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| 1931 | Birth |  |
| 1st Feb Butka Birth of Boris Yeltsin |
| 1955 | Education | |
| Sep Kirov Graduates from the Ural Kirov Technical College, an engineer |
| 1956 | Marriage | |
| Yeltsin marries Naina Iosifovna Girina |
| 1961 | CPSU | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1968 | Head Construction Dept Yeltsin | |
| Sverdlosk Appointed Head of the Construction Department |
| 1975 | Secretary CPSU | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Sverdlosk CPSU regional committee |
| 1976 | First Secretary | |
| Moscow Appointed First Secretary of his provincial organisation |
| Sverdlosk Appointed First Secretary of the Sverdlosk CPSU regional committee |
| 1977 | Execution of Nicholas II | |
| Destroys Ipatyev House where Nicholas II was executed |
| 1978 | Deputy | |
| Appointed Deputy of the USSR Supreme Council |
| 1978 | Dismissal | |
| 11th Nov The Moscow City Party Committee meets, with Gorbachev in attendance, and strips Yeltsin of his post as first secretary |
| 1981 | Central Committee | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1984 | Supreme Council | |
| Appointed Member of the USSR Supreme Council, 1st term |
| 1985 | First Secretary | |
| Moscow Appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party |
| 1985 | Party Leader | |
| Moscow Appointed Party Leader of the Communist Party |
| 1985 | Party Secretary | |
| Moscow Appointed Party Secretary of the Communist Party |
| 1986 | Supreme Council | |
| Appointed Member of the USSR Supreme Council, 2nd term |
| 1987 | Dismissal | |
| Nov Moscow Gorbachev dismisses Yeltsin as Moscow party chief |
| 12th Nov Moscow Fired as head of the Moscow's Communist party for criticizing the slow pace of reform |
| 1987 | First Deputy | |
| Appointed First Deputy-Chairman of USSR State Construction |
| 1987 | Moscow Communist Party | |
| 12th Nov Moscow Fired as head of the Moscow's Communist party for criticizing the slow pace of reform |
| 1987 | Plenum Central Committee | |
| 21st Oct Moscow Reveals that he has threatened to resign as a Member of the Politburo |
| 21st Oct Moscow Warns against the growing "cult of personality", comparison between Gorbachev & Stalin |
| 1988 | Dismissal | |
| 18th Feb Moscow Soviet Communist Party leaders drop former Moscow party chief Boris Yeltsin from the ruling Politburo |
| 1989 | Congress of People's Deputies | |
| 26th Mar The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union, Yeltsin is elected, voters in the Soviet Union filled 1,500 of more than 2,000 seats in the new Congress of People's Deputies, beginning embarrassing CP defeats |
| 27th Mar Yeltsin and other anti-establishment candidates claim victory in parliamentary elections for the new Congress of People's Deputies |
| 29th May Bowing to public demand, the Supreme Soviet allows Boris Yeltsin to take a seat in the standing legislature. |
| 1989 | Constitution | |
| Mar Yeltsin's presence in the Supreme Soviet's Chamber of People's Deputies provided a focus for the reformist minority, the legislature becomes a more pluralist body than Gorbachev intends |
| 1989 | Deputy | |
| Mar Moscow Appointed Peoples Deputy of the USSR |
| 1989 | Election | |
| Mar Promises to "free Moscow from the mafia of bureacrats" |
| Mar Yeltsin's presence in the Supreme Soviet's Chamber of People's Deputies provided a focus for the reformist minority, the legislature becomes a more pluralist body than Gorbachev intends |
| Mar Yeltsin wins an overwhelming election victory of 89% to the quasi-representative legislature, the Supreme Soviet |
| 26th Mar The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union, Yeltsin is elected, voters in the Soviet Union filled 1,500 of more than 2,000 seats in the new Congress of People's Deputies, beginning embarrassing CP defeats |
| 26th Mar Yeltsin is surprisingly elected to the Soviet parliament, his political career is revived by his vocal campaign against corruption within the political elite |
| 27th Mar Yeltsin and other anti-establishment candidates claim victory in parliamentary elections for the new Congress of People's Deputies |
| 29th May Bowing to public demand, the Supreme Soviet allows Boris Yeltsin to take a seat in the standing legislature. |
| 1989 | Reform | |
| Mar Moscow Promotes the Russian Federation & attacks party privilege |
| 1989 | Supreme Committee | |
| Mar Moscow Appointed Member of the USSR Supreme Committee |
| 1990 | Chairman CPSU | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Communist Party |
| 1990 | Chairman Supreme Council | |
| 29th May Appointed Chiarman of the Russian Supreme Council |
| 1990 | Congress of XXVIII CPSU | |
| The XXVIIIth & final Congress of the Communist Party |
| 12th July Yeltsin shocks the 28th congress of the Soviet Communist Party by announcing he is resigning his party membership |
| 1990 | Constitution | |
| Appointed Member of the Constitutional Committee elected by the CPD |
| 12th June Yeltsin leads a vote at the Congress of Peoples Deputies on a "declaration of Sovereignty for Russia" |
| 1990 | CPSU | |
| Yeltsin abolishes the Congress of the CPSU |
| 1990 | Declaration of Sovereigny | |
| 12th June The Congress of the RSFSR adopts the Declaration of Sovereignty |
| 1990 | Deputy | |
| Appointed Deputy of the Russian Federation |
| 1990 | Economy | |
| Announces complete privatization |
| 1990 | Election | |
| 26th May Yeltsin fails in a second round of voting to win the presidency of the Russian Federation, succeeds in a third round of balloting three days later |
| 29th May Elected President of the Russian republic in the third round of balloting by the Russian Parliament, gives him a base from which to attack Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 8th June Elected President of the Russian Federation |
| 1990 | Resignation | |
| 12th July Yeltsin & other reformers resign from the Communist Party in the USSR |
| 1990 | Speaker RSFSR Yeltsin | |
| Appointed Speaker of the RSFSR Congress of Peoples Deputies |
| May The turning point in Yeltsin's career, he skillfully lobbies the Russian Federation's Supreme Soviet (legislature) to elect him - over Gorbachev's prefered candidate - as its Speaker |
| 1991 | Arrest | |
| 18th Aug Crimea Gorbachev is detained in his summer residence on the orders of Kryuchkov |
| 1991 | Commonwealth | |
| Dec Yeltsin, Ukrainian Pres. Leonid Kravchuk, and Belarus Pres. Stanislav Shuskevich meet in a hunting lodge to proclaim the Soviet Union null and void and to form a loose Commonwealth of Independent States |
| 13th Dec Five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) agree to join the new Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) being organized by Russian President Boris Yeltsin |
| 17th Dec Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agree to dissolve the Soviet Union by the new year |
| 1991 | Communist Party | |
| 20th July Yeltsin bans political activity in government offices and republic-run businesses, effectively curtailing the influence of the Communist Party |
| 21st Aug Yeltsin bans the Communist Party of the Russian Republic for its central role in the August 1991 coup against the Gorbachev government |
| 23rd Aug Moscow Gorbachev and Yeltsin act to strip the Communist Party of its power and take control of the army and the KGB |
| 6th Nov Moscow Yeltsin outlaws the Communist Party |
| 1991 | Congress of RSFSR | |
| 10th July Takes the presidential oath at the 5th Congress of the RSFSR deputies |
| 1991 | Constitution | |
| 12th June Moscow Yeltsin consolidates his position when he is elected to the newly created position of Russian Executive President |
| 10th July Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic |
| 20th July Yeltsin bans political activity in government offices and republic-run businesses, effectively curtailing the influence of the Communist Party |
| 23rd July The draft of a new platform for the Soviet Communist Party is published, calling for private property, economic integration into world market and freedom of religion |
| 9th Dec Gorbachev challenges Yeltsin's declaration that the Soviet Union was dead, branding a new Slavic commonwealth "illegal and dangerous" |
| 12th Dec Yeltsin wins landslide approval in the Russian legislature for his new commonwealth, while Soviet President Gorbachev edges closer to resigning, saying, "The main work of my life is done" |
| 13th Dec Five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) agree to join the new Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) being organized by Russian President Boris Yeltsin |
| 17th Dec Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agree to dissolve the Soviet Union by the new year |
| 23rd Dec President Bush speaks by telephone with Russian President Yeltsin, after which a senior Bush administration official said the United States would extend diplomatic recognition to the Russian republic |
| 25th Dec Yeltsin bans the CPSU, sequestering its considerable assets and skillfully engineering the Soviet Union's peaceful dissolution |
| 1991 | Coup d'Etat | |
| 18th Aug Crimea Gorbachev is detained in his summer residence on the orders of Kryuchkov |
| 18th Aug Yeltsin's crowning achievement comes on this day as he stands defiantly atop an armored personnel carrier and challenges a hard-liner coup against Soviet President Gorbachev, he's hailed as a defender of democracy |
| 19th Aug Moscow A putsch began in Moscow, Soviet hard-liners, Janajev and the KGB, remove Gorbachev from power, in defiance Yeltsin calls for a general strike |
| 19th Aug Moscow Yeltsin announces he is taking control of Russia |
| 19th Aug Moscow Yeltsin condemns the coup & calls for resistance & causes it to fail |
| 20th Aug Moscow Russian troops defect to Yeltsin & the coup collapses |
| 21st Aug Moscow The coup fails in part when General Alexander Lebed refused to move troops to surround Yeltsin's Moscow stronghold |
| 21st Aug Moscow The hard-line coup against Soviet President Gorbachev collapses in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation President Yeltsin |
| 21st Aug Brussels Yeltsin assures the Foreign Ministers of NATO, who are convened in Brussels , that the coup attempt is failing |
| 21st Aug Moscow Yeltsin bans the Communist Party, the coup collapses |
| 23rd Aug Moscow Gorbachev and Yeltsin act to strip the Communist Party of its power and take control of the army and the KGB |
| 1991 | Demonstrations | |
| 28th Mar Moscow Tens of thousands of supporters of Yeltsin march in Moscow in defiance of President Gorbachev's ban on rallies |
| 1991 | Diplomacy | |
| 18th June Arrives in the United States for visits with American officials, including President Bush |
| 19th June Yeltsin lobbies Congress during a Washington visit as he seeks closer ties |
| 20th June Yeltsin, newly elected President of the Russian republic, is welcomed to the White House by President Bush |
| 10th July President Bush tells reporters a Soviet proposal to end the Persian Gulf War fell "well short of what would be required", President Yeltsin delivers an unprecedented public appeal for Gorbachev to resign |
| 1991 | Dissolution RSFSR | |
| Moscow The RSFSR Congress of People's deputies is dissolved by Presidential decree |
| 1991 | Economy | |
| 30th Nov Yeltsin's Russian Federation agrees to bail out Gorbachev's central Soviet government from a budget crisis that threatens to cut off the salaries of millions of workers and paralyze the country |
| 28th Dec Yeltsin orders state land privatized as he pushes ahead with his reforms |
| 1991 | Election | |
| 12th June Russians go to the polls and elect Yeltsin as President |
| 1991 | Inauguration of Yeltsin | |
| 10th July Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic |
| 1991 | Independence | |
| 1st Dec In a referendum the Ukraine votes for independence |
| 1991 | Oath | |
| 10th July Takes the presidential oath at the 5th Congress of the RSFSR deputies |
| 1991 | President | |
| 12th June Yeltsin consolidates his position when he is elected to the newly created position of Russian Executive President |
| 1991 | Prime Minister | |
| 6th Nov Appointed Prime Minister of Russia |
| 1991 | Privatization | |
| 28th Dec Yeltsin orders state land privatized as he pushes ahead with his reforms |
| 1991 | Reform | |
| 23rd July The draft of a new platform for the Soviet Communist Party is published, calling for private property, economic integration into world market and freedom of religion |
| 28th Dec Yeltsin orders state land privatized as he pushes ahead with his reforms |
| 1991 | Resignation | |
| Feb Calls for Gorbachev's resignation on TV |
| 25th Dec Gorbachev goes on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence, ousted as Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin established his position |
| 25th Dec Gorbachev's resignation & the establishment of the Russian Republic ends the "Cold War" |
| 1991 | Retirement | |
| 25th Dec Moscow Gorbachev annonces his retirement |
| 1991 | Russian Republic | |
| 23rd Dec President Bush speaks by telephone with Russian President Yeltsin, after which a senior Bush administration official said the United States would extend diplomatic recognition to the Russian republic |
| 25th Dec Gorbachev goes on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence, ousted as Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin established his position |
| 25th Dec Gorbachev's resignation & the establishment of the Russian Republic ends the "Cold War" |
| 1991 | United Nations | |
| 24th Dec Russia replaces the USSR at the UN |
| 1992 | Commonwealth | |
| 29th Jan The Russian congress adopts a resolution affirming Russia's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States in a victory for President Boris Yeltsin |
| 1992 | Constitution | |
| 29th Jan The Russian congress adopts a resolution affirming Russia's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States in a victory for President Boris Yeltsin |
| 1992 | Dilomacy of Russia | |
| 19th June Russian Yeltsin addresses the Canadian Parliament, saying his country had abandoned totalitarianism for democracy |
| 8th July Munich Yeltsin meets with Group of Seven leaders holding their economic summit in Munich, Germany, where he offers a startling proposal to swap factories, energy resources and other properties for Russian debt |
| 1992 | Diplomacy | |
| 29th Jan Camp David President Bush and President Yeltsin meet at Camp David |
| 29th Jan Yeltsin unveils an ambitious plan to cut nuclear weapons spending and said his republic's weapons would no longer be aimed at any USAtargets |
| 7th Feb Paris Yeltsin and French President Francois Mitterrand sign a cooperation treaty in Paris |
| Sep Kurile Islands Yeltsin calls off a trip to Japan in the face of growing pressure to resolve a dispute over four Kurile islands seized by the former Soviet Union in 1945 |
| 9th Nov Yeltsin tells USASenators that Americans had been held in prison camps after World War II and some were "summarily executed," but that others were still living in his country voluntarily |
| 1992 | Dismissal | |
| 14th Dec In the face of parliamentary opposition to Gaidar's reforms, Yeltsin fires him and appoints businessman Viktor Chernomyrdin Prime Minister |
| 1992 | Economy | |
| 2nd Jan Russian shoppers experienced their first day of "sticker shock" after President Boris Yeltsin lifted price controls to stimulate production |
| 8th July Munich Yeltsin meets with Group of Seven leaders holding their economic summit in Munich, Germany, where he offers a startling proposal to swap factories, energy resources and other properties for Russian debt |
| 9th Nov Yeltsin appeals for help in rescheduling his country's debt, and urges British businesses to invest |
| 1992 | Impeachment | |
| 1st Dec Yeltsin survives an impeachment attempt by hard-liners at the opening of the Russian Congress |
| 1992 | Nuclear Warfare | |
| 29th Jan President Bush and President Yeltsin cap the first day of their Washington summit by announcing their countries had agreed to slash their long-range nuclear arsenals by two-thirds |
| 29th Jan Yeltsin unveils an ambitious plan to cut nuclear weapons spending and said his republic's weapons would no longer be aimed at any USAtargets |
| 17th June President Bush and President Yeltsin sign a breakthrough arms-reduction agreement, addressing Congress , Yeltsin pledges to find any American prisoners of war still being held in Russia |
| 1992 | Prime Minister | |
| Jan Yeltsin's first choice as acting Prime Minister for post-Soviet Russia is the free-marketeer Yegor Gaidar |
| June Yeltsin names Yegor Gaidar acting Prime Minister of Russia, Gaidar is never confirmed by parliament. |
| 1992 | Rule of Kurile Islands | |
| Sep Kurile Islands Yeltsin calls off a trip to Japan in the face of growing pressure to resolve a dispute over four Kurile islands seized by the former Soviet Union in 1945 |
| 1992 | Treaty of Co operation | |
| 7th Feb Paris Yeltsin and French President Francois Mitterrand sign a cooperation treaty in Paris |
| 1992 | US POWs | |
| 9th Nov Yeltsin tells USASenators that Americans had been held in prison camps after World War II and some were "summarily executed," but that others were still living in his country voluntarily |
| 1993 | Communist Party | |
| Despite Yeltsin's objections, the Constitutional Court cleares the way for the Russian communists to reemerge as the KPRF, headed by Zyuganov |
| Oct Yeltsin temporarily bans the party again for its role in the Supreme Soviet's just-concluded attempt to overthrow his administration |
| 1993 | Constitution | |
| Yeltsin argues that the existing, heavily amended 1978 constitution of Russia was obsolete and self-contradictory and that Russia needs a new constitution granting the president greater power |
| Yeltsin forms a constitutional assembly, which produces a draft constitution providing for a strong executive, and to shape the outcome of the December 1993 referendum on Russia's new basic law |
| Dec Russians approve a new constitution giving the President greater powers |
| Dec The 1993 constitution creates a dual executive consisting of a president and prime minister, but the president is the dominant figure |
| Dec The 1993 constitution declares Russia a democratic, federative, law-based state with a republican form of government, State power is divided among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches |
| Dec The content of laws must be made public before they take effect, and they must be formulated in accordance with international law and principles |
| 1993 | Coup d'Etat | |
| Oct Tanks surround the parliament building once again, this time under Yeltsin's illegal orders, to force lawmakers to disband. More than 140 people die in the street fighting that ensues |
| 1993 | Election | |
| Dec Communists & ultra-nationalists make large gains |
| 1993 | Impeachment | |
| 26th Mar Impeachment fails by 72 votes, 600 vote for impeachment |
| 26th Mar The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia tries to impeach Yeltsin |
| 1993 | Parliament | |
| Sep Moscow MPs barricade themselves inside the Parliament building |
| 21st Sep Moscow Dissolves Parliament & rules without it |
| 4th Oct Moscow Defeats the hard liners & takes control of the government |
| 1993 | Rebellion | |
| Oct Moscow Tanks surround the parliament building once again, this time under Yeltsin's illegal orders, to force lawmakers to disband. More than 140 people die in the street fighting that ensues |
| 1993 | Referendum | |
| 25th April 58.5% of voters support Yeltsin |
| 1993 | Rule of Lithuania | |
| 31st Aug Lithuania The last of the Soviet troops withdraw from Lithuania |
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