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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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