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1672 Birth of Peter the Great at Kolomenkoe Palace, Moscow.
1703 St. Petersburg is founded.
1712 Seat of government moves to St. Petersburg.
1725 Death of Peter the Great, Catherine I becomes Empress.
1733 Cathedral of SS Peter & Paul is finished after 12 years work.
1738 Russia’s first ballet school is founded in St. Petersburg.
1754 Rastrelli’s Winter Palace is begun.
1762 Peter III is murdered, his wife Catherine II (the Great) becomes Empress.
1782 Falconet’s statue, the Bronze Horseman, is completed.
1796 death of Catherine the Great; Paul I accedes.
1801 Paul I is murdered; Alexander I becomes Tsar.
1812 Napoleon invades Russia.
1818 Construction of St. Isaac’s Cathedral starts.
1825 The Decemberist’s Rebellion. Nicholas I becomes Tsar.
1851 The "Nicolas Railway" opens between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
1855 Death of Nicholas I; Alexander II suceeds him.
1881 Alexander II is assassinated.
1894 Alexander III dies, Nicholas II accedes.
1902 Lenin publishes "What is to be done?".
1914 Outbreak of WW1; St. Petersburg changes name to Petrograd.
1917 The Russian Revolution.
1924 Lenin dies, Petrograd is renamed Leningrad.
1941 Nazis attack Russia; Siege of Leningrad starts.
1944 The Siege of Leningrad ends.
1947 The term "Cold War" is coined.
1953 Stalin dies.
1955 Khrushchev comes to power, Warsaw Pact is formed.
1961 Yui Gargarin is first man in space.
1962 Cuban missile crisis.
1982 Death of Brezhnev; replaced by Andropov.
1985 Gorbachev is elected.
1991 Yeltsin becomes President of Russia; dissolution of the USSR.
1991 Leningrad renamed St. Petersburg.
2000 St. Petersburger Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia.
2003 St. Petersburg celebrates it’s 300th birthday.
2006 St Petersburg holds G8 summit.
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