1147 - Moscow founded by Yuriy Dolgorukiy
1237 - Batu Khan captures Moscow
1303 - Yuriy Danilovich Prince of Moscow
1325-1340 - Reign of Ivan I
1325 - Metropolitan moves from Vladimir to Moscow. Dormition Church founded
1331 - Great fire destroys Moscow
1382 - Mongols burn Moscow to the ground
1460-1505 - Ivan the Great
1475 - Building of Kremlin Walls, etc.
1480 - End of Tatar-Mongolian Yoke
1492 - Moscow declared new Constantinople
1547 - Ivan IV, The Terrible crowned Tsar
1550 - Legal foundation of serfdom
1571 - Tatars burn Moscow
1584 - Ivan IV the Terrible dies
1584 - Boris Godunov rules for Tsar Fyodor
1598-1606 - Time of Troubles, "False" Tsar Dmitriy
1613 - Mikhail Romanov elected Tsar
1652-1667 - Patriarch Nikon
1653 - Old Believers schism
1670 - Stenka Razin peasant revolt
1677-1682 - Tsar Fyodor
1682-1689 - Regency of Sofiya
1689-1725 - Peter The Great
1700 - Adoption of Julian Calendar
1712 - Capital moved to St. Petersburg
1725-1727 - Reign of Catherine I
1727-1730 - Reign of Peter II
1730-1740 - Reign of Anna Ioannovna
1737 - Great fire destroys much of Moscow
1740-1741 - Reign of Ivan VI
1755 - Lomonosov University Found
1761-1762 - Reign of Peter III
1773-75 - Pugachev Serf Rebellion
1762-1796 - Reign of Catherine the Great
1796-1801 - Reign of Paul I
1796 - Establishment of censorship office
1801 - Abolishment of Secret Police
1801-1825 - Reign of Alexander I
1812 - Napoleon burns Moscow then defeated by Kutuzov
1823 - Bolshoy Theater opens
1825 - Decembrist's Uprising
1825-1855 - Reign of Nicholas I
1826 - Reestablishment of secret police
1820-1860 - Pushkin, Doestoevsky, Tolstoy
1854-1856 - Crimean War with Turkey and other European powers
1855-1881 - Reign of Alexander II
1857 - First RR line to Saint Petersburg
1861 - Serfdom abolished
1865-1910 - Tolstoy piblished "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina" and othe novels
1870-1890 - Tchaikovsky creates "Swang Lake, "Nutcracker" "1812 Ouverture and many other word-renowned compositions
1881-1894 - Reign of Alexander III
1894-1917 - Reign of Nicholas II
1898 - Russian Museum opened
1907 - Liberal reforms under Stolypin
1917 - February Rev., Nicholas abdicates
1917 - October Bolsheviks seize power
1918 - Capital moved back to Moscow
1918, July 17 - Nicholas II executed by the Bolshevicks with his whole family in Ekaterinburg
1918-1920 - Civil War and foreign intervention
1922 - The USSR officially inaugurated
1937 - Moskva-Volga Canal opened. Moscow Metro opened
1937-38 - Mass purge by NKVD, thousands of people executed or destinated to Gulag
1941 - German army defeated near Moscow
1951-1957 - Stalin Gothic skyscrapers built
1953 - Stalin dies
1953-1964 - Khrushchev leads the Soviet Union
1961 - Gagarin, world’s first cosmonaut
1977 - Brezhnev dies
1985-91 - Gorbachev’s Perestroyka
1986, Apr 25 - Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1991 - Yeltsin elected President of Russia
1991, Aug 19 - Putsch attempt against Gorbachev
1991 - Gorbachev resigns
1991, Dec 25 - The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine formally replaced the USSR with the Commonwealth of Independent States
1993 - New Russian Constitution adapted
1996 - Yeltsin reelected President
1999, Jun 6 - Pushkin’s birth bicentennial anniversary
2000 Putin elected