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| 0996 | Yaroslav the Wise |  |
| Russkaya Pravda, the first written compilation of Russian law, completed under Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev |
| 1326 | Ivan I | |
| Moscow Causes the Metropolitan See to be transferred to Moscow |
| 1649 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich | |
| New Law Code, Sobornoe ulozhenie |
| Moscow Parliament produces the Code of Law, Ulozhenie, to redress widespread discontent |
| Promulgates the Soborn Ulozheniye, a code of laws for legitimizing serfdom |
| 1652 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich | |
| Begins reforms of the Russian Church based on the Greek Church |
| 1652 | Nikon, Patriarch | |
| Moscow Appointed Chief Minister |
| Moscow Begins to reform the Russian Church on the Greek Church |
| 1658 | Nikon, Patriarch | |
| Moscow Threatens to resign to speed up Church Reforms, to his surprise the offer is accepted |
| 1667 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich | |
| New Commercial Regulations keep foreigners out of trade & impose high import tariffs |
| 1699 | Peter I the Great | |
| Aug Moscow Traditional clothing is banned, subjects must wear traditional dress |
| 20th Dec Moscow Sets about reforming the Russian calendar |
| 1741 | Elizabeth | |
| Abolishes Cabinet Council Government |
| 1767 | Catherine II the Great | |
| A commission of 564 Deputies is appointed for the modernization of the State |
| 1781 | Catherine II the Great | |
| Signs a defensive alliance with Austria |
| 1785 | Catherine II the Great | |
| The Nobility Charter grants limited rights of noble assembly & provincial government |
| 1801 | Kutuzov | |
| Constantinople Appointed Ambassador to Turkey |
| 1802 | Rumyantsev | |
| Appointed Minister of Commerce |
| 1807 | Speransky, Mikhail Mikhailovich | |
| Appointed Secretary of State to Alexander I |
| 1830 | Orlov | |
| Unkiar Skelessi Signed with Turkey for military aid if Turkey closes the Straits to foreign warships |
| 1833 | Orlov | |
| Constantinople Appointed Ambassador to Turkey |
| 1837 | Kiselev | |
| July Appointed Chief of the Ministry of Imperial Domains |
| 1839 | Nicholas I | |
| Teplitz Meets Emperor Franz of Austria in Bohemia to support the Sultan |
| 1840 | Nicholas I | |
| Bosphorous Russia & Britain agree to support Turkey & defend the Bosphorous |
| 23rd May St Petersburg Leaves Russia on his way to London |
| 1st June Woolwich Arrives in Britain for the 1st time in 25 years |
| 1st June Woolwich Disembarks from the Dutch steamer, "Cyclops" |
| 2nd June London Pays a visit to Queen Victoria |
| 1841 | Nicholas I | |
| London The Allies will not send warships to the Dardanelles & Bosphorous if Turkey is neutral |
| 1844 | Nesselrode | |
| 24th May Informs the British Ambassador that Nicholas I is on his way to London |
| 1851 | Nicholas I | |
| Warns Schwarzenburg Austria cannot expect Russian support if France goes to war |
| 1856 | Izvolski | |
| Birth of Alexander Petrovich Izvolski |
| 1860 | Ignatyev | |
| Peking Negotiates the Treaty of Peking |
| Peking Settles the Sino-Russian border & gains considerable territorry for Russia |
| 1860 | Trepov, Fyodor Fyodorovich | |
| St Petersburg Appointed Chief of the St Petersburg Police |
| 1861 | Alexander II | |
| Moscow Heavy taxes are imposed on peasants inheriting land |
| 1862 | Brunnow, Philip | |
| London Appointed Ambassador to Britain |
| 1862 | Milyutin, Dmitri | |
| Appointed Minister of Defense |
| 1863 | Milyutin, Dmitri | |
| Moscow Creates military districts |
| Moscow Creates the office of chief of staff |
| Moscow Reduces length of service from 25 to 16 years |
| Moscow Removes some corporal punishment |
| 1863 | Muravyov | |
| Wilno Appointed Governor General of Wilno |
| 1864 | Alexander II | |
| Aims to establish "the rule of law" on the English model with public trials & a jury |
| Elected Zemstvas are set up for provinces for health, welfare, roads & education |
| 1864 | Ignatyev | |
| Constantinople Appointed Ambassador to Turkey |
| Moscow Encourages Serbs & Bulgarians in their unsuccesful revolts against Turkish rule |
| 1865 | Alexander II | |
| Bukhara Russia captures Bukhara, Tashkent, and Samerkand |
| 1866 | Tolstoy | |
| Appointed Minister of Education |
| Moscow Begins a policy of repression against universities after an attempt on the Tsar's life |
| 1874 | Milyutin, Dmitri | |
| 1st Jan Moscow Men are liable to service at the age of 20 with each district providing a quota |
| 1st Jan Moscow Passes the Conscription Act for all levels of Russian Society |
| 13th Jan Moscow Conscription comes into effect |
| 1875 | Ignatyev | |
| St Petersburg Japan recognizes the sovereignty of Russia over the Kurile Islands & Sakhalin |
| 1878 | Trepov, Fyodor Fyodorovich | |
| Moscow Death of Fyodor Fyodorovich Trepov, assasinated |
| Moscow Shot by Vera Zasulich |
| Moscow The Jury refuse to convict because of Trepov's repressive measures |
| Moscow The Jury refuse to convict Zasulich because of Trepov's repressive measures |
| 1878 | Zasulich, Vera | |
| Moscow Assassinates Trepov the Chief of St Petersburg Police |
| The Jury refuse to convict Zasulich because of Trepov's repressive measures |
| 1879 | Battenburg | |
| Appointed monarchical head of State, ruled by him with Russian advisers |
| The National Assembly introduces a Constitution |
| 1881 | Ignatyev | |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| Moscow Emancipates Serfs but fails to check pogroms & growing pan-slavism |
| 1881 | Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior, 1st term |
| 1893 | Alexander III | |
| A military convention is agreed with France which becomes a formal defensive alliance |
| 1893 | Muravyov, Mikhail Nikolayevich | |
| Copehagen Appointed Ambassador to Denmark |
| 1895 | Alexander III | |
| Afghanistan's northern border was fixed and guaranteed by Russia |
| 1896 | Alexander III | |
| Russia discloses a plan to seize Constantinople if Britain intervenes in Crete |
| 1896 | Muravyov, Mikhail Nikolayevich | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1898 | Nicholas II | |
| Port Arthur Russia takes a lease on Port Athur from China |
| 1899 | Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Secretary of State for Finland |
| 1901 | Bogolepov, Nikolai Petrovich | |
| Appointed Minister of Education |
| Feb Moscow Assassination of Nikolai Petrovich Bogolepov |
| Feb Moscow Death of Nikolai Petrovich Begolepov, assassinated |
| 1902 | Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior, 2nd term |
| Moscow Attempts to make the Zemstva a branch of the Ministry of Interior |
| April Assassinated by a student from Kiev University who had been expelled |
| April Death of Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve, assassinated |
| 1902 | Sipiagin, Dimitri Sergeevich | |
| 2nd April Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| 2nd April Moscow Assassination of Dimitri Sergeevich Sipiagin |
| 2nd April Moscow Death of Dimitri Sergeevich Sipiagin, assassinated |
| 1903 | Nicholas II | |
| Caucasus A Tsarist decree confiscates all the property of the Armenian Church in the Caucasus |
| 13th Feb Chateau d'Eau Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans |
| Aug Dismisses Witte as Minister of Finance |
| 1903 | Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
| Odessa Orders the police suppression of the strike in Odessa |
| 4th April Kishinev 50 Jews are killed during an anti-Jewish pogrom |
| 4th April Kishinev Plehve blames the Jews for revolutionary feeling |
| 1904 | Nicholas II | |
| 12th Dec Changes agreed by the Tsar become law, still no representitive form of government |
| 12th Dec The Zemstvo are given a broader national & local role |
| 1904 | Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
| 4th Feb Moscow Authorizes Gapon's Assembly |
| 15th July Assassination of Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve |
| 1904 | Savinkov, Boris | |
| 15th July Directs an operation which results in the assassination of Plehve |
| 1904 | Sviatopolk-Mirskii | |
| 25th Aug Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| 1905 | Bulygin | |
| 18th Jan Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| 1905 | Izvolski | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1905 | Lvov | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Duma |
| 1905 | Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| Uses force to suppress a peasant rebellion |
| 1905 | Sviatopolk-Mirskii | |
| 18th Jan Moscow Dismissed as Minister of the Interior after demonstrations in St Petersburg |
| 1905 | Trepov, Vladimir Federovich | |
| 18th Jan St Petersburg Appointed Governor General of St Petersburg |
| 1906 | Goremykin, Ivan Logginovich | |
| 16th April Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers, 1st term |
| 1906 | Nicholas II | |
| 16th April Nicholas II responds to pressure from conservatives & dismisses Witte |
| 23rd April The first Russian constitution, known as the Fundamental Laws was enacted on the eve of the opening of the first State Duma |
| 23rd April The Fundemental Laws declare the autocracy of the Russian Emperor, including Emperor's supremacy over the Law, the Church, and Duma |
| 1906 | Polinavov, Alexei | |
| Appointed Deputy Minister of War |
| 1906 | Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| Moscow Passes a law allowing peasants to leave their communes & set up as individual farmers |
| 23rd April The first Russian constitution, known as the Fundamental Laws was enacted on the eve of the opening of the first State Duma |
| 26th April Appointed Minister of the Interior |
| 26th April Moscow The new fundemental laws for the constitution are made public |
| 27th April Moscow The 1st Duma is opened by the Tsar |
| 8th July Appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers |
| 8th July Moscow The 1st Duma is closed by the Tsar |
| 12th Aug Moscow The Socialist revolutionary maximalists make a failed attempt on stolypin's life |
| 1906 | Witte | |
| 16th April Nicholas II responds to pressure from conservatives & dismisses Witte |
| 16th April Moscow Resigns as Chairman of the Council of Ministers |
| 1907 | Nicholas II | |
| 2nd June Moscow The 2nd Duma is closed by the Tsat & a new electoral law is passed |
| 7th Nov Moscow The 3rd Duma is opened by the Tsar & remains open until 1912 |
| 1907 | Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| Britain and Russia carve Iran into spheres of influence. |
| Moscow Members of the Duma must speak Russia in their ethnic lands |
| Moscow Restricts the electoral franchise to guarantee a conservative majority in the Duma |
| St Petersburg Russia and Great Britain sign the Convention of St Petersburg, in which Afghanistan is declared outside Russia's sphere of influence |
| Moscow Stolypin's allows ethnic groups in the Duma but they must speak Russian in their lands |
| Moscow Stolypin's electoral law allows ethnic groups in the Duma |
| Moscow Stolypin's electoral law allows ethnic groups into the Duma |
| Moscow Under Stolypin's constitutional law ethnic groups must speak Russian in their lands |
| 20th Feb Moscow The 2nd Duma is opened by the Tsar |
| Mar Moscow Stolypin announces a reform program |
| 2nd June Moscow The 2nd Duma is closed by the Tsat & a new electoral law is passed |
| 7th Nov Moscow The 3rd Duma is opened by the Tsar & remains open until 1912 |
| 1909 | Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| 26th Mar Russian troops invade northern Persia & occupy Tabriz |
| 1909 | Sukhomlinov, Vladimir | |
| Appointed Minister of War |
| 1910 | Izvolski | |
| Moscow Developed military alliance between France & Russia |
| Dismissed after an unsuccesful agreement with Austria |
| 1910 | Sazonov, Sergey Dmitriyevich | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1911 | Bogrov, Mordkha | |
| Moscow A Jewish police informer, the incident provokes anti-Jewish tension |
| Kiev Shoots Stolypin the Duma Prime Minister at the opera in front of Tsar Nicholas II |
| 1911 | Kokovtsov, Vladimir Nikolaevich | |
| Sep Appointed Prime Minister of Russia, after the assassination of Stolypin |
| 1911 | |
