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Timeline of Białystok

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Białystok, Poland.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 19th century edit

19th century edit

  • 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 - City becomes administratively part of the Grodno Governorate.
  • 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,
  • 1861
    • 16 March: Prayers were held by local Poles and Jews in memory of Polish protesters massacred by the Russians in Warsaw a few weeks earlier.[8]
    • 3 May: The Russians arrested several Polish students during the celebration of the Polish 3 May Constitution Day.[9]
    • 9 June: Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, representative of the Whites, arrives in the city
  • 1862 – Opening of the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway through the city
  • 24 April 1863 – the beginning of the Polish January Uprising in the Białystok area
  • 15 February 1864 - Battle of the January Uprising was fought near Białystok.[10]
  • 1877 – expanding the city limits: integrated railway station, the village of Piaski and Las Zwierzyniecki
  • 1886 – the railway line Bialystok – Vawkavysk – Baranovichi
  • 1889 - Population: 56,629.[1]
  • 1891 – Launch of the first telephone exchange
  • 1895 – launch of three lines of horse tram
  • 1897 - Population: 63,927.[11]
  • 1898 – establishment of the Volunteer Fire Department

20th century edit

1901–1939 edit

 
Białystok city center around 1900
 
Józef Piłsudski's visit to Białystok in 1921

World War II (1939–1945) edit

 
Soviet bombing damages in 1944
  • 1944
    • July: occupied by the Soviets
    • mass arrests of Polish resistance members by the Soviets, around 1,200 Poles placed in the local prison by 7 November.[27]
    • September: the city returned to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, capital of the part of the Białystok Voivodeship
    • 8 November: deportation of 1,030 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Ostashkov.[27]
    • 12 November: deportation of 1,014 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Ostashkov.[28]
    • 24 November: deportation of 900 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Ostashkov.[28]
    • 27 December: deportation of 790 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Novomoskovsk (then Stalinogorsk).[28]
  • 1945 - 30 January: deportation of 1,242 arrested Poles by the Russians from the local prison to Skopin.[28]

1945–2000 edit

 
Białystok University of Technology

21st century edit

 
Białystok city center in 2017

See also edit

References edit

This article incorporates information from the Polish Wikipedia.

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