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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 in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians<br> | |||
German armies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, initiating nearly four years of total war. The Axis initially advanced against desperate but unsuccessful efforts of the Red Army. In the encirclement battle of Kiev, the city was acclaimed as a "Hero City", because of its fierce resistance. 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> | |||
==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 | ||