Novgorod:
862
- Riurik to Novgorod
1136
- Novgorod becomes commercial republic
1240
- Aleksandr Nevskii attacks Swedes
1242
- Battle on the ice at Lake Chud with Teutonic order
1263
- Aleksandr dies
1471
- Novgorod surrenders to Ivan III
1570
- Novgorod routed by Ivan IV
Kievan Period (3 parts)
Part One:
882-913
- Oleg occupies Kiev in 882
913-945
- Igor
941
- Igor's Campaign
945-962
- Ol'ga, Igor's wife
955
- Ol'ga converts to Christianity in 955
962-972
- Sviatoslav
972-980
- Civil war after Sviatoslav's death
980
- Vladimir, son of Igor', triumphs over Oleg & IIaropolk
Part Two:
980-1015
- Vladimir
988
- Vladimir/Russia converts to Christianity
1015-1019
- Civil War. Sviatopolk kills Boris & Gleb and is then killed by Iaroslav.
1019-1054
- Iaroslav the Wise
1026-1036
- Iaroslav divids realm with Mstislav the Brave
Part Three: 1054-1240
1054
- Iaroslav dies
1054-1113
- Constant civil wars (Iziaslav, Sviatoslav, Vsevolod, Sviatopolk)
1113-1125
- Vladimir Monomakh
1125-1132
- Mstislav
1132-1139
- Iaropolk
1139-1240
- Civil Wars
Rise of Moscow:
1147
- Moscow first appears in Chronicles
1237-1303
- Daniel (son of Aleksandr Nevskii)
1303-1328
- Internecine fighting
1328-1341
- Ivan Kalita
1341-1353
- Simeon the Proud
1353-1359
- Ivan the Meek
1359-1389
- Dmitri Donskoi
1380
- Battle of Kulikovo field
1389-1425
- Vasilii I
1425-1450
- Internecine struggles (Vasilii II, Dimitrii Shemiaka, Vasilii Kosoi)
1450-1462
- Vasilii II (Slepoi)
1462-1505
- Ivan III (gathered Russia, Novgorod and Tver)
1475-1682
- Mestichestvo established (system of Boyar assignments and status)
1493
- Ivan becomes Gosudar' of all Russia, also used Царь самодержатель.
1505-1533
- Vasilii III
1533-1584
- Ivan IV
1533-1547
- Boyar rule
1547
- Ivan IV really begins reign
1560
- Ivan's wife Anastasia dies
1564-1579
- Ivan's letters with Kurbskii
1565-1572
- Oprichnina
1584-1598
- Fedor (advised by Boris Godunov, the effective ruler beginning 1588)
1591
- Death of prince Dmitri of Uglich
1598-1613 - Time of Troubles:
1598-1605
- Boris Godunov
1604
- First False Dmitirii (Gregorii Otrep'ev)
1605
- Boris Godunov dies, his wife and child are killed
1606
- First False Dmitrii Marries Marina Mniszech
1606-1610
- Vasilii Shuiskii becomes Tsar. Shakhavskoi & Bolotnikov, focal point for unrest.
1609
- Second False Dmitrii (Тушинский вор)
1610
- Boyars invite Wladyslaw, a polish prince, to rule
1613
- Mikhail Romanov elected as Tsar
1613-1917 - Romanov Dynasty
1613-1645
- Mikhail
1645-1676
- Aleksei (Тишайщий)
1652-1658
- Nikon becomes patriarch
1666-1667
- Nikon is defrocked by Church council (but they uphold his reform)
1666-1667
- Rasskol (divided into the поповцы аnd беспоповцы)
1670-1671
- Sten'ka Razin Rebellion
1672
- Aleksei establishes court theater
1682
- Avvakum burned at stake
1676-1682
- Fedor (taught by Simeon Polotskii)
1682
- Abolition of Mestinchestvo
Imperial Russia:
1672-1725
- Peter the Great
1682-1689
- Sofiia rules with Golitsyn
1694
- Peter begins ruling
1703
- St. Petersburg is founded
1710
- Peter institutes orthographic and linguistic reforms
1709
- Battle at Poltava against the Swedes
1722
- Table of Ranks created
1718
- Tsarevich Alexis killed
1722
- Peter rules that the Tsar may choose his successor
1725
- Peter dies
1725-1727
- Ekaterina I (Peter's second wife). Men'shikov plays leading role
1727-1730
- Petr II (dies at 15 of smallpox)
1731
- More control given to masters over peasants
1730
- Male line of Romanovs comes to end
1730-1740
- Anna
1740-1741
- Ivan VI (Anna's son)
1741-1762
- Elizabet (Daughter of Peter the Great)
1754
- Serfs are listed as the property of gentry
1762
- Petr III (Grandson of Peter the Great)
1762
- Compulsory service is abolished for gentry (under Peter III)
1762 -
Peter III is killed by his wife, Catherine. Her son Paul becomes heir
1762-1796
- Catherine the Great
1763-6174
- Church is divested of its real estate
1773
- Pugachev Rebellion
1796
- Catherine dies
1796-1801
- Paul
1797
- Paul decrees serfs work 3 days for themselves, 3 for masters, and have Sunday off
1801
- Paul is killed
1801-1825
- Aleksandr I
1805-1807
- War with France
1812-1814
- War with Napoleon
1825
- Decembrist uprising
1825
- Aleksandr I dies
1825-1855
- Nikolai I.
1853-1855
- Crimean War
1855
- Nikolai dies
1855-1881
- Aleksandr II
1861
- Emancipation of the Serfs
1881
- Aleksandr II assassinated
1881-1894
- Aleksandr III
1894-1917
- Nikolai II
1904-1905
- Russo-Japanese war
1905
- Revolution of 1905. October Manifesto (creation of Duma).
1914-1918
- First World War
1916
- Rasputin assassinated
1917
- Nikolai relinquishes authority
1917
- Aleksandr Kerenskii
1917-1991 - Soviet Period
1917-1924
- Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (Ulianov)
1923-1928
- Group rule
1928-1953
- Iosif Stalin (Dzhugashvili)
1953
- Georgii Maksimilianovich Malen'kov
1953-1964
- Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
1964-1982
- Leonid Il'ich Brezhnev
1982-1984
- Iurii Vladimirovich Andropov
1984-1985
- Nikolai Ustinovich Chernenko
1985-1991
- Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
1991 => Post-Soviet Period
1991-2000
- Boris Nikolaevich El'tsin
2000
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
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