United States Relations with Russia Timeline: Establishment of Relations to World War Two
Chronology
Office of the Historian
Washington, DC
1780-1820
1820-1860
1860-1890
1890-1910
1910-1920
1920-1945
1780-1820
1780-1783: First Representative of the United States to Russia
1790: Establishment of Russian Outposts in Russian America
1799: Creation of Russian America Company
1803: Acceptance of First U.S. Consul in Russia
1807: Establishing Formal U.S.-Russian Diplomatic Relations
1808-1809: Appointing the Diplomats
1809: First Russian Representative to the United States
1809: First U.S. Minister to Russia
1810: First Russian Minister to the United States
1812: Establishment of Russian Colony at Fort Ross
1812-1814: Russian Mediation Efforts in War of 1812
1820-1860
1820-1821: Arbitration of the Treaty of Ghent
1821: Ukaz of 1821
1823: The Monroe Doctrine
1824: The Convention of 1824
1832: Russian-American Commercial Treaty of 1832
1841: Sale of Fort Ross
1842: American Engineer as Consultant for Russian Railroad
1853: Organization of American Russian Commercial Company
Mid-1850s: Russia, the United States, and the Crimean War
1854: Cottman Mission
1854-1855: American Humanitarian Efforts in Crimean War
1856: Treaty of Paris
1856: Opening Sevastopol Harbor
1857: American Construction of Russian Naval Ships
1860-1890
1860-1861: Discussions of Future of Russian American Territories
1861: Russian Emancipation of the Serfs
1861-1865: U.S.-Russian Relations during the American Civil War
1863: Visits by Russian Imperial Navy
1865: Russian-American Telegraph Charter
1866-1867: Coverage of Western Union Expedition
1867: U.S. Purchase of Alaska
1869: Discussion of Russian Jews in the U.S. Press
1871: Pogrom against Russian Jews
1871-1872: Visit to the United States by Grand Duke Alexis
1872: General Sherman Visits Russia
1870s-1890s: Emigration of Russian Mennonites to the United States
1877: The Grand Duke's Second Visit to the United States
1877-1878: U.S. Assistance during the Russo-Turkish War
1878: Former President Grant Visits Russia
1879-1884: The Jeannette Expedition
1881: Assassination of Tsar Alexander II
1881: More Anti-Jewish Pogroms
1886: Translation of Major Works of Russian Literature
1889: Publication of Tent Life in Siberia
1890-1910
1891: Publication of Siberia and the Exile System
1891-1893: Russian Famine
1893: Congressional Approval of U.S.-Russian Extradition Treaty
1893: Chicago World's Fair, Columbian Exposition
1893: Russian Refusal to Issue Visas to American Jews
1894: Death of Tsar Alexander III
1890s: Construction of Trans-Siberian Railroad
1898: Russian Call for International Peace Conference
1899-1900: The "Open Door Notes"
1903: Kishinev Pogrom
1904-1905: Russo-Japanese War
1905-1906: Russian Revolution of 1905
1905: Peace Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
1910-1920
1911: Abrogation of the U.S.-Russian Commercial Treaty
1914: Outbreak of World War I
1917: Russian Revolution of 1917
1917: U.S. Recognition of the Provisional Government
1917: United States Declares War
1917: The Root Mission
1917: The October Bolshevik Revolution
1917-1933: Interruption of Official U.S.-Russian Relations
1918: Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918: American Forces Land in Northern Russia
1920-1945
1921: New Economic Policy
1921-1923: Great Famine
1922: Establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1924-1928: Death of Lenin and Rise of Stalin
1933: U.S. Recognition of the Soviet Union
1934-1938: Stalin's Purges and Show Trials
1939: Moltov-Ribbentrop Pact
1941: German Invasion of Soviet Union
1941-1945: Lend-Lease Aid to the Soviet Union
1941: The United States Enters World War II
1943: Tehran Conference
1944: "Operation Frantic"
1945: Yalta Conference
1945: German Surrender
1945: Meeting at Potsdam
1945: Japanese Surrender
