city Tartu: All Data

Tartu is a city in Estonia. 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

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Tartu: 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.

1224 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Tartu, part of Livonian Crusade
1350 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Bishropric of Dorpat Bishopric, part of Teutonic Order
1558 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian invasion of Livonia
1578 AD
Mentioned in Event: Polish and Swedish counterattack (Livonian War)
1603 AD
Mentioned in Event: Polish Counterattack (Polish-Swedish War of 1600-1611)
1620 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Voivodeship of Dorpat Voivodeship, part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1625 AD
Mentioned in Event: Polish-Swedish War (1621-25)
1656 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second Northern War
1656 AD
Mentioned in: siege of Dorpat, part of Second Northern War
1658 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russo-Swedish War (1656-1658)
1658 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second Northern War
1662 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russo-Swedish War (1656-1658)
1662 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second Northern War
1704 AD
Mentioned in Event: Livonian-Estonian Frontier of the Great Northern War
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Civil War
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Creation of Estonia after the retreat of the German Army
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Soviet Offensive (Estonian War of Independence)
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: World War I eastern Front
1919 AD
Mentioned in Event: Liberation of Estonian territories (Estonian War of Independence)
1939 AD
Mentioned in Event: Soviet occupation of the Baltic states
1940 AD
Mentioned in Event: Soviet occupation of the Baltic states
1941 AD
Mentioned in Event: Baltic Operation
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: Tartu Offensive
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the County of Tartu County, part of Republic of Estonia