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The indigenous population of
Russia were the Slavic tribes:
- 'West Slavs' tribes were the Poles, the Czechs and
the Slovaks
- 'East Slavs' tribes consisted of Russians,
Ukrainians and Belarusian's
- 'South Slavs' tribes consisted of Bulgarians,
Croats, Macedonians Serbs and Slovenians
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1200s BC |
The Cimmerians, a Balkan
people, settled in the Ukraine |
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700s BC |
The Cimmerians were defeated
by the Scythians, an Iranian people |
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200 BC |
The Scythians were conquered
by the Samaritans bringing Greek and Roman influence
to the culture
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0 |
The birth of Jesus Christ |
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14AD |
Death of Augustus and
Tiberius, stepson of Caesar Augustus, becomes
emperor until 37AD |
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33 AD |
Crucifixion of Jesus in the
Roman province of Jerusalem and the origin of
Christianity |
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200 AD |
The German Visigoths conquered
the region |
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370 |
The Huns, led by Attilla,
conquered the Goths and took control |
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800s |
Eastern Slavs settled in
different regions in Russia |
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862 |
Rurik, a Varangian prince
ruled the region which became known as the Land of
the Rus |
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988 |
Grand Prince Vladimir I
converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church |
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1200 |
1200 - 1480 The Mogols led by
Genghis Khan, conquered Russia |
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1480 |
Ivan III freed Russia from the
Mongols |
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1547 |
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
became the first Czar |
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1682 |
Peter the Great became Czar |
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1762 |
Catherine the Great became
empress Austria,
Prussia, and Russia divided Poland amongst
themselves. Russia received Belarus, Lithuania, and
Ukraine from Poland
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1801 |
Alexander I became Czar |
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1812 |
Napoleon Bonaparte led troops
into Russia but was defeated |
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1825 |
Nicholas I became Czar |
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1853 |
The Crimean War broke out
between Russia and the Ottoman Empire |
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1867 |
Russia sold Alaska to the
United States |
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1894 |
Nicholas II became Czar |
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1898 |
The Russian Social Democratic
Labor Party was established by the Marxists |
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1903 |
Lenin became the leader of the
Bolsheviks |
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1914 |
World War I broke out and the
Russians fought the Germans and Austrians |
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1917 |
Revolutionaries overthrew the
Russian government |
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1918 |
July : Czar Nicholas II and
his family were murdered
Russia became the Russian Soviet Federative
Socialist Republic which eventually formed the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
Lenin changes the name of the Bolshevik party to
Russian Communist Party
1918-22 - Civil war between the Red Army and White
Russians, or anti-communists
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1924 |
Lenin died |
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1929 |
Stalin became the dictator of
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
Leon Bronstein (Trotsky), who opposes Stalin, is
deported to Turkey
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1939 |
German forces invaded Poland
resulting in World War II
Russia occupied Poland
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1945 |
May, Berlin fell to Russia
August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
End of WW2
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1953 |
Stalin dies and is succeeded
by Nikita Krushev |
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1957 |
The Soviet Union launches
Sputnik |
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1959 |
The communists led by Fidel
Castro win the civil war in Cuba |
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1961 |
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first
astronaut
The Soviet Union builds the wall between East and
West Berlin
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1962 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis -
Click the following link
Cuban Timeline |
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1964 |
Krushev replaced by Leonid
Brezhnev |
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1965 |
The Soviet Union backs North
Vietnam against the USA |
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1985 |
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes
leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of
openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called
"perestroika"
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1986 |
The nuclear accident in
Chernobyl Russia
launches the MIR space station
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1989 |
The Soviet Union withdraws
from Afghanistan The
Berlin Wall is destroyed
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1990 |
Boris Yeltsin is elected
president |
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1991 |
The Soviet Union is dismantled
and Russia becomes an independent federation |
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1999 |
Yeltsin resigns and Vladimir
Putin is his successor |
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2002: |
Russia becomes an ally of NATO
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