Timeline of Belgrade:
- 7th millennium BC - First known neolithic settlement on teritorry of Belgrade
- end of 1st century - The Romans colonize Singidunum
- 91 - Roman military camp of Domitian's IV legion is in the city
- 441 - The Huns destroyed the city
- after 450 - Sarmatians are holding Singidunum
- around 470 - The Ostrogoths expelled the Sarmatians from the town
- 488 - The Gepids conquered Singidunum
- 504 - The Goths capture it again
- 510 - A peace treaty handed over the city to the Byzantine Empire
- 535 - Byzantine emperor Justinian I renews Singidunum
- 584 - The Avars conquer and sack it
- 592 - Byzantine Empire regains the town
- 7th century - The Avars destroy and burn down the town
- around 630 - The Slavs conquered Singidunum
- 827 - The Bulgarians got control of the fortress
- 878 - First known written record of the Slavic name "Beograd"
- 896 - Army of Hungarians attacked Belgrade
- 971 - Byzantine Empire conquers Belgrade
- after 976 - The town is taken by Emperor Samuel
- 1018 - Emperor Basil II regains Belgrade for the Byzantine Empire
- between 1018 and 1072 - ?
- 1072 - Belgrade was again retaken by Byzantine Empire
- 1096 - The city was destroyed by Hungarians, but remained control of Byzantine Empire
- 1096-1189 - Crusaders are passing through Belgrade
- 1127 - Hungarian king Stefan II destroyed Belgrade and used so obtained stones to build a fortress in Zemun
- 1154 - Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus destroyed Zemun and takes the stones back to rebuild Belgrade
- 1182 - Hungary attacked and sacked the city
- 1185 - Byzantine Empire regained it by diplomacy
- 1230 - Belgrade belongs to Bulgaria
- 1232 - The city became part of Hungary
- 1284 - Serb king Dragutin got Belgrade from Hungary; this is the first time that Belgrade came under Serb rule
- 1316 - Milutin takes Belgrade from his brother by force
- 1319 - The Hungarians deprive King Milutin of the city
- 1382 - Brothers Horvat capture Belgrade
- 1386 - Hungary regained it
- 1403 - Despot Stefan Lazarević made Belgrade the capital of the medieval Serbia
- 1427 - The Hungarians overtake Belgrade from Despot Djuradj Branković
- 1440 - Turkey unsuccesfuly attacked Belgrade and heavily damaged the city
- 1456 - Sultan Mahmud II sieged Belgrade; this siege was also unsuccessful
- 1521 - Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent conquered Belgrade
- 1688 - Duke Maximilian of Bavaria recaptured it
- 1690 - Turks again capture Belgrade
- 1717 - Prince Eugene of Savoy recaptured it
- 1723-1736 - - Construction of the Belgrade fortress by Nikola Doksat de Mores
- 1739 - Belgrade peace treaty between Austria and Turkey returns Belgrade to Turkey
- 1789 - Marshal Gideon Ernst Laudon captures the city
- 1791 - Peace of Svishtov returns Belgrade to the Turks
- 1806 - Karadjordje liberates Belgrade; Belgrade is again the capital of Serbia
- 1808 - First high school established
- 1813 - The Turks reconquer the city
- 1815 - Milos Obrenović started the Second Serbian Uprising and got hold of Belgrade
- 1830 - Mahmud II proclaimed charter on Serbian autonomy
- 1831 - First printing works established
- 1835 - The first newspaper ("Novine srbske" - Serbian newspaper) published
- 1840 - The first post office in Belgrade
- 1841 - Belgrade became the capital of the Princedom of Serbia under Mihailo Obrenović
- 1844 - The National Museum established
- 1855 - First telegraph line in Serbia, Belgrade - Aleksinac, established
- 1862 - After the conflict at Cukur-cesma Belgrade was bombarded from the Kalemegdan fortress
- 1867 - In Kalemegdan, Turkish commander of the fortress pasha Ali-Riza handed over the keys of Belgrade to Knez Mihailo. The Turks have finally left Belgrade, never to return
- 1878 - The Berlin Congress recognized independence of Serbia
- 1882 - Belgrade is the capital of the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1883 - The first phone lines in Belgrade
- 1884 - Railway station and railway bridge over Sava constructed (still in use)
- 1892 - The first modern water supply
- 1893 - Electrification of the city
- 1894 - The first electric tramway
- 1903 - In May coup d'etat King Aleksandar Obrenović is assassinated, and King Petar I Karadjordjević gets the throne of Serbia
- 1914 - Austrians bombarded and captured Belgrade
- 1914 - Serbs liberate it
- 1915 - German and Austrian troops led by August von Mackensen captured Belgrade
- 1918 - The Serbs with help of allies liberate it
- 1918 - Belgrade became the capital of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- 1923 - Paris - Budapest air line extended to Belgrade
- January 6th 1926 - King Aleksandar Karadjordjević dissolved the National Assembly and started his dictatorship
- 1927 - Belgrade Airport opened
- 1929 - Radio Belgrade started broadcasting
- 1935 - The first bridge over the Danube, the Pancevacki most (Bridge of Pancevo) is built
- 1937 - Belgrade Fair opened
- March 27th 1941 - Huge protests against joining to the Axis
- April 6th 1941 - Nazi Germany bombs Belgrade
- April 12th 1941 - Nazi Germany occupies Belgrade
- 1944 - American and other allies bomb Belgrade
- October 20th 1944 - Belgrade liberated by the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia and Soviet Red Army; new communist government was arresting and liquidating political opponents and mobilized Belgrade youth
- November 29th 1945 - The Constitutional Assembly proclaimed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
- Later in 1945 - Monarchy was abolished and Josip Broz Tito started to rule officially
- 1946 - Industries nationalised
- 1948 - Large number of regime opponents arrested and sentenced to hard labour
- 1950 - Government introduced selfmanagement of the industry by the employees
- 1958 - TV Belgrade started broadcasting
- 1961 - The first Conference of Non-aligned Countries held in Belgrade
- 1967 - The first BITEF held
- 1968 - Students' protests in Belgrade
- 1969 - Beogradjanka, one of the tallests buildings in the city built
- 1971 - E75 highway through Belgrade and Gazela (Gaselle) bridge built
- 1971 - The first FEST held
- 1974 - New Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopted
- 1977-1978 - The Conference on European Security and Cooperation held in Belgrade
- 1979 - Annual meetings of the World Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund held in Belgrade
- 1980 - 21st General Assembyl of UNESCO held in Belgrade
- 1983 - Annual Conference of UNCTAD held in Belgrade
- 1988 - First meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs of the Balkan States
- March 9th 1991 - Around 100.000 people demonstrate against the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Police and army tanks on the streets of Belgrade
- 1992 - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia proclaimed
- May 30th 1992 - The UN Security Council imposed economic embargo on Yugoslavia
- 1993 - The highest hyperinflation in the history struck Belgrade, bringing many citizens to the limits of existence
- 1994 - The end of the hyperinflation
- 1995 - Underground railway station "Vukov spomenik" opened. Similar to the RER of Paris, this is to become thefirst station of Belgrade metro
- 1996 - Mass protests after cancelling of local elections
- 1997 - First non-communist government since 1944
- 1999 - Belgrade was bombed by NATO
- October 5 2000 - Slobodan Milosevic removed from power after huge protests in Belgrade
- 2003 - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia changed into Serbia and Montenegro