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| 0955 | Igor I |  |
| Renews the alliance |
| 0987 | Vladimir I |  |
| Makes a pact with Emperor Basil II of Constantinople |
| 1708 | Mazeppa, Hetman |  |
| Ukraine The Cossacks of led by Mazeppa try to break free by allying with Sweden but fail |
| 1781 | Catherine II the Great |  |
| Signs a defensive alliance with Austria |
| 1789 | Catherine II the Great |  |
| Joseph II honours his alliance of 1781 & launches a Habsburg army against Serbia |
| Belgrade The Austrian army captures Belgrade & Russia occupies the Rumanian Black Sea coast |
| 1796 | Paul I |  |
| Joins the 2nd Coalition against France |
| 1800 | Paul I |  |
| Forms the 2nd League of Armed Neutrality comprising Russia, Prussia, Denmark & Sweden |
| 1805 | Alexander I |  |
| 9th Aug Austria joins Britain, Russia, Sweden and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in the Third Coalition against Napoleonic France and Spain |
| 1815 | Alexander I |  |
| Alexander hopes to establish a new Chris tian order in Europe |
| Vienna Establishes peace in Europe defended by the Quadruple Alliance |
| 26th Sep Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a Holy Alliance, "Justice, charity and peace" are the precepts that guid the Holy Alliance as envisioned by Tzar Alexander I of Russia |
| 1839 | Nicholas I |  |
| Teplitz Meets Emperor Franz of Austria in Bohemia to support the Sultan |
| 1873 | Alexander II |  |
| 22nd Oct An alliance of the Emperors of Germany, Russia & Austria |
| 1912 | Nicholas II |  |
| 15th Nov Austria denounces Serbian gains in the Balkans ; Russia and France backed Serbia while Italy and Germany back Austria |
| 1917 | Martov, Yuly Osipovich |  |
| Cannot get Menshevik leaders to leave the coalition with the Provisional Government |
| 1918 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |  |
| 1st Aug Requests, via Chicherin, Germany to help against the counter-revolutionaries |
| 1923 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| Moscow The government supports the KMT led by Sun Yat-sen |
| 1926 | Blucher, Vasily Konstantinovich |  |
| Aids Chiang Kai-shek in the northern campaign |
| 1928 | Blucher, Vasily Konstantinovich |  |
| Withdraws support from Chiang Kai-shek after he repudiates the communists |
| 1935 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| April Moscow The USSR & Czech sign a mutual assistance & non-aggression pact |
| April Moscow The USSR & France sign a mutual assistance & non-aggression pact |
| 1936 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| 26th July The Comintern agree to furnish volunteers & money to support the Spanish Republic |
| 6th Oct Russia decides to supply the Republicans in Spain |
| 1938 | Litvinov, Maxim Maximovich |  |
| 9th May Moscow Will help Czech against Germany if Romania & Poland allow passage of Russian troops |
| 21st Sep Geneva Declares Russia's commitment to support its treaty obligations with France & Czech |
| 1939 | Chuikov, Vassili |  |
| Appointed Military attache to Chiang Kai-shek |
| 1939 | Litvinov, Maxim Maximovich |  |
| 14th July Moscow Receives the British Ambassador, proposes a triple pact of Britain, France & Russia |
| 1943 | Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich |  |
| Oct Moscow Meets the Allies to back the invasion of nth France |
| Oct Moscow Supports the alliance of Turkey with the Allies during a meeting with the Allies |
| 1945 | Konev, Ivan Stepanovich |  |
| 25th April Konev's units make contact with Omar Bradley's 12th Army |
| 1945 | Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich |  |
| May Wittenberg Joins up with the British forces at Wittenberg near Lubeck |
| 7th May Wismar Montgomery & Rokossovsky join together at Wismar |
| 1945 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| Moscow Signs the treaty of Friendship & Alliance with the government of Chiang Kai-Shek |
| 1965 | Kosygin, Aleksei Nikolaevich |  |
| Feb Hanoi Prime Minister Kosygin is pressured by the North Vietnamese to provide unlimited military aid to counter the American "aggression" |