Polotsk: All Data
Polotsk is a city in Belarus. 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
Polotsk: 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.
1001 AD
Capital of Principality of Polotsk
1055 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Principality of Principality of Polotsk, part of Kievan Rus'
1520 AD
Mentioned in Event: Fourth Lithuanian-Muscovite border war
1564 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian war with Lithuania
1579 AD
Mentioned in Event: Polish and Swedish counterattack (Livonian War)
1579 AD
Mentioned in: siege of Polotsk, part of Polish and Swedish counterattack (Livonian War)
1620 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Voivodeship of Polotsk Voivodeship, part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1633 AD
Mentioned in Event: Smolensk War
1654 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
1701 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Voivodeship of Polotsk Voivodeship, part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1812 AD
Mentioned in: First Battle of Polotsk, part of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Civil War
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Soviet westward offensive in Poland
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: White Russia administrative changes
1920 AD
Mentioned in Event: White Russia administrative changes
1922 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1941 AD
Mentioned in Event: Operation Barbarossa
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Polotsk Offensive
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union