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238 The Goths
, coming from Ukraine, cross the Danube
and devastate the Empire up to the border with Anatolia
.
907 Founding of the Chernihiv in Ukraine
1256 The city of Lviv, in present-day Ukraine, is founded by Danylo King of Rus.
1569 Assemblies of 3 Lithuanian provinces, Volhynia, Ukraine and Podlasie vote to be incorporated into Poland.
1651 June 30: The biggest battle of the 17th century, Battle of Beresteczko, between Poles
and Ukrainians
, won by Poles.
1654 The Russian Army seizes Smolensk
, and Thirteen Years War starts between Russia
and Poland
over Ukraine
1667 Poland
cedes Kiev
, Smolensk
, and eastern Ukraine to Russia
in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) and Poland's status as a Central European power.
1670 Rebellion of Cossacks in Ukraine crushed
1673 near Chocim (also spelled Khotinin the Ukraine, Lithuania
n and Polish military units defeat the Turkish army. In this battle rockets of Kazimieras Simonavicius were successfully used.
1709 Battle of Poltava - In the Ukraine, Peter I of Russia
defeats Charles XII of Sweden
at Poltava (see above)
1746 Town of Vilkovo (Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine) is founded.
1783 City of Sevastopol founded on the Crimea
n peninsula of Ukraine.
1881 A meteorite
struck earth near the village of Großliebenthal, a few kilometers southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1917 Ukraine is declared a republi
1919 February 3 — Soviet troops occupy Ukraine
1920 Polish-Soviet War
: Polish
and Anti-Soviet Ukrainian
troops attack the Red Army
in Soviet Ukraine.
1922 Russia
, Ukraine, Belarus
, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
.
1933 Holodomor took place in Ukraine.
1942 World War II
: Second Battle of Kharkov - In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet
Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German
Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
1986 In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many more die from cancer in later years, many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material, and vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus
are rendered uninhabitable.
1986 In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many more die from cancer in later years, many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material, and vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus
are rendered uninhabitable.
1991 Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union
.
1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukrainian
s vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union
in a referendum.
1991 Leaders of Russia
, Belarus
, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union
and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve in Belarus.
1992 Russia
n leaders in Crimea
declare their separation from Ukraine as a new republi They withdraw the secession on May 10.
1994 U.S. President
Bill Clinton
and Russia
n President Boris Yeltsin
sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
1998 Ukrainian
serial killer
Anatoly Onoprienko is sentenced to death for 52 murders.
2000 Ukrainian
journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.
2000 Ukrainian
politician Oleksander Moroz touches off the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder
of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
2002 Ukraine holds parliamentary elections.
2002 A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes at an air show in Ukraine, killing 78 and injuring more than 100 others (the largest air show disaster in history).
2005 May 21 Greece
wins the Eurovision Song Contest
in Kiev
, Ukraine.
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