Moscow: All Data
Moscow is a city in Russia (with Crimea). This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Moscow: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
1238 AD
Mentioned in Event: Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'
1238 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Moscow (1238), part of Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'
1264 AD
Capital of Grand Duchy of Moscow (Mongol Empire)
1368 AD
Mentioned in Event: Invasion of Russia by Algirdas
1370 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian counterattack against Algirdas
1376 AD
Capital of Grand Duchy of Moscow
1382 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Moscow (1382)
1440 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Vasily II
1547 AD
Capital of Tsardom of Russia
1571 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russo-Crimean War (1571)
1571 AD
Mentioned in: Fire of Moscow
1610 AD
Mentioned in Event: Polish Invasion of Russia (1609)
1610 AD
Capital of Russia (Poland Protectorate)
1611 AD
Mentioned in Event: Expulsion of the Poles from Russia
1611 AD
Mentioned in: siege of the Moscow Kremlin, part of Expulsion of the Poles from Russia
1612 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Moscow, part of Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)
1618 AD
Mentioned in Event: Polish Invasion of Russia (1617)
1729 AD
Capital of Russian Empire
1905 AD
Mentioned in: Moscow uprising of 1905, part of 1905 Russian Revolution
1914 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Governatorate of Moscow, part of Russian Empire
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Bolsheviks take control of most of European Russia
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Civil War
1917 AD
Capital of RSFSR
1922 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1922 AD
Capital of USSR
1923 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1925 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1930 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1937 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1946 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1955 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1989 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1991 AD
Capital of Russian Federation
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the federal city of Moskva, part of Russian Federation