Nizhny Novgorod: All Data
Nizhny Novgorod 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
Nizhny Novgorod: 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.
1341 AD
Capital of Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal Grand Duchy
1446 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Vasily II
1506 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Ivan III
1506 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Nizhny Novgorod, part of Wars of Ivan III
1523 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Vasily III
1534 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Vasily III
1538 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Vasily III
1539 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Vasily III
1540 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Vasily III
1541 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Vasily III
1542 AD
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Vasily III
1914 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Governatorate of Nizhny Novgorod, 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
1922 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the oblast of Nizhegorodskaya Oblast’, part of Russian Federation