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| THE IMPERIAL PERIOD, 1689-1917 |
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| 1689-1725 | PETER I, THE GREAT |
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| 1695 | Beginning of the Russian navy |
| 1696 July 18 | Surrender of Azov to Peter I |
| 1697 | Conquest of Kamchatka |
| 1697-1698 | Peter's visit to the West Revolt of Streltsy crushed |
| 1700 | Suspension of the patriarchate |
| 1700-1721 | Great Northern War with Sweden |
| 1703 | Founding of St. Petersburg |
| Russia's first newspaper established: Vedomosti o voennykh i inykh delakh |
| May | Peter & Paul Fortress founded |
| 1704 | Peter I takes Narva from Charles XII of Sweden |
| 1707-1708 | Bulavin uprising |
| 1708 | Establishment of the guberniias (provinces) |
| 1709 | Russian victory over Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava |
| 1710 | First census (household and tax) |
| 1711 | First press in St. Petersburg |
| November 19 | Mikhail Lomonosov born |
| 1713 | Transfer of capital to St. Petersburg |
| 1716-1717 | Jean-Baptiste Le Blond begins Petrodvorets (Peterhof) |
| 1718 | Institution of poll tax Foundation of administrative colleges Tsarevich Alexis killed |
| 1720 | Pososhkov's book On Poverty and Wealth |
| 1721 | Holy Synod replaces patriarchate
Treaty of Nystad: Livonia, Estonia, Karelia, Ingria acquired from Sweden
Peter assumes the title of emperor
Organization of state postal service |
| 1722 | Table of Ranks established |
| 1725 | Death of Peter the Great Foundation of the Academy of Sciences |
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| 1725-1727 | CATHERINE I SKAVRONSKA |
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| 1727-1730 | PETER II ROMANOV |
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| 1728 | Sankt-Peterburgskie vedomosti first published |
| 1725-1729 | Arctic expedition of Vitus Bering (second, 1732-1741) |
| 1730 | Struggle over the terms of the succession |
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| 1730-1740 | ANNA ROMANOVA |
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| 1741 | Lomonosov appointed to the Academy of Sciences
Vitus Bering discovers the Aleutian Islands and Alaska |
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| 1740-1741 | IVAN VI ROMANOV |
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| 1741-1762 | ELIZABETH ROMANOVA |
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| 1746 | Ban of purchase of serfs by non-nobles |
| 1750 | First professional Russian theater founded in Yaroslavl by Fyodor Volkov |
| 1753 | Decree abolishing internal customs |
| 1754-1762 | Bartolomeo Rastrelli builds the Winter Palace |
| 1755 | Lomonosov founds Moscow University |
| 1760's | Fonvizin's comedies The Brigadier, The General and The Minor |
| 1760 | Landowners granted right to exile serfs to Siberia |
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| 1761-1762 | PETER III ROMANOV |
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| 1762 | Peter III issues Manifesto on the Rights of the Nobility Peter III murdered |
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| 1762-1796 | CATHERINE II THE GREAT VON ANHALT-ZERBST |
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| 1764-67 | Founding of German colonies along the Lower Volga River |
| 1764 | Final secularization of Church lands |
| 1765 | Establishment of the Free Economic Society |
| 1767 | Peasants forbidden to submit complaints against their landowners |
| 1767-1768 | Legislative Commission |
| 1769-1794 | Catherine the Great publishes satirical journals Novikov's journals The Drone and The Painter |
| 1772 | First partition of Poland--Belorussia annexed to Russia |
| 1773-1775 | Revolt of Pugachev |
| 1774 | Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji |
| 1775 | Liquidation of the Zaporozhian Cossacks |
| 1780's | Englishman Cameron builds at Tsarskoe Selo |
| 1781-1786 | Full absorption of the Ukraine into Russian Empire |
| 1782-1785 | Giacomo Quarenghi builds the Hermitage |
| 1783 | Incorporation of the Crimea Private printing presses permitted |
| 1784 | Gregory Shelekov establishes the first colony in Alaska |
| 1785 April 21 | Charter of the Nobility and gentry an estate |
| 1790 | Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow |
| 1793 | Second Partition of Poland |
| 1795 | Third Partition of Poland |
| 1796 | Death of Catherine the Great The Alexander Palace is completed |
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| 1796-1801 | PAUL I ROMANOV |
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| 1797 | Establishment of the three-day barshchina |
| 1799 | Russo-American Trading Company formed Suvorov's campaign in northern Italy and Switzerland |
| June 6 | Alexander S. Pushkin born |
| 1801 | Murder of Paul I |
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| 1801-1825 | ALEXANDER I ROMANOV |
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| 1801 | Acquisition of eastern Georgia Sale of serfs without land prohibited |
| 1802 | Formation of ministries |
| 1806 | Conquest of Daghestan and Baku |
| 1806-1815 | The new Admiralty built by Zakharov |
| 1807-1811 | Reforms of Speransky |
| 1809 | Krylov's Fables Annexation of Finland |
| 1812 June 24 | Napoleon's invasion of Russia |
| August 26 | Battle of Borodino |
| Sept 14 | Napoleon enters Moscow |
| October 19 | Napoleon departs Moscow |
| 1813-1814 | Alexander's pursuit of Napoleon to Paris |
| 1815-1825 | Ascendancy of Arakcheev |
| 1816-1819 | Abolition of serfdom in Baltic provinces |
| 1817 | Transfer of the Makariev Fair to Nizhnii Novgorod |
| 1817-1857 | Montferrand builds St. Isaac's Cathedral |
| 1818 | Karamzin's History of the Russian State |
| 1819 | University of St. Petersburg founded |
| 1819-1829 | The Italian Rossi builds the General Staff Building on Palace Square |
| 1821 | F. M. Dostoevsky born October 30 in Moscow |
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| 1825-1855 | NICHOLAS I ROMANOV |
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| 1825 | Decembrist Uprising Griboedov's comedy Woe from Wit |
| 1830 | Briullov's painting Last Day of Pompeii Alexander Pushkin completes Eugene Onegin Mathematician Lobachevsky publishes first work |
| 1830-1831 | Polish rebellion |
| 1832 | Uvarov's three principles enunciated: autocracy, orthodoxy, nationality Alexandrine Theater in St. Petersburg opened |
| 1833 | Code of Laws |
| 1834 | Kiev University founded |
| 1836 Nov 27 | Glinka's opera Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) Gogol's Inspector General Chadaaev's Philosophical Letters |
| 1837 | A. S. Pushkin shot in a dual with D'Anthes, dies January 29 |
| 1838 | First Russian railroad--St. Petersburg to Tsarskoe Selo Gubernskie vedomosti first published by order of the tsar |
| 1838-1847 | Belinsky works on the Notes of the Fatherland |
| 1840 | Lermontov's Hero of Our Time |
| 1841 | Ban against the sale of peasants individually |
| 1842 | Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmila Gogol's Dead Souls |
1846
May 30 | Abolition of Corn Laws in England; increase of Russian grain exports Peter Carl Faberge born in St. Petersburg |
| 1847 | Herzen leaves Russia forever Belinsky's Letter to Gogol |
| 1849 | Dostoevsky sentenced to forced labor in Siberia Russian intervention in Hungary |
| 1851 Nov 13 | St. Petersburg-Moscow railway opened |
| 1852 | Turgenev's Sportsman's Notebook |
| 1853 | Ostrovsky's first play produced |
| 1853-1856 | Crimean War |
| 1855 | Death of Nicholas I |
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| 1855-1881 | ALEXANDER II ROMANOV |
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| 1856 | George | Plekhanov born |
| 1857 | First issue of Herzen's Kolokol (The Bell) Alexander Ivanov's painting Christ's Appearance to the People |
| 1858-1860 | Acquisition from China of Amur and Maritime provinces |
| 1859 | Surrender of Shamil; conquest of Caucasus completed Goncharov's Oblomov |
| 1860 | Founding of Vladivostok |
| 1860-1873 | First railway boom |
| 1861 Feb 19 | Emancipation of the serfs |
| 1862 | St. Petersburg Conservatory founded; Anton Rubinstein, director
The Mighty Five (Balakierev, Cui, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky) announce intentions to create a school of true Russian music
Turgenev's Fathers and Sons |
| 1863 | Polish rebellion Artists Co-operative Society (Peredvizhniki) founded Chernyshevsky's What Is To Be Done? |
| 1863-1865 | Law (courts) and education reform Zemstvo instituted |
| 1864-1885 | Conquest of central Asia |
| 1866 | Moscow Conservatory founded; Tchaikovsky becomes a professor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is published |
| 1867 March 30 | Alaska sold to the United States of America |
| 1869 | Tolstoy's War and Peace is published |
1870
April 22 | Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniks)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) is born Mendeleyev's Principles of Chemistry |
| 1872 | Russian translation of Marx's Capital Carl Faberge takes over his father's jewelry business |
| 1873 | Beginning of the movement To the People (V narod) |
| 1874 | Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov |
| 1876 | Land and Freedom Party |
| 1877 | Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake |
1877-1878
March 3
June 13 | War with Turkey Treaty of San Stefano Congress of Berlin Begins |
| 1878 | Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto takes Paris by storm Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin Tolstoy's Anna Karenina |
| 1879 | People's Will Party and Black Partition established |
| 1880 | Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov |
| 1881 March 1 | Assassination of Alexander II |
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| 1881-1894 | ALEXANDER III ROMANOV |
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| 1884 | Reactionary regulations for universities |
| 1888 | Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade |
| 1890 | Borodin's opera Prince Igor Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty |
| 1891 | Beginning of the Trans-Siberian railway |
| 1891-1893 | Making of the Franco-Russian alliance |
| 1892 | Tret'iakov donates his art collection to the city of Moscow |
| 1892-1903 | Witte as minister of communications, finance and commerce |
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| 1894-1917 | NICHOLAS II ROMANOV |
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| 1896 | Disastrous production of Chekhov's The Seagull in St. Petersburg |
| 1897 Jan 28 | First all-Russian census counts 128,907,692 people |
| 1898 | Moscow Art Theater founded, produces Chekhov's Sea Gull 1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Minsk) Occupation of Port Arthur |
| 1900 | Boxer Rebellion; Russia occupies Manchuria |
| 1901 Jan 31 | Chekhov's Three Sisters opens at MKhAT to poor reviews |
| 1902 | Gorky's Lower Depths opens at MKhAT |
| 1903 | 2nd Party Congress (Brussels) Split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks |
| 1904 | General strike in Tbilisi and Baku |
| 1904-1905 | Russo-Japanese War |
1905
January 22
October 17 | 1905 REVOLUTION: General Strike Bloody Sunday October Manifesto Potemkin Mutiny 3rd Party Congress Constitutional Democrats (Kadets) Program |
1906
April | 4th Party Congress First Duma First Constitution (Fundamental Law) |
| 1906-1911 | The Stolypin | Land Reforms |
| 1907 | Second Duma 5th Party Congress Emergence of Triple Entente (France, Britain, Russia) against Triple Alliance (Germany, Austro-Hungary, Italy) Third Duma |
| 1908 | Trotsky becomes editor of Pravda in Vienna |
| 1909 May 19 | First performance of Diaghilev's Ballet russe |
1910
November 7 | Igor Stravinsky's Firebird scandalizes Paris Leo Tolstoy dies at Astapovo station |
| 1911-1913 | Balkan Wars |
1912
April 4 | Fourth Duma Lena gold field massacre (from which Lenin took his pseudonym) |
| 1913 | Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring |
| 1914 | World War I begins St. Petersburg renamed 'Petrograd' |
| 1916 Dec 16 | Murder of Rasputin by Felix | Yusupov et al. |
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