Ukraine

Україна

Places in Ukraine

Kyivan Rus' (880–1240)
The kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (1240–1349)
Under Lithuania and Poland (1349–1648)
The Cossacks and the Hetmanate (1648–1775)
Between two empires (1775–1917)
The Ukrainian Revolution (1917–1921)
Soviet Ukraine (1921–1991)
Independent Ukraine (1991–)

945: Olha rules Kyiv — According to the Primary Chronicle, Prince Ihor of Kyiv was killed in 945 by the Drevlians, a tribe he had tried to tax twice.
1253: Danylo is crowned king — In the west of Rus', Prince Danylo united Galicia and Volhynia into one strong state.
1356: Lviv receives Magdeburg law — After the Galician–Volhynian line died out, its lands were divided between Poland and Lithuania; most of today's Ukraine came under the Grand Duchy of…
1648: The Khmelnytsky Uprising — In 1648 Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky raised the Cossacks against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1794: Odesa is founded — In 1794 the Russian Empire founded a new port on the Black Sea, on the site of the Ottoman fortress of Khadzhibei: Odesa.
1917: The Central Rada — When the monarchy fell in the Russian Empire in the spring of 1917, Ukrainian parties and societies formed the Central Rada in Kyiv.
5 October 1922: Shchedryk at Carnegie Hall — Shchedryk is an old New Year song in which a swallow promises a family a good year.
24 August 1991: Independence — After a failed coup attempt in Moscow in August 1991, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed the Act of Declaration of Independence on 24 August 1991.