Timeline of Vilnius

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vilnius, Lithuania.

Prior to 17th century

1323
- Gediminas relocates Lithuanian capital to Vilnius from Trakai.[1]
- Castle on Gediminas Hill expanded.
1330 - Coat of arms of Vilnius granted.
1345 - Pyatnitzkaya Church built.[2]
1348 - Cathedral of the Theotokos built.
1387
- Magdeburg rights granted.
- St. Nicholas Church built.
1397 - Cathedral School active (approximate date).
1409 - Gediminas' Tower built.
1426 - Church of St. John built.[2]
1469 - Church of Saints Bernard and Francis founded.[2]
1500 - St. Anne's Church consecrated.
1522
- City walls and Gate of Dawn built.
- Francysk Skaryna sets up printing press.
1555 - Lutheran Church built on Nyemetzkaya Street.[2]
1557 - Vilnius Cathedral rebuilt.
1560 - St. Paraskeva Church rebuilt.
1588 - Plague.[1]
1570 - Jesuit library established.
1572 - Synagogue built.
1579 - Alma Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Iesu founded.
1597 - Monastery of the Holy Ghost founded.[2]

17th-18th centuries

1610 - Fire.[1]
1626 - Church of St. Theresa founded.[2]
1630 - All Saints Church built.
1633 - Great Synagogue built.
1644 - Biblioteca Sapehana willed to Vilnia University.[3]
1653 - Radziwill Palace built.
1655 - July: Battle of Vilnius; Russians in power.[1]
1656 - Town becomes part of Russia.[1]
1658 - Battle of Werki.
1697 - Sapieha Palace built.
1701 - St. Peter and St. Paul's Church built.
1702 - Swedes in power.[1]
1710 - Plague.
1739 - Green Bridge constructed.
1749 - Divine Mercy Sanctuary built.
1781 - University Botanical Garden established.
1788 - Russians in power.[1]
1794 - Wilno Uprising.
1795
- Town becomes part of Russia, and capital of Vilna Governorate.
- St. Paraskeva Church rebuilt.
1799
- Town Hall rebuilt.
- Romm publishing house relocates to Vilnius.

19th century

1801
- Rasos Cemetery consecrated.
- Royal Palace demolished.
1809 - Antakalnis Cemetery established.
1810 - Bernardine Cemetery established.
1812
- Napoleon uses city as military base.[4]
- Vilnian National Guard formed.
1823 - Population: 20,900.[5]
1825 - Tuskulenai Manor built.
1828 - Jewish cemetery established in Uzupis (approximate date).
1831 - Uprising.[1]
1832 - University closed.[1]
1834 - Presidential Palace renovated.
1836 - St. George Avenue laid out.
1845 - Theatre opens.[2]
1852 - Central Archive of Early Register Books established.[6]
1855 - Museum of Antiquities established.
1856 - Public library established.[7]
1861 - Demonstration against Russian Empire.
1863 - Uprising against Russian Empire.
1866 - St. Nicholas Orthodox Church reconsecrated.
1867 - Pretchistenski Cathedral rebuilt.[2]
1881 - Population: 89,560.[8]
1883 - Population: 93,760.[1]
1897 - Jewish Labor Bund founded in Vilnius.[9]
1898 - St. Alexander Nevsky Church and District Court built.[2]
1900 - Population: 162,633.[1]

20th century

1901 - Kaziukas Fair relocates to Place Lukiskim.
1903 - Power Plant, Choral Synagogue and Our Lady of the Sign Church built.
1904 - Prison built.
1905 - December: Great Seimas of Vilnius held.
1906
- Society of Friends of Science organized.
- Vileisis Palace built.
1907 - Lithuanian Art Society founded.[10]
1911 - St. Casimir Church, Naujoji Vilnia built.
1913
- Orthodox Church of St. Michael and St. Constantine built.
- Population: 204,290.[11]
1915
- 19 September: Germans in power.[12]
- City becomes capital of Lithuania District.
1916 - Vilna Troupe active.
1918
- 16 February: Lithuania declares independence from German Empire.
- Museum of History and Ethnography established.
1919
- April: Vilna offensive by Polish army.
- Central Library of Lithuania organized.[13]
- Jablkowski Brothers department store opens.
1920 - October: Zeligowski's Mutiny.
1925
- Darius Stadium opens.
- Elektrit Radiotechnical Society, Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vilnius, and Yiddish Scientific Institute established.
- 6 May: School massacre.
1926 - City becomes capital of Wilno Voivodeship.
1928 - Northern Trade Fair begins.
1931 - Population: 195,000.
1933
- City Museum established.
- Smigly Wilno soccer team formed.
1939
- Soviets in power.
- Vilnius Pedagogical Institute established.
1940
- City becomes capital of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Vilnius State Theatre established.
1941
- June: Germans in power.
- July: Ponary massacre begins.[14]
1942 - Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye formed in Vilna Jewish Ghetto.
1943 - HKP 562 forced labor camp set up by Germans.
1944
- 6–15 July: Operation Ostra Brama; Soviets in power.
- Airport begins operating.
1945 - Music School founded.
1946 - Russian Drama Theatre reestablished.
1950 - Zalgiris Stadium opens.
1951 - Vilnius Heat Plant commissioned.
1955 - Seskine village becomes part of city.
1956
- Trolleybuses begin operating.
- Vilnius Gediminas Technical University established.
1963
- National Library of Lithuania relocates to Vilnius.[13]
- Polish Theater founded.
1964 - Statyba basketball team formed.
1965
- Zirmunai Bridge constructed.
- Vingis Park renovated.
- Population: 293,000.[15]
1967 - Technika (publisher) established.
1968 - Ratilio ensemble formed.
1971 - Palace of Concerts and Sports opens.
1972 - Valakampiai Bridge constructed.
1974
- Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre built.
- Evangelical Cemetery demolished.
1979 - Population: 503,000.[16]
1980 - Seimas Palace and Vilnius TV Tower built.
1983 - Vilnius Combined Heat and Power Plant commissioned.
1985 - Population: 544,000.[17]
1987 - Vilnius Jazz Festival begins.
1989 - Jewish State Museum established.
1990
- 11 March: Lithuania declares independence from USSR.
- Vilnius Lyceum and Vilniaus lietuviu namai (school) established.
1991 - January: City besieged by Soviet forces.
1992
- Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania[18] and Verkiai Regional Park established.
- Museum of Genocide Victims opens.
1994 - Military Academy of Lithuania established.
1995 - Alis Vidunas becomes mayor.
1997
- 1 April: Uzupis neighborhood declares itself an independent republic.
- Rolandas Paksas becomes mayor.
- Kalnai Park established.
1999
- Vilnius Book Fair begins.
- Juozas Imbrasas becomes mayor.
2000
- House of the Signatories museum opens.
- Arturas Zuokas becomes mayor.

21st century

2001 - Sportima Arena opens.
2002
- Vilnius Ice Palace opens.
- Energy and Technology Museum established.
2003
- Mindaugas Bridge opens.
- 750th anniversary of coronation of Mindaugas.
- FK Vetra relocates to Vilnius.
2004
- Siemens Arena and Vetra Stadium open.
- European Humanities University relocates to Vilnius.
- Europa Tower built.
- Mykolas Romeris University and Vilnius Academy of Business Law established.
- Vilnius Marathon begins.
2005 - Lietuvos rytas Arena opens.
2006 - May: City hosts regional democracy conference.
2007
- Juozas Imbrasas becomes mayor again.
- Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center opens.
2008
- February: City hosts NATO meeting.
- Vilnius Airport railway station opens.
- Gariunai Market pavilion built.
2009
- Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania rebuilt.
- City designated a European Capital of Culture.
2011
- Vilniaus viesasis transportas (bus company) established.
- Population: 554,060.
- Arturas Zuokas becomes mayor again.[19]
2015 - Remigijus Šimašius becomes mayor.

References

Britannica 1910.
Baedeker 1910.
Marcia J. Bates, ed. (2010), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127
E. J. Harrison (1922), "Topographical Outline", Lithuania, past and present, London: Unwin
Morse 1823.
Grimsted 1979.
"Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 477–478. Vilna
"Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
James C. Docherty; Peter Lamb (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Socialism (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6477-1.
Chris Michaelides, ed. (2007). "Chronology of the European Avant Garde, 1900─1937". Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937. Online Exhibitions. British Library.
"Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. p. 523+. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
"History". Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
"Vilnius". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
"Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania". Retrieved 3 December 2012.
"Mayor". Vilniu City. Retrieved 13 May 2013.

This article incorporates information from the Lithuanian Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, and Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Wilna", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
"Wilna", Jewish Encyclopedia, 12, New York, 1907
"Vilna", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
"Vilna", Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
William Henry Beable (1919), "Vilna", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (1979). "The Archival Legacy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: The Fate of Early Historical Archives in Vilnius". Slavonic and East European Review. 57.

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[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-1] Britannica 1910.

[FOOTNOTEBaedeker1910-2] Baedeker 1910.

[bates2010-3] Marcia J. Bates, ed. (2010), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127

[4] E. J. Harrison (1922), "Topographical Outline", Lithuania, past and present, London: Unwin

[FOOTNOTEMorse1823-5] Morse 1823.

[FOOTNOTEGrimsted1979-6] Grimsted 1979.

[7] "Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 477–478. Vilna

[8] "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.

[Docherty2006-9] James C. Docherty; Peter Lamb (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Socialism (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6477-1.

[michaelides2007-10] Chris Michaelides, ed. (2007). "Chronology of the European Avant Garde, 1900─1937". Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937. Online Exhibitions. British Library.

[11] "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.

[12] Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. p. 523+. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.

[NLL-13] "History". Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

[yivo-14] "Vilnius". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved 30 April 2015.

[15] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.

[Morton1984-16] Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.

[17] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.

[18] "Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania". Retrieved 3 December 2012.

[19] "Mayor". Vilniu City. Retrieved 13 May 2013.