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Population 295,500 (2004).

• Founded as early as 9th century
• One of major cities of early Ruthenia
• The reign of knyaz Mstislav, a golden age of Chernihiv
• Destroyed by Tartars in 1239 and later attacked until late 15th century
• In Lithuanian hands during the 14th century
• Part of Muscovy, 15th– 16th centuries15th century 16th century 17th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. Events Beginning of the " Little Ice Age" a cooling period that resulted in lower crop yi
• Ceded to the Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthThe Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (or The Republic of the Two Nations Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodow in Polish; Latin: Regnum Serenissima Poloniae; Belarusian: ) was a federal monarchy- republic formed by the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1618Events March 8 Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery). The margraves of Brandenburg is granted Polish approval to inherit Ducal
• Annexed by RussiaThe Russian Empire ( Russian: also Imperial Russia covers the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great into the Russian Empire stretching from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposition of Nicholas II of Russia, in 1648Events Peace treaty signed at Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War. The Dutch and the Spanish sign the Treaty of Munster, ending the Eighty Years' War. The Spanish Empire recognizes the Dutch Republic of United Netherlands as a sovereign state, (governed following the Bohdan KhmelnytskyBohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmel'nyts'kyi ( in Ukrainian, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky known in Polish as Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki in Russian as Bogdan Khmelnitsky c. 1595 August 6, 1657) was a Polish (arguably) noble, leader of the Zaporozhia uprising
• SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 rule established in 1919Events January January 1 Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 Spartacist uprising Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution with Spartacist League in the forefront January 9 Spartacus; Chernihiv part of the Ukrainian SSR
• During the Nazi occupation 1941– 1943 the city was almost completely detroyed
• 1986 Chornobyl catastrophe
• In 1990 a "sausage revolution" breaks out in Chernihiv as people seize food from the car of a Communist Party official
• 1300th anniversary of the foundation of the city celebrated in 1992