ÿþ<html> <head> <title>WHKMLA : Timelines - Eastern Europe </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Historical Distionary </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdeeurope.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../whchapters.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../biographies/wh/bioeeurope.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Biographies </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on May 25th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline Eastern Europe</B></font> <BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/timelines/wh/tleeurope.html </i></font> </B></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <BR><BR><BR> 325 <BR> 330 <BR> 395 <BR><BR> 457-518 <BR> 518-610 <BR> 532 <BR> 610-695 <BR> 626 <BR> 711-718 <BR> 716-820 <BR> 820-866 <BR> 862 <BR> 866-1056 <BR> 882 <BR> 895 <BR> 1018 <BR> 1071 <BR> 1081-1204 <BR> 1204 <BR><BR> 1206 <BR><BR> 1240 <BR> 1255-1267 <BR><BR> 1258-1453 <BR> 1261 <BR> 1331-1355 <BR> 1380 <BR> 1440s <BR><BR> 1453 <BR> 1459 <BR> 1463 <BR> 1478 <BR> 1526 <BR> 1547 <BR> 1552 <BR> 1556 <BR> 1613 <BR> 1683-1699 <BR><BR> 1689-1725 <BR> 1762-1796 <BR> 1773-1774 <BR> 1783 <BR> 1817 <BR> 1821 <BR> 1825 <BR> 1826 <BR> 1830-1831 <BR> 1832 <BR> 1839-1876 <BR> 1851 <BR> 1853-1856 <BR> 1859-1862 <BR> 1861 <BR> 1863 <BR> 1876 <BR> 1877-1878 <BR><BR> 1881 <BR> 1905 <BR><BR> 1908 <BR> 1912-1913 <BR> 1913 <BR> 1914 <BR> 1914-1918 <BR> 1917 <BR> 1917-1921 <BR> 1918 <BR><BR> 1919-1920 <BR><BR><BR> 1920-1922 <BR> 1921 <BR> 1922 <BR> 1923 <BR> 1924 <BR> 1928 <BR> 1929 <BR> 1936-1938 <BR> 1939 <BR> 1941-1945 <BR> 1944-1948 <BR> 1946-1949 <BR> 1947-1948 <BR> 1951 <BR> 1953 <BR> 1955 <BR> 1956 <BR> 1956-1964 <BR> 1957 <BR> 1960 <BR> 1961 <BR> 1964-1982 <BR> 1965-1989 <BR> 1967-1973 <BR> 1974 <BR> 1980 <BR> 1982-1985 <BR> 1985-1991 <BR> 1989 <BR> 1991 <BR> 1991-1995 <BR> 1996-1999 <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> note : Eastern Europe here defined as E. countries with Orthodox christian population <BR> (Russia, Balkan countries); see also <A HREF = "tlorthodoxy.html">Timeline of Orthodox and Eastern Christianity</A> <BR><BR> Council of Nicaea <BR> Foundation of Constantinople; became capital of Roman Empire <BR> Upon the death of Emperor Theodosius, Empire split among his sons; Constantinople <BR> capital of the Eastern Empire (= <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdorthodoxy.html#byzantineempire">Byzantine Empire</A>) <BR> Byzantine Empire : Thracian Dynasty <BR> Byzantine Empire : Dynasty of Justinian <BR> Constantinople : Nike Riots <BR> Byzantine Empire : Dynasty of Heracleius <BR> Constantinople : Persian-Avar siege of Constantinople <BR> Constantinople : Greek fire used to defeat Arab siege <BR> Byzantine Empire : Syrian Dynasty <BR> Byzantine Empire : Amorian Dynasty <BR> Rurik in control of Novgorod; begin of Rurikid Dynasty <BR> Byzantine Empire : Macedonian Dynasty <BR> Russia : Rurikid conquest of Kiev; begin of Kievan Rus <BR> arrival of the Magyars in the Pannonian Basin; begin of Magyar raids <BR> Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria <BR> Battle of Mantzikert, Byzantine defeat at the hands of the Seljuk Turks <BR> Byzantine Empire : Dynasty of the Comnenes <BR> Crusaders deposed Byzantine Emperor, established Latin Empire; Byzantine governors <BR> of Epirus, Nicaea, Trebizond do not recognize Latin E., establish despotates <BR> Byzantine governor of Nicaea, Theodor Lascaris, had himself crowned Emperor in defiance <BR> of Latin Emperor <BR> Kipchak Tatars conquered Kiev (for the Mongol Empire) <BR> Golden Horde : Berke Khan converted to Islam; ruled quasi-independent (Mongol E. <BR> disintegrated in late 13th century) <BR> Nicaea / Byzantine Empire : Palaiologoi Dynasty <BR> Emperor of Nicaea conquered Constantinople, ended Latin E., reestablished Byzantine E. <BR> Serbia, under King Stephen Dusan, went through its Golden Age <BR> Battle of Kulikovo, Muscovite victory over Golden Horde <BR> Disintegration of Khanate of the Golden Horde (into Knanates of Kazan, Astrakhan, <BR> Sibir, Crimea <BR> Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire <BR> Ottoman conquest of Serbia <BR> Ottoman conquest of Bosnia <BR> Novgorod annexed by Muscovy <BR> Battle of Mohacs; Ottomans routed Hungarian army <BR> Grand Duke Ivan IV. of Muscovy crowned Czar of all the Russians <BR> Russian conquest of Kazan <BR> Russian Conquest of Astrakhan <BR> Russia : begin of Romanov Dynasty <BR> Habsburg-Ottoman War; Treaty of Karlowitz; Ottoman Empire ceded Hungary, Transylvania <BR> Peloponnes Venetian <BR> Russia : Rule of Peter the Great <BR> Russia : Rule of Catherine the Great <BR> Russia : Rebellion under Emilyan Pugachev <BR> Russian annexion of Crimean Tatar Khanate <BR> Serbia autonomous within Ottoman Empire <BR> Begin of Greek Rebellion <BR> Russia : Decembrists (Dekabristi) <BR> Ottoman Empire : dissolution of Janissaries <BR> Russian Poland : rebellion against Russian rule <BR> Greece independent <BR> Ottoman Empire : Tanzimat Reforms <BR> Montenegro : theocracy transformed into hereditary monarchy <BR> Crimean War <BR> Principalities of Moldavia and Valachia merged to form Kingdom of Romania <BR> Russia liberated serfs <BR> Rebellion in Russian Poland <BR> Ottoman Empire : Bulgarian rebellion; Ottoman forces committed atrocities <BR> Russo-Turkish War; Berlin Congress established autonomous Kgd. of Bulgaria; <BR> Bosnia-Herzegovina occupied by Austria; Cyprus British protectorate <BR> Russia : Czar Alexander II. assassinated <BR> Russia : folowing defeat in Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, Revolution of 1905; <BR> establishment of Duma <BR> Young Turk Revolution <BR> First Balkan War; Ottoman Empire defeated by Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro <BR> Second Balkan War; Bulgaria defeated by Greece, Serbia, Romania <BR> Assassination of Austrian heir Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, by Serb Gavrilo Princip <BR> World War I <BR> Establishment of SHS (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes); Montenegro forcefully <BR> annexed into Serbia <BR> Russian Revolutions (February, October Revolutions) <BR> Russian Civil War <BR> Paris Peace Treaties : Treaty of Neully for Bulgaria, Treaty of Trianon for Hungary (reduced <BR> to 40 % of prewar size, population), Treaty of Sevres for Ottoman Empire (dismemberment <BR> of Ottoman Empire) <BR> Graeco-Turkish War <BR> Russia : begin of New Economic Policy <BR> Foundation of USSR <BR> Treaty of Lausanne; recognition of Republic of Turkey <BR> Russia : Death of Lenin <BR> USSR : end of NEP, begin of Five Year Plans <BR> Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes renamed Yugoslavia <BR> USSR : Show Trials, Party Purges <BR> German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact; Soviet annexion of Eastern Poland, Baltic Republics <BR> German Invasion, Great Patriotic War (World War II), Uneasy Alliance <BR> Soviet occupation of Eastern Central Europe <BR> Greek Civil War <BR> Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary became People's Democracies <BR> US-Yugoslav defensive alliance <BR> USSR : death of Stalin <BR> Establishment of COMECON, Warsaw Pact <BR> USSR : Destalinization <BR> USSR : Era Khrushchev <BR> USSR launched Sputnik (world's first satellite) <BR> Cyprus independent (from Britain) <BR> USSR launched rocket into space; Yuri Gagarin first man in space <BR> USSR : Era Brezhnev <BR> Romania : Era Nicolae Ceaucescu <BR> Greece Military Dictatorship <BR> Cyprus : ENOSIS coup d'etat; massacre among Turkish Cypriots; Turkish invasion <BR> Yugoslavia : death of Tito <BR> USSR : Rule of Gerontocrats <BR> USSR : Era Gorbachev <BR> fall of communism in Eastern Central Europe (Hungary, E. Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania) <BR> failed communist coup d'etat in Moscow; disintegration of USSR <BR> Yugoslavia : war in breakaway Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia <BR> Yugoslavia : civil war in Kosovo, ended with NATO intervention <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "700"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> REFERENCE : <BR> <A HREF = "http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/chrono.html">Chronology of Russian History</A>, posted at Bucknell University <BR> Timeline History of Macedonia, from <A HREF = "http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/ConciseMacedonia/timeline.html">History of Macedonia</A> <BR> Timeline of Albanian History to 1993, from <A HREF = "http://www.fact-index.com/t/ti/timeline_of_albanian_history_to_1993.html">Fact Index</A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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