|
PERIOD
OF KIEVAN RUS' 859-1240 |
|
860 |
Askold &
Dir clear the Dnepr and attack Constantinople |
THE
RURIKOV DYNASTY 862-1613
|
|
862 |
Summoning of Rurik to Novgorod |
|
862-879? |
RURIK
(Hrorekr) |
|
879-913 |
OLEG (Helgi) |
|
907 |
Oleg's
expedition against Constantinople |
|
911 |
Oleg's
treaty with the Byzantine Empire |
|
913-945 |
IGOR (Ingvar) |
|
941 |
Expedition
of Igor against Constantinople |
|
945 |
Igor's
treaty with Byzantine Empire |
|
945-962 |
OLGA (Helga) |
|
957 |
Olga
baptized in Constantinople |
|
962-972 |
SVIATOSLAV |
|
965-967 |
Sviatoslav conquers the Khazar cities of Sarkel and
Itil |
|
980-1015 |
ST.
VLADIMIR |
|
988 |
Baptism
of Vladimir
and conversion of Russia to
Christianity
(but
pagan beliefs
continue among folk) |
|
11th
century |
First
birch-bark documents
Novgorod streets paved with lumber (first in Paris
pavement, 1184)
Wooden water pipes laid in
Novgorod
|
|
1016 |
Russian-Byzantine force destroys Georgius Tzul's
Khazaria |
|
1019-1054 |
YAROSLAV
THE WISE |
|
1030 |
Yaroslav
starts first school in
Novgorod |
|
1037 |
Saint Sofia Cathedral
begun in
Kiev |
|
1045-1057 |
Building
of
Saint Sofia
in
Novgorod |
|
1051 |
The cave
at
Peshchersk Lavra
settled by Antonius of Chernigov |
|
1054 |
Schism
between Eastern and Western Catholicism |
|
1054-1073 |
Russkaia
Pravda,
first Russian law, written |
|
1092?-1125 |
VLADIMIR
MONOMAKH |
|
1095 |
First
election of prince in
Novgorod |
|
1116 |
Primary
Chronicle
composed |
|
1125-1157 |
YURI DOLGORUKI
(founder of
Moscow) |
|
1125-1200 |
Second
version of Russkaia Pravda |
|
1147 |
Moscow founded
by
Yuri Dolgoruki |
|
1156 |
First Kremlin built in Moscow |
|
1157-1176 |
ANDREI
BOGOLJUBSKI |
|
1167 |
Sadko
builds a church in
Novgorod |
|
1169 |
Sack of Kiev
by Andrei Bogoliubsky, prince of
Vladimir-Suzdal' |
|
1176-1212 |
VSEVOLOD
BIG NEST |
|
1185 |
Igor
Sviatoslavovich of
Seversk
marches against the Polovetsians |
|
1195 |
First Novgorod
treaty with German towns and
Gotland |
|
1196 |
Novgorod
granted right to select prince |
|
1204 |
4th Crusade
captures Constantinople; Latin Empire
rules until 1261 |
|
1212-1237 |
YURI II |
|
1223 |
First
Mongol invasion; Russians defeated on the Kalka |
|
1227 |
Death of
Genghis Khan |
|
1237-1242 |
Mongol
conquest of Russia |
|
1237-1246 |
YAROSLAV
II |
|
THE APPANAGE PERIOD, 1240-1480 |
|
1240 |
Victory
of
Alexander Nevsky
over Swedes on the Neva |
