formed.
- 1994
- Eduard Gurwits becomes mayor.
- New music festival begins.[26]
- 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.[27]
- 2007 – Pryvoz Market rebuilt.[citation needed]
- 2010 – Odesa International Film Festival begins.
- 2011
- Chornomorets Stadium built.
- FC SKA Odesa formed.
- Aleksey Kostusyev becomes mayor.[28]
- Population: 1,003,705.
- 2014 – 2014 Odesa clashes.[29]
- 2014 – after Crimea annexation by Russia, Odesa become the main naval base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.[30]
- 2018 – Population: 993,831 (estimate).[31]
- 2022 – Odesa is being constantly shelled by Russian missiles and the Odesa port is blocked.
- 2025 – On 15 October 2025 on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy decreed that Odesa had been placed under a city military administration headed by Serhiy Lysak.[32] This happens after Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov is removed from office due to him having a Russian passport.[32]
