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1147 First written mention of Moscow.
1156 Prince Yuriy Dolgorukiy fortifies Moscow, regarded as the date of the founding of the city
1177 Moscow is burned down and its inhabitants are killed.
1238 Mongols
seize Moscow, at that time a small town.
1487 Italian architects begin to build the Kremlin in Moscow.
1493 Great fire in Moscow.
1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow is finished (started in 1534)
1571 Moscow is burnt by the Crimean
army under Devlet I Giray.
1605 Polish troops occupy Moscow
1605 Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II
and his mother. They are later executed
1605 Pretender Dmitri and his supporters march to Moscow. He is crowned the next day.
1608 Swedish
troops enter Moscow.
1610 Poland
captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russia
n and Swedish
troops.
1610 Swedish
troops under Jacob de la Gardie
take Moscow.
1612 Popular uprising in Moscow expels Polish troops.
1698 Peter the Great
arrives back to Moscow - general Patrick Gordon has already crushed the streltsy rebellion - 341 rebels sentenced to be decapitated. Tradition holds that tsar Peter decapitated some of them himself
1752 Fire destroys part of Moscow
1771 Plague
in Moscow - 57,000 dead
1812 Napoleon's troops enter Moscow deliberately set on fire by Muscovites on orders of Fyodor Rostopchin.
1812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
1882 Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow.
1918 March 5 — The Soviet Russia moves its national capital from Petrograd to Moscow
1918 March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia
1919 March 2 — The first Communist International meets in Moscow
1928 OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turkestan
1937 In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky
to overthrow Joseph Stalin
's regime and assassinate its leaders.
1940 Soviet Union
and Finland
sign a peace treaty in Moscow ending the Winter War
. Finns, along with the world at large, were shocked by the harsh terms.
1941 World War II
: Operation Typhoon - Germany
begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1941 World War II
: Soviet Union
government moves to Kuibyshev, but Stalin remains in Moscow.
1941 World War II: Battle of Moscow: Temperatures around Moscow drop to −12 °C
and the Soviet Union
launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German
forces near the city.
1941 World War II
: Battle of Moscow - Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the Soviets.
ablaze after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]]
1944 British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and Soviet Union
Premier Joseph Stalin
begin a nine-day conference in Moscow to discuss the future of Europe
.
1945 Walter Ulbricht
becomes the leader of German communists
in Moscow
1954 The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.
1959 At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon
and Nikita Khrushchev
have a "kitchen debate."
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald
announces in Moscow he won't ever return to U.S.
1960 July 1 — A Soviet
MiG fighter north of Murmansk in the Barents Sea
shoots down a 6-man RB-47. Two United States Air Force
officers survive and are imprisoned in Moscow's dreaded Lubyanka prison.
1960 August 17 — The trial of U-2
pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow.
1960 August 19 — Cold War
: In Moscow, downed American U-2
pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Soviet Union
for espionage
.
1963 Soviet newspaper ''Izvestia'' reports that Kim Philby
has been given asylum in Moscow.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson in New York and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
in Moscow announce simultaneously plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapon
s.
1964 The United States State Department says that more than 40 hidden microphones have been found embedded in the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1966 The prime ministers of India
and Pakistan
meet in Moscow.
1966 Pakistan
i-India
n peace negotiations end successfully in Moscow.
1966 Moscow announces the death of rocket designer Sergei Korolev.
1966 British spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison; he is next seen in Moscow.
1967 Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany
.
1967 Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is finished.
1969 Guided tours begin at the Kremlin and other government sites in Moscow.
1972 Richard Nixon
and Leonid Brezhnev
sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow (including the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; also other agreements were made).
1980 Andrei Sakharov
, a Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter
announces that the United States
will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
1986 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov
is permitted to return to Moscow after years of internal exile.
1987 Nineteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet
air defenses and lands a private plane on Red Square
in Moscow. He is immediately detained (but is released on Wednesday, August 3, 1988).
1987 In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square
in May 1987, begins.
1990 The two German
states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.
1991 Paul Reubens (aka Peewee Herman) is arrested in a theater for fondling himself.
, founder of the KGB
, is torn down in Moscow, signalling the Collapse of the Soviet Union.]]
1993 In Moscow, George H. W. Bush
and Boris Yeltsin
sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1995 In Moscow, Russia
n anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman.
1996 Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
1997 3.5 million people attended a Jean Michel Jarre
's Oxygen in Moscow concert celebrating the 850th anniversary of Moscow.
2000 The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire - three people are killed.
2002 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole
for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
2002 A suicide truck-bomb attack destroys the headquarters of Chechnya
's Moscow-backed government, killing 72 people.
2003 A double suicide bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the female attackers and 15 other people.
2003 A Russian security agent dies in Moscow, while trying to defuse a bomb a woman had tried to carry into a cafe on central Moscow's
main street.
2003 A Russian security agent dies in Moscow, while trying to defuse a bomb a woman had tried to carry into a cafe on central Moscow's
main street.
2003 A female suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscow's
National Hotel, across from the Kremlin and Red Square
, killing 5 bystanders.
2004 A suicide bomber kills 41 people on a metro
car in Moscow.
2004 The roof of the Transvaal water park in Moscow collapses, killing 25 and injuring more than 100.
2004 A woman commits a suicide attack near a subway station in northern Moscow, Russia
, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 50. Authorities hold Chechen
rebels responsible.
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