Ukrainian History: Chronological Table

Year/Century	Event	More info
839	Mention of Rus' in the Bertynsky chronicles associated with the mission to Ludwig I of the Frankish kingdom.	MAP: Eastern Europe, 250-800
840	Magyars and khazars attacking Kyiv.
853	Askold becomes Kyiv's Prince.
877	Novgorod's Prince Oleh annexes Kyiv, kills Askold and brings the capital of Rus' from Novgorod to Kyiv.
890	Pechenegs advancing to Black Sea steppe. Ugrians (Hungarians) move to Danube.
907-911	Prince Oleh travels to Byzantine's capital Constantinopol (Ukrainian "Czarhorod") with a big army and demands an annuity to Kyiv.
945	Prince Ihor signs a treaty with Byzantine Empire - ready to accept Orthodox Christianity.
957	Princess Olha (Ihor's wife) becomes a ruler of Kyiv.
960-972	Svyatoslav (Olha's son) becomes a Prince of Kyiv. He confrontates with Khazars, then attacks Bulgaria and fights with Byzantine Empire. At the time Svjatoslav is in the offensive on Bulgaria, Khazars attack Kyiv. He returns but gets killed in a skirmish with Pechenegs.
980	Volodymyr The Great becomes a Prince.
988	Official Christianization of Kyiv Rus'. Volodymyr accepts Orthodoxy and marries Byzantine Princess Anna.
1015	Death of Volodymyr The Great. Sons are struggling to rule the country until 1019.
1019	Yaroslav The Wise - one of Volodymyr's sons becomes a Prince.	MAP: Kyivan Rus is 11th century
1027	Construction of Svyata Sofia (St. Sophia) Cathedral.
1054	Death of Prince Yaroslav.
1068	Polovtsi army attack Kyiv state for the first time.
1098 - 1099	Magyars attack Halychyna.
1111	Kyiv Princes conquer Polovtsi.
1113	Volodymyr Monomakh - the last of great princes of Kyiv.
1152	Yaroslav Osmomysl becomes a Prince of Halychyna.
1155 - 1157	Suzdal (Russian) Prince Yuriy Dovgoruky (founder of Moscow) attacks Kyiv and becomes a prince for a short period of time.
1155 - 1169	Destruction of Kyiv by Andrey Bogoliubsky, the Vldimir-Suzdal prince
1187	The word Ukraine (Ukrayina) first used to describe Kyiv and Halychyna lands.
1223	Ukrainians first battle Tatars in a battle near Kalko River in treaty with Polovetz - Tatars win.
1238	Danylo Halytsky becomes a Prince of Halychyna. Next year he unites Halychyna with Kyiv.
1240	Tatars capture Kyiv.	MAP: Southern Rus 1250.
1256	Lviv is founded by King Lev.
1320	Yuriy becomes a King of Halychyna.
1330	Yuriy marries Lithuanian Princess, daughter of Gedymin.
1360s	Lithuanian Prince Olgerd frees Kyivschyna and Podillya from Tatars. They fell under Lithuanian control.
1378	Last Halychyna King Volodyslav dies.
1387 - XVIII century	Poland rules Halychyna.
1414	Prince Fedir Koryatovych of Mukachevo.
1475 - 1774	Crimea (Krym) under Turkish (Osman) Empire's rule.	MAP: Ukrainian lands 1400
1490	First mentioning of cossacks (kozaks).	(More)
1550	Dmytro Vyshnyvetsky establishes a fortress of Zaporizhzhya (Zaporizhia).
1569	Lyublinska Uniya (Lublin Union) - All Ukrainian territory under Lithuanian rule (except Polissia and Beresteyshchyna) transfers to Poland.	MAP:Ukrainian lands after 1569
1576	Foundation of Ostroh Academy - first University-like school in Eastern Europe.
1590	First Kozak uprisings (Kostynsky, Mazyvako).
1596	Union of Brest (Beresti) - beginning of religious struggles.
1608	Fall of Ostroh Academy.
1610 - 1622	Het'man Sahaydachny is a het'man (the arch) of Zaporizka Sich.	MAP: Zaporizka Sich
1630	Kozak uprising against Poland.
1637	Petro Mohyla establishes a Collegium in Kyiv.
1648	Beginning of liberation of Ukraine from Polish rule headed by kozak het'man Bohdan Khmelnytsky	MAP: Kozak state after 1649 (more info)
1654	Bohdan Khmel'nytsky signs Pereyaslav treaty with Muscovy	(more)
1657	Swedish-Ukrainian coalition against Russia.
1663	Two het'mans in Ukraine. Het'man of the Left bank of Dnipro - in coalition with Russia; het'man from right bank - against Russia.
1665 - 1676	Het'man Petro Doroshenko.	MAP: Ukrainian lands after 1667
1670	Establishment of Russian control under the right-bank kozaks.
1685	Kyiv Orthodox Church Metropolitan (Patriarkhat) becomes a division of Muscovite Metropolitan.
1687 - 1709	Het'man Ivan Mazepa - period of palingenecy of Kozak state.
1708	Treaty had been signed between Ukraine and Sweden.
1709	Battle in Poltava (Ukraine). Russians defeat Swedish-Ukrainian army and execute Kozak troops after the surrender of Swede army
1709	Death of Ivan Mazepa.
1710	Pylyp Orlyk becomes a het'man.
1720	Russians prohibit the use of Ukrainian language - still preferred by Ukrainians.
1722 - 1727	First het'man of Ukraine appointed by Russian Czar.
1734	Het'man Danylo Apostol's uprising on the Right Bank (Haydamaky).
1744	Construction of St. George Cathedral in Lviv.
1745	Oleksa Dovbush - legendary Ukrainian hero.	MAP: Ukrainian lands around 1750
1764	Abolition of Zaporizhzhya Het'manate (Zapiriz'ka Sich).
1765	Slobodzhanschyna falls under Russian control.
1772	Russian, German and Austrian empires divide parts of Poland among themselves.(First division) Halychyna falls under Austrian control.
1775	Second division of Poland. Austria annexes Bukovyna
1775	Zaporizka Sich destroyed by Russians.
1787	Russians rebuild a village of Kodak into a city and name it after queen Ekaterina II (Katerynoslav). During Ukrainian Republic of 1917 - 1920 the city was renamed into Sicheslav ("In Honour of Sich"). In 1924 communists gave it a present name - Dnipropetrovsk (Combination of words "Dnipro" (main Ukrainian river) and "Petrovskij" (The last name of major of city, a Stalinist)).
1789	Establishment of Mykolayiv (Nikolayev)
1780	End of Het'manate.
1794	Establishment of Odesa (Odessa).
1793	Transfer of lands on the Right Bank to Russia from Poland excluding Halychyna, Bukovyna, Volyn and a part of Polissya, already annexed by Austria.
1798	Ivan Kotlyarevsky publishes "Eneyida".
1831	Repnev attempts to renew kozak army.	MAP: Dnipro Ukraine around 1850
1834	Establishment of The University of Kyiv.
1840	Taras Shevchenko's first publication of "Kobzar", probably the most popular book in Ukrainian.
1861	First railroad on Ukrainian territory (Peremyshl - Lviv).
1861	Abolition of slavery in Russia.
1863	Ukrainian language is officially prohibited to use by Russian government.
1890	First Ukrainian Political Party (Halytska)
1905	Annulment of restrictions on the usage of Ukrainian language in Russian empire.
1917	Revolution in Russia. Ukrainian writer and historian Mykhaylo Hrushevsky becomes the president of newly proclaimed Ukrainian state (Ukrayinska Narodna Respublika). The power of the new government is very weak, Russian czarists, communists and Germans try to conquer Ukraine again. Symon Petlyura becomes a commanders of Ukrainian armed forces. President signs a treaty with Germans, but it was annulled in 1919 in Brest, Belorussia, where Germany signed a treaty with Communist Russia. Ukrainian lands are united after Western Ukrainian Republic and Ukrainian republic unite.	MAP: Ukrainian lands 1914-1919
1918	Austrian empire breaks up. Newly established West-Ukrainian Republic is annexed by Czechoslovakia and Romania.	MAP: Western Ukraine 1772-1914
1921	Formation of Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine.
1929	Collectivization starts. All lands that belonged to Ukrainian farmers are taken away and put into a large "kolhosps" (co-operative farms.) People, who didn't want to give their land away are arrested and murdered.	MAP: Ukraine in interwar years (more)
1933-1934	Artificial Famine in Ukraine, caused by Stalin's policy. At least three million people die in result.	(more)
1939-1940	Annexation of Western Ukraine by Soviet Union according to a secret treaty with Nazi Germany.
1941-1944	German occupation of Ukraine. Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). SS Division "Galizien".	MAP: Ukraine during WW2 (more on division "Galizien") (more on UPA)
1943-1944	Russians return. Massive immigration to the west (England, France, Canada, USA.)	(Ukrainians in Saskatchewan, Canada)
1945-1947	Discrimination and murders of Ukrainian population in Poland by Polish army and police.
1945-1955	Continued fight for liberation of Ukraine in the western regions.
1950's	Illegal anti-communist literature begins to appear.
1986	Nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl, Ukraine.	(picture)
1980's	National movement for the liberation of Ukraine "Rukh" is formed.
1990	Human chain protests for Ukrainian independence.	(more)
1990	Ukrainian sovereignty is proclaimed.
1991	Ukrainian independence is proclaimed. Elections of Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and the President Leonid Kravchuk.
1994	Ukraine signs an treaty with NATO
1996	Constitution is proclaimed.	(the text of constitution)

 

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