Timeline of Iași

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Iași, Romania.

Before the 20th century

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• 1408 – Iași first mentioned in a document.^[1]
• 1513 – Town "burned by the Tatars."^[2]
• 1538 – Town sacked by Turks.^[2]
• 1541 – Dancu Monastery founded.^[3]
• 1562 – Socola Monastery built.
• 1564 – Seat of Moldavian principality relocated to Iași from Suceava by Alexandru Lăpușneanu (approximate date).^[2]
• 1628 – Bârnova Monastery built.
• 1639 – Trei Ierarhi Monastery built.^[3]
• 1640 – Vasilian College founded.
• 1640s – Printing press in operation.^[4][2]
• 1642 –
  Synod of Iași
• 1660 – Golia Monastery built.
• 1670 – Great Synagogue built.^[5]
• 1686 – Town sacked by Russians.^[2]
• 1710 – July: Forces muster near Iași at start of the
  Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11
  .
• 1707 – Princely Academy of Iași founded.^[4]
• 1739 – City taken by Russians.^[6]
• 1752 – Church of Saint Spiridon [ro] built.
• 1755 – Saint Spiridon Hospital [ro] established.
• 1769 – City taken by Russians.^[6]
• 1792 – 9 January:
  Russo-Turkish War (1787–92).^[6]
• 1806 – Iași occupied by Russian forces.[7]
• 1813 – First engineering classes at the School of Surveying and Civil Engineers (part of the Princely Academy)
• 1822 – City besieged by Turkish forces.^[2]
• 1827 – Fire.^[8]
• 1828 – City taken by Russians.^[6]
• 1832 – The first theatre, the Théâtre des Variétés (Iași), is inaugurated.
• 1833
  • Physicians and Naturalists Society [ro] founded.
  • Roznovanu Palace built.
• 1834
  • Academia Mihăileană founded.
  • Copou Park laid out.
• 1844 – Fire.^[2]
• 1846 – Iași National Theatre in the Copou Theatre [ro] opens.
• 1855
  • Normal School "Vasile Lupu" Iași [ro] established.
  • Yiddish-language Korot Haitim newspaper begins publication.^[9][10][5]
• 1856 – Iași Botanical Garden established.
• 1859 – City becomes seat of the Romanian
  United Principalities
  .
• 1860
  • University of Iași founded.
  • School for Sculpture and Painting
    founded.
• 1861 – Seat of Romanian government relocated from Iași to Bucharest.^[2]
• 1864 – Central State Library of Iași in operation.^[4]
• 1870 – Iași railway station opens.
• 1884 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Iași founded.^[11]
• 1887 – Metropolitan Cathedral consecrated.
• 1888 – 17 February: Copou Theatre [ro] burns down.
• 1896 – Iași National Theatre building constructed.
• 1900
  • Electric
    Trams in Iași [ro
    ] begin operating.
  • Population: 78,067.[2]

20th century

• 1906 – Toynbee Hall Association founded.^[5]
• 1916
  • Capital of Kingdom of Romania relocated to Iași from Bucharest.^[3]
  • Moldova History Museum [ro] established.
• 1918 – Jassy Conference
• 1918 – Capital of Romania relocated from Iași back to Bucharest.^[3]
• 1920 –
  Tătărași Athenaeum
  founded.
• 1923 – Iași Exhibition Park opens.
• 1925 – Palace of Justice built.
• 1927 – Union Monument and Attacking Cavalryman Statue unveiled.
• 1937 – Polytechnic Institute established.
• 1941 – 27 June: Iași pogrom of Jews.^[1]
• 1943 – Ethnographic Museum of Moldavia [ro] established.
• 1944 – 21 August: City
  taken by Soviet forces.^[12]
• 1946 - Gara Socola [ro] (railway station) built.
• 1948 - Population: 94,075.^[1]
• 1949 –
  Puppet Theatre
  opens.
• 1950 – Gara Nicolina [ro] (railway station) built.
• 1956 – Romanian National Opera debuts.
• 1957 – Iași Museum of Art [ro] moves into the Palace of Culture.
• 1960 –
  Stadionul Emil Alexandrescu
  (stadium) opens.
• 1964 – Population: 123,558 city; 157,017 urban agglomeration.^[13]
• 1970 –
  Moldova Mall in business.^[relevant?
  ]
• 1977 – Population: 264,947 city; 284,308 urban agglomeration.[14]
• 1992 – Population: 344,425.
• 1995 – Polirom publisher in business.^[relevant?]
• 2000 – Iulius Mall Iași in business.^[relevant?]

21st century

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• 2002 – Population: 320,888.
• 2010 –
  CSM Studențesc Iași football club formed.^[relevant?
  ]
• 2011 – Population: 290,422.
• 2012 – Palas Iași shopping mall in business.^[relevant?]
• 2014 – Iași-
  Ungheni, Moldova
  gas pipeline launched.

See also

• History of Iași
• List of mayors of Iași [ro]
• Other names of Iași
  (e.g. Jashi, Jassy)

References

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Bibliography

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• Abraham Rees (1819), "Jassy",
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• "Jassy",
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