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==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
1569 - The Union of Lublin established the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and much Ukrainian territory was transferred from Lithuania to the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, becoming Polish territory de jure<br> | |||
1657–1686 The Ruin was a devastating 30-year war among Russia, Poland, Turks and Cossacks for control of Ukraine, which occurred at about the same time as the Deluge of Poland. The wars escalated in intensity with hundreds of thousands of deaths<br> | |||
1688 - Tatars captured a record number of 60,000 Ukrainians<br> | |||
1737 - 1834 Expansion into the northern Black Sea littoral and the eastern Danube valley was a cornerstone of Russian foreign policy<br> | |||
1897 - According to the census, there were 223,000 ethnic Ukrainians in Siberia and 102,000 in Central Asia | |||
1906 - An additional 1.6 million emigrated to the east in the ten years after the opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway<br> | |||
1917 - 1925 The Russian Civil War devastated the whole Russian Empire including Ukraine. It left over 1.5 million people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless in the former Russian Empire territory<br> | |||
1921 - Most of Ukraine had been taken over by the Soviet Union<br> | |||
1932 - 1933 Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine that killed millions of Ukrainians<br> | |||
1941 - German armies invaded the Soviet Union initiating nearly four years of total war<br> | |||
1941 - More than 600,000 Soviet soldiers were killed or taken captive in Kiev with many suffering severe mistreatment when the German Army invaded<br> | |||
1986 - A reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, resulting in the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history. At the time of the accident, 7 million people lived in the contaminated territories, including 2.2 million in Ukraine<br> | |||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
*[http://www.torugg.org/History/history_of_ukraine.html History of Ukraine] - Toronto Ukranian Genealogy Group | *[http://www.torugg.org/History/history_of_ukraine.html History of Ukraine] - Toronto Ukranian Genealogy Group | ||
*[http://ukraine.uazone.net/history.html Ukrainian History] - chronological table | *[http://ukraine.uazone.net/history.html Ukrainian History] - chronological table | ||
*[ | *[https://m3ai.wlu.ca/directions-links/ukraine.html Ancient History of Ukranian Lands] | ||
*[http://www.everyculture.com/To-Z/Ukraine.html Culture of Ukraine] - History and Ancient Relations | *[http://www.everyculture.com/To-Z/Ukraine.html Culture of Ukraine] - History and Ancient Relations | ||
*[http://www.infoplease.com/country/ukraine.html Ukraine] - timeline | *[http://www.infoplease.com/country/ukraine.html Ukraine] - timeline | ||
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