| Date |
Event |
| c. 860
|
First Slav attack on Constantinople
Cyrillic alphabet devised |
| 862 - 879
|
Ryurik (Rurik) as a ruler of Novgorod |
| 879 - 913
|
Oleg first ruler at Kiev |
| 882
|
Novgorod and Kiev united |
| 911
|
First Russian treaty with Constantinople |
| 913 - 945
|
Igor as ruler of Kiev |
| 944
|
Igor of Kiev makes treaty with Constantinople |
| 945 - 964
|
Olga (widow of Igor) as a ruler of Kiev |
| 945 - 972
|
Svyatoslav I |
| 955
|
Olga of Kiev baptized |
| 967
|
Svyatoslav of Kiev sacks Khazaria |
| 973 - 978/980
|
Yaropolk I |
| 988 / 989
|
Christianity officially adopted |
| 1015
|
Boris and Gleb martyred |
| 1025
|
The town Yaroslavl founded |
| 1037
|
St. Sophia, Kiev, begun |
| 1043
|
St. Sophia, Novgorod, begun |
c. 1050 ?
|
St. Hilarion's On the law and the Grace |
| 1051
|
First native Russian metropolitan elected |
| 1097
|
Princely conference at Lyubech |
| c. 1100
|
Instruction of Vladimir II Monomakh |
| 1108
|
The town Vladimir founded |
| 1113
|
Primary Cronicle completed |
| c. 1125
|
The icon Virgin of Vladimir was made |
| 1156
|
The town Moscow (Moskva) founded |
| 1158
|
Dormition Cathedral built in Vladimir |
| 1187
|
Igor Tale |
| 1198
|
Church of the Savior built on Nereditsa Hill, Novgorod |
| 1221
|
The town Nizhniy Novgorod founded |
| 1223
|
First Tatar raid |
| 1240
|
Tatar rule established in Rus |
| 1242
|
Alexander Nevsky defeats Teutonic Knights |
| 1270
|
Novgorod signs treaty with Hanseatic League |
| 1300
|
Metropolitan see transferred from Kiev to Vladimir |
| 1318
|
Yury of Moscow obtains Yarlyk from Tatars |
| 1340
|
St Sergius founds Trinity Monastery |
| 1378
|
Theophanes the Greek active in Novgorod |
| 1380
|
Dmitriy Donskoy defeats Tatars at Kulikovo |
| 1392
|
Moscow annexes Nizhniy Novgorod and Suzdal |
| 1405
|
Iconostasis of Annunciation Cathedral, Moscow |
| 1410
|
Rublyov's Old Testament Trinity icon
Lithuanians defeat Teutonic knights at Tannenberg |
| 1428
|
Solovki monastery founded |
| 1453
|
Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks |
| 1458
|
Lithuanians set up rival Orthodox metropolitan |
| 1475 - 1479
|
Fioravanti builds Dormition Cathedral in Moscow |
| 1478
|
Ivan III crushes Novgorod |
| 1480
|
Ivan III ends tribute to tatars |
| 1494
|
Ivan III closes Hanseatic depot in Novgorod |
| c. 1500 - 1550
|
Trinity Chronicle |
| 1503
|
Church council supports Josephites |
| 1505
|
Archangel Cathedral, Moscow, begun |
| 1510
|
Vasiliy III annexes Pskov |
| 1514
|
Moscow absorbs territory of Smolensk |
| 1532
|
Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoe |
| 1547
|
Ivan IV assumes title of "Tsar" |
| 1550
|
Sudebuik (law code) |
| 1551
|
Council of Hundred Chapters |
| 1552
|
Ivan IV conquers Kazan |
| 1555
|
Muscovy company formed in London
St. Basil's Katehdral, Moscow built |
| 1564
|
First book printed in Moscow |
| 1577
|
Commercial links established with Holland |
| 1582
|
Conquest of western Siberia |
| 1584
|
Archangel founded |
| 1589
|
Patriarchate of Moscow founded |
| 1596
|
Union of Brest
Smolensk Kremlin established |
| 1598
|
Fyodor I, last Ryurikid ruler, dies |
| 1605
|
Time of troubles begins |
| 1613 - 1645
|
First Romanov ruler
Mikhail
Romanov, son of Fyodor Romanov, who later became Metropolitan
Filaret begins the era of Romanov dynasty |
| 1618
|
"Marvelous Church" built at Uglich |
| 1632
|
Town Irkutsk founded |
| 1649
|
Ulozhenie (new legal code) promulgated
Church of the Nativity built in Putinki, Moscow |
| 1652
|
Nikon became partiarch of Moscow |
| 1658
|
Nikon's New Jerusalem begun |
| 1666
|
Church council deposes Nikon but confirms reforms |
| 1667 - 1670
|
Palace of Kolomenskoe built |
| 1670 - 1671
|
Revolt of Stenka Razin |
| 1680
|
Mestnichestvo abolished |
| 1682
|
Archpriest Avvakum martyred |
| 1686
|
Treaty with Poland confirms Russian possession of Kiev |
| 1687
|
Slav-Greek-Latin established in Moscow |
| 1689
|
Treaty of Nerchinsk singned with China |
| 1697 - 1698
|
Peter I's Great Embassy |
| 1700
|
Start of Great Northern War |
| 1703
|
Site of St. Petersburg captured from Swedes
Russia's first newspaper published |
| 1704
|
Old Admiralty built in St. Petersburg |
| 1709
|
Peter I defeats Charles (Carl) XII in Poltava |
| 1712
|
Peter I transfers seat of government to St. Petersburg |
| 1714
|
Church of the transfiguration, Kizhi island |
| 1721
|
Peace treaty of Nystad
Patriarchate abolished |
| 1725
|
Academy of Science founded at St. Petersburg |
| 1740 - 1750
|
Dukhobor sect founded |
| 1752
|
Letter on the Utility of Glass by Mikhail Lomonosov
|
| 1754
|
Winter Palace (by architect B. Rastrelli) built in St.
Petersburg |
| 1755
|
Moscow University founded |
| 1757
|
Academy of Arts founded in St. Petersburg |
| 1762
|
Centry liberated from obligatory service |
| 1766 - 1782
|
Bronze horseman statue (by Falconet) built in St.
Petersburg |
| 1767
|
Legislative commission |
| 1772
|
First partition of Poland |
| 1773 - 1775
|
Pugatchov rebellion |
| 1783
|
Annexation of Crimea |
| 1785
|
Charter of Nobility |
| 1790
|
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Radishchev
|
| 1793
|
Second partition of Poland |
| 1795
|
Third partition of Poland |
| 1793
|
Sitka founded as capital of Alaska |
| 1806
|
Admiralty building in St. Petersburg remodeled |
| 1807
|
Treaty of Tilsit signed with Napoleon |
| 1812
|
French invade Russia |
| 1814
|
M.Yu. Lermontov born |
| 1816
|
Karamzin, History of the Russian State |
| 1821
|
October 30. : F.M. Dostoevsky born in Moscow |
| 1823
|
Evgeny onegin by A.S. Pushkin published |
| 1825
|
Decembrist uprising |
| 1830
|
revolt in Polish provinces |
| 1832
|
Duchy of Warsaw becomes part of Russia |
| 1837
|
January 29. : A.S. Pushkin dies because of a duel |
| 1840
|
Hero of our Time by M.Yu. Lermontov published |
| 1842
|
Dead souls by N.V. Gogol published |
| 1853
|
Outbreak of Crimean war |
| 1860
|
Vladivostok founded |
| 1861
|
Emancipation of serfs
Fathers and sons by I.S. Turgenev published |
| 1864
|
first part of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy) published |
| 1867
|
Alaska sold to the USA (for $7.2 million) |
| 1870
|
V.I. Lenin born in the town Simbirsk (later Ulyanovsk) |
| 1871
|
First Wanderers' exhibition |
| 1873 - 1874
|
first To the people movement |
| 1879
|
first part of the novel Brothers Karamazov by F.M.
Dostoevsky published
December 21. : In the town of Gori, Georgia borns Iosif
Vissarionovich Dzhugasvili (later known as Stalin) |
| 1881
|
F.M. Dostoevsky dies in St. Petersburg |
| 1891
|
Building of Trans-Siberian Railroad begun |
| 1897
|
Moscow Art Theatre founded |
| 1904 - 1905
|
Russo-Japanese War |
| 1906
|
first Duma
December 19: L.I. Brezhnev is born in Kamenskoe, Ukraine
|
| 1914 - 1918
|
World War I |
| 1917
|
February : February Revolution
October : The Socialist October Revolution |
| 1917 - 1920
|
Civil War in Russia |
| 1918
|
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk stops hostilities between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers. |
| 1922
|
April : I.V. Stalin becames General Secretary of the Central
Comittee of the Comminist Party
May 25. : V.I. Lenin has a major stroke, then two more and becomes disabled. |
| 1923
|
The Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR) formed |
| 1924
|
January 20: V.I. Lenin dies |
| 1934
|
December: Leader of the Leningrad Communist Party, S. Kirov is murdered |
| 1939
|
Nonaggression pact with Germany
November 31: Russo-Finnish war begins |
| 1939 - 1945
|
The World War II |
| 1941
|
Hitler invades USSR |
| 1947 - 1989
|
The Cold War |
| 1953
|
March : Stalin dies
March 22. : Nikita S. Khrushchev becames the first secreatary of CPSU |
| 1955
|
Warsaw Pact |
| 1956
|
Hungarian uprising crushed |
| 1957
|
Sputnik I launched, the first man-made object in space, displaying advancement of the Soviet space program |
| 1962
|
Cuban missile crisis |
| 1964
|
Leader of the state N.S. Khrushchev deposed
October 14. : L.I. Brezhnev becames the first secreatary of CC
CPSU |
| 1968
|
"Prague Spring" |
| 1971
|
N.S. Khrushchev dies |
| 1977
|
June : L.I. Brezhnev replaces Nikolay Podgorny as a president of USSR |
| 1979
|
Invasion of Afganistan |
| 1980
|
Olympic games in Moscow
Vladimir Vysotsky dies in Moscow |
| 1982
|
November 10. : L.I. Brezhnev dies from hard attack
November 12. : Yuri V. Andropov elected genearl secretary of CPSU |
| 1984
|
February 9. : Yu.V. Andropov dies
February 13. : K.U. Chernenko elected the General secretary of CPSU |
| 1985
|
March 10. : K.U. Chernenko dies
March 11. : Mikhail Gorbachev becames the first secretary of
CPSU |
| 1986
|
Perestroyka begins |
| 1988
|
October: M.S. Gorbachev elected President of the USSR |
| 1989
|
First multicandidate elections in the USSR
Last soviet troops leave Afganistan |
| 1990
|
M.S. Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1991
|
January: Crackdowns in Baltic countries Lithuania and Latvia
August 19. - 23: The Soviet coup (G K CH P)
August 24: M.S. Gorbachev resigns as head of CPSU
December 25: Resigns as president of the USSR
END OF THE SOVIET UNION
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