History of Šiauliai

Growth of Šiauliai City and the Great Constructions

Foundations of Šiauliai city formation are clearly visible in the historical sources of the 17th century. The documents of 1649 and 1650 mention Vilniaus, Rūdės, Dvaro streets, the names of which have survived to this day. It is kno... Read more

Jan

2018

The Emergence of Šiauliai Crown Estate (Economy) and its Significance for the State

In 1616, Šiauliai crown estate, called economy, starts operating. It is an institution uniting and governing royal manors and their lands in the region from Šiauliai manor, established in Šiauliai. The manor house was wooden before ... Read more

Jan

2018

The City in the Times of Antanas Tyzenhauzas’s Administration

Not all coercive reforms bring merely bad consequences and offer no beneficial innovations that the country was lacking until then. Also, not all tyrants can only be narcissists thirsty for power with no innovative and progressive thin... Read more

Jan

2018

The Origins of the Jewish Community Development in the City

Initially, the city that has always been known as standing in the localities exclusively inhabited by Lithuanians, reluctantly let in the representatives of other peoples. The city let in the first Jewish merchants, who decided to sett... Read more

Jan

2018

Šiauliai Becomes the City with Full Rights

In 1791-1795, the inhabitants of Šiauliai city became important in solving the issue of the city’s self-governance. As the centre of economy and rural district, in which all major state institutions were concentrated, the city state... Read more

Jan

2018

Šiauliai on the Threshold of Changes

Straight after the third partition of the Commonwealth of Both Nations and the occupation of the land of Lithuania, Russian Empress Catherine II, based on the Russian law ‘Malonės raštas miestams’ (‘Letter of Grace to Cities’... Read more

Jan

2018

History of the City: from the Rebellion to the Rebellion

After survival of many fires and other persecuting cataclysms and a miraculous ability to recover after each of them, Šiauliai deserves to be called the city phoenix; this image also remains in the 19th century. The city was twice gre... Read more

Jan

2018

Building of Trade Routes and Urban Growth

In the late 18th century and the early 19th century, the detailed picture of Šiauliai, recorded in the city plan drawn up in 1800-1801, is already known. It is the first city plan and one of the first such cartographic works in the hi... Read more

Jan

2018

Development of the City’s Industry

The economic and industrial potential of the city was promoted by emerging local enterprises. Šiauliai of the early 19th century can be called an agrarian and commercial city, where the majority of the population was engaged in agricu... Read more

Jan

2018

The Modernizing City

Even before the end of the 19th century, lighting of main streets and houses, financed from the city budget, was equipped. In the 20th century, lighting was equipped by private enterprises: Ch. Frenkelis’s tannery, tannery of brother... Read more

Jan

2018