Smolensk

city and administrative center of Smolensk Oblast in central Russia

7 dated entries naming Smolensk, drawn from 6 separate years between 863 CE and 2010 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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9th century

863The first written record is made of Smolensk (according to the Primary Chronicle).source

13th century

1223April – The Russian princes lead their separate armies from different parts of Russia, to assemble 60 kilometres downriver from Kiev. There are three main groups of princes taking part in the campaign; the Kievan army is represented by Grand Prince Mstislav Romanovich (the Old). The second group are the Chernigov and Smolensk armies under Prince Mstislav II. The third group is the Galician-Volhynian army under Mstislav Mstislavich with his son-in-law Daniel of Galicia, leaving from northern Ukraine.source

15th century

1403Grand Duke Vytautas ends his alliance with Muscovy, and captures Vyazma and Smolensk.source

17th century

1654July 5 – The Russian Army camps outside Smolensk and the Thirteen Years' War starts between Russia and Poland over Ukraine.source
1654September 23 – Smolensk falls to the Russian Army after almost three months.source
1667February 6 (January 27 O.S.) – The Treaty of Andrusovo is signed during the Russo-Polish War. Poland cedes eastern Ukraine, including Kiev and Smolensk, to Russia, ending Poland's status as a major Central European power.source

21st century

2010April 10 – The president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk, Russia.source