Timeline of Moscow
Prior to 16th century
{{History of Russia}}
- 1147 – Yuri Dolgoruki had a meeting with Sviatoslav Olgovich in a place called Moscow. First mentioning about Moscow in manuscript.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1237 – The 'grad of Moscow' destroyed by the Mongols.
- 1272 – Daniil Aleksandrovich becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1283 – Grand Duchy of Moscow territory established.
- 1300 – The Kremlin, or fort, was enclosed by a strong wall of earth and timber.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1303 – Yuriy Danilovich becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1325 – Seat of "metropolitan of Central Russia" relocated to Moscow.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1327 – Uspensky Church consecrated.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1328 – Ivan I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1333 – St. Michael cathedral built.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1339 – The 'grad of Moscow' rebuilt in oak.
- 1341 – Simeon Ivanovich Gordyi becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1353 – Ivan II becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1358 – Chudov Monastery founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1362 – Dmitry Donskoy becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1367 – Moscow Kremlin (citadel) founded.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1369 – Moscow besieged.{{sfn|Townsend|1867}}
- 1382 – Siege of Moscow (1382).{{sfn|Townsend|1867}}
- 1386 – Nativity Convent (Rozhdestvensky convent) founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1389
- Vasily I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- Ascension Convent founded in the Kremlin (approximate date).
- 1397
- Sretensky Monastery founded.
- Blagovyeshchensk Cathedral built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1425 – Vasily II becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1462 – Ivan III becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1479 – Dormition Cathedral built in the Kremlin.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1491 – Spasskaya Gate built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1492 – Palace of Facets (Granovitaya Palata) – state banqueting hall.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1495 – "Dungeons built under the Kremlin's Trinity Tower."{{cite book|author= Mitchel P. Roth |title=Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood |isbn=978-0-313-32856-5 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=RTH31DgbTzgC&pg=PR31 }}
16th–17th centuries
- 1502 – 14 April: Coronation of Ivan III as Grand Prince of Moscow.
- 1505 – Vasili III becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1508 – Cathedral of the Archangel{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} and Ivan the Great Bell Tower built.
- 1520 – Moscow said to contain "45,000 houses and 100,000 inhabitants".{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1524/5 – Novodevichy Convent constructed.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1533 – Ivan the Terrible becomes Grand Prince of Moscow.{{sfn|Voyce|1964}}
- 1547
- City becomes capital of the grand duchy of Russia.
- Fire.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1555 – Muscovy Trading Company of England active.
- 1560 – Saint Basil's Cathedral built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}{{Cite book |publisher = University of Oklahoma Press |location = USA |title = Art and Architecture of Medieval Russia |author = Arthur Voyce |date = 1967 |ol = 5983977M }}
- 1564 – Ivan Fyodorov (printer) active; Moscow Print Yard established.
- 1571 – City taken by Tartar forces from Crimea.{{sfn|Townsend|1867}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1576 – Paper mill established.{{cite book|author=Wilhelm Sandermann|title=Papier: Eine spannende Kulturgeschichte|year= 2013|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-3-662-09193-7 |language=de |chapter=Beginn der Papierherstellung in einigen Landern |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2atBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA121 }} (timeline)
- 1591 – Donskoy Monastery founded.
- 1593 – Bely Gorod wall built.
- 1598 – Time of Troubles (ended 1613).
- 1600 – Zaikonospassky monastery founded.
- 1601 – Famine.
- 1611 – City taken by forces of Sigismund III of Poland.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1612 – Moscow Uprising of 1612.
- 1636 – Kazan Cathedral consecrated.
- 1652
- Nativity Church at Putinki built.
- German Quarter developed near city.
- 1656 – Church of the Twelve Apostles dedicated in the Kremlin.
- 1661 – Saviour Cathedral built.
- 1662 – Copper Riot.
- 1672 – Chorina Comedy Theatre is founded.
- 1682 – Moscow Uprising of 1682.
- 1687 – Greek Latin School established.
- 1689 – Moscow Theological Academy Library established.{{cite book|title= American Library Annual |year= 1916 |publisher= R.R. Bowker Co. |location= New York |chapter= Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland |pages= 477–478 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=S03QAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA477 }}
- 1692 – Vysokopetrovsky Monastery katholikon (church) built.
- 1698 – Streltsy Uprising.
18th century
- 1701 – Sukharev Tower built.
- 1702 – Public theatre active.
- 1703
- Vedomosti newspaper begins publication.
- Peter the Great "encounters opposition" in Moscow which compels him to leave.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1708 – Moscow Governorate established.
- 1712 – Russian capital relocated from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.
- 1721 – Moscow Synodal Choir founded.
- 1728 – Russian capital moved back to Moscow under influence of the Supreme Privy Council.
- 1732 – Russian capital relocated back to Saint Petersburg.
- 1735 – Tsar Bell cast.
- 1739 – Fire.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1742 – Rampart built.
- 1748 – Fire.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}{{sfn|Nugent|1749}}
- 1750 – Population: (approx) 150,000.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1752 – Fire.{{Citation |publisher = Prentice Hall |location = New York |title = New York Public Library Book of Chronologies |author = Bruce Wetterau |date = 1990 |ol=1885709M |chapter=Fires |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/newyorkpubliclib00wett#page/510/mode/1up }}
- 1755 – Imperial University founded.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1764 – Foundling Hospital built.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1764 – Moscow Orphanage founded.
- 1765 – Novodevichii Institute founded.
- 1765 – Maiden Field Theatre founded.
- 1766 – Russian Theatre founded.
- 1769 – Znamensky Theatre founded.
- 1771
- Chudov Monastery re-built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- Plague.
- September: Plague Riot.
- Vvedenskoye Cemetery in use (approximate date).
- 1772 – Commercial School founded.{{sfn|Martin|2013}}
- 1773 – Catherine Palace reconstruction begins.
- 1775 – Platon Levshin becomes Metropolitan of Moscow.
- 1777 – Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery inaugurated near city.
- 1780 – Petrovsky Palace founded.
- 1782 – Police Board established.{{sfn|Martin|2013}}
- 1786 – Pashkov House built.
- 1787 – Senate House built.{{sfn|Murray|1888}}
- 1790 – Peterburskoye Schosse road paved.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- 1792 – Tverskaya Square laid out.
19th century
- 1805 – Moscow Society of Naturalists founded.{{cite book|author=Joseph Bradley|title= Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism and Civil Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJGhz6w9sYwC|year=2009|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-03279-8}}
- 1806 – Maly Theatre founded.
- 1809 – Shchepkin Theatre School established.
- 1812
- French invasion.
- September: Fire of Moscow (1812).{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- Population: 250,000 {{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1816 – Kremlin rebuilt.{{sfn|Townsend|1867}}
- 1817 – Excise office built.{{sfn|Townsend|1867}}
- 1821 – Philaret Drozdov becomes Metropolitan of Moscow.
- 1823 – Alexander Garden laid out.
- 1825 – Bolshoi Theatre opens.
- 1830 – Moscow Craft School established.
- 1849 – Grand Kremlin Palace built.
- 1851
- Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway begins operating.{{sfn|Townsend|1867}}
- Saint Petersburg railway station and Kremlin Armoury building constructed.
- 1856
- The Russian Messenger (literary magazine) begins publication.
- Tretyakov Gallery initiated.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1861
- Petushki–Moscow railway built.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- Public museum established.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1862
- Nizhny Novgorod-Moscow railway built.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- Rumiantsev Library established.
- Moscow Yaroslavsky railway station built.
- 1864 – Kazansky railway station opens.
- 1865
- Golitzyn museum established.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- Industrial exhibit held.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- Tolstoy's War and Peace begins publication in The Russian Messenger.
- 1866 – Moscow Conservatory and Moscow Merchant Bank{{cite book|editor=William Craft Brumfield|title=Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861–1914 |year=2001|publisher=Woodrow Wilson Center Press |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=978-0-8018-6750-7 |chapter=Banking Network of Moscow |author=Yuri A. Petrov |display-editors=etal}} founded.
- 1867 – Einem brothers chocolate factory founded.
- 1868 – Borodinsky Bridge built.
- 1870 – Belorussky railway station opens.
- 1871
- Trade Bank founded.
- Population: 611,970.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1880 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Russia |hdl=2027/nyp.33433081590436 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book }}
- 1872
- State Historical Museum founded.
- Moscow University for Women founded.
- 1877 – Premiere of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet.
- 1878 – Sokolniki Park established.
- 1880 – Pushkin statue installed in Strastnaya Square.
- 1882 – Population: 753,469.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1883
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour consecrated.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- Redesign of coat of arms of Moscow adopted.
- 1885 – Private Opera established.
- 1887 – Morozovtsi Orekhovo-Zuevo Moskva (football club) formed.
- 1891 – May: French exhibit opens.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1892 – City Hall built.
- 1893 – Bazaar built in Kitay-Gorod.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1894 – Moscow Hermitage Garden opens.
- 1896
- 26 May: Coronation of Nicholas II.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 30 May: Khodynka Tragedy.
- December: Student demonstration.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- Museum of History of Moscow founded.
- Kursky railway station built.
- 1897
- Russian Electrical Theatre (cinema) opens.{{Citation |publisher = Scarecrow Press |isbn = 9780810860728 |location = Lanham, Maryland |title = Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema |author = Peter Rollberg |date = 2009 }}
- Population: 988,610.
- 1898
- Moscow Art Theatre founded.
- All-Russia Insurance Company building constructed.
- Novodevichy Cemetery inaugurated.
- 1899
- 6 April: First electric Moscow tram begins operating.
- 7 November: Premiere of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.
- Moscow City Chess Championship active.
- "Student agitation" begins.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- 1900
- Paveletsky railway station built.
- Population: 1,023,817.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
20th century
=1900s–1940s=
- 1901 – Rizhsky railway station built.
- 1902 – Savyolovsky railway station built.
- 1903
- Zimin Opera founded.
- Hotel National in business.
- 1904
- 29 June: 1904 Moscow tornado.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
- Yaroslavsky railway station rebuilt.
- 1905 – Moscow Uprising of 1905.{{cite book|author1=Chris Cook|author2=John Stevenson|title=Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe |year=2003|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-89224-3 |chapter=First World War: Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=olmPBAAAQBAJ }}
- 1907
- Moscow Little Ring Railway begins operating.
- Hotel Metropol built.
- Population: 1,359,254.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
- 1908 – Moscow Public University established.
- 1912
- Durov Animal Theater founded.
- Museum of Fine Arts opens.{{sfn|Baedeker|1914}}
- Borodinsky Bridge rebuilt.
- 1913
- Spaso House (residence) built.
- Population: 1,817,100.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book }}
- 1914 – Shchukin Theatre Institute founded.
- 1916 – Automobile Moscow Society factory established.
- 1917 – 25 October-2 November: Moscow Bolshevik Uprising.
- 1918
- March: City becomes capital of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
- July: Left SR uprising.
- Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies established.
- Kiyevsky railway station built.
- Izvestia newspaper in publication.{{cite web |url= http://catalog.crl.edu/search~S35/?searchtype=d&searcharg=Moscow+Russia+--+Newspapers |publisher=Center for Research Libraries |location=Chicago, USA |title= Global Resources Network |access-date=26 December 2013}}
- 1919
- March: Founding Congress of the Comintern held.
- Moscow State Jewish Theater established.
- 1920 – Treaty of Moscow (1920)
- 1921
- Moscow Children's Theatre opens.
- Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies established.
- 1921 – Treaty of Moscow (1921)
- 1922 – Moscow Sport Circle (football club) formed.
- 1923 – Moscow Municipal Council of Professional Unions theatre founded.
- 1924
- Lenin Mausoleum established.
- All-Union Radio begins broadcasting.
- 1925
- Lenin Library active.
- Yermolova Theatre founded.
- 1928 – Rusakov Workers' Club and Zuev Workers' Club buildings constructed.
- 1929
- Moscow Oblast and Moscow Circus School established.
- Kauchuk Factory Club built.
- 1930 – Moscow State Institute for History and Archives and Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys established.
- 1934 – Museum of Architecture founded.
- 1935
- 15 May: Moscow Metro begins operating.
- Hotel Moskva in business.
- 1936
- Moscow Trials begin in the House of the Unions.
- 2 May: Premiere of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
- 1937
- Smolensky Metro Bridge built.
- Volga-Moscow canal opens.{{Citation |publisher = G. & C. Merriam Co. |location = Springfield, Massachusetts |title = Webster's Geographical Dictionary |date = 1960 |oclc = 3832886 |page=735 |ol = 5812502M }}
- 1938 – Gorbunov Palace of Culture (concert hall), Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, and Bolshoy Ustinsky Bridge built.
- 1939 – Population: 4,137,018.{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |location = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |ol=6112221M |date = 1952 |page=1250 |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/columbialippinco00selt#page/1250/mode/1up }}
- 1941 – October: Battle of Moscow begins.
- 1942 – January: Battle of Moscow ends.
- 1943 – Laboratory No. 2 of the USSR Academy of Sciences established.{{cite web |url= http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/russia/nuclear |title= Country Profiles: Russia: Nuclear |publisher= Nuclear Threat Initiative |location=USA |access-date= 1 March 2015 }}
- 1945 – 24 June: Moscow Victory Parade of 1945.
- 1948 – Museum of Lenin's funeral train founded.
=1950s–1990s=
- 1953 – 5 March: Joseph Stalin dies.{{citation |title=Timelines: History of the U.S.S.R. from 1917 to 1991 |encyclopedia=World Book |location=USA }}
- 1954 – Hotel Leningradskaya built.
- 1957
- Moscow Central Clinical Hospital opened.
- City hosts Ice hockey world championship
- City hosts 6th World Festival of Youth and Students.
- 1959
- Moscow International Film Festival officially starts with its debut edition.
- Population: 5,032,000.
- 24 July: Nixon–Khrushchev Kitchen Debate occurs at the American National Exhibition.
- 1960
- Peoples' Friendship University founded.{{Citation |url = https://archive.org/details/moscowbookmapbae00sons |title = Baedeker's Moscow |date = 1995 |publisher = Baedeker |isbn = 978-0671896843 |url-access = registration }}
- Moscow Ring Road is the new city border. Tushino, Babushkin, Perovo, Kuntsevo, Lyublino became parts of Moscow.
- Over five million Muscovites are vaccinated in order to end the {{Interlanguage link multi|1959–1960 Moscow smallpox outbreak|ru|3=Вспышка оспы в Москве (1959–1960)}}.
- 1961
- Rossiya Cinema built.
- October: American Committee for Non-Violent Action peace walkers arrive in Moscow.{{cite web |url= http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/ |title=Global Nonviolent Action Database |publisher=Swarthmore College |location=Pennsylvania, USA |access-date=26 December 2013 }}
- 1962
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Moscow City Archives|ru|3=Главное архивное управление города Москвы}} established.{{cite web |url=http://www.iisg.nl/abb/rep/D-01.tab2.php |title=Glavnoe arkhivnoe upravlenie goroda Moskvy (Glavarkhiv Moskvy) |work=ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia |publisher=International Institute of Social History |location=Amsterdam |access-date=30 May 2015 }}[https://books.google.com/books?id=NphkUTKf50oC&pg=PA50]
- Moscow Domodedovo Airport opens.
- 1963 – Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow.{{citation |work=New York Times |url= http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/ |title= On This Day |access-date=30 November 2014 }}
- 1964 – Taganka Theatre founded.{{cite book|editor=Tatiana Smorodinskaya|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture |year=2007 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415320948 |display-editors=etal}}
- 1965 – Population: 6,366,000.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1960_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1965 |year=1966 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |quote=Moskva }}
- 1966 – Gorizont Cinema opens.{{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/russian-federation/moscow?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Moscow, Russian Federation |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |access-date=26 December 2013 }}
- 1968 – 25 August: 1968 Red Square demonstration.
- 1970 – Population: 6,941,961.
- 1971 – Great Moscow State Circus auditorium opens.
- 1979
- Spartak Tennis Club built.
- Moscow Virtuosi orchestra formed.
- 1980 – 1980 Summer Olympics held.
- 1981 – Moscow International Peace Marathon begins.
- 1982 – Satyricon Theatre opens its doors.
- 1985 – Population: 8,642,000.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm |title=1985 Demographic Yearbook |year=1987 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=247–289 }}
- 1988 – Moscow People's Front organized.{{cite journal |title=A House Divided: A Roll-Call Analysis of the First Session of the Moscow City Soviet |author= Terry D. Clark |journal= Slavic Review |volume= 51 |issue= 4 |pages= 674–690 |year= 1992 |jstor=2500131 |doi= 10.2307/2500131 |s2cid= 155247647 }}
- 1989
- August: Moscow Music Peace Festival.
- Population: 8,967,332.
- 1990
- Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov becomes mayor.
- Moscow Federation of Trade Unions and Sobinbank{{cite book |title= Europa World Year Book 2004 |isbn=978-1857432534 |publisher=Taylor & Francis }} founded.
- Kremlin Cup tennis tournament begins.
- 1991
- August: 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.
- Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Russian State University for the Humanities established.
- Prix Benois de la Danse (ballet contest) begins.
- 1992
- Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange and Russian Institute of Strategic Studies{{cite web |url=http://thinktanks.fpri.org/ |title=Think Tank Directory |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Foreign Policy Research Institute |access-date=26 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110100006/http://thinktanks.fpri.org/ |archive-date=10 November 2013 |df=dmy-all }} established.
- Yury Luzhkov becomes mayor.
- Moscow Times English-language newspaper begins publication.
- Figure Skating Federation of Russia headquartered in city.
- 1993
- Moscow designated capital of the Russian Federation per Constitution.{{cite web |url=http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-04.htm |title=Constitution of the Russian Federation |access-date=26 December 2013}}
- TV-6 begins broadcasting.
- Moscow City Duma and American Center in Moscow founded.
- Kazan Cathedral reconstructed.
- 1995
- Arch Moscow exhibit begins.
- Hungry Duck bar in business.
- Monument erected in Victory Park.{{sfn|Forest|2002}}
- 1996 – 11 November: Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing.
- 1997
- Memorial Mosque built on Poklonnaya Hill.{{sfn|Forest|2002}}{{cite web |author=ArchNet.org |publisher=MIT School of Architecture and Planning |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |url=http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2770 |title=Moscow |access-date=26 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227024141/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2770 |archive-date=27 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
- Moscow Marathon Luzhniki begins.
- 1999 – September: Apartment bombing.
- 2000 – City becomes part of the Central Federal District.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}
21st century
- 2002 – 23–26 October: Moscow theater hostage crisis.{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17840446 |title=Russia Profile: Timeline |work=BBC News |access-date=26 December 2013}}
- 2003
- Moscow International Performing Arts Centre opens.
- 9 December: 2003 Red Square bombing.
- Federation Tower construction begins.
- 2004
- Moscow Monorail begins operating.
- Grand Prix of Moscow cycling race begins.
- February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing.
- August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing.
- 2005
- Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art begins.
- 2 July: Live 8 concert, Moscow held in Red Square.
- 2006
- 21 August: 2006 Moscow market bombing.
- Protest against ban of Moscow Pride.
- IgroMir (gaming exhibit) begins.
- Triumph Palace erected in the Sokol neighborhood.
- 2007
- Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines established.[https://www.vice.com/en/article/soviet-arcade-museum/]
- Naberezhnaya Tower built.
- 2009
- City of Capitals built.
- Eurovision Song Contest held.
- Kirill becomes Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
- 2010
- 29 March: 2010 Moscow Metro bombings.
- Vladimir Resin becomes mayor, succeeded by Sergey Sobyanin.
- 2011
- 24 January: Domodedovo International Airport bombing.
- Moscow Exchange established.
- 2012 – March: Arrest of Pussy Riot (musical group) performers.
- 2013
- 8 September: Moscow mayoral election, 2013.
- 2014 – Peace Procession against war in Ukraine
- Population: 11,794,282.
- 2015
- 27 February: Politician Nemtsov assassinated.
- Gulag museum opens.{{citation |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34675413 |title=New Russian Gulag museum recreates Soviet terror |date=30 October 2015 }}
- 2016 – 10 September: Moscow Central Ring of the Little Ring of the Moscow Railway begins operating.
- 2018
- 5 May – Cossack consplayers attacking to people, mainly to scholars.
- FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. Luzhniki and Spartak stadiums host matches.
- 2020
- August – Destroying of the Moscow trolley system.
See also
{{Portal|Russia|History}}
- History of Moscow
- List of heads of Moscow
- List of metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow
- {{Interlanguage link multi|List of theatres in Moscow|ru|3=Театры Москвы}}
- Timelines of other cities in the Central Federal District of Russia: Smolensk, Voronezh
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This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.
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- {{cite book |title=Geography |volume=3 |work=English Cyclopaedia |editor=Charles Knight |location=London |year=1867 |chapter=Moscow
|hdl=2027/nyp.33433000064802 }}
- {{Citation |publisher = Frederick Warne & Co. |location = London |author = George Henry Townsend |title = A Manual of Dates |date = 1867 |edition=2nd |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/manualofdatesdic00townrich#page/676/mode/1up
|ref= {{harvid|Townsend|1867}}
|author-link = George Henry Townsend }}
- {{Citation |publisher = William Tegg |location = London |title = Dictionary of Chronology |editor = William Henry Overall |date = 1870 |oclc = 2613202 |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofchro00overiala#page/583/mode/1up
}}
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|title-link = Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers }}
- {{Citation |publisher = Ticknor and Company |location = Boston, USA |author = Maturin Murray Ballou |date = 1887 |title = Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia |chapter=(Moscow) |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/duenorthorglimps00ballrich#page/290/mode/2up
|author-link = Maturin Murray Ballou }}
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|ref= {{harvid|Murray|1888}}
}}
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|ol=7120046M }}
=Published in 20th century=
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|title-link=Chambers's Encyclopaedia }}
- {{Cite book |publisher = Hurst and Blackett |location = London |author= Annette M.B. Meakin |title = Russia, Travels and Studies |date = 1906 |oclc = 3664651 |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028397929#page/n139/mode/2up |chapter = Moscow
}}
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|ref= {{harvid|Haydn|1910}}
|title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates }}
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|author-link = Vasily Klyuchevsky }}
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}}
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}}
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}}
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}}
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|ol = 5911839M }}
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|ol = 24952498M }}
- {{citation |title=Moscow: The City Around Red Square |year=1978 |volume=153 |work=National Geographic Magazine |location=Washington DC }}
- {{Citation |publisher = Lonely Planet |location = Australia |title = Russia, Ukraine & Belarus |year = 1996 |ol=16478112W |chapter=Moscow |page= 192+ |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/russiaukrainebel00nobl#page/192/mode/2up
}}
- {{cite journal |title=Moscow and St. Petersburg, a sequence of capitals, a tale of two cities |author= Olga Gritsai and Herman van der Wusten |journal= GeoJournal |volume= 51 |issue= 1/2 |pages= 33–45 |year=2000 |jstor=41147495
|doi= 10.1023/A:1010849220006 |s2cid= 154264277 }}
=Published in 21st century=
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|ref= {{harvid|Forest|2002}}
|citeseerx= 10.1.1.553.5846 |s2cid= 6663929 }}
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}}
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}}
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|ref= {{harvid|Martin|2013}}
}}
{{refend}}
External links
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- Europeana. [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=moscow+russia&rows=96 Items related to Moscow], various dates.
- Digital Public Library of America. [http://dp.la/search?page_size=100&q=moscow+russia&utf8=✓ Items related to Moscow], various dates
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