Time Line History of Kiev and Russia
| 500-800 AD | Eastern Slavs settle in lands west of Volga River |
| 862 AD | A Varangian, Rurik, became prince of Novgorod. |
| 892 AD | Oleg, a Viking warrior, built the first Kievan Rus state. |
| 907 AD | The campaign of Oleg against Constantinople. |
| 912-945 AD | The reign of Igor in Kiev. |
| 941 AD | 1st campaign of Igor against Constantinople, which failed. |
| 944 AD | The second
campaign of Prince Igor against Constantinople. The agreement between Rus and Byzantine Empire. Rus lost the right of duty-free trade. Had to help protecting territories of Byzantine Empire). |
| 945-969 AD | Igor
Rurikovich gets killed by the Drevlianians. Princess Olga takes rule as regent for her son Sviatoslav 1. |
| 957 AD | Olga adopts Christianity the name of Elena. |
| 965 AD | The defeat of Khazars on the Volga by Prince Svyatoslav. |
| 972 AD | Assassination of Prince Svyatoslav by the Pechenegs. |
| 972-980 AD | Prince Yaropolk the son of Sviatoslav 1, ruled. |
| 980 AD | Prince Vladimir Sviatoslavich the illegitimate son of Sviatoslav 1 takes the throne |
| 985 AD | The campaign of Prince Vladimir against Volga Bulgars. |
| 988 AD | Eastern orthodoxy became official religion of Kievan Rus. |
| 1019 AD | Yaroslav, the son of Valdimir I, became Grand Prince of Kiev. |
| 1036 AD | Nomadic, Pechenegs approached Kiev. Prayed to the Virgin Mary for victory. King Yaroslav drives them off Ukraine soil. |
| 1037 | Yaroslav orders construction of Cathedral Saint Sophia. It was built on the site of the battle. |
| 1054 AD | Rus trade
delined. People shifted to farming. |
| 1100 AD | Slavic traditions written down in Primary Chronicle. |
| 1113 AD | Vladimir Monomakh comes to rule. |
| 1125 AD | Mstislav The Great comes to rule. |
| 1147 AD | Moscow founded. |
| 1155 AD | Yuri Dolgoruky comes to rule. |
| 1237 AD | Batu Khan
launched an invasion into Kievan Rus He was the grandson of Jenghiz Khan, |
| 1240 AD | Mongols
(Tatars) conquer Rus. Kingdom of the Golden Hind Forced many Rus people to leave. Many settle near Moscow. |
| 1242 AD | Alexander Nevsky and his troops defeated the German Christian Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Lake Peipus. |
| 1263 AD | Alexander Nevsky gave the duchy of Moscow to his son, Daniel. |
| 1328 AD | Ivan I, persuades the Russian Orthodox Church to take up residence in Moscow. |
| 1380 AD | Dmitry Donskoy, the Prince of Moscow, attacks and defeats the Mongols at Kulikovo Field |
| 1453 AD | Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks. |
| Ivan the Great | |
| 1462 AD | Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich ends Mongol control. |
| Ivan III took title of czar | |
| 1480 AD | 1st Russian ruler since Alexander Nevsky to refuse to pay the annual tribute to the Mongols in the south. |
| 1505 AD | Ivan the Great dies. |
| Ivan the Terrible | |
| 1547 AD | Ivan the IV becomes czar |
| 1552 AD | Ivan the
Terrible conquers Kazan in Mongol territory. Muscovites begin moving eastward. |
| 1556 AD | Conquered
and sacked Astrakhan. Destroyed the lingering power of the Golden Horde |
| 1558 AD | Moscow attack Livonia, a land on the Baltic Sea. |
| 1562 AD | Livonia and neighbors defeat Moscow. Take Baltic land. |
| Ivan takes boyar land. Creates a secret police that kills thousands of enemies. |
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| 1581 AD | Ivan struck and killed his son Ivan with an iron rod. |
| 1584 AD | Ivan the
Terrible dies. Succeeded by his son Fyodor |
| Most of the management of the kingdom to his brother-in-law, Boris Godunov | |
| 1591 AD | Boris Godunov murdered Fyodor's younger brother Dmitri. |
| 1598 AD | Feydor,
son of Ivan, dies. Ruirk dynasty ends. Boris Godunov proclaimed czar. |
| 1600-1603 AD | Crop failure. Famine |
| 1605 AD | False czar crowned. |
| 1606 AD | False czar
overthrown. Boyar, Vasiliy Shuyskiy, was proclaimed tsar. |
| 1610 AD | 2nd False czar crowned. Poles occupy Moscow. |
| 1613 AD | Mikhail
Romanov proclaimed czar. 304 year dynasty begins. |