UKRAINE 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 Cimmerians (Central Asian/Persian) BCE 750 BCE Scythians (Central Asian/Persian) 339 BCE King Philip II of Macedonia defeats Scythians 250 BCE Samatians (Persian) 2nd C CE German tribes of the Goths – first tribes from northwest 4th C CE Huns and then Bulgars (Turkic people) 7th to 9th C CE Khazars 862 CE Riurik established first Varangians rule and dynasty that lasted until 16th C – repulsed Khazars Ninth Century Formation of Kyivan Rus’ 980-1015 Reign of Prince Volodymyr 988 Adoption of Christianity 1019-1054 Reign of Yaroslav the Wise 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 Poles 1240 Kyiv destroyed by the Mongols (“Golden Horde”) 1344 Volhynia annexed by Lithuania 1349 Galicia 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 Cossacks 1569 Union of Lublin between Poland and Lithuania 1596 Creation of the Uniate Church 1648 Khmelnytsky Rebellion against Polish rule 1648-1657 Bohdan Khmelnytsky rules as a Cossack Hetman 1654 Treaty of Pereiaslav brings the Cossacks under Muscovite Tsar 1709 Tsar Peter I defeats separatist Hetman Ivan Mazepa 1772 Galicia becomes part of the Habsburg Empire 1845-1847 Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood in Kyiv 1848 Supreme Ruthenian Council established in Lviv 1876 Literature in Ukrainian banned in the Russian Empire 1890 First Ukrainian political party created in Austria-Hungary 1900 First Ukrainian political party in the Russian Empire 1917 Revolution 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 eastern Ukraine 1922 Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic joins the Soviet Union 1923 The Allies approve Poland’s annexation of Galicia 1923-1933 Ukrainization campaign in Soviet Ukraine 1929 Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists established 1932-1933 The Ukrainian Famine 1938-1949 Nikita Khrushchev’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 Crimea transferred from the Russian Federation to Ukraine 1963-1972 Petro Shelest’s tenure as Communist Party leader in Ukraine 1972-1989 Volodymyr Shcherbytsky -- Communist Party leader in Ukraine 1989 First congress of Rukh, the Ukrainian popular front 1991 Declaration of independence 1991-1994 Presidency of Leonid Kravchuk 1994-2004 Presidency of Leonid Kuchma 2004 The Orange Revolution 2005-2010 Viktor Yushchenko sworn in as president 2010-2014 Viktor Yanukovych sworn in as president (Nov.2013) Protests begin 18-23 Feb 2014 Euromadian Revolution 21 Feb – Oleksandr Turchynov, 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 Russia 6 April Pro-Russian activists seize control of govt buildings in eastern cities of Donetsk, Luhansk & Kharkiv, calling for referendum on independence; fighting breaks out and continues into subsequent months 7 June 2014- Petro Poroshenko 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. .
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