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The birth of Jesus Christ

14AD

Death of Augustus and Tiberius, stepson of Caesar Augustus, becomes emperor until 37AD

33 AD

Crucifixion of Jesus in the Roman province of Jerusalem and the origin of Christianity

200 AD

The German Visigoths conquered the region

370

The Huns, led by Attilla, conquered the Goths and took control

800s

Eastern Slavs settled in different regions in Russia

862

Rurik, a Varangian prince ruled the region which became known as the Land of the Rus

988

Grand Prince Vladimir I converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church

1200

1200 - 1480 The Mogols led by Genghis Khan, conquered Russia

1480

Ivan III freed Russia from the Mongols

1547

Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) became the first Czar

1682

Peter the Great became Czar

1762

Catherine the Great became empress
Austria, Prussia, and Russia divided Poland amongst themselves. Russia received Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine from Poland

1801

Alexander I became Czar

1812

Napoleon Bonaparte led troops into Russia but was defeated

1825

Nicholas I became Czar

1853

The Crimean War broke out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire

1867

Russia sold Alaska to the United States

1894

Nicholas II became Czar

1898

The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was established by the Marxists

1903

Lenin became the leader of the Bolsheviks

1914

World War I broke out and the Russians fought the Germans and Austrians

1917

Revolutionaries overthrew the Russian government

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

1924

Lenin died

1929

Stalin became the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
Leon Bronstein (Trotsky), who opposes Stalin, is deported to Turkey

1939

German forces invaded Poland resulting in World War 2
Russia occupied Poland

1945

May, Berlin fell to Russia
August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
End of WW2

1953

Stalin dies and is succeeded by Nikita Krushev

1957

The Soviet Union launches Sputnik

1959

The communists led by Fidel Castro win the civil war in Cuba

1961

Yuri Gagarin becomes the first astronaut
The Soviet Union builds the wall between East and West Berlin

1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis - Click the following link Cuban Timeline

1964

Krushev replaced by Leonid Brezhnev

1965

The Soviet Union backs North Vietnam against the USA

1985

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika"

1986

The nuclear accident in Chernobyl
Russia launches the MIR space station

1989

The Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan
The Berlin Wall is destroyed

1990

Boris Yeltsin is elected president

1991

The Soviet Union is dismantled and Russia becomes an independent federation

1999

Yeltsin resigns and Vladimir Putin is his successor

2002

Russia becomes an ally of NATO

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