city Saint Petersburg: All Data

Saint Petersburg 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.

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Saint Petersburg: 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.

1721 AD
Capital of Russian Empire
1733 AD
Capital of Russian Empire
1905 AD
Mentioned in: Bloody Sunday (1905), part of 1905 Russian Revolution
1914 AD
Capital of Russian Empire
1914 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Governatorate of Saint Petersburg, part of Russian Empire
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Bolsheviks take control of most of European Russia
1917 AD
Capital of Russian Republic
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Civil War
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Bolsheviks take control of most of European Russia
1922 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1941 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Leningrad, part of Siege of Leningrad
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the federal city of Sankt-Peterburg, part of Russian Federation