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319 Christianity
is introduced in Colchis, present-day Georgia
.
327 Christianity
adopted as a state religion of Georgia
.
430 Peter the Iberian
founds a Georgian
monastery near Bethlehem
.
889 Bagrat Mampali begins his reign of Georgia
.
1008 Unification of Georgia
under king Bagrat III.
1048 Battle of Pasinler - Seljuks defeat a force of Byzantines and Georgians
.
1121 David the Builder, King of Georgia
, with the army of 55,000 defeats the 200,000-strong Muslim coalition troops at Didgori, Eastern Georgia.
1221 A large and highly efficient Mongol army, despatched under Subedei by Ghengis Khan to Georgia
defeats two Georgian armies around Tbilisi
, but lacks the will or equipment to besiege the city.
1551 Persians raided and destroyed the cave monastery of Vardzia
in Georgia
1783 Treaty of Georgievsk between the Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti (Georgia
).
1918 February 24 — Estonia
declares its independence from the Russian Empire. Armenia
, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
also declare their independence from the Russian Empire
but as the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
1989 Georgian
demonstrators are msssacred by Red Army
soldiers in Tbilisi's
central square during a peaceful rally; 20 citizens are killed (most of them young women), many injured.
2003 The Georgia
n Rose Revolution ends with overwhelming victory - president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over fraudulent elections.
2004 Mikhail Saakashvili wins the presidential elections in Georgia
.
2005 A hand grenade ostensibly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 100 feet (30 m) from United States President George W. Bush
while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi
, Georgia
, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
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