Timeline of Białystok

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• 1320 - Settlement founded in Lithuania.[1]
• 1569 – part of the Lesser Poland Province of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
• 1692 – Białystok granted city rights by Polish King John III Sobieski
• 1697 - Branicki Palace built.[2]
• 1745 – the first military technical school in Poland founded in Białystok[3]
• 1748 – one of the oldest theaters in Poland, the Komedialnia, founded[4]
• 1749 – King Augustus III of Poland extended the city limits[5]
• 1753 the center of the city burns down
• 1756 Jan Klemens Branicki is divorced from his third wife
• 13 July 1769 – Battle of Białystok part of the War of the Bar Confederation (Battle of Białystok (1769))
• 1770 – midwifery school founded under the auspices of Izabella Poniatowska[3]
• 9 October 1771 – Jan Klemens Branicki dies
• 1789 – the epidemic of smallpox, the 22 children died
• third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 it first belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia as the administrative seat of the Białystok Department
• 26 January 1796 – Prussian administration takes over the town, but it remains formally owned by Izabella Poniatowska-Branicka

• 1805 – Institute of Obstetrics established based on the midwifery school[3]
• 1807 - Town becomes part of Russia, per Peace of Tilsit;[1] and capital of the Belostok Oblast.
• 14 February 1808 – Izabella Poniatowska-Branicka dies
• 3 July 1812 – Napoleon's army enters the city,
• 13 July 1812 – Declaration of the inhabitants of communication with the Commonwealth,
• 4 August 1812 – Russian army enters the city
• 8 August 1812 – giving a new coat of the city by Tsar Alexander I
• 13 December 1830 – announcement of martial law by the Russian authorities in connection with the outbreak of the November Uprising,
• 1 February 1831 – setting up headquarters in the Russian army commander, Field Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch, whose task was to suppress the November Uprising
• 1834 – a ban on teaching in schools in the Polish language
• 1842 - Town becomes capital of the Belostok Oblast of the Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire.
• 1845 - Woollen mill built.[1]
• 1857 - Population: 13,787.[1]
• 15 December 1859 – Ludwik Zamenhof, the creator of the international language Esperanto, was born
• 13 June 1860 – the beginning of a patriotic demonstration under the banner of national unity and fight against colonization,
• 9 June 1861 – arrive in the city representative of the Whites, Andrzej Artur Zamoyski
• 1862 – Opening of the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway through the city
• 24 April 1863 – the beginning of the January Uprising in the Bialystok area
• 1877 – expanding the city limits: integrated railway station, the village of Piaski and Las Zwierzyniecki
• 1886 – the railway line Bialystok – Vawkavysk – Baranovichi
• 1891 – Launch of the first telephone exchange
• 1895 – launch of three lines of horse tram
• 1897 - Population: 63,927.[6]
• 1898 – establishment of the Volunteer Fire Department

Białystok city center around 1900

• 1905 - Chernoe Znamia political group formed.
• 1906 - 14–16 June: Białystok pogrom of Jews.[7]
• 1910 - Białystok Power Station commissioned.
• 1912 - Population: 98,170.[8]
• 1913 - Great Synagogue built.
• 1915 - City becomes capital of the Bialystok-Grodno District of the German-controlled territory of Ober-Ost during World War I.
• 1919
  • Białystok part of the re-established Polish state, capital of the Białystok Voivodeship
  • Białostoczek becomes part of city.
• 1920
  • 22 September: Battle of Białystok.
  • Jagiellonia Białystok football club formed.

Józef Piłsudski's visit to Białystok in 1921

• 1921 - Białystok confirmed as part of Poland.[9]
• 1937 - Population: 100,101.[9]
• 1938 - Białystok Municipal Theatre built.
• 1939
  • Soviet occupation after the invasion of Poland
  • November: City annexed to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic;[2] and capital of the Belastok Voblast.
• 1941
  • 27 June: City occupation by German forces begins.
  • City becomes capital of Bezirk Białystok.
  • July: Jewish ghetto established by occupying Nazi Germans.[7]
• 1943 - 16 August: Białystok Ghetto Uprising.[2]
• 1944
  • July: occupied by the Soviets
  • September: the city returned to Poland, capital of the part of the Białystok Voivodeship
• 1946 - Population: 56,759.[9]
• 1949 - Podlaskie Museum founded.
• 1950 - Medical University of Białystok established.
• 1951 - Gazeta Współczesna newspaper begins publication.[10]
• 1953 - Białystok Puppet Theatre established.[11]
• 1960 - Islamic Religious Community in Białystok established.
• 1972 - Białystok City Stadium opens.

Białystok University of Technology

• 1974
  • Białystok University of Technology active.
  • Population: 187,100.[12]
• 1975 - City becomes capital of the Białystok Voivodeship (1975–98).
• 1990
  • Białystok History Museum founded.
  • Lech Rutkowski becomes mayor.
  • Piłsudski monument, Białystok installed at Kościuszko Square.
• 1991 - Roman Catholic diocese of Białystok established.[13]
• 1998 - Population: 283,937 (estimate).[10]
• 1999 - City becomes capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship.

• 2004 - City divided into 27 administrative districts.
• 2006 - Tadeusz Truskolaski becomes mayor.
• 2008 - Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok created.
• 2009
  • Zamenhof Centre opens.
  • World Congress of Esperanto held in city.
• 2012 - Population: 294,900.[14]

• History of Białystok
• Other names of Białystok, e.g. Belostok, Bielostok, Byelostok

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