Chersonesos (Pontos): All Data
1. Lists and Timelines
Sevastopol: 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.
527 BC
Capital of Chersonesos (Pontos)
64 AD
Mentioned in Event: Annexation of Pontus and Colchis
1055 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Principality of Chersonesos, part of Kievan Rus'
1201 AD
Capital of Independent Byzantine Crimea
1855 AD
Mentioned in Event: Black Sea theatre
1855 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Sevastopol, part of Black Sea theatre
1855 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of the Great Redan, part of Crimean War
1856 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty of Paris (1856)
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Pro-independence and White movements in Crimea during the Russian Civil War
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Civil War
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Ukrainian-Soviet War
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Pro-independence and White movements in Crimea during the Russian Civil War
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Southern Russia intervention (Russian Civil War)
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Ukrainian-Soviet War
1919 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Civil War
1920 AD
Mentioned in Event: Evacuation of Crimea
1920 AD
Capital of South Russia (Whites)
1922 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1942 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Crimean campaign
1942 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Sevastopol, part of World War II
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Red Army Crimean Offensive
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
2014 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Annexion of Crimea
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the City of Sevastopol, part of Ukraine