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Crimean Peninsula

7 dated entries naming Crimean Peninsula, drawn from 7 separate years between 64 BCE and 1986 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century BC

  • 64 BCEPompey destroys the kingdom of Pontus; king Mithridates VI commits suicide after escaping to the Crimea.source

6th century

  • 581The Göktürks under Taspar Qaghan besiege the city of Chersonesos Taurica (modern Ukraine), located at the Black Sea; their cavalry keep plundering the steppes of the Crimean Peninsula until 590.source

18th century

  • 1735Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces fail to occupy the Crimea, due to rasputitsa.source
  • 1783The city of Sevastopol is founded on the Crimean Peninsula of the Russian Empire, by Rear Admiral Thomas MacKenzie.source
  • 1784January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea.source

20th century

  • 1944December 14 – The Soviet government changes Turkish place names to Russian in Crimea.source
  • 1986March 13 – In a Black Sea incident, American cruiser USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Caron, claiming the right of innocent passage, enter the Soviet territorial waters near the southern Crimean Peninsula.source

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