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Ukrainian History: Chronological Table Ukrainian Banner Network Ukrainian History: Chronological Table Year/Century Event More info 839Mention of Rus in the Bertynsky chronicles associated with the mission to Ludwig I of the Frankish kingdom. MAP: Eastern Europe, 250-800 840Magyars and khazars attacking Kyiv. 853Askold becomes Kyiv s Prince. 877Novgorod s Prince Oleh annexes Kyiv, kills Askold and brings the capital of Rus from Novgorod to Kyiv. 890Pechenegs advancing to Black Sea steppe. Ugrians (Hungarians) move to Danube. 907-911Prince Oleh travels to Byzantine s capital Constantinopol (Ukrainian "Czarhorod") with a big army and demands an annuity to Kyiv. 945Prince Ihor signs a treaty with Byzantine Empire - ready to accept Orthodox Christianity. 957Princess Olha (Ihor s wife) becomes a ruler of Kyiv. 960-972Svyatoslav (Olha s son) becomes a Prince of Kyiv. He confrontates with Khazars, then attacks Bulgaria and fights with Byzantine Empire. At the time Svjatoslav is in the offensive on Bulgaria, Khazars attack Kyiv. He returns but gets killed in a skirmish with Pechenegs. 980Volodymyr The Great becomes a Prince. 988Official Christianization of Kyiv Rus . Volodymyr accepts Orthodoxy and marries Byzantine Princess Anna. 1015Death of Volodymyr The Great. Sons are struggling to rule the country until 1019. 1019Yaroslav The Wise - one of Volodymyr s sons becomes a Prince.MAP: Kyivan Rus is 11th century 1027Construction of Svyata Sofia (St. Sophia) Cathedral. 1054Death of Prince Yaroslav. 1068Polovtsi army attack Kyiv state for the first time. 1098 - 1099Magyars attack Halychyna. 1111Kyiv Princes conquer Polovtsi. 1113Volodymyr Monomakh - the last of great princes of Kyiv. 1152Yaroslav Osmomysl becomes a Prince of Halychyna. 1155 - 1157Suzdal (Russian) Prince Yuriy Dovgoruky (founder of Moscow) attacks Kyiv and becomes a prince for a short period of time. 1155 - 1169Destruction of Kyiv by Andrey Bo...