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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
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| 1326 | Ivan I | |
| Moscow Causes the Metropolitan See to be transferred to Moscow
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| 1472 | Ivan III the Great | |
| Moscow Establishes Russian protectors of Orthodox Christianity
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| 1550 | Ivan IV the Terrible | |
| Moscow The Law Code, sudebnik, is promulgated
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| 1649 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich | |
| New Law Code, Sobornoe ulozhenie
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| Moscow Parliament produces the Code of Law, Ulozhenie, to redress widespread discontent
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| Promulgates the Soborn Ulozheniye, a code of laws for legitimizing serfdom
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| 1652 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich | |
| Begins reforms of the Russian Church based on the Greek Church
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| 1652 | Nikon, Patriarch | |
| Moscow Begins to reform the Russian Church on the Greek Church
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| 1667 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich | |
| New Commercial Regulations keep foreigners out of trade & impose high import tariffs
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| 1699 | Peter I the Great | |
| Aug Moscow Traditional clothing is banned, subjects must wear traditional dress
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| 20th Dec Moscow Sets about reforming the Russian calendar
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| 1720 | Prokopovich, Feofan | |
| Pskov Formulates a conservative theology with a Lutheran orientation
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| Pskov Writes the new Church Constitution replacing the patriarchate with the Holy Synod
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| 1785 | Catherine II the Great | |
| The Nobility Charter grants limited rights of noble assembly & provincial government
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| 1803 | Arakcheyev | |
| Reorganizes the artillery branch of the army
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| 1861 | Alexander II | |
| Moscow Heavy taxes are imposed on peasants inheriting land
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| 1863 | Milyutin, Dmitri | |
| Moscow Creates military districts
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| Moscow Creates the office of chief of staff
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| Moscow Reduces length of service from 25 to 16 years
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| Moscow Removes some corporal punishment
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| 1864 | Alexander II | |
| Aims to establish "the rule of law" on the English model with public trials & a jury
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| Elected Zemstvas are set up for provinces for health, welfare, roads & education
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| 1874 | Milyutin, Dmitri | |
| 1st Jan Moscow Men are liable to service at the age of 20 with each district providing a quota
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| 1st Jan Moscow Passes the Conscription Act for all levels of Russian Society
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| 13th Jan Moscow Conscription comes into effect
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| 1881 | Ignatyev | |
| Moscow Emancipates Serfs but fails to check pogroms & growing pan-slavism
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| 1902 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Siberia Advocates elite SDP activists to spearhead the revolution in Russia
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| Outlines relations between Party intelectuals & workers
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| States doctrine of the "professional revolutionist"
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| 1902 | Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
| Moscow Attempts to make the Zemstva a branch of the Ministry of Interior
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| 1903 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Geneva Martov decides to move the RSDRP HQ from London to Geneva, despite Lenin's objections
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| 1903 | Martov, Yuly Osipovich | |
| Geneva Martov decides to move the RSDRP HQ from London to Geneva, despite Lenin's objections
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| 1903 | Witte | |
| 13th Feb Chateau d'Eau Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
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| 1904 | Bogdanov, Alexander | |
| Helps finance Lenin's campaign to hold a 3rd Party Congress
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| Helps Lenin unite the party under the Bolsheviks
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| 1904 | Noskov, Vladimir | |
| Orders Lenin to submit to party discipline & forbids a 3rd Party Congress
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| 1905 | Miliukov, Paul | |
| Joins Liberal & radical groups demanding parliamentary government & universal suffrage
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| 1905 | Nicholas II | |
| 17th Oct Signs the "October Manifesto", establishing the State Duma as the elected legislature
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| 1906 | Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| Moscow Passes a law allowing peasants to leave their communes & set up as individual farmers
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| 1907 | Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| Moscow Restricts the electoral franchise to guarantee a conservative majority in the Duma
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| Moscow Stolypin's allows ethnic groups in the Duma but they must speak Russian in their lands
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| 1914 | Sukhomlinov, Vladimir | |
| Aug The Stavka is given nominal control of Army operations
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| 1915 | Nicholas II | |
| Aug Moscow The government authorizes the creation a national Zemstva
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| 1917 | Alexeiev, Mikhail Vasilevich | |
| 2nd May Reports that the Army is in a state of ruin
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| 1918 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Jan Issues the "Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling & Exploited Masses"
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| 1919 | DzerzhinskII, Feliks Edmundovich | |
| 17th Feb Announces changes in running the Cheka
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| 1919 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Moscow The Party is renamed the Russian Communist Party
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| Moscow The Politburo, Orgburo & secretariat of the Russian Communist Party are created
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| 1920 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Moscow Forwards the 21 Points requiring national parties to impose disciplined guidlines
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| 1934 | Yagoda, Henrik | |
| Moscow Heads a police organization to control the militia, concentration camps & intelligence
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| 1936 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| July The secret police is absorbed into the ministry of the interior, NKVD
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| 1941 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 15th July Moscow Reduces armies to 5 or 6 divisions so they are more mobile & less of an aerial target
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| 1947 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Dec The Russian currency is reformed
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| 1954 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| 2nd Mar Moscow Launches his "Virgin & Idle Lands" programme to increase sown areas
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| 1957 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Transfers economic planning from the government to the party
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| 1958 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Dec Moscow The category "enemies of the people" is eliminated
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| 1961 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| May Capital punishment is extended to include economic crime
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| 14th Oct Moscow Defined as a party of the whole people rather than a dictatorship of the proletariat
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| 1984 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 10th Dec Moscow Makes a conference speech supporting reform & introducing "perestroika" & "glasnost"
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| 1986 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow A law against unearned income is passed
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| Moscow Attempts to prevent private enterprise on the black market
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| Nov Moscow Legislation is passed allowing free enterprise
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| 1987 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow New law on "socialist enerprise"
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| Feb Moscow Creates co-operative businesses in catering, services & consumer goods manafacture
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| 1st May Moscow Legislation allowing free enterprise comes into effect
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| 1988 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Removes the Party from economic management
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| 9th Jan 1st advertisement in a Soviet newspaper appears in Izvestiya
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| 28th June Moscow Addresses a special Communist Party conference & outlines "a new image of socialism"
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| 1989 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Mar Moscow Promotes the Russian Federation & attacks party privilege
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| 1990 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Stresses "values common to all mankind" over the "class struggle"
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| 1991 | Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| Moscow Has the task of dividing the KGB into law & order, intelligence & counter-intelligence
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| 23rd Aug Moscow Ordered by Gorbachov to convert the KGB into a normal police force
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| 1991 | Barannikov, Viktor Pavlovich | |
| Sep Moscow Ends all party & political activities in the MVD
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| 1991 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 23rd July The draft of a new platform for the Soviet Communist Party is published, calling for private property, economic integration into world market and freedom of religion
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| 25th July Gorbachev urges Communist leaders at a Central Committee meeting to reject "outdated ideological dogmas" and embrace a market economy
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| 1991 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 23rd July The draft of a new platform for the Soviet Communist Party is published, calling for private property, economic integration into world market and freedom of religion
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| 28th Dec Yeltsin orders state land privatized as he pushes ahead with his reforms
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| 2000 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 25th May Putin unveils a new plan to revive the economy that includes a flat 13% income tax
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| 2005 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 13th Sep The responsibility for the federal prisons is transferred from the Interior Ministry to the Ministry of Justice
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| 2006 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 13th Sep In his Annual speech Putin proposes increasing maternity benefits and prenatal care for women
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