regional history

history of russia




Timeline of Events
YearMonthDayEvent
1147 Apr 04 First Historical Record Of Moscow
1380 Sep 08 Russians Defeat Its Rival In Kulikovo
1408 Dec 05 Emir Edigu Of Golden Horde Reaches Moscow
1547 Jan 16 Ivan Iv A.k.a Terriable Czar Of Russia
1552 Oct 02 Conquest Of Kazan By Ivan The Terrible
1611 Oct 29 Russian Homage To Sigismund III
1700 Jan 01 Russian Accepts Anno Domini Calendar
1714 Aug 07 Russian Navy Claims Battle Of Gangut As Major Victory
1720 Jul 27 Battle Of Grengam Victory For Russian Navy
1726 Feb 08 Russia: Supreme Privy Council Established
1727 May 29 Peter II Becomes Czar Of Russia
1740 Jul 11 Jews Are Expelled From Little Russia
1752 Jun 06 Fire Destroys 1/3 Of Moscow
1758 Aug 25 Frederick II Defeats Russian Army
1768 Aug 19 Saint Petersburg: Saint Isaac's Cathedral Founded
1776 Oct 07 Prince Of Russia Marries Lady Of Wurttemberg
1787 Oct 01 Kinburn: Russians Defeat Turks
1790 Dec 22 Izmail In Turkey Was Stormed By The Russian Armies
1799 Sep 19 French-Dutch Victorious In Battle Of Bergen
1801 Sep 09 Russian King Confirms Privileges Of Baltic Provinces
1807 Feb 08 Napoleon Defeats Bennigsen's Prussians - Battle Of Eylau
1807 Jun 29 Athos Battle: Ottoman Fleet Destroyed
1812 Sep 15 Napoleon Army Reaches The Kremlin
1812 Sep 16 75% Of Moscow Burns In Fire
1812 Dec 14 French Invasion Comes To An End
1814 Feb 10 Battle Of Champaubert Ends In French Victory
1837 Dec 17 St. Petersburg: Winter Palace Fire Kills 30
1854 Mar 28 France And Britain Declare War, Russia
1854 Sep 20 French And British Defeat Russians In Crimea
1854 Oct 09 Siege Of Sebastopol Begins
1855 Sep 09 Russia Abandons Sevastopol And Ends Siege
1860 Jun 12 Establishment Of State Bank Of Russian Empire
1861 Feb 19 Serfdom Is Abolished In Russia
1861 Mar 03 Alexander II Frees Russian Serfs
1862 Sep 08 Russia Millenium Monument Unveiled In Novgorod
1877 Apr 24 Russians Declare War On Ottomans
1881 Feb 24 China And Russia Sign Ili Treaty
1882 Aug 20 Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture Debuts In Moscow, Russia
1883 May 27 Alexander III Is Crowned Tsar Of Russia
1887 Jun 18 Reinsurance Treaty Signed, Germany And Russia
1892 Dec 18 Tchaikovsky Premiers The Nutcracker In Saint Petersburg, Russia
1894 Nov 01 Alexander III Dead, Nicholas II Becomes Tsar
1895 Jun 29 Doukhobors Protest Against Tsarist Russian Goverment
1898 Aug 24 Russia Presents First Hague Peace Conference
1902 Apr 02 Russian Interior Minister Assassinated In St. Petersburg
1904 Oct 15 Russian Fleet Leaves Estonia For Port Arthur
1905 Jan 22 Saint Petersburg, Bloody Sunday Begins 1905 Revolution
1905 Aug 10 Russo-Japanese War Ends After Negotiations In Portsmouth
1905 Oct 17 Tsar Nicholas II Issues The October Manifesto
1905 Oct 30 Russia's Constitution Begun By Czar Nicholas II
1908 Jun 30 The Tunguska Event Occurs In Remote Siberia
1911 Jan 03 Earthquake Destroys Almaty, Russian Turkestan
1911 Sep 18 Kiev Opera House: Premier Stolypin Shot
1912 Apr 17 Russia Fires On Siberian Workers, Killing 150
1914 Aug 30 Tannenberg: Germans Defeat Russians
1916 Jan 10 Erzurum Offensive: Russians Defeat Ottomans
1916 Jun 04 Russia Opens The Brusilov Offensive
1917 Feb 23 February Revolution Begins In Saint Petersburg, Russia
1917 Mar 25 Georgian Orthodox Church Restores Autocephaly
1917 Apr 16 Lenin Returns To Russia From Exile
1917 Nov 09 Joseph Stalin Enter Government Of Russia
1917 Dec 06 Finland Declares Independence From Russia
1918 Jan 25 Ukraine Independence From Bolshevik Russia
1918 Feb 01 Russia Adopts The Gregorian Calendar
1918 Mar 12 Moscow Becomes Capital Of Russia After ST Petersburg
1918 Aug 17 Bolshevik Leader Uritsky Is Assassinated
1918 Sep 10 Reds Cature Kazan During Civil War
1920 Feb 02 Estonia And Russia Sign Peace Treaty
1921 Feb 25 Russians Occupy Georgia Capital
1936 Jun 10 Soyuzmultfilm Founded In Russia
1940 Mar 13 The Russo-Finnish Winter War Ends
1943 Feb 14 Rostov-on-Don Liberated From Germans
1955 Nov 15 Saint Petersburg Opened
1959 Feb 02 Dyatlov Pass Incident
1959 Feb 09 Semyorka Operational At Plesetsk
1974 Jul 28 Russian Elite Forces Spetsgruppa Formed
1991 Jun 12 Yeltsin Elected Russian President
1991 Jul 10 Yeltsin Is First Elected Russian President
1994 Oct 17 Russian Journalist Dmitry Kholodov Assassinated
1994 Dec 31 Russian Army Storms Grozny, New Year's
1995 Apr 07 Russian Troops Begin Samashki, Chechnya Civilian Massacre
1997 Jun 25 Progress Spacecraft Collides With Space Station
2000 May 11 Chechen Rebels Ambush Russian Ingushetia Paramilitary
2002 May 28 NATO Declares Russia A Limited Partner
2002 Sep 25 Vitim Event In Siberia; Possible Bolide Impact
2013 Nov 17 Tatarstan Flight Crashes At Kazan
2014 Mar 18 Russia And Crimea Sign Accession Treaty
2015 Jan 22 A Donetsk Trolleybus Explosion Killed Approximately 13