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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 2 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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