Timeline of Russian history
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This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of Russia. See also list of Russian monarchs and list of heads of state of Russia.
Dates before 31 January 1918, when the Bolshevik government adopted the Gregorian calendar, are given in the Old Style Julian calendar.
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11th century
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18th century
19th century
20th century
21st century
See also
Years in Russia, 1991–present
Cities in Russia
Timeline of Grozny
Timeline of Kaliningrad
Timeline of Kazan
Timeline of Krasnodar
Timeline of Makhachkala
Timeline of Moscow
Timeline of Nizhny Novgorod
Timeline of Novosibirsk
Timeline of Omsk
Timeline of Pskov
Timeline of Rostov-on-Don
Timeline of Saint Petersburg
Timeline of Samara
Timeline of Smolensk
Timeline of Vladivostok
Timeline of Volgograd
Timeline of Voronezh
Timeline of Yekaterinburg
References
Sources
"Хронология русской истории" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
Further reading
Published in the 19th century
Thomas Bartlett (1841). "Russia". New Tablet of Memory; or, Chronicle of Remarkable Events.
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