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The following is a [[:Category:City timelines|timeline]] of the [[Kharkiv#History|history]] of the [[List of cities in Ukraine|city]] of [[Kharkiv]], [[Ukraine]].
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==Prior to 20th century==
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| quote = {{flagicon image|Kharkiv_Regiment.svg}} [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]] under Tsardom of Russia 1654–1721<br>
{{flag|Russian Empire}} 1721–1917<br>
{{flag|Ukrainian People's Republic}} 1917–1918<br>
{{flagicon image|Red flag.svg}} [[Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic]] 1918<br>
{{flag|Ukrainian People's Republic}} 1918–1919<br>
{{flagicon image|Flag of Ukrainian SSR (1919-1929).svg}} [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]] 1919–1922<br>
{{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic.svg}} [[Soviet Ukraine]] 1922–1941<br>
{{flag|Nazi Germany}} 1941–1943 (''occupation'')<br>
{{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic.svg}} [[Soviet Ukraine]] 1943–1991<br>
{{flag|Ukraine}} 1991–present
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* 1654 - Kharkiv founded by Zaporozhian [[Cossacks]] (regiment's capital of [[Kharkiv Regiment]]).
* 1689 - {{illm|Church of the Intercession (Kharkiv)|uk|3=Покровський собор (Харків)}} built.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
* 1734 - Kharkov Collegium founded.<ref name="Katchanovski2013" />
* 1764 - Church of the Holy Trinity built.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
* 1765 - Town becomes capital of [[Sloboda Ukraine]] governetore in Russian Empire.<ref name="Katchanovski2013" />
* 1777 - [[Assumption Cathedral, Kharkiv|Assumption Cathedral]] built.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
* 1797 - Town becomes part of the [[Kharkov Governorate]].
* 1805 - [[Kharkiv University]] established.<ref name="Katchanovski2013" />
* 1817 - Population: 12,892.{{sfn|Hamm|1981}}
* 1820 - {{illm|Building of Noble Assembly, Kharkiv|ru|3=Дворянское собрание (Харьков)}} constructed on {{illm|Market Square, Kharkiv|ru|3=Площадь Конституции (Харьков)}}.
* 1835 - Town becomes capital of [[Kharkov Governorate]].<ref name="Katchanovski2013" />
* 1867 - Population: 59,968.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
* 1868 - Railway begins operating.<ref name="Katchanovski2013" />
* 1878 - Student protest.<ref>{{cite book|title=Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1878 |volume=18 |year=1886|publisher=[[D. Appleton and Co.]] |location=New York |chapter=Russia |hdl=2027/nyp.33433005016641?urlappend=%3Bseq=759 |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433005016641?urlappend=%3Bseq=759 |via=HathiTrust}}</ref>
* 1882
** Jewish [[Bilu (movement)|Bilu]] group moves to Palestine.<ref name=yivo>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Kharkiv |title= Khar'kiv |encyclopedia=[[The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe|Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe]] |publisher=[[Yivo Institute for Jewish Research]] |access-date=28 February 2015 }}</ref>
** Population: 133,139.<ref>{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1885 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Russia |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590469?urlappend=%3Bseq=448 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |hdl=2027/nyp.33433081590469?urlappend=%3Bseq=448 }}</ref>
* 1885 - [[Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute|Technological Institute]] founded.<ref name="Kassow1989">{{cite book|author=Samuel D. Kassow |title=Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiBhnUJ7idEC|year=1989|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05760-9 |via=Google Books |author-link=Samuel D. Kassow}} (fulltext)</ref>
* 1886 - [[Korolenko State Scientific Library|Kharkiv Public Library]]<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and Museum of Art and Industry{{sfn|Ivanova|2003}} established.
* 1893 - Myronosytska Church rebuilt.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
* 1895 - [[Malyshev Factory|Kharkov Locomotive Factory]] begins operating.
* 1897 - [[List of cities of the Russian Empire in 1897|Population]]: 170,682.
* 1900
** Revolutionary Ukrainian Party founded in city.<ref name="Katchanovski2013" />
** Population: 197,405.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}

==20th century==
[[File:Charkow.jpg|thumb|Kharkiv at the turn of the 20th century]]
* 1901 - [[Annunciation Cathedral, Kharkiv|Annunciation Cathedral]] consecrated.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
* 1903 - "People's palace" established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
* 1906 - [[Kharkiv tram|Tram]] begins operating.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
* 1913
** [[Kharkiv Choral Synagogue|Choral Synagogue]] built.
** Population: 258,360.<ref>{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 }}</ref>
* 1917 - December: [[First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (Kharkiv)]] held in city.
* 1918 
** February: City becomes capital of [[Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic]].<ref name="Katchanovski2013" />
** April: troops loyal to the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] take control of Kharkiv together with the German Army.<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/2018/04/18/152320/ 100 years ago Bakhmut and the rest of Donbass liberated], [[Ukrayinska Pravda]] (18 April 2018)</ref>
* 1919 
** January: [[Ukraine Offensive (1919)|Kharkiv taken by the Red Army]].
** March: Annual congress of the [[Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)]] begins in Kharkiv.
** June: [[Kharkiv Operation (June 1919)|Kharkiv taken by the White Army]].
** December: [[Kharkiv Operation (December 1919)|Kharkiv retaken by the Red Army]].
* 1920
** City becomes capital of the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]].<ref name="Katchanovski2013">{{cite book|author=[[Ivan Katchanovski]]|title=Historical Dictionary of Ukraine |year=2013 |edition=2nd |publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7847-1 |chapter=Kharkiv |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-h6r57lDC4QC |display-authors=etal}}</ref>
** [[M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum|Museum of History opens]].{{sfn|Ivanova|2003}}
* 1921
** Polish diplomatic mission established.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wasilewski|first=Aleksander|year=2010|title=Polskie Konsulaty na Wschodzie 1918-1939|language=pl,en,ru|location=Warszawa|pages=46–47|isbn=978-83-7585-140-3}}</ref>
** [[Russian Futurism|Futurist]] Komkosmos group formed.<ref name="Luckyj1990">{{cite book|author=George S. N. Luckyj |title=Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CuLpivm5lDsC|year=1990|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-1099-6|author-link=George S. N. Luckyj}}</ref>
* 1922 - City becomes part of the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)]].
* 1924 - [[Malyshev Factory|Kharkov Steam Locomotive Plant]] housing built.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
* 1925 - [[FC Metalist Kharkiv|Football Club Metalist Kharkiv]] formed.
* 1926
** [[Metalist Oblast Sports Complex|Traktor Stadium]] opens.
** Population: 417,342.<ref name=lippincott1952>{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |location = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |date = 1952 |ol=6112221M |page= 937 |chapter=Kharkov }}</ref>
* 1927
** ''[[Nova Generatsiia]]'' literary journal begins publication.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
** [[Morozov Design Bureau]] (arms industry) established.
* 1928
** Modernist [[Derzhprom]] building and Construction Workers Club built.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}<ref>{{citation |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=UK |year=2015 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/cities/series/history-cities-50-buildings |title= A history of cities in 50 buildings }}</ref>
** ''Literaturnyi iarmarok'' journal begins publication.<ref name=michaelides2007>{{cite web |url= http://www.bl.uk/breakingtherules |work= Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937 |series = Online Exhibitions |title= Chronology of the European Avant Garde, 1900─1937 |year=2007 |editor= Chris Michaelides |publisher=British Library }}</ref>
* 1929
** [[Kharkiv State Academy of Culture|Institute of Political Education]] established.
** Palace of Labor, and textile workers' club built.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
* 1930
** International Conference of Revolutionary Writers held in city.<ref name="Luckyj1990" />
** [[National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute]] founded.
* 1932
** [[Holodomor]] (famine).<ref name="Fitzpatrick1999">{{cite book|author= Sheila Fitzpatrick |title=Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QS6IlPQf6owC|year= 1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-505000-4|author-link=Sheila Fitzpatrick}}</ref>
** City becomes part of the [[Kharkiv Oblast]].
* 1933 - House of Trade and House of Planning Organizations{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}} and [[KhTZ Stadium]] built.
* 1934
** [[Ukrainian SSR]] capital relocated from Kharkov to Kiev.<ref name=lippincott1952 />
** {{illm|Kharkov Opera House|uk|3=Харківський національний академічний театр опери та балету імені Миколи Лисенка}} opens.
** International Hotel built.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
** Red Factory Theatre built (approximate date).{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
* 1935
** [[Kharkiv College of Textile and Design|College of Textile and Design]] established.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
** Shevchenko [[Taras Shevchenko's legacy|monument]] erected in {{illm|Postyshev Park|ru|3=Городской сад имени Шевченко}}.{{sfn|Hewryk|1992}}
* 1939 - Population: 833,432.<ref name=lippincott1952 />
* 1940 - April–May: {{illm|Execution of Polish officers in Kharkov|ru|3=Казни польских офицеров в Харькове}} as part of the [[Katyn massacre]].<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2020|title=Zbrodnia katyńska|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|page=17|isbn=978-83-8098-825-5}}</ref>
[[File:Wojska niemieckie po zajęciu Charkowa. (2-722).jpg|thumb|German troops entering Kharkiv in 1941]]
* 1941
** 1,200 political prisoners burned alive by the retreating Soviets in the [[Kharkiv tragedy]].
** 20–24 October: [[First Battle of Kharkov]]; Germans in power.
** Nazi prison established by the Germans.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten/index.php?action=2.2&tab=7&id=743|title=Gefängnis Charkiv|website=Bundesarchiv.de|access-date=10 July 2022|language=de}}</ref>
* 1942 - 12–28 May: [[Second Battle of Kharkov]].
* 1943
** 19 February-15 March: [[Third Battle of Kharkov]].
** 12–23 August: [[Fourth Battle of Kharkov]]; Soviets in power.
* 1947 - [[Zerkalʹnaya struya]] (fountain) built.
* 1954
** [[Kharkiv International Airport|Kharkov Airport]] opens.
** Institute of Fire Safety established.<ref name="Ruegg2011">{{cite book|editor=Walter Rüegg |editor-link=:de:Walter Rüegg |series=History of the University in Europe |volume=4 |title= Universities Since 1945 |year=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49425-0 |chapter= Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=VCKRv1GiFqEC |page=575+ }}</ref>
* 1959 - Population: 934,136.
* 1962 - [[Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics|Institute of Radioelectronics]] established.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
* 1964
** Lenin [[List of statues of Vladimir Lenin|monument]] erected in [[Freedom Square (Kharkiv)|Dzerzhinsky Square]].
** [[Kharkiv State Academy of Culture]] active.
* 1965 - Population: 1,070,000.<ref>{{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=Kharkov }}</ref>
* 1972 - 18 May: [[Aeroflot Flight 1491|Airplane crash]] occurs near city.
* 1975 - [[Kharkiv Metro]] begins operating.
* 1979 - Population: 1,485,000.<ref name="Morton1984">{{cite book|editor1=Henry W. Morton |editor2=Robert C. Stuart |title=The Contemporary Soviet City|url=https://archive.org/details/contemporarysovi00mort |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/contemporarysovi00mort/page/4 4] |year=1984|publisher=M.E. Sharpe |location=New York |isbn=978-0-87332-248-5}}</ref>
* 1981 - [[Kharkiv TV Tower]] erected.
* 1984 - [[Kharkiv Metro Bridge]] opens.
* 1985 - Population: 1,554,000.<ref>{{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 |quote= Kharkov }}</ref>
* 1988 - Museum of Literature established.{{sfn|Ivanova|2003}}
* 1989
** Population: 1,609,959.
** [[Sister city]] relationship established with [[Cincinnati]], USA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cincinnatisistercity.org/about.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130519061021/http://www.cincinnatisistercity.org/about.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 19 May 2013 |title=Cincinnati USA Sister City Association }}</ref>
* 1990
** [[UkrSibbank]] (bank) headquartered in city.
** {{illm|Mykola Lysenko Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre|uk|3=Харківський національний академічний театр опери та балету імені Миколи Лисенка}} built.
* 1991 - City becomes part of independent Ukraine.<ref name="Katchanovski2013-chronology">{{cite book|author=[[Ivan Katchanovski]]|title=Historical Dictionary of Ukraine |year=2013 |edition=2nd |publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7847-1 |chapter= Chronology |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-h6r57lDC4QC |display-authors=etal}}</ref>
* 1995 - [[1995 Kharkiv drinking water disaster]].

==21st century==
* 2001 - Population: 1,470,902.
* 2002 - [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia]] established.<ref name=katolsk>{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Ukraine |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/ukraine |publisher=Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese) |location=Norway |access-date= 28 February 2015 }}</ref>
* 2004 - [[Palace of Sports "Lokomotiv"]] arena opens.
* 2006 - 22 April: [[2006 Kharkiv supermarket bombings|Supermarket bombings]].
* 2010 - [[Hennadiy Kernes]] becomes mayor.
* 2012
** June: Some [[UEFA Euro 2012]] football games played in Kharkiv.
** 15 December: [[Kharkiv beheadings|Beheadings]]
* 2014
** 28 April: Attempted [[assassination]] of mayor Kernes.
** [[Kharkiv Battalion]] established.
** Population: 1,451,132.
[[File:Destroyed apartment building 3 Kholodnohirska Street, Kharkiv after Russian airstrike by Kharkivian (03.2022) 01.jpg|thumb|War damages after a Russian airstrike in 2022]]
* 2015 - 22 February: [[2015 Kharkiv bombing|Bombing]].
* 2018 - Population: 1,430,515 (estimate).<ref>{{citation |chapter=Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/dyb_2020/ |title=Demographic Yearbook – 2020 |publisher=United Nations }}</ref>
* 2021 - 21 January: [[2021 Kharkiv fire|Fire]].
* 2022 - 24 February: [[Battle of Kharkiv (2022)|Battle]] against [[Russia]] Begins.

==See also==
* [[Kharkiv#History|History of Kharkiv]]
* [[Names of European cities in different languages: I–L#K|Other names of Kharkiv]] (e.g. Charkow, Harkov, Kharkoff, Kharkow)
* [[List of mayors of Kharkiv]]

==References==
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''This article incorporates information from the [[Ukrainian Wikipedia]] and [[Russian Wikipedia]].''

==Bibliography==
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* {{cite book|author=Johann Georg Kohl |title=Russia: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkoff, Riga, Odessa, the German Provinces on the Baltic, the Steppes, the Crimea, and the Interior of the Empire|year=1844|publisher=Chapman and Hall |chapter=Kharkoff |hdl=2027/ucw.ark:/13960/t2q538v45?urlappend=%3Bseq=516 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/ucw.ark:/13960/t2q538v45?urlappend=%3Bseq=516 
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* {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Kharkov (town) |volume= 15 | page = 772 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
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* {{cite journal |title=Planning of the Capital in Kharkiv |author=Titus D. Hewryk |journal= Harvard Ukrainian Studies |volume= 16 |issue=3/4 |pages=325–359 |year= 1992 |jstor= 41036482 
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* {{cite journal |title=Changes in Collective Memory: The Schematic Narrative Template of Victimhood in Kharkiv Museums |author= Elena Ivanova |journal= Journal of Museum Education |volume= 28 |issue= 1 |pages= 17–22 |year= 2003 |jstor=40479276 
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