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Grand Prince Vladimir is baptized in the Byzantine church and his empire follows
988
Religion, Russia
Mongol invasion of Rus' resumes (1237-1240)
1237
War, Russia
Swedish fleet invades Russia, but Prince Alexander victorious at Battle of Neva
1240
War, Russia
Keivan Rus' submits to Mongols (Batu Khan) becoming part of Golden Horde empire
1241
War, Russia
Battle of Lake Peipus: Alexander Nevski leads Russians to defeat Teutonic Knights
1242
War, Russia
Cossacks led by Yermak invade Siberia and defeat Tatars led by Khan Kuchum
1582
War, Russia
Ivan the Terrible, 1st Russian tsar, dies after bringing a brutal order to Russia
1584
Government, Russia
After Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Russia no longer had a church
1666
Religion, Russia
Peter the Great travels around Europe to learn how to build Russian navy
1697
Culture, Russia
Peter the Great begins building a new capital at St. Petersburg
1703
Geography, Russia
Peter the Great establishes Table of Ranks, expands Russia & creates St Petersburg
1722
War, Russia
Catherine becomes empress of Russia after seizing power from her husband
1762
Government, Russia
Tsar Paul I, son of Catherine the Great, is assassinated
1801
Government, Russia
In September, Battle of Borodino--Napoleon fails to destroy Russian army
1812
War, Russia
In June, Russia is invaded by Napoleon with an army of 600,000 men
1812
War, Russia
Alexander I wins victory over Napoleon I
1812
War, Russia
Alexander Pushkin, founder of romantic Russian literature, dies after a duel
1837
Arts, Russia
Charge of the British Light Brigade in the Crimean War
1854
War, Russia
Tsar Alexander II emancipates the serfs despite opposition of nobility
1861
Human Rights, Russia
Leo Tolstoy publishes first part of "War and Peace"
1865
Arts, Russia
Fyodor Dostoevsky publishes "Crime and Punishment"
1866
Arts, Russia
Mendeleev presents periodic table of elements to Russian Chemical Society
1869
Science, Russia
Alexander II the "Great Liberator" is assassinated by the People's Will
1881
Government, Russia
Leo Tolstoy writes "What I Believe"
1884
Arts, Russia
Soldiers massacre about 1,000 workers at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
1905
Government, Russia
A giant meteorite hits forest in Siberia burning an area 50 miles across
1908
Earth, Russia
Bolsheviks become separate party
1912
Government, Russia
Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring causes a riot in Paris
1913
Arts, Russia
Rasputin, personal counselor of the Russian Imperial Family, is murdered
1916
Government, Russia
In November, Bolshevik Revolution begins in St. Petersburg
1917
Government, Russia
In April, Lenin arrives at St. Petersburg to lead Russian Revolution
1917
Government, Russia
In July, Lenin orders the execution of the Tsar Nicholas II and his family
1918
Government, Russia
Soviet Union (USSR)--Russians recreate old tsarist Empire minus Poland & Finland
1922
Government, Russia
Stalin rises to power
1924
Government, Russia
Stalin begins trials & purges with convictions based on confessions under pressure
1936
Government, Russia
Stalin executes 8 Red Army personnel & later kills or sends to labor camps 30,000
1937
Government, Russia
In June, Hitler attacks Russia with 4 million soldiers to destroy Soviet Union
1941
War, Russia
In September, seige of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) begins
1941
War, Russia
From September-December, Germans fail to capture Moscow at Battle of Moscow
1941
War, Russia
In July, Soviets repel Blitzkrieg at Battle of Kursk involving about 6,000 tanks
1943
War, Russia
In February, Hitler protests but German army surrenders at Stalingrad (Volgograd)
1943
War, Russia
In January, seige lifts on Leningrad the "Hero City of the Soviet Union"
1944
War, Russia
Soviet spy scandal--"Cambridge Spies" Burgess and MacLean defect to Soviet Union
1951
War, Russia
Millions of Russians mourn Stalin's death--his infallibility myth unveiled later
1953
Government, Russia
Warsaw Pact signed
1955
Peace, Russia
Nikita Khrushchev declares to Western ambassadors, "We will bury you."
1956
Government, Russia
Khrushchev denounces Stalin as guilty of crimes against Russians
1956
Government, Russia
Soviets are the first into outer space as they launch Sputnik into orbit
1957
Invention, Russia
Soviet-Chinese alliance dissolves
1960
Government, Russia
Soviets lead the space race with the first man (Yuri Gagarin) launched into orbit
1961
Transportation, Russia
Valentina Tereshkova is the first female astronaut
1963
Transportation, Russia
Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes in English "The Gulag Archipelago"
1974
Arts, Russia
Andrei Sakharov awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1975
Peace, Russia
Mikhail Gorbachev takes power and starts reforms
1985
Government, Russia
Gorbachev, introducing perestroika & glasnost, battles for Communist Party
1987
Government, Russia
Berlin Wall falls--after reforms of Gorbachev, East Germany collapses
1989
Government, Russia
Leaders of Belarus, Ukraine & Russia announce that Soviet Union no longer exists
1991
Geography, Russia