//http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~szyrmer/e95s/e95s.notes.rushist.html
//Date of discovery (of webpage): 10/24/2002
//Date of preparation (of document): 10/26/2002
//Author (of webpage): Dr. Janusz M. Szyrmer 
//Title of webpage: History of Russia: important dates
//Date on original source: January 27, 1996
//Author (of document): Anna Tonkonogui
//Computer Science 143 Section JH
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Rurik becomes ruler of Novgorod 
988
Conversion to Byzantine Christianity 
1036
Yaroslav the Wise - Kievan ruler of all Russia
1223
Battle of Kalka river (Genghis Khan)
1453
Fall of Constantinople 
1547
Ivan the Terrible - czar
1597
Law of serfdom (Boris Godunov) 
1682
Peter the Great - emperor.
1703
Foundation of St. Petersburg.  
1762
Catherine the Great - empress.
1812
Napoleon's army occupies Moscow.
1815
Congress of Vienna.  
1853
Crimean war.
1861
Emancipation of the serfs. 
1905
War with Japan. 
1914
World War I.
1917
Bolshevik Revolution. 
1922
Foundation of the Soviet Union. 
1928
First Five Year Plan.
1941
German (Nazi) invasion. 
1945
End of World War. 
1961
Soviet cosmonaut (YURI GAGARIN) becomes the first man in space.
1979
Invasion of Afghanistan.
1986
Gorbachev's perestroyka and glasnost.
1991
End of the Soviet Union.