Vitebsk: All Data
Vitebsk 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
Vitebsk: 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.
1102 AD
Capital of Principality of Vitebsk
1520 AD
Mentioned in Event: Fourth Lithuanian-Muscovite border war
1620 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Voivodeship of Vitebsk Voivodeship, part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1654 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
1701 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Voivodeship of Vitebsk Voivodeship, part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1812 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Vitebsk, part of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1914 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Governatorate of Vitebsk, 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
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
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: World War II (Eastern Theatre)
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Mogilev Region, part of Republic of Belarus