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| 1629 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich Birth |  |
| 10th Mar Birth of Alexis I Mikhaylovich, son of Tsar Michael & Eudoxia |
| 1648 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich Exile of Alexis I Mikhaylovich | |
| Has his tutor & regent exiled after the rebellion of Moscow to save his life |
| 1648 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich Marriage | |
| Marries Maria Miloslavskaia |
| Marries Natalia Naryshkina |
| 1648 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich Parliament | |
| Opens the Zemski Sobor, Parliament, to redress grievances |
| 1662 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich Rebellion | |
| Moscow A rebellion at Moscow is caused by bad harvests, plague & oppression by landlords |
| Stenka Razin leads 200,000 discontented peasants into Moscow |
| 4th Oct Government troops defeat the peasant rebels near Simbirsk on the Volga |
| 14th April River Don The peasant leader, Razin, is captured by the Cossacks on the Don |
| 1645 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich Succession | |
| Moscow Alexis's tutor, Morozov, runs the government, 1645-1659 |
| Moscow Succeeds as Tsar of Russia |
| 1653 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich Unification | |
| 1st Oct Ukraine The Zemski Sobor votes to incorporate the Ukraine into Russia |
| 1718 | Alexis Petrovitch Arrest | |
| Arrested for suspicion of plot to overthrow his father, Peter the Great |
| Condemned to death but dies before his execution |
| 1718 | Alexis Petrovitch Death | |
| Death of Alexis Petrovitch, before his execution |
| 1716 | Alexis Petrovitch Exile of Alexis Petrovitch | |
| Vienna Opposses Peter the Great's reforms & flees to Vienna & Naples |
| 1715 | Alexis Petrovitch Succession | |
| Denied permission to renounce succession & enter a monastery |
| 1726 | Catherine I Academy of Sciences | |
| The Academy of Sciences is established, St Petersburg |
| 1702 | Catherine I Arrest | |
| Marienburg Becomes a serf of Prince Menshikov during which she is a mistress of Peter the Great |
| 1702 | Catherine I Christening | |
| Received into the Orthodox Church & re-christened |
| 1724 | Catherine I Coronation | |
| Moscow Crowned Empress Consort |
| 1727 | Catherine I Death | |
| 16th May Dies age 44 & succeeded by her son Peter |
| 1729 | Catherine II the Great Birth | |
| 2nd May Birth of Catherine II the Great, a minor German princess with a very remote Russian ancestry, and a cousin of Gustav III of Sweden and of Charles XIII of Sweden |
| 1745 | Catherine II the Great Diplomacy | |
| 8th Jan England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands form an Alliance against Russia |
| 1745 | Catherine II the Great Marriage | |
| 21st Aug Catherine marries the Grand Duke Peter, the newlyweds settle in the Palace of Oranienbaum, which would remain the residence of the "young court" for 16 years |
| 21st Aug The future Catherine the Great marries the future Tsar Peter III |
| 21st Aug The marriage proves unsuccessful - due to the Grand Duke Peter's impotence and mental immaturity he may not have consummated it for 12 years |
| 1712 | Catherine I Marriage | |
| Marries Peter the Great |
| 1725 | Catherine I RAS | |
| Founds the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 1724 | Catherine I Succession | |
| A Lithuanian peasant who married a Swedish dragoon & then married Peter the Great |
| Succeeds as Empress of Russia |
| 1726 | Catherine I Supreme Privy Council | |
| Founds the Supreme Privy Council |
| 1759 | Dashkova, Yekaterina Marriage | |
| Marries Prince Mikhail Dashkov |
| 1758 | Elizabeth Academy of Fine Arts | |
| St Petersburg Founds the Academy of Fine Arts |
| 1709 | Elizabeth Birth | |
| Birth of Elizabeth, unmarried daughter of Peter the Great |
| 1762 | Elizabeth Death | |
| Death of Elizabeth |
| 1741 | Elizabeth Succession | |
| Overthrows the Government of Anna Leopoldovna acting as Regent for Ivan VI |
| Succeeds as Empress of Russia |
| 1758 | Elizabeth Winter Palace | |
| Winter Palace Builds the Winter Palace at St Petersburg |
| 1680 | Gruszewska, Agatha Marriage | |
| Theodore III marries a Ukrainian noblewoman Agatha Gruszewska |
| 1741 | Ivan VI Abdication | |
| Abdicates after Regent Biron is overthrown then spends the rest of his life in prison |
| 1741 | Ivan VI Arrest | |
| Abdicates after Regent Biron is overthrown then spends the rest of his life in prison |
| 1740 | Ivan VI Regency | |
| Proclaimed Tsar under the regency of Biron |
| 1740 | Ivan VI Succession | |
| Succeeds as Tsar, son of Anna Leopoldovna & Prince Anton Ulrich |
| 1682 | Ivan V Succession | |
| Succeeds as Tsar of Russia, but affairs are administered by his half-sister Sophia |
| 1613 | Michael Election | |
| 21st Feb The elecoral assembly of 700 select Michael as the new Tsar |
| 1613 | Michael Succession | |
| Succeeds as Tsar of Russia, 1st of the Romanov line |
| 1728 | Peter II Coronation | |
| Moscow Crowned Tsar of Russia |
| 1730 | Peter II Death | |
| 30th Jan Dies of smallpox age 14 on the day set for his wedding to one of the Dolgoruky family |
| 1727 | Peter II Succession | |
| Succeeds as Tsar of Russia, son of Peter I the Great |
| 1703 | Peter I the Great 1st Newspaper | |
| Peter I the Great edits Russia's first newspaper |
| 1710 | Peter I the Great Arrest | |
| 2nd July Pruth Under the treaty of Pruth agrees to return Charles XII to Sweden |
| 1703 | Peter I the Great Capital | |
| St Petersburg Founds the new capital at St Petersburg |
| 1725 | Peter I the Great Death | |
| 28th Jan Death of Peter I the Great, his widow continues to reign as Catherine I |
| 1689 | Peter I the Great Marriage | |
| Marries Eudoxia |
| Marries Catherine |
| 1698 | Peter I the Great Rebellion | |
| Strelitzi Suppresses a rebellion in Strelitzi |
| 1696 | Peter I the Great Rule of Azov | |
| Azov Russia gains Azov |
| 2nd July Azov Agrees to return Azov to the Turks under the treaty of Pruth |
| 1682 | Peter I the Great Succession | |
| Succeeds as Tsar of Russia, son of Alexis, reigns jointly with half-brother Ivan |
| Succeeds as Tsar of Russia, Assumes control of the Government & sole ruleof Russia |
| Succeeds as Tsar of Russia |
| 1999 | Romanov Death | |
| 7th Jan Death of Rostislav Romanov |
| 1682 | Sofia Regency | |
| Appointed Regent for Peter I & Ivan V |
| 1661 | Theodore III Birth | |
| 9th June Birth of Theodore III, eldest surviving son of Tsar Alexius and Maria Miloslavskaya |
| 1682 | Theodore III Death | |
| 7th May Death of Theodore III, without isuue, news of his death sparks the Moscow uprising |
| 1682 | Theodore III Rebellion | |
| 7th May Moscow Death of Theodore III, without isuue, news of his death sparks the Moscow uprising |
| 1676 | Theodore III Succession | |
| Succeeds as Tsar of Russia |
