Region: Eastern Europe & Russia · Coordinates: 58.521, 31.271 · 83 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| AD 1045 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Prince Vladimir begins St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod the Great. |
| AD 1052 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Vladimir Yaroslavich dies in Novgorod the Great on 4 October. |
| AD 1066 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Svyatopolk takes Novgorod the Great and carries off the bells and lamps of Sophia. |
| AD 1069 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Iziaslav returns with the Lyakhs; Svyatopolk comes to Novgorod and faces Gleb and the Novgorod forces at Zvyrinets. |
| AD 1108 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Archbishop Nikita of Novgorod the Great dies on 30 January. |
| AD 1117 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Mstislav leaves Novgorod, is enthroned in Kyiv, and seats his son Vsevolod in Novgorod. |
| AD 1119 | Novgorod First Chronicle | The abbot of the Kuriak monastery and Vsevolod begin the stone cathedral of the Yuriev monastery. |
| AD 1124 | Novgorod First Chronicle | On 11 August a solar eclipse; darkness, and stars are seen. |
| AD 1127 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Vsevolod begins the stone church of St. John. |
| AD 1128 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Famine: one osmina of rye costs one grivna; people eat linden leaves and birch bark. |
| AD 1134 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Over the dispute about the Suzdal war, the Novgorodians kill people and throw them off a bridge. |
| AD 1136 | Novgorod First Chronicle | The Novgorodians imprison Prince Vsevolod in the bishop's court and drive him out. |
| AD 1138 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Sviatoslav Olgovich is expelled from Novgorod. |
| AD 1152 | Novgorod First Chronicle | On 23 April a fire at St. Michael's church burns the whole trading quarter and eight churches. |
| AD 1154 | Novgorod First Chronicle | The Novgorodians drive out Prince Yaroslav and take in Rostislav. |
| AD 1156 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Archbishop Nifont dies on 21 April. |
| AD 1158 | Novgorod First Chronicle | A great plague and the death of livestock; Rostislav leaves for Smolensk and his son Sviatoslav is seated in Novgorod. |
| AD 1160 | Novgorod First Chronicle | The Novgorodians accept Sviatoslav Rostislavich but expel him to Ladoga. |
| AD 1165 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Ilya is consecrated archbishop of Novgorod the Great. |
| AD 1168 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Roman Mstislavich comes to Novgorod as prince on 14 April. |
| AD 1170 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Famine; Rurik Rostislavich enters Novgorod on 4 October. |
| AD 1172 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Yuri Andreyevich comes to Novgorod; construction of the church of St. Jacob begins. |
| AD 1175 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Yuri Andreyevich is expelled from Novgorod and Mstislav enters. |
| AD 1178 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Mstislav dies; his brother Yaropolk is seated in Novgorod. |
| AD 1179 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Archbishop Ilya builds the stone church of the Annunciation in seventy days. |
| AD 1180 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Mstislav dies; Vladimir is seated in Novgorod on 17 August. |
| AD 1185 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Solar eclipse on 1 May; stars are seen. |
| AD 1186 | Novgorod First Chronicle | The Greek emperor Alexios (Alexios Manuylovich) comes to Novgorod. |
| AD 1187 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Gavrila is consecrated archbishop of Novgorod on 29 March. |
| AD 1193 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Archbishop Gavrila dies on 24 May; Marturi is elected. |
| AD 1194 | Novgorod First Chronicle | A great fire in Novgorod: ten churches burn. |
| AD 1205 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Grand Prince Vsevolod sends his son Konstantin as prince to Novgorod. |
| AD 1215 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Mstislav leaves on his own for Kyiv, and Novgorod calls Yaroslav. |
| AD 1217 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Mstislav leaves his wife and son in Novgorod and goes to Kyiv; Vladimir comes to Novgorod. |
| AD 1219 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Mstislav sends his son Vsevolod and asks for Sviatoslav to be returned. |
| AD 1220 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Archbishop Mitrofan returns to Novgorod on 17 March. |
| AD 1222 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Prince Vsevolod comes to Novgorod as prince. |
| AD 1229 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Prince Mikhail comes to Novgorod from Chernigov. |
| AD 1230 | Novgorod First Chronicle | An earthquake after Easter; a great death that year. |
| AD 1231 | Novgorod First Chronicle | A great fire in the Slavensky district (the fire also burned on the water of the Volkhov). |
| AD 1236 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Yaroslav leaves Novgorod to be enthroned in Kyiv and seats his son Alexander there. |
| AD 1237 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Solar eclipse on 3 August. |
| AD 1250 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Alexander returns from the Horde. |
| AD 1251 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Metropolitan Kirill appoints Dalmat as archbishop in Novgorod the Great. |
| AD 1255 | Novgorod First Chronicle | The Novgorodians seat Yaroslav Yaroslavich and expel Vasily; Alexander comes with his army. |
| AD 1257 | Novgorod First Chronicle | News of the Tatar census (tamga and tithe) unsettles Novgorod. |
| AD 1259 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Tatar commanders Berkai and Kasachik come to Novgorod with their wives and conduct a census. |
| AD 1261 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Archbishop Dalmat covers the whole of St. Sophia Cathedral with lead. |
| AD 1264 | Novgorod First Chronicle | The Novgorodians drive out Dmitri Alexandrovich and call Yaroslav back. |
| AD 1265 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Yaroslav Yaroslavich is seated in Novgorod on 27 January. |
| AD 1267 | Novgorod First Chronicle | On 23 May a fire burns the entire Nerevsky district. |
| AD 1270 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Novgorod holds a veche in Yaroslav's courtyard to drive out Prince Yaroslav and kills Ivanko. |
| AD 1273 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Dmitri Alexandrovich is seated in Novgorod on 9 October. |
| AD 1287 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Novgorod is thrown into great turmoil against the posadnik Semyon Mikhailovich. |
| AD 1299 | Novgorod First Chronicle | A great fire on Varezskaya street on 18 April spreads rapidly in a storm. |
| AD 1300 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Metropolitan Maxim comes and seats Feoktist as archbishop of Novgorod. |
| AD 1302 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Novgorod begins a stone fortress and sends envoys to Denmark to make peace. |
| AD 1308 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Mikhail Yaroslavich is seated in Novgorod. |
| AD 1309 | Novgorod First Chronicle | David is consecrated in Vladimir and comes to Novgorod as archbishop on 20 July. |
| AD 1326 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Moisei is consecrated and comes to Novgorod as archbishop. |
| AD 1329 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Ivan Danilovich is seated in Novgorod on 26 March. |
| AD 1338 | Novgorod First Chronicle | A great flood of the Volkhov washes away ten spans of the large bridge. |
| AD 1341 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Metropolitan Feognost comes to Novgorod. |
| AD 1346 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Prince Semyon is seated in Novgorod as prince (in winter). |
| AD 1347 | Karamzin, History of the Russian State | Olgerd, content with Novgorod's submission, agreed to peace in 1347 and left to fight the German Order. |
| AD 1353 | Karamzin, History of the Russian State | In 1353 citizens of the Slavno district abandoned the mayor Andreyan, armed themselves, and rushed to Yaroslav's court, driving out other citizens. |
| AD 1368 | Novgorod First Chronicle | On 12 May a great fire burns part of the Detinets and of St. Sophia Cathedral. |
| AD 1380 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Novgorod begs Archbishop Alexios to go to Grand Prince Dmitri. |
| AD 1384 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Orekhov and Karelia accuse Prince Patrikeev, and Novgorod is thrown into turmoil. |
| AD 1385 | Novgorod First Chronicle | On 14 June the whole trading quarter of Novgorod and its churches burn. |
| AD 1386 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Grand Prince Dmitri comes to Novgorod with his army. |
| AD 1388 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Archbishop Alexios steps down from his office of his own accord. |
| AD 1393 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Friction between Grand Prince Vasily and Novgorod (a matter of the metropolitan's charter). |
| AD 1395 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Metropolitan Kyprian comes to Novgorod with the envoy of the patriarch and demands a trial. |
| AD 1400 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Archbishop Ioann begins the stone fortress of Detinets. |
| AD 1403 | Novgorod First Chronicle | A great fire burns fifteen churches, including in the Plotnitsky district. |
| AD 1407 | Novgorod First Chronicle | On 6 June a fire in the Nerevsky district and St. Sophia Cathedral. |
| AD 1408 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Konstantin Dmitrievich comes to Novgorod as the grand prince's deputy. |
| AD 1420 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Novgorod begins to trade in silver coin. |
| AD 1441 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Grand Prince Vasily of Moscow turns hostile to Novgorod, sends a declaration of war and invades its territory. |
| AD 1442 | Karamzin, History of the Russian State | In 1442 the people of Novgorod imprisoned all German merchants, while Pskov traded peacefully with the Hanseatic League. |
| AD 1471 | Novgorod First Chronicle | Supplementary article in brackets: Marfa Boretskaya plots to marry a Lithuanian boyar so as to place Novgorod under the king's suzerainty. |
| AD 1611 | Karamzin, History of the Russian State | On entering the fortress the Swedish troops found many cannons but few munitions and provisions, and only 500 rubles in the treasury, so De la Gardie was disappointed (occupation of Novgorod; inferred from context). |