1200s BC
The Cimmerians, a Balkan people, settled in the Ukraine
700s BC
The Cimmerians were defeated by the Scythians, an Iranian people
200 BC
The Scythians were conquered by the Samaritans bringing Greek and Roman influence to the culture
200 AD
The German Visigoths conquered the region
370 AD
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 - 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
Late 1700s
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 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
July 1918
Czar Nicholas II and his family were murdered
1918
Russia became the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which eventually formed the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
1924
Lenin died
1929
Stalin became the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
1939
German forces invaded Poland resulting in World War II
1939
Russia occupied Poland
1945, May
Berlin fell to Russia
August 1945
The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945
End of WW11
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