| 1 | 25.8.1530 | Birthday | Ivan the Terrible, Crowned as first Tsar of Russia in 1547 |
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| 2 | 30.5.1672 | Birthday | Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia |
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| 3 | 9.6.1672 | Birthday | Peter The Great, Tsar Of Russia |
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| 4 | 8.2.1725 | Event | Catherine the Great became the Empress of Russia |
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| 5 | 23.12.1777 | Birthday | Alexander I, Tsar of Russia during Napoleon's disastrous campaign |
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| 6 | 28.9.1794 | Event | Britain, Austria and Russia formed an alliance against France |
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| 7 | 6.7.1796 | Birthday | Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia |
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| 8 | 7.6.1799 | Birthday | Alexander Pushkin, Russian playwright & poet |
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| 9 | 14.9.1812 | Event | Napoleon entered the city of Moscow, during his invasion of Russia |
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| 10 | 9.9.1825 | Birthday | Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist |
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| 11 | 28.8.1828 | Birthday | Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian author of 'War and Peace' |
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| 12 | 25.4.1840 | Birthday | Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer |
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| 13 | 7.5.1840 | Birthday | Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian composer |
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| 14 | 18.3.1844 | Birthday | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer |
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| 15 | 30.5.1846 | Birthday | Peter Faberge, Russian jeweller |
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| 16 | 4.10.1853 | Event | The 'Crimean War' began when Turkey declared war on Russia |
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| 17 | 30.3.1867 | Event | Alaska was purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, by America |
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| 18 | 16.3.1868 | Birthday | Maksim Gorky, Russian author |
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| 19 | 18.1.1871 | Event | Germany had its first emperor, King Wilhelm of Prussia |
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| 20 | 1.4.1873 | Birthday | Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer |
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| 21 | 21.12.1879 | Birthday | Joseph Stalin, Russian revolutionary leader |
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| 22 | 17.2.1880 | Event | The Russian tsar survived an attempted bomb assassination |
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| 23 | 31.1.1882 | Birthday | Anna Pavlova, Celebrated Russian prima ballerina |
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| 24 | 5.6.1882 | Birthday | Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer & conductor |
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| 25 | 17.6.1882 | Birthday | Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer & conductor |
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| 26 | 17.12.1892 | Event | Tchaikovsky's ballet 'The Nutcracker' was performed in St Petersburg, by the Russian Imperial Ballet |
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| 27 | 6.11.1893 | Event | The Russian composer Tchaikovsky died of cholera |
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| 28 | 5.9.1905 | Event | The war in Korea and Manchuria, between Japan and Russian, ended |
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| 29 | 28.5.1906 | Event | The Tsar of Russia made large areas of land available to the peasants |
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| 30 | 26.8.1906 | Event | German police discovered a bomb making factory run by Russians in Hamburg |
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| 31 | 15.8.1908 | Event | Prussian women were given the right to attend university |
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| 32 | 10.1.1910 | Birthday | Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina |
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| 33 | 7.11.1910 | Event | The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy died |
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| 34 | 30.12.1916 | Event | In Russia, Rasputin 'the mad monk' was murdered |
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| 35 | 5.3.1918 | Event | Moscow became the new capital city of Russia |
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| 36 | 16.7.1918 | Event | Nicholas II, tsar of Russia, and his family were executed |
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| 37 | 4.8.1921 | Event | A famine struck Russia; millions starved/ate grass |
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| 38 | 30.12.1922 | Event | Russia became the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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| 39 | 27.3.1927 | Birthday | Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor |
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| 40 | 23.1.1931 | Event | The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova died at her Hampstead Heath home, aged 49 |
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| 41 | 1.2.1931 | Birthday | Boris Yeltsin, Russian President |
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| 42 | 17.3.1938 | Birthday | Rudolf Nureyev, World renowned Russian ballet dancer |
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| 43 | 20.8.1940 | Event | Leon Trotsky, the Russian politician, was murdered |
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| 44 | 13.9.1942 | Event | German forces began their attack on the Russian city of Stalingrad |
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| 45 | 3.7.1944 | Event | The Russian city of Minsk was recaptured from the Germans |
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| 46 | 2.5.1945 | Event | Berlin was captured by Russian forces at the end of WW2 |
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| 47 | 6.6.1945 | Event | Russians found what was believed to be Hitlers body |
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| 48 | 4.10.1957 | Event | Russia launched the first Earth orbiting satellite, 'Sputnik 1' |
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| 49 | 3.11.1957 | Event | The Russians launched a dog named Laika into space, the first living creature to leave the earth |
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| 50 | 3.1.1959 | Event | Alaska became the 49th United State, bought from Russia |
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| 51 | 23.1.1963 | Event | Kim Philby, the double agent, defected to Russia |
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| 52 | 13.4.1963 | Birthday | Gary Kasparov, Russian world champion chess player |
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| 53 | 13.10.1964 | Event | The world's first Russian three man spacecraft returned safely to Earth |
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| 54 | 22.10.1966 | Event | George Blake, the Russian spy, escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison |
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| 55 | 20.8.1968 | Event | Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia |
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| 56 | 11.9.1971 | Event | Nikita Krushchev, the Russian leader, died |
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| 57 | 24.9.1971 | Event | Britain expelled over 100 Russian diplomats for spying |
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| 58 | 28.8.1973 | Event | Princess Anne visited Russia, becoming the first member of the Royal Family to do so |
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| 59 | 13.2.1974 | Event | The Russian novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was expelled from the USSR |
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| 60 | 24.1.1978 | Event | A Russian satellite accidently crashed in Canada's Northwest Territory |
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| 61 | 27.12.1979 | Event | Russia invaded Afghanistan |
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| 62 | 11.10.1980 | Event | Russian cosmonauts returned to earth, after spending a record 185 days in space |
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| 63 | 21.12.1988 | Event | After a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut returned to Earth |
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| 64 | 3.2.1989 | Event | Twenty villages were evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster |
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| 65 | 29.5.1990 | Event | Brois Yeltsin was elected leader of the Russian Federation |
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| 66 | 12.6.1991 | Event | Boris Yeltsin was elected the President of the new Russian Republic |
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| 67 | 26.5.1992 | Event | With the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia & the Ukraine decided to split the Black Sea fleet |
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| 68 | 3.1.1993 | Event | The Russian and American leaders signed the second START agreement in Moscow |
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| 69 | 16.2.1994 | Event | Russian troops were to join the UN troops in former Yugoslavia |
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| 70 | 17.2.1994 | Event | Russian troops joined the UN peace keeping forces in Bosnia |
