Russia/Muscovy

• 1283: Muscovy founded by Daniel I with this extension (darkest grey): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Muscovy_1390_1525.png
• 1303: Daniel I dies, suceded by his son Yury
• 1325: Ivan I starts to reign
• 1340: Simeon starts to reign
• 1353: Ivan II starts to reign
• 1359: Dmitry starts to reign
• 1389: Vasily I starts to reign
• 1390: Expansion (dark green): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Muscovy_1390_1525.png
• 1425: Vasily II starts to reign
• 1462: Ivan III starts to reign
• 1462: Look at Geacron, first appear of Russia
• 1471: Annexion of parts of Novgorod
• 1478: Conquest of the entire Novgorod
• 1500: Expansion in the South
• 1502: Small expansion on the South
• 1505: Vasily III starts to reign
• 1505: Expansion (light green): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Muscovy_1390_1525.png
• 1521: Annexion of Ryazan
• 1523: Annexion of some borderlands of Lithuania
• 1533: Ivan IV starts to reign
• 1547: Tsardom of Russia proclaimed
• 1552: Annexion of Kazan and Northern areas
• 1554: Annexion of the Astrakhan Khanate and some areas of the Nogai Khanate
• 1555: Annexion of most of the Ottoman Ukraine
• 1582: Expansion to the Urals
• 1584: Feodor I starts to reign
• 1586: Russian expansion into Siberia reaches Tyumen
• 1587: Expansion into Siberia
• 1594: Expansion until reaching Tara
• 1598: Boris starts to reign
• 1598: Annexion of Sibir Khanate
• 1600: The expansion reaches the bay next to the Ob one (Yamalia and Taymir remain unexplored)
• 1604: The expansion into Siberia reaches Tomsk
• 1605: Feodor II starts to reign
• 1606: Dmitry I starts to reign
• 1607: Vaily IV starts to reign. Turukhansk founded
• 1609: Expansion into Siberia
• 1610: Wladyslaw starts to reign
• 1613: Michael I starts to reign
• 1617: Swedish conquest of the St.Petersburg area
• 1618: Areas lost to Poland-Lithuania
• 1619: Expansion until reaching Yeniseysk
• 1621: Swedish conquest of some Finnish areas
• 1628: Krasnoyarsk founded. From this point, expand to the Pacific until 1639
• 1629: Expansion into Siberia
• 1634: Partition of Nogai Khanate
• 1638: Expansion into Siberia
• 1645: Alexis I starts to reign
• 1650: Expansion into Siberia
• 1652: Expansion into Manchuria until the Amur River
• 1652: Expansion into Mongolia
• 1654: Hugue expansion into Poland
• 1655: Conquest of most of Poland
• 1660: Polish reconquest of some areas
• 1667: Further Expansion of Poland
• 1676: Feodor III starts to reign
• 1682: Dispute in the throne between Ivan V and Peter I
• 1689: Chinese conquest of Russian Manchuria
• 1696: Ivan V dies, Peter I is crowned as sole tsar of Russia
• 1697: Annexion of some areas in Mongolia
• 1703: Conquest of St. Petersburg
• 1712: Discovery of New Siberia Islands
• 1721: Conquest of Livonia, Estonia and Finnish Borderlands
• 1721: Russian Empire proclaimed
• 1723: Conquest of Mazanderan
• 1725: Catherine I starts to reign
• 1727: Peter II starts to reign
• 1730: Anna I starts to reign
• 1731: Conquest of some Kazakh areas
• 1732: Mazanderan lost
• 1740: Ivan VI starts to reign
• 1741: Elizabeth I starts to reign
• 1741: Conquest of the Kazakh Khanate
• 1741: Exploration of the Taymir Peninsula
• 1741: Annexion of the Kuril Islands
• 1743: Expansion into Finland
• 1755: Partition of the Zunghar Khanate
• 1762: Peter III starts to reign
• 1763: Catherine II starts to reign
• 1770: Conquest of most of the Ottoman Ukraine
• 1772: First partition of Poland
• 1779: Accession of Chukotka
• 1783: Conquest of Crimea
• 1784: Colonization of Kodiak Island
• 1789: First colonization efforts in Alaska
• 1793: Second partition of Poland
• 1793: Ottomans expelled from Ukraine
• 1796: Third partition of Poland
• 1796: Paul I starts to reign
• 1799: Expansion in Alaska's tail
• 1801: Alexander I starts to reign
• 1801: Conquest of Georgia
• 1802: Expansion of Alaska
• 1807: Small gains from Prussia
• 1809: Conquest of Finland
• 1812: Conquest of Bessarabia
• 1812: Founding of Fort Ross in California
• 1813: Conquest of Azerbaijan
• 1815: Annexion of Poland
• 1825: Nicholas I starts to reign
• 1825: Alaska border agreement
• 1829: Conquest of the Caucasus
• 1841: Fort Ross sold to Mexico
• 1855: Alexander II starts to reign
• 1858: Russian Manchuria gained from China
• 1867: Alaska sold to the USA
• 1873: Conquest of Khiva
• 1875: Annexion of Sakhalin, Kuril Islands given to Japan
• 1876: Conquest of most of Central Asia
• 1878: Conquest of Kars
• 1881: Alexander III starts to reign
• 1885: Border defined in Central Asia
• 1894: Nicholas II starts to reign
• 1895: Obtention of Pamir
• 1897: Obtaining of Port Arthur
• 1904: Japanese conquest of Port Arthur
• 1905: South Sakhalin lost to Japan
• 1911: Annexion of Wrangel Island
• 1913: Annexion of Severnaya Zemlya
• 1914: Annexion of Franz Josef Archipelago
• March 1917: Nicholas II is deposed, Georgy Lvov on head of the provisional government of the Russian Republic
• July 1917: Alexander Kerensky on head of the provisional government
• November 1917: Vladimir Lenin takes the power
• November 1917: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic proclaimed
• 1920: Annexion of Ukraine, Armenia and Azerbaijan
• 1920: Japan occuppies North Sakhalin
• 1921: Annexion of Georgia
• 1921: Territories lost to Poland
• 1921: Lost of Taymir Peninsula and islands North to it
• 1922: Joseph Stalin takes the power
• 1922: Soviet Union proclaimed
• 1922: Transcaucasian Socialist Soviet Federative Republic proclaimed
• 1926: Re-annexion of Franz Joseph Archipelago and Taymir Peninsula
• 1926: Japan leaves North Sakhalin
• 1936: The TSSFR is divided into the Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani SSR's
• March 1940: Karelo-Finnish SSR proclaimed
• June 1940: Occuppation of the Baltic States
• July 1940: Occuppation of Moldova
• August 1940: Annexion of Moldova and Baltic States, SSR's proclaimed for all those areas
• August 1941: Occuppation of North Iran
• 1944: Annexion of Tannu Tuva
• 1945: Annexion of Kaliningrad, Port Arthur, South Sakhalin, Transcarpathia and Kuril Islands
• 1945: Occuppation of North Korea
• 1948: Independence of North Korea
• 1953: Georgy Malenkov takes the power
• 1954: Crimea transfered to the Ukrainian SSR
• 1955: Nikita Khrushchev takes the power
• 1955: Port Arthur given to China
• 1956; Karelo-Finnish SSR is annexed to the Russian SFSR
• 1964: Leonid Brezhnev takes the power
• 1982: Yuri Andropov takes the power
• 1984: Konstantin Chernenko takes the power
• 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev takes the power
• 1991: Independence of ex-Soviet states
• 1991: Soviet Union disbanded, the Russian Federation is created
• 1991: Boris Yelstein is elected president
• 1999: Vladimir Putin is elected president
• 2008: Dmitry Medvedev is elected president
• 2012: Vladimir Putin is elected president again
• 2014: Annexion of Crimea