| 1613 |
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Michael Romanov (first of dynasty) becomes Tsar of Russia |
| 1637 |
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Russian pioneers reach Pacific coast |
| 1682 |
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Peter I (the Great) becomes Tsar of Russia |
| 1695 |
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Peter the Great defeats Turks at Sea of Azoz |
| 1703 |
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St Petersburg made capital of Russia |
| 1709 |
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Russians rout Swedes at Battle of Poltava |
| 1721 |
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Peter the Great made Emperor of Russia |
| 1721 |
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Russia takes Livonia and Estonia from Swedes at end of Great Northern War |
| 1725 |
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Death of Peter the Great of Russia |
| 1762 |
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Catherine II (the Great) becomes ruler of Russia |
| 1772 |
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Poland split between Russia and Prussia |
| 1773 |
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Short-lived revolt in Russia led by cossack Pugachov |
| 1807 |
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Russia signs friendly Treaty of Tilsit with Napoleon |
| 1812 |
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Napoleon's Grand Army destroyed - retreat from Moscow |
| 1814 |
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Russia gains Poland and Finland after Napoleon's defeat |
| 1825 |
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Nicholas I becomes Tsar of Russia - Decembrist Uprising |
| 1837 |
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Death of Alexander Pushkin (poet) |
| 1848 |
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish "Communist Manifesto" |
| 1854 |
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Crimean War - Russia against England and France |
| 1855 |
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Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia |
| 1861 |
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Emancipation of serfs in Russia |
| 1865 |
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Tashkent becomes centre of Russian expansion in Central Asia |
| 1876 |
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Death of Mikhail Bakunin (Russian anarchist) |
| 1878 |
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Russo-Turkish War liberates Serbia and Rumania from Turkish rule |
| 1881 |
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Start of pogroms against Russian Jews |
| 1881 |
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Death of Fyodor Dostoyevski (writer) |
| 1884 |
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Russia expands into Turkistan, Caucuses and eastwards |
| 1893 |
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Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer) |
| 1894 |
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Nicholas II becomes last Romanov Tsar of Russia |
| 1903 |
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Bolshevik Party established in Russia |
| 1904 |
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Russo-Japanese War |
| 1904 |
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov wins Nobel Prize for work on animal behaviour |
| 1905 |
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Trans-Siberian Railway completed |
| 1905 |
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"Bloody Sunday" massace of protestors in St Petersburg |
| 1907 |
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Entente Cordiale between Russia, Britain and France |
| 1908 |
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Bulgaria liberated from Turkish rule by Russia |
| 1910 |
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Death of Leo Tolstoy (writer) |
| 1911 |
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Vasily Kandinsky experiments with abstract expressionism |
| 1913 |
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Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" causes uproar |
| 1913 |
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Nijinsky and Pavlova perfoming Fokine and Diaghilev's ballets |
| 1914 |
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First World War - Germany/Austria vs Russia/France |
| 1916 |
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Grigory Rasputin murdered by nobles of Nicholas II's court |
