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The Rurikid Dynasty is established in Novgorod
Russian Orthodox Church formed
Russkaya Pravda established
Mongol Invasion of Russia; Moscow burned
Ivan III becomes Grand Prince of Moscow
Ivan IV 'The Terrible' becomes first tsar of Russia
First Romanov tsar comes to power
Peter I becomes tsar
St. Petersburg is founded
Treaty of Nystad; the Russian tsardom becomes an empire
Danish explorer Vitus Bering claims Alaska for Russia
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia's oldest university, is founded
Peter III is overthrown by his wife, Catherine II
Treaty of Constantinople; Russia annexes the Crimea
Napoleon invades Russia
The Decembrist Revolt
The Crimean War begins
Legendary Russian composers known as 'The Five' meet in St. Petersburg
Emancipation of serfdom
Leo Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' is published
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake' is composed
Assassination of Alexander II
Russo-Japanese War
Nicholas II signs the October Manifesto
Russia enters World War One as part of the Triple Entente
Murder of Grigori Rasputin
A series of revolutions leads to the abdication of Nicholas II
Execution of Nicholas II and his family
The Russian Civil War formally ends
Vladimir Lenin dies; Joseph Stalin becomes premier of the Soviet Union
Proposal of the First Five Year Plan
The Trial of the Twenty-One
Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico
Siege of Leningrad begins
Berlin falls to the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin dies
The USSR launches 'Sputnik 1' into Earth's orbit
Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers's U-2 spy plane
Khrushchev removes missiles from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet War in Afghanistan begins
The Chernobyl Disaster
Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Dissolution of the Soviet Union; formation of the Russian Federation
First Chechen War
Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis
Russia supports South Ossetia and Abkhazia in a war with Georgia
Vladimir Putin is elected to serve a third term as president of the Russian Federation
Sochi hosts the Winter Olympics
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