CHRONOLOGY
9th century Formation of Kyivan Rus
980-1050 Reign of Prince Volodymyr
988 Adoption of Christianity
1240 Kyiv destroyed by the Mongols
1362 Kyiv annexed by Lithuania
1492 First documentary mention of the Cossacks
1569 Union of Lublin between Poland and Lithuania
1596 Creation of the Uniate (Ukrainian Greek Catholic)
Church
1648 Uprising against Polish rule
1648-1657 Bohdan Khmelnytsky's tenure as a Cossack hetman
1654 Treaty of Pereiaslav brings the Cossacks under
Muscovite rule
1709 Tsar Peter I defeats separatist Hetman Ivan Mazepa
1772 Galicia becomes part of the Habsburg Empire
1783 The Russian Empire annexes the Crimean Khanate
1876 Literature in Ukrainian banned in the Russian
Empire
1890 First Ukrainian political party established in
Austria-Hungary
1898 Mykhailo Hrushevsky publishes the first volume of
History of Ukraine-Rus
1917 Revolution in the Russian Empire; the Central Rada convenes in Kyiv
1918 Founding of the independent Ukrainian People's
Republic
1920 The Bolsheviks establish control over eastern
Ukraine
1922 The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic joins the Soviet Union
1923 The Allies approve Poland's annexation of eastern
Galicia
1923-1933 Ukrainization campaign in Soviet Ukraine 1929 Founding of the Organization of Ukrainian
Nationalists
1932-1933 The Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor)
1938- 1949 Nikita Khrushchev's tenure as Communist Party
boss in Ukraine
1939- 1940 The Soviet Union annexes western Ukrainian lands
from Poland and Romania
1941-1944 Nazi occupation of Ukraine
1944 Deportation of Crimean Tatars from the Crimea
1954 The Crimea is transferred from the Russian
Federation to Ukraine
1976 The Ukrainian Helsinki Group is founded
1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe
1990 Student protests in Kyiv
1991 The Soviet Union collapses; Ukraine proclaims
independence
1991-1994 Presidency of Leonid Kravchuk
1994 The Budapest Memorandum on Security
Assurances; Ukraine gives up its nuclear arsenal 1994-2004 Presidency of Leonid Kuchma 1997 Russia and Ukraine divide the Black Sea Fleet
2004 The Orange Revolution
2005-2010 Presidency of Viktor Yushchenko
2009 Ukraine's “gas war” with Russia
2010-2014 Presidency of Viktor Yanukovych
2011 Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is
imprisoned
2013- 2014 The EuroMaidan Revolution
2014 Russia annexes the Crimea
2014 War in the Donbas begins
2014- 2019 Presidency of Petro Poroshenko
2015 Second Minsk Agreement establishes shaky ceasefire in the Donbas
2018 Strait of Kerch incident
2019 Volodymyr Zelensky sworn in as president
