| 1547 | | 16 Jan:
Ivan the Terrible becomes the first Czar of Russia.MU JC |
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| 1582 | | 4 Oct:
The Gregorian calendar is introduced. The next day is October 15th.Britannica UFL |
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| 1613 | | 21 Feb:
The Romanov Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia, begins when 16 year old Mikhail Romanov is elected as Czar.Russiapedia Hillwood |
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| 1648 | | 24 Oct:
The Thirty Years War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia.LoC Avalon |
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| 1741 | | 19 Dec:
Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer in service of Russia, dies after sighting Alaska.McGill MLP |
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| 1794 | | 23 Jun:
Jews are once again allowed to settle in Kiev, by order of Catherine the Great, expanding the Pale of Settlement.NJOP SL |
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| 1819 | | 22 May:
The first steam powered vessel to cross the Atlantic, the S.S. Savannah, "put to sea with steam and sails" on a historic trip that would take her to England, Sweden and Russia with stops in Norway and Denmark before returning home.AAQ NSSavannah |
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| 1830 | | 29 Nov:
The November Uprising begins when Poles rebel against Russian occupation.W&W GS |
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| 1854 | | 28 Mar:
Britain and France declare war on Russia beginning their involvement in the Crimean War.SLSA HK |
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| 1861 | | 19 Feb:
Serfdom is abolished in Russia by Alexander II.SHU LoC |
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| 1869 | | 6 Mar:
Dmitri Mendeleev presents his Periodic Table of Elements to the Russian Chemical Society.PopSci BYLib |
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| 1884 | | 13 Oct:
The Greenwich meridian is officially adopted globally as the prime meridian, the imaginary north-south line where the longitude is 0 degrees.W I R E D MAA |
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Greenwich Mean Time is adopted universally when the International Meridian Conference meets in Washington, DC.GMT OFA |
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| 1897 | | 20 Aug:
World Mosquito Day marks the discovery of the malaria parasite.Mosquito EM |
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| 1899 | | 2 Nov:
The Boxer Rebellion, an uprising against foreigners in China, occurs.TW GoogleBooks |
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| 1904 | | 21 Jul:
The Trans-Siberian Railway is completed.W I R E D NVR |
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| 1905 | | 5 Aug:
Teddy Roosevelt gathers up the Russian and Japanese peace delegates in Oyster Bay, herds them aboard the yacht Mayflower, and heads off to Portsmouth.GoogleBooks GLIAH |
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| 1906 | | 3 Nov:
The distress signal S.O.S. becomes the worldwide standard at the 2nd International Radiotelegraphic Convention.SIMag GA&C |
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| 1908 | | 30 Jun:
A large meteorite, presumed to be about 120 feet across, enters the atmosphere above Siberia and explodes, destroying about 80 million trees and lighting up the sky. NASA EarthSky |
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| 1913 | | 13 May:
Igor Sikorsky's Ilya Mourometz, the world's first 4-engine airplane, takes flight.AFMag SA |
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| 1917 | | 6 Nov:
The Bolshevik Revolution begins (October 24th, old style calendar).IWM MSU |
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| 1918 | | 6 Jan:
The Bolsheviks take control of the Russian government.UoS UCA |
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The Spanish Flu pandemic kills at least 3% of the World's population.VLib npr |
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FDR approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid for the USSR.USState JVL |
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The United Nations is established.UN USState |
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| 1947 | | 6 Jul:
The world's most popular assault rifle, the AK-47, begins production.SN W I R E D |
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| 1950 | | 25 Jun:
Korean War: The United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.PBS USNA |
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| 1953 | | 19 Jun:
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.SI JWA |
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| 1954 | | 15 Feb:
The governments of Canada and the U. S. agree to jointly build a line of radar stations in defense against a possible air Soviet attack, the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line.1370th T&G |
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The world's first nuclear power plant goes online.W I R E D PT |
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| 1957 | | 4 Oct:
The Soviet Union successfully launches the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I.NASA |
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Laika the dog becomes the first animal launched into orbit.Space NASA |
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| 1959 | | 14 Sep:
The Soviet space probe, Luna 2, becomes the first man-made object to reach another celestial body, crashing onto the Moon.W I R E D NASA |
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The first photographs of the far side of the Moon are taken by Luna 3.NASA |
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| 1961 | | 12 Apr:
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space.NASA Space |
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| 1962 | |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis; CIA analysts, using photographs taken by a U2 spy plane, discover Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba.AA GWU |
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| 1963 | | 16 Jun:
Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is launched aboard Vostok 6 becoming the first woman to fly in space.NASA Space |
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The hotline established between the United States and Soviet Union goes live.VOA SIMag |
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| 1970 | | 15 Dec:
Venera 7 lands on Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to transmit data from the surface of any extraterrestrial planet.RPW NASA |
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| 1971 | | 30 Jun:
3 Russian cosmonauts die in their Soyuz capsule after a valve fails.CoF Space |
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| 1975 | | 17 Jul:
The Apollo and Soyuz space modules link up in space.NASA SN |
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| 1985 | | 19 Nov:
Mikail Gorbachov and Ronald Reagan meet for the first time.POLITICO USState |
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| 1986 | | 26 Apr:
An explosion and fire release large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.NRC LS |
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The first U. S. space shuttle docks with the Russian space station Mir.NASA CCSSC |
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| 2013 | | 15 Feb:
A large meteor explodes as it streaks through the sky over the Chelyabinsk region in Russia, shattering windows and collapsing buildings from the force of the explosion and injuring over 1000 in the process.CNN Space |
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| 2022 | | 24 Feb:
Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine - a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014.B B C PBS |
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