| Year/Century | Event |
| 839 | Mention of Rus' in the Bertynsky chronicles associated with the mission to Ludwig I of the Frankish kingdom. |
| 840 | Magyars and khazars attacking Kyiv. |
| 853 | Askold becomes Kyiv's Prince. |
| 877 | Novgorod's Prince Oleh annexes Kyiv, kills Askold and brings the capital of Rus' from Novgorod to Kyiv. |
| 890 | Pechenegs advancing to Black Sea steppe. Ugrians (Hungarians) move to Danube. |
| 907-911 | Prince Oleh travels to Byzantine's capital Constantinopol (Ukrainian "Czarhorod") with a big army and demands an annuity to Kyiv. |
| 945 | Prince Ihor signs a treaty with Byzantine Empire - ready to accept Orthodox Christianity. |
| 957 | Princess Olha (Ihor's wife) becomes a ruler of Kyiv. |
| 960-972 | Svyatoslav (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. |
| 980 | Volodymyr The Great becomes a Prince. |
| 988 | Official Christianization of Kyiv Rus'. Volodymyr accepts Orthodoxy and marries Byzantine Princess Anna. |
| 1015 | Death of Volodymyr The Great. Sons are struggling to rule the country until 1019. |
| 1019 | Yaroslav The Wise - one of Volodymyr's sons becomes a Prince. |
| 1027 | Construction of Svyata Sofia (St. Sophia) Cathedral. |
| 1054 | Death of Prince Yaroslav. |
| 1068 | Polovtsi army attack Kyiv state for the first time. |
| 1098 - 1099 | Magyars attack Halychyna. |
| 1111 | Kyiv Princes conquer Polovtsi. |
| 1113 | Volodymyr Monomakh - the last of great princes of Kyiv. |
| 1152 | Yaroslav Osmomysl becomes a Prince of Halychyna. |
| 1155 - 1157 | Suzdal (Russian) Prince Yuriy Dovgoruky (founder of Moscow) attacks Kyiv and becomes a prince for a short period of time. |
| 1155 - 1169 | Destruction of Kyiv by Andrey Bogoliubsky, the Vldimir-Suzdal prince |
| 1187 | The word Ukraine (Ukrayina) first used to describe Kyiv and Halychyna lands. |
| 1223 | Ukrainians first battle Tatars in a battle near Kalko River in treaty with Polovetz - Tatars win. |
| 1238 | Danylo Halytsky becomes a Prince of Halychyna. Next year he unites Halychyna with Kyiv. |
| 1240 | Tatars capture Kyiv. |
| 1256 | Lviv is founded by King Lev. |
| 1320 | Yuriy becomes a King of Halychyna. |
| 1330 | Yuriy marries Lithuanian Princess, daughter of Gedymin. |
| 1360s | Lithuanian Prince Olgerd frees Kyivschyna and Podillya from Tatars. They fell under Lithuanian control. |
| 1378 | Last Halychyna King Volodyslav dies. |
| 1387 - XVIII century | Poland rules Halychyna. |
| 1414 | Prince Fedir Koryatovych of Mukachevo. |
| 1475 - 1774 | Crimea (Krym) under Turkish (Osman) Empire's rule. |
| 1490 | First mentioning of cossacks (kozaks). |
| 1550 | Dmytro Vyshnyvetsky establishes a fortress of Zaporizhzhya (Zaporizhia). |
| 1569 | Lyublinska Uniya (Lublin Union) - All Ukrainian territory under Lithuanian rule (except Polissia and Beresteyshchyna) transfers to Poland. |
| 1576 | Foundation of Ostroh Academy - first University-like school in Eastern Europe. |
| 1590 | First Kozak uprisings (Kostynsky, Mazyvako). |
| 1596 | Union of Brest (Beresti) - beginning of religious struggles. |
| 1608 | Fall of Ostroh Academy. |
| 1610 - 1622 | Het'man Sahaydachny is a het'man (the arch) of Zaporizka Sich. |
| 1630 | Kozak uprising against Poland. |
| 1637 | Petro Mohyla establishes a Collegium in Kyiv. |
| 1648 | Beginning of liberation of Ukraine from Polish rule headed by kozak het'man Bohdan Khmelnytsky |
| 1654 | Bohdan Khmel'nytsky signs Pereyaslav treaty with Muscovy |
| 1657 | Swedish-Ukrainian coalition against Russia. |
| 1663 | Two het'mans in Ukraine. Het'man of the Left bank of Dnipro - in coalition with Russia; het'man from right bank - against Russia. |
| 1665 - 1676 | Het'man Petro Doroshenko. |
| 1670 | Establishment of Russian control under the right-bank kozaks. |
| 1685 | Kyiv Orthodox Church Metropolitan (Patriarkhat) becomes a division of Muscovite Metropolitan. |
| 1687 - 1709 | Het'man Ivan Mazepa - period of palingenecy of Kozak state. |
| 1708 | Treaty had been signed between Ukraine and Sweden. |
| 1709 | Battle in Poltava (Ukraine). Russians defeat Swedish-Ukrainian army and execute Kozak troops after the surrender of Swede army |
| 1709 | Death of Ivan Mazepa. |
| 1710 | Pylyp Orlyk becomes a het'man. |
| 1720 | Russians prohibit the use of Ukrainian language - still preferred by Ukrainians. |
| 1722 - 1727 | First het'man of Ukraine appointed by Russian Czar. |
| 1734 | Het'man Danylo Apostol's uprising on the Right Bank (Haydamaky). |
| 1744 | Construction of St. George Cathedral in Lviv. |
| 1745 | Oleksa Dovbush - legendary Ukrainian hero. |
| 1764 | Abolition of Zaporizhzhya Het'manate (Zapiriz'ka Sich). |
| 1765 | Slobodzhanschyna falls under Russian control. |
| 1772 | Russian, German and Austrian empires divide parts of Poland among themselves.(First division) Halychyna falls under Austrian control. |
| 1775 | Second division of Poland. Austria annexes Bukovyna |
| 1775 | Zaporizka Sich destroyed by Russians. |
| 1787 | Russians rebuild a village of Kodak into a city and name it after queen Ekaterina II (Katerynoslav). During Ukrainian Republic of 1917 - 1920 the city was renamed into Sicheslav ("In Honour of Sich"). In 1924 communists gave it a present name - Dnipropetrovsk (Combination of words "Dnipro" (main Ukrainian river) and "Petrovskij" (The last name of major of city, a Stalinist)). |
| 1789 | Establishment of Mykolayiv (Nikolayev) |
| 1780 | End of Het'manate. |
| 1794 | Establishment of Odesa (Odessa). |
| 1793 | Transfer of lands on the Right Bank to Russia from Poland excluding Halychyna, Bukovyna, Volyn and a part of Polissya, already annexed by Austria. |
| 1798 | Ivan Kotlyarevsky publishes "Eneyida". |
| 1831 | Repnev attempts to renew kozak army. |
| 1834 | Establishment of The University of Kyiv. |
| 1840 | Taras Shevchenko's first publication of "Kobzar", probably the most popular book in Ukrainian. |
| 1861 | First railroad on Ukrainian territory (Peremyshl - Lviv). |
| 1861 | Abolition of slavery in Russia. |
| 1863 | Ukrainian language is officially prohibited to use by Russian government. |
| 1890 | First Ukrainian Political Party (Halytska) |
| 1905 | Annulment of restrictions on the usage of Ukrainian language in Russian empire. |
| 1917 | Revolution in Russia. Ukrainian writer and historian Mykhaylo Hrushevsky becomes the president of newly proclaimed Ukrainian state (Ukrayinska Narodna Respublika). The power of the new government is very weak, Russian czarists, communists and Germans try to conquer Ukraine again. Symon Petlyura becomes a commanders of Ukrainian armed forces. President signs a treaty with Germans, but it was annulled in 1919 in Brest, Belorussia, where Germany signed a treaty with Communist Russia. Ukrainian lands are united after Western Ukrainian Republic and Ukrainian republic unite. |
| 1918 | Austrian empire breaks up. Newly established West-Ukrainian Republic is annexed by Czechoslovakia and Romania. |
| 1921 | Formation of Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine. |
| 1929 | Collectivization starts. All lands that belonged to Ukrainian farmers are taken away and put into a large "kolhosps" (co-operative farms.) People, who didn't want to give their land away are arrested and murdered. |
| 1933-1934 | Artificial Famine in Ukraine, caused by Stalin's policy. At least three million people die in result. |
| 1939-1940 | Annexation of Western Ukraine by Soviet Union according to a secret treaty with Nazi Germany. |
| 1941-1944 | German occupation of Ukraine. Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). SS Division "Galizien". |
| 1943-1944 | Russians return. Massive immigration to the west (England, France, Canada, USA.) |
| 1945-1947 | Discrimination and murders of Ukrainian population in Poland by Polish army and police. |
| 1945-1955 | Continued fight for liberation of Ukraine in the western regions. |
| 1950's | Illegal anti-communist literature begins to appear. |
| 1986 | Nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl, Ukraine. |
| 1980's | National movement for the liberation of Ukraine "Rukh" is formed. |
| 1990 | Human chain protests for Ukrainian independence. |
| 1990 | Ukrainian sovereignty is proclaimed. |
| 1991 | Ukrainian independence is proclaimed. Elections of Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and the President Leonid Kravchuk. |
| 1994 | Ukraine signs an treaty with NATO |
| 1996 | Constitution is proclaimed. |
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