Muscovite Russia

1249 Andrei Iaroslavich becomes prince of Vladimir

1252 Aleksandr Nevskii becomes prince of Vladimir

1299 Metropolitan Maksim moves from Kiev to Vladimir

1301 Moscow (Muscovy) becomes a separate principality with its own ruling house

1380 Battle of Kulikovo

1389-1425 Reign of Vasilii I;

1425-1462 Vasilii II Vasil’evich becomes grand prince of Vladimir

1462-1505 Reign ofIvan III Vasil’evich

1478 Ivan III annexes Novgorod

1493 Ivan takes the title “Sovereign [ gosudar ] of All Russia”

1497 Law Code (sudebnik) issued

1503 Church Council meets

1505-1533 Reign of Vasilii III Ivanovich

1510 Vasilii III annexes Pskov

1514 Vasilii III annexes Smolensk

1521 Vasilii III annexes Riazan’

1521 Crimean Tatars attack Moscow

1533–1584 Reign of Ivan IV, the “Terrible”

1547 Ivan IV is crowned with the title of ‘tsar’

1549 or 1550 First meeting of the zemsky sobor

1550 New Law Code issued - Sudebnik

1551 Stoglav Church Council meets

1558–83 Livonian war

1565–72 oprichnina

1566 First ‘Assembly of the Land’

1571 Crimean Tatars burn Moscow

1589 Russian patriarchate established

1597 Legislation on peasants and slaves

c. 1603–13 ‘Time of Troubles’

1611 First national militia attempts to liberate Moscow

1612 Second national militia, led by Minin and Pozharskii, succeeds in liberating Moscow

1613 Michael Romanov is elected tsar

1619 Filaret Romanov becomes patriarch

1645 Death of Michael; Alexis becomes tsar

1648 Popular uprising in Moscow

1648 Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi leads revolt against Poland in Ukraine

1649 Conciliar Law Code (Ulozhenie) issued

1652 Nikon becomes patriarch

1654 Pereiaslav Treaty

1654–67 Thirteen YearsWar

1676 Death of Alexis; Fedor Alekseevich becomes tsar

1676–81 Russo-Turkish war