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| 1952 | Birth |  |
| 7th Oct Leningrad Birth of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin |
| 1975 | Education | |
| Leningrad Putin graduates from the International Branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University |
| 1975 | KGB | |
| Leningrad Recruited into the KGB |
| 1983 | KGB | |
| Moscow 1983-1984, studies at the KGB High School in Moscow |
| 1984 | KGB | |
| Moscow Putin is appointed a Major |
| 1985 | KGB | |
| Dresden Assigned to recruit spies in Dresden, East Germany |
| 1990 | KGB | |
| Leningrad Assumes a position with the International Affairs section of Leningrad State University, reporting to Vice-Rector Yuriy Molchanov |
| 1991 | Coup d'Etat | |
| 20th Aug Leningrad Putin resigns from the state security services during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 1991 | Head of the Committee for External Relations | |
| 28th June Leningrad Appointed Head of the Committee for External Relations of the St Petersburg Mayor's Office, with responsibility for promoting international relations and foreign investments |
| 1991 | KGB | |
| 20th Aug Leningrad Putin resigns from the state security services during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 1994 | First Deputy | |
| 28th June Leningrad Appointed First Deputy Head of the Administration of the city of Saint Petersburg |
| 1995 | Our Home Is Russia Party | |
| Leningrad Putin leads the St. Petersburg branch of the pro-government Our Home Is Russia political party |
| 1995 | Sankt Peterburgskie Vedomosti | |
| Leningrad Appointed Head of the Advisory Board of the JSC Newspaper Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti |
| 1996 | President | |
| Appointed Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department headed by Pavel Borodin |
| 1997 | Deputy Chief of Presidential Staff | |
| Boris Yeltsin appoints Putin Deputy Chief of Presidential Staff |
| 1997 | President | |
| Appointed Chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department |
| 1998 | KGB | |
| 20th Aug Named head of Russia's FSB domestic intelligence agency |
| 1999 | Acting President | |
| 31st Dec Yeltsin unexpectedly resigns and, according to the constitution, Putin becomes (acting) President of the Russian Federation |
| 1999 | Acting Prime Minister | |
| 9th Aug Appointed acting Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation by President Boris Yeltsin |
| 1999 | Diplomacy | |
| 9th Dec Yeltsin resigns |
| 1999 | Election | |
| Dec Putin pledges his support to the newly formed Unity Party which wins the second largest percentage of the popular vote (23,32%) in the Duma elections |
| 1999 | President | |
| 31st Dec Appointed President of Russia, acting |
| 31st Dec Yeltsin announces his resignation and hands power over to Prime Minister Putin |
| 1999 | Prime Minister | |
| 9th Aug Yeltsin elevates the obscure Putin to the position of Prime Minister, and shortly thereafter designates him as his successor |
| 1999 | Rebellion | |
| 9th Oct Chechnya Putin plans to resettle thousands of Chechens in areas under Russian control, an indication that Moscow plans to split Chechnya in two |
| 1999 | Resignation | |
| 31st Dec Unity's electoral success gives Yeltsin the confidence to resign in favour of Prime Minister Putin (who becomes Acting President upon Yeltsin's resignation) |
| 1999 | Rule of Chechnya | |
| 1st Oct Chechnya Putin cuts ties with the elected government of Chechnya |
| 9th Oct Chechnya Putin plans to resettle thousands of Chechens in areas under Russian control, an indication that Moscow plans to split Chechnya in two |
| 4th Nov Sleptsovskaya Russia allows thousands of refugees to flee Chechnya and the crossing at the Sleptsovskaya border reaches 500 people per hour |
| 2000 | Bombing of Grozny | |
| 7th Jan Grozny Russia announces a suspension of aerial bombardment in Grozny to allow civilians to escape |
| 2000 | Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | |
| 28th May Putin signs the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, it will not be effective until the USAand other nations also approve |
| 2000 | Concept on National Security | |
| 14th Jan Russia publishes the 21-page "Concept on National Security" that details the scenarios under which it would use nuclear weapons |
| 2000 | Constitution | |
| Putin divides Russia's 89 regions into 7 federal districts headed by a Kremlin representative |
| 8th July Putin makes his first state of the nation address and calls for increased power to the central government to overcome a bleak diagnosis of the country's ills |
| 19th July The Duma passes legislation giving Putin the right to fire provincial governors and takes away the governor's automatic immunity and membership in the Federation Council |
| 2000 | Diplomacy | |
| 16th Feb Russia and NATO announce a resumption of contacts that were broken in Mar 1999 due to NATO bombing in Yugoslavia |
| 17th April Putin meets Tony Blair and promises to implement economic reforms and root out corruption |
| 3rd June Clinton meets Putin in Moscow and begins discussions on trade, missile defense and nuclear arms control |
| 4th June Clinton and Putin agree to each dispose 34 metric tons of weapons-grade nuclear plutonium and to establish a military center in Moscow for USAand Russian officers to share early warning data on missile and space launches |
| 2000 | Dismissal | |
| 3rd Jan Putin fires Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of Boris Yeltsin and Kremlin image advisor from her post in one of his first official acts, moving quickly to distance himself from Yeltsin's scandal-tinged administration |
| 2000 | Economy | |
| 11th Jan Putin announces a 20% increase in pensions ahead of the Mar 26 elections |
| 10th Feb The government announces that it will raise the minimum price for a bottle of vodka by 30% at the end of the month |
| 23rd Mar Russia's food supply is threatened with a virulent strain of potato blight and livestock feed shortages were forecast |
| 22nd May Putin abolishes the chief agency for environmental protection and transferred its powers to a ministry that hands out oil and gas leases |
| 25th May Putin unveils a new plan to revive the economy that includes a flat 13% income tax |
| 8th July Putin makes his first state of the nation address and calls for increased power to the central government to overcome a bleak diagnosis of the country's ills |
| 2000 | Election | |
| 11th Jan Putin announces a 20% increase in pensions ahead of the Mar 26 elections |
| 26th Mar Presidential elections are held, Putin wins in the first round, becomes the 2nd post-Communist President with 52.5% vote |
| May Putin wins the election |
| 2000 | FSB | |
| 13th Feb Putin signs a decree to re-establish the "special departments" (FSB) to seek out political disloyalty in the military |
| 2000 | Inauguration of Putin | |
| 7th May Putin is inaugurated, he names Mikhail Kasyanof as Prime Minister and pledges to restore the country to world-power status |
| 2000 | National Anthem | |
| Dec Putin sanctions the change of the National Anthem of Russia to restore the music of the pre-1991 Soviet anthem, but with new words |
| 2000 | NATO | |
| 2nd Mar Putin says that Russia will consider joining NATO if it is treated as an equal partner |
| 2000 | Nuclear Warfare | |
| 4th June Clinton and Putin agree to each dispose 34 metric tons of weapons-grade nuclear plutonium and to establish a military center in Moscow for USAand Russian officers to share early warning data on missile and space launches |
| 16th June Putin proposes a Moscow-based early warning center for nuclear missile launches around the world |
| 18th July Jiang Zemin and Putin denounce the USAproposed missile defense program as a violation of the 1972 ABM treaty, they also vow to strengthen a strategic partnership between their countries |
| 2000 | President | |
| 7th May Appointed President of Russia |
| 2000 | Rebellion | |
| 9th Jan Chechnya Rebels attack Russian positions in Argun, Shali and Gudermes as Russia continues a bombing halt for the Orthodox Chris tmas |
| 6th Feb Chechnya Putin announces that federal forces had scored a major victory in Chechnya |
| 12th Feb Chechnya Russian agents capture Salman Raduyev, a Chechen warlord |
| 17th Feb Chechnya Putin names Vladimir Kalamanov, Head of the Migration service, to look into allegations of torture, rape and executions by Russian soldiers against Chechen civilians |
| 17th Feb Chechnya Russia is accused by human rights groups and refugees of brutality toward Chechens in camps |
| 2000 | Reform | |
| 25th May Putin unveils a new plan to revive the economy that includes a flat 13% income tax |
| 2000 | Rule of Chechnya | |
| 6th Feb Chechnya Putin announces that federal forces had scored a major victory in Chechnya |
| 17th Feb Chechnya Putin names Vladimir Kalamanov, Head of the Migration service, to look into allegations of torture, rape and executions by Russian soldiers against Chechen civilians |
| May Chechnya Putin declares direct rule over Chechnya from Moscow. former Chechen cleric Akhmad Kadyrov is appointed as administrative head. |
| 8th June Chechnya Putin takes personal control over Chechnya, a provisional government is planned headed by a Kremlin-appointed official |
| 2000 | Sinking Submarine | |
| 3rd Jan Kursk Putin fires Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of Boris Yeltsin and Kremlin image advisor from her post in one of his first official acts, moving quickly to distance himself from Yeltsin's scandal-tinged administration |
| Aug Kursk A nuclear submarine sinks in the Barents Sea with a loss of all its crew |
| 2000 | START II | |
| 31st Mar Putin calls for a quick ratification of the START II Nuclear arms reduction Treaty and deeper cuts in nuclear missiles |
| 2000 | Treaty of Nucear Test Ban | |
| 28th May Putin signs the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, it will not be effective until the USAand other nations also approve |
| 2001 | Diplomacy | |
| July Moscow Russia signs a treaty of Frienship with China, during Zemin's visit to Moscow |
| Nov Moscow Putin says Russia is ready for closer relationship with NATO |
| 2001 | Treaty of Friendship | |
| July Moscow Russia signs a treaty of Frienship with China, during Zemin's visit to Moscow |
| 2002 | Diplomacy | |
| May Russian & NATO agree to establish a NATO-Russia Council |
| May Russia & the USA announce a new agreement on strategic nuclear weapons reduction |
| May Russia & the USA will cut their nuclear arsenals from 6,000 to 2,000 over 10 yrs |
| 2002 | Rebellion | |
| Aug 115 are killed when a military helicopter crashes in a Chechen minefield |
| Oct Moscow Rebels sieze a theatre & hold 800 hostage, 120 are killed |
| Dec Grozny Suicide bombers attack the HQ of the government Grozny, 50 are killed |
| 2003 | Diplomacy | |
| 29th April Putin meets Blair & disagrees with the coalition's reasons for going to war with Iraq |
| May The Russian Parliament ratifies the Offensive Reduction treaty |
| 2003 | Invasion of Afghanistan | |
| Agrees to the establishment of coalition military bases in Central Asia before and during the US-led invasion of Afghanistan |
| 2003 | Invasion of Iraq | |
| Putin opposes Washington's move to invade Iraq without the benefit of a United Nations Security Council resolution explicitly authorizing the use of military force |
| 2003 | Rebellion | |
| Mar The Chechen referendum votes in favour of joining the Russian Federation |
| May 50 are killed during a suicide bombing of a government building in Chechnya |
| 2003 | Referendum | |
| A referendum is held in Chechnya adopting a new constitution which declares the Republic as a part of Russia |
| Mar The Chechen referendum votes in favour of joining the Russian Federation |
| 2003 | Rule of Chechnya | |
| A referendum is held in Chechnya adopting a new constitution which declares the Republic as a part of Russia |
| 2003 | Treaty of Nuclear | |
| May The Russian Parliament ratifies the Offensive Reduction treaty |
| 2004 | Constitution | |
| 13th Sep Creates the Public Chamber of Russia & launches an initiative to replace the direct election governors & presidents of Federal subjects of Russia proposed by the President & approved by the legslature |
| 2004 | Election | |
| 14th Mar Putin wins the re-election to the presidency for a second term, earning 71 percent of the vote |
| Dec Visits the Ukraine twice before the election to show his support for Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and congratulated him on his alleged victory before the official election results had been announced |
| 2004 | Public Chamber of Russia | |
| 13th Sep Creates the Public Chamber of Russia & launches an initiative to replace the direct election governors & presidents of Federal subjects of Russia proposed by the President & approved by the legslature |
| 2004 | Trial | |
| 13th Sep Prosecution of Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, President of Yukos oil company, for fraud and tax evasion |
| 2005 | Diplomacy | |
| Putin and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schr”der negotiated the construction of a major gas pipeline over the Baltic exclusively between Russia and Germany |
| 2005 | Economy | |
| Putin and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schr”der negotiated the construction of a major gas pipeline over the Baltic exclusively between Russia and Germany |
| 2005 | Reform | |
| 13th Sep The responsibility for the federal prisons is transferred from the Interior Ministry to the Ministry of Justice |
| 2006 | Conference of G8 | |
| Russia had become a full-fledged member of the G8 and chairs the group in the calendar year of 2006 |
| 2006 | Diplomacy | |
| Russia had become a full-fledged member of the G8 and chairs the group in the calendar year of 2006 |
| Sep France's president Jacques Chirac awards Vladimir Putin the dignity of the Grand Cross of the Legion d'Honneur, the French highest decoration, to celebrate his contribution to the friendship between the two countries |
| 2006 | Legion d'Honneur | |
| Sep France's president Jacques Chirac awards Vladimir Putin the dignity of the Grand Cross of the Legion d'Honneur, the French highest decoration, to celebrate his contribution to the friendship between the two countries |
| 2006 | Reform | |
| 13th Sep In his Annual speech Putin proposes increasing maternity benefits and prenatal care for women |
| 2007 | Abdul Aziz Award | |
| 12th Feb Saudi King Abdullah awards Putin the King Abdul Aziz Award, SaudiArabia's top civilian decoration |
| 2007 | Conference of Munich | |
| Feb Munich At the Munich Conference on Security Policy, criticises the USA's dominance in global relations, and points out that the USA displayed an "almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations" |
| Feb Munich Calls for "fair and democratic world order that would ensure security and prosperity not only for a select few, but for all" |
| 2007 | Diplomacy | |
| Proposes certain initiatives such as establishing international centres for the enrichment of uranium and prevention of deploying weapons in outer space |
| Feb Munich At the Munich Conference on Security Policy, criticises the USA's dominance in global relations, and points out that the USA displayed an "almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations" |
| 12th Feb Saudi King Abdullah awards Putin the King Abdul Aziz Award, SaudiArabia's top civilian decoration |
