| Saint Petersburg - 11-September-1743 : Natalia Lopukhina is flogged in front of the Twelve Collegia building in Saint Petersburg.
- 07-November-1824 : In the worst flood to date in Saint Petersburg, water rises 421 cm above normal and 200 lose their lives.
- 30-December-1836 : The Lehman theater in Saint Petersburg catches fire; hundreds die.
- 17-December-1837 : Fire in the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg.
- 24-January-1878 : The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
- 19-July-1920 : August 7 The Second Congress of the Communist International takes place in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. The notorious Twenty-one Conditions are adopted.
- 26-January-1924 : Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad.
- 08-September-1941 : War II The Siege of Leningrad begins: German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's secondsecondlargest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia.
- 14-January-1944 : WWII: Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod.
- 06-September-1991 : The name ''Saint Petersburg'' is restored to Russia's secondsecondlargest city, which had been renamed ''Leningrad'' in 1924.
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