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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
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