|
THE APPANAGE
PERIOD, 1240-1480 |
|
1240 |
Victory
of
Alexander Nevsky
over Swedes on the Neva |
|
1242 |
Battle
on the Ice:
Nevsky's victory
over the
Teutonic Knights
on Lake Peipus |
|
1253 |
Founding
of Sarai as capital of
the Golden Horde |
|
1270 |
Novgorod
treaty with the
Hansa |
|
1275 |
Population of Russia about ten million |
|
1294 |
First Russian icon
which is dated and signed (Novgorod) |
|
1300 |
Metropolitan of Kiev settles at
Vladimir |
|
1326 |
Final
establishment of Metropolitan in
Moscow |
|
1337 |
Foundation of
Trinity Monastery
in
Sergiev Posad |
|
1328-1340 |
IVAN I
MONEY-BAGS (Kalita) |
|
1340-1353 |
SIMEON THE
PROUD |
|
1348 |
Pskov
secures independence from
Novgorod
Swedish King Magnus marches against
Novgorod |
|
1353-1359 |
IVAN II
THE MEEK |
|
1359-1389 |
DMITRI
DONSKOI |
|
1360 |
Andrei Rublev born (probably) |
|
1362 |
Kiev
taken by Grand Duke of
Lithuania,
Olgerd |
|
1367-1368 |
First
stone fortifications of
Moscow Kremlin |
|
1371-1375 |
Heresy
of Strigol'niks (Shearers) in Novgorod |
|
1378 |
Feofan
the Greek paints first frescoes in Novgorod |
|
1380 |
Victory
of Dmitri Donskoi over the Tatars at Kulikovo Field |
|
1382 |
Moscow
burnt by Tokhtamysh |
|
1389-1425 |
VASSILY I |
|
1390-1430 |
Active life
of icon painter
Andrei Rublev |
|
1395 |
Defeat
of the
Golden Horde
by Tamerlane |
|
1425-1462 |
VASSILY II
THE DARK |
|
1430-1466 |
Disintegration of
Golden Horde |
|
1436 |
Foundation of Solovetsky Monastery |
|
1439 |
Council of Florence
Reunion of eastern and western churches |
|
1441 |
Metropolitan Isidore
deposed for accepting Council of Florence |
|
1448 |
Church
of Russia declared autocephalous |
|
1453 |
Capture
of Constantinople by the Ottomans |
|
1462-1505 |
IVAN III
THE GREAT |
|
1471 |
Campaign
of Ivan III against
Novgorod
Charter of the city of
Novgorod |
|
1472 |
Marriage
of Ivan III with Zoe (Sophia), niece of last Byzantine
Emperor |
|
1475-1478 |
Cathedral of Assumption
in Kremlin built by Fieravanti |
|
1476-1478 |
Visit to
Moscow of Ambrosio Contarini, first foreigner to write
about Moscow |
|
1478 |
Incoporation of Novgorod into Muscovy |
|
1480 |
Unsuccessful campaign of Golden Horde against Ivan III |
|
1480 |
END OF
MUSCOVITE DEPENDENCY ON MONGOLS |
|
1481-1502 |
Active
career of icon and fresco painter Dionysius |
|
1485 |
Cathedral of Annunciation
built by masons from
Pskov |
|
1485-1516 |
Building
of the new
Kremlin
in Moscow |
|
1487-1491 |
Palace of Facets
built by Marco Ruffo & Pietro Antonio Solari. |
|
1488 |
Uprising
in Novgorod |
|
1494 |
End of
the
Hansa
in Novgorod |
|
1497 |
Sudebnik: Law code of Ivan III |
|
1503 |
Church Council: Victory of the Josephites over the
nonposessors
Heresy of Judaizers condemned |
|
1505-1533 |
VASSILY
III |
|
1505-1509 |
Cathedral of Archangel Michael
built by Alevisio Nuovi of Milan |
|
1510 |
Incoporation of
Pskov
into Muscovy |
|
1517-1519 |
Printing
of first books in Russian in Prague |
|
1524 |
Novodevichy Convent
founded by Vasilli III |
|
1525 |
Maxim the Greek
condemned by the Church Council |
|
1529-1560 |
Construction of churches at Dyakovo, Ostrovo and
Kolomenskoe |
|
1533-1538 |
REGENCY OF
YELENA GLINSKAYA 1533-1538 |
|
1538-1547 |
PERIOD OF
DISPUTED REGENCY (BELSKYS AND SHUISKYS) |
|
1547-1584 |
IVAN IV
(THE TERRIBLE) |
|
1547 |
Twenty-two Russian saints canonized Novgorod and
Pskov
icon painters ordered to Moscow after great fire |
|
1550-1555 |
Construction
of the Cathedral of
St. Basil the Blessed
celebrating the capture of
Asktrakhan
(1556) |
|
1550-1700 |
134
books translated into Russian |
|
1551 |
Council
of the Hundred Chapters (Stoglav) |
|
1552 |
Capture
of
Kazan |
|
1553 |
Opening
of the White Sea route by Willoghby and
Chancellor |
|
1555 |
Granting
of charter to The Russia Company (England) |
|
1556 |
Asktrakhan
defeated |
|
1558 |
Stroganovs
granted land on Kama River |
|
1558-1583 |
Livonian
war against Poland and Sweden, for possession of
Baltic |
|
1560's |
Edition
of
Domostroi,
a book of principles of family life |
|
1564 |
First book printed in Moscow
Kurbsky
flees to Lithuania |
|
1565-1572 |
Ivan the Terrible's
reign of terror: the oprichnina |
|
1566 |
First Zemskii Sobor
(Consultative
Land Assembly) |
|
1570 |
Ivan the
Terrible's pogrom in
Novgorod |
|
1571 |
Crimean
Tartars burn Moscow |
|
1571-1600 |
Fortification of southern frontier Beginning of Don,
Zaporozhian,
and Ural Cossacks |
|
1580's |
Boris Godunov
sends 18 Russians to study abroad (none return) |
|
1582 |
Yermak
and the beginning of the
conquest
of
Siberia
Privilege of St. George's Day (Iur'ev Den'),
November 26, abolished |
|
1584-1598 |
FEDOR I |
|
1585 |
Foundation of
Archangelsk |
THE
TIME OF TROUBLES, 1598-1613
|
|
1598-1605 |
BORIS
GODUNOV Lord Protector |
|
1588 |
Giles Fletcher
in Moscow |
|
1589 |
Creation
of Moscow Patriarchate |
|
1590's |
Rostov
becomes the seat of Metropolitan |
|
1591 |
Dmitri
tsarevich killed in Uglich |
|
1601-1603 |
Famine
Erection of the bell tower of Ivan the Great |
|
1606-1607 |
Revolt
of Bolotnikov |
|
1610-1612 |
Poles
occupy Moscow |
|
1612-1613 |
Minin
and
Pozharsky
lead popular militia against Poles in Moscow |
|
1611-1617 |
Swedes
occupy Novgorod |
THE ROMANOV DYNASTY, 1613-1917
|
|
1613 |
Election
of Michael Romanov as tsar by Zemskii Sobor |
|
1613-1645 |
MICHAEL
FEDOROVICH
ROMANOV |
|
1618 |
Peace
with Sweden
Loss
of any outlet to Baltic |
|
1634-1638 |
Two
visits of Adam Olearius to Moscow |
|
1636 |
Patriarch orders all musical instruments burned |
|
1645-1676 |
ALEXIS
MIKHAILOVICH
ROMANOV |
|
1648-1649 |
Up-risings in Moscow and other towns |
|
1649 |
Ulozhenie:
Law Code of Tsar Alexis
Abolition of English trading privileges |
|
1650's |
Moscow
population about 200,000 |
|
1650 |
Patriarch standardizes the five-domed church |
|
1652 |
Foreigners in Moscow required to live in Nemetskaia
Sloboda |
|
1653 |
Last
full meeting of
Zemskii Sobor |
|
1654 |
Church
Council adopts Nikon's reforms |
|
1654 |
BEGINNING OF THE SCHISM (Raskol)
Union
of Ukraine with Muscovy |
|
1660's |
Moscow
linked with Amsterdam and Berlin by regular postal
service |
|
1664 |
Grigorii
Kotoshikhin flees to Sweden |
|
1666 |
Church
Council deposes Patriarch Nikon |
|
1667 |
Cession
to Moscovy of Kiev, Little Russia, and Smolensk |
|
1670-1671 |
Revolt
of Stenka Razin |
|
1671 |
Avvakum
writes his Life in prison |
|
1672 |
Russian
embassies sent to all major European states |
|
1672 |
Artakserova deistva, first play given at Moscow
court |
|
1674 |
Synopsis, first textbook of Russian history,
appears |
|
1676 |
Theater
opens at Preobrazhenskoe |
|
1676-1682 |
FEDOR
III
ROMANOV |
|
1682 |
Peter
assumes throne, with
Sophia
as regent |
|
1684 |
Sophia
institutes formal persecution of Old Believers by
decree |
|
1689 |
Treaty
of Nerchinsk with China |
