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CHRONOLOGY OF UKRAINE'S HISTORY
From:
http://www.freenet.kiev.ua:8080/ciesin/Ukraine/ukr-hist-chronolo.html
Another, more detailed description at:
Brama.com
| 8th-9th cent.: |
Creation of the medieval Kievan Rus' state |
| 988: |
Christianity adopted by Prince Volodymyr |
| 1130's: |
Beginning of the feudal break-up of the Kievan state |
| 1187,1189,1217: |
First three documented references to the term "Ukraine"
appear in the Hypatian Chronicle |
| 1237-1241: |
Tatar invasion, the destruction of Kiev |
| 13th -14th cent.: |
Founding of the Galician-Volynian principality, which
controlled a significant part of the territory of the former Kievan Rus'-Ukraine
state |
| mid-14th cent.: |
The lands of Rus'-Ukraine are gradually occupied by
Lithuania, Poland, and Turkey |
| 1492: |
First documented reference to the Ukrainian Kozaks |
| Early 16th cent.: |
Founding of the Zaporozhyan Sich, the
military-administrative and political organisation of the Ukrainian Kozaks |
| 1569: |
Treaty of Lublin signed by Lithuania and Poland. The
beginning of Polish expansion in Right-Bank Ukraine |
| 1569: |
Treaty of Berestya (between a segment of the Ukrainian
Orthodox faithful and the Roman Catholic Church) |
| 1648-1654: |
Ukrainian liberation war against Poland |
| 1654: |
Treaty of Pereyaslav, a military and political alliance
signed between Ukraine and Russia. (A written agreement was signed in March
between Herman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Russian Tsar concerning the status
of Ukraine under the protection of the Russian state) |
| 1764-1775: |
The Zaporozhyan Sich is suppressed by the Russian
Tsarist government |
| 1792: |
Ukrainian settlement of the Kuban region begins |
| 1905-1906: |
First revolution in Russia; a Ukrainian movement is
galvanised, Ukrainians are permitted to form organisations, the ban on the
Ukrainian language is abolished |
| 1917, March: |
The fall of the Russian monarchy and the creation of the
Central Rada in Ukraine |
| 1917, November: |
The Bolsheviks seize power in Petrograd; the Central
Rada proclaims its power in nine provinces with a Ukrainian population and
the course toward state autonomy is set |
| 1918, January 22: |
Declaration of independence of the Ukrainian National
Republic |
| 1918, April 29: |
Mykhaylo Hrushevsky elected President of Ukraine |
| 1918, November 1: |
Founding of the Western Ukrainian National Republic
(lasted until 1919); war between Western Ukraine and Poland |
| 1919, January 22: |
The union of the Western Ukrainian National Republic
with the Ukrainian National Republic |
| 1919, December: |
The Bolsheviks form the third Soviet Ukrainian
government |
| 1920: |
S. Petlyura signs the Warsaw Treaty concerning the joint
Ukrainian-polish armed struggle against the Bolsheviks |
| 1921, November: |
The Bolsheviks begin consolidating Soviet rule in
Ukraine |
| 1922, December: |
The formation of the USSR, including the Ukrainian SSR |
| 1929, January 29: |
Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) under the
leadership of Eugene Konovalets was formed |
| 1929: |
The Soviet authorities launch a campaign of repression
directed against the Ukrainian intelligentsia; 45 Ukrainian intellectuals
are charged with belonging to the secret organisation "Union for the
Liberation of Ukraine"; the persecution of the hierarchies of the
independent Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church begins |
| 1932-1933: |
A genocidal famine, organised by Moscow, results in the
deaths of 8 million Ukrainians living in rural areas |
| 1936-1937: |
Mass arrests in Ukraine; hundreds of Ukrainian
intellectuals are liquidated |
| 1938: |
Carpatho-Ukraine is made an autonomous land with its own
government within the federated republic of Czechoslovakia; the creation of
the military organisation "Carpathian Sich" |
| 1939, March 15: |
The government of A. Voloshyn proclaims the independence
of Carpatho-Ukraine; in accordance with a secret pact signed by Hungary and
Germany, the Hungarian armies occupy Carpatho-Ukraine |
| 1939: |
Western Ukrainian lands are annexed to the Ukrainian SSR |
| 1941-1944: |
Germany occupies Ukraine |
| 1942: |
The creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army |
| 1945: |
Together with 50 other nations Ukraine becomes a
founding member of the United Nations Organisation |
| 1946: |
The Ukrainian Greek-catholic Church is banned; mass
repressions are launched against its clergy and faithful |
| Late 1950s-early 1960s: |
The period of Khrushchev's "thaw" in the USSR begins;
the emergence of the "sixtyers" movement |
| 1972: |
Arrests of members of the Ukrainian dissident movement |
| 1989: |
The creation of the popular movement in Ukraine for
restructuring (RUKH) |
| 1990, July 16: |
Declaration of the Supreme Rada of Ukraine proclaims the
state sovereignty of Ukraine |
| 1991, August 24: |
The Supreme Rada adopts the Act proclaiming the state
independence of Ukraine |
| 1994, July 10: |
A referendum on Ukrainian independence is held; Leonid
D.Kuchma elected President of Ukraine |
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