HelpTheFamily
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:05 am
Post subject: Białystok Ancestors
I’ve made this topic because I want to talk about Bialystok Ancestry.
Białystok History (Until WW2)
1320 - Settlement founded in Lithuania.
1569 – part of the Lesser Poland Province of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
1692 – Białystok granted city rights by Polish King John III Sobieski
1697 - Branicki Palace built
1745 – the first military technical school in Poland founded in Białystok
1748 – one of the oldest theaters in Poland, the Komedialnia, founded
1749 – King Augustus III of Poland extended the city limits
1753 - Center of the city burns down
1756 - Jan Klemens Branicki, owner of Białystok, divorces his third wife
1763–1768 – Municipal hospital founded by Jan Klemens Branicki
13 July 1769 – Battle of Białystok, part of the War of the Bar Confederation
1770 – midwifery school founded under the auspices of Izabella Poniatowska
9 October 1771 – Jan Klemens Branicki dies
1789 – the epidemic of smallpox, the 22 children died
1795 – City annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition of Poland and made the administrative seat of the Białystok Department
26 January 1796 – Prussian administration takes over the town, but it remains formally owned by Izabella Poniatowska-Branicki
1805 – Institute of Obstetrics established based on the midwifery school
1807 - Town becomes part of Russia, per Peace of Tilsit, and capital of the Belostok Oblast.
14 February 1808 – Izabella Poniatowska-Branicka dies
3 July 1812 – Napoleon's army enters the city
13 July 1812 – Declaration of the inhabitants of communication with the Commonwealth
4 August 1812 – Russian army enters the city
8 August 1812 – giving a new coat of the city by Tsar Alexander I
13 December 1830 – announcement of martial law by the Russian authorities in connection with the outbreak of the November Uprising
1 February 1831 – setting up headquarters in the Russian army commander, Field Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch, whose task was to suppress the November Uprising
1834 – a ban on teaching in schools in the Polish language
1842 - City becomes administratively part of the Grodno Governorate
1845 - Woollen mill built
1857 - Population: 13,787
15 December 1859 – Ludwik Zamenhof, the creator of the international language Esperanto, was born
13 June 1860 – the beginning of a patriotic demonstration under the banner of national unity and fight against colonization
16 March 1861: Prayers were held by local Poles and Jews in memory of Polish protesters massacred by the Russians in Warsaw a few weeks earlier
3 May 1861: The Russians arrested several Polish students during the celebration of the Polish 3 May Constitution Day
9 June 1861: Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, representative of the Whites, arrives in the city
1862 – Opening of the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway through the city
24 April 1863 – the beginning of the Polish January Uprising in the Białystok area
15 February 1864 - Battle of the January Uprising was fought near Białystok
1877 – expanding the city limits: integrated railway station, the village of Piaski and Las Zwierzyniecki
1886 – the railway line Bialystok – Vawkavysk – Baranovichi
1889 - Population: 56,629.
1891 – Launch of the first telephone exchange
1895 – launch of three lines of horse tram
1897 - Population: 63,927.
1898 – establishment of the Volunteer Fire Department
1901 - Population: 65,781
1905 - Chernoe Znamia political group formed
1906 - 14–16 June: Białystok pogrom of Jews by the Russians
1910 - Białystok Power Station commissioned
1912 Tsarist prison built
Population: 98,170
1913 - Great Synagogue built
1915 - City becomes capital of the Bialystok-Grodno District of the German-controlled territory of Ober-Ost during World War I
1919 - Białystok part of the re-established Polish state, capital of the Białystok Voivodeship, and Białostoczek becomes part of city
22 September 1920: Battle of Białystok - Polish victory over the invading Russian forces.
Jagiellonia Białystok football club formed
1921 - Białystok confirmed as part of Poland
1928 - Polmos Białystok founded
1934 - Seweryn Nowakowski, considered one of the greatest mayors of Białystok, becomes mayor
1937 Podlaska Cavalry Brigade of the Polish Army formed and stationed in Białystok.
Population: 100,101.
1938 - Białystok Municipal Theatre built
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BarbOsloPO Top Contributor
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Posted: 4 Days ago at 9:54 am
Post subject: Re: Family Story that Grandfather Aleksander Les from Bialys
Ljless wrote: | I have been searching for records of my grandfather in Poland for about 10 years. The records for my Grandfather Martin Less and great uncles who immigrated early in the 1900s indicate that they are from Biala in Galicia. Don't know how they fit together in that story? |
Hi,
Make a new post on the forum and tell everything you know about your grandfather. Attach some documents if you have them: Manifest, census..... Bialystok is not the place you are looking for.
Best regards,
-Barb
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