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TIMELINE OF EVENTS: 40,000 BCE TO JANUARY 2014 CE

40,000 to Upper Paleolithic Period clans of primitive hunters and gatherers 15,000 BCE 5000 BCE Agriculture developed 1500-750 (Central Asian/Persian) BCE 750 BCE (Central Asian/Persian) 339 BCE King Philip II of Macedonia defeats Scythians 250 BCE Samatians (Persian) 2nd C CE German tribes of the – first tribes from northwest 4th C CE Huns and then Bulgars (Turkic people) 7th to 9th C CE 862 CE Riurik established first rule and that lasted until 16th C – repulsed Khazars Ninth Century Formation of Kyivan Rus’ 980-1015 Reign of Prince 988 Adoption of Christianity 1019-1054 Reign of Construction of St. Sophia Cathedral & Monastery of the Caves 1086 Construction of St. Andrew’s Church 1108 Construction of St. Michael’s Golden Domed Cathedral 1140 Construction of St. Cyril’s Monastery 1230s Crusaders fight people along Baltic Sea; caused Baltic tribes to unite and to expand south & east; brought them into conflict with Kyvian Rus’ princes and 1240 destroyed by the Mongols (“”) 1344 annexed by 1349 taken over by Poland 1362 Decisive victory of Lithuania over Golden Horde in Battle of Blue Waters By late 14th C Rus lands divided: Galicia-Volhynia, Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal 15th C Muscovy (Moscow) – in Vladimir-Suzdal -- becomes a powerful duchy and annexes remaining area Vladimir-Suzdal and all of Novgorod 1492 First documentary mention of the 1569 Union of Lublin between Poland and Lithuania 1596 Creation of the Uniate Church 1648 Khmelnytsky against Polish rule 1648-1657 rules as a Cossack 1654 Treaty of brings the Cossacks under Muscovite 1709 Tsar Peter I defeats separatist Hetman 1772 Galicia becomes part of the Habsburg Empire 1845-1847 Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood in Kyiv 1848 Supreme Ruthenian Council established in 1876 Literature in Ukrainian banned in the 1890 First Ukrainian political party created in Austria-Hungary 1900 First Ukrainian political party in the Russian Empire 1917 in Russian Empire; Central Rada convenes in Kyiv 1918 Establishment of the independent Ukrainian People’s Republic 1918-1919 Western Ukrainian People’s Republic 1920 The Bolsheviks establish control over 1922 Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic joins the 1923 The Allies approve Poland’s annexation of Galicia 1923-1933 campaign in Soviet Ukraine 1929 Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists established 1932-1933 The Ukrainian Famine 1938-1949 ’s tenure as Community Party leader in Ukraine 1939-1940 SU annexes western Ukrainian lands from Poland & Romania 1941-1944 Nazi occupation of Ukraine 1954 The transferred from the Russian Federation to Ukraine 1963-1972 ’s tenure as Communist Party leader in Ukraine 1972-1989 -- Communist Party leader in Ukraine 1989 First congress of Rukh, the Ukrainian popular front 1991 Declaration of independence 1991-1994 Presidency of 1994-2004 Presidency of 2004 The Revolution 2005-2010 sworn in as president 2010-2014 sworn in as president (Nov.2013) begin 18-23 Feb 2014 Euromadian Revolution 21 Feb – , ex officio president 67June 2014 28 Feb 2014 Russian takeover of Crimea begins 16-18 March Crimea holds referendum; Putin signs treaty absorbing Crimea into 6 April Pro-Russian activists seize control of govt buildings in eastern cities of , & , calling for referendum on independence; fighting breaks out and continues into subsequent months 7 June 2014- sworn in as president 17 July Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 shot down in eastern Ukraine 13 Jan 2015 Fighting in eastern Ukraine continues. More than 4,700 people have been killed since April 2014.