Ivan III of Russia

Timeline

1462 – Becomes Great Prince after his father's death
1463 – Annexes Yaroslavl
1465 – Sends an expedition to the Arctic
1471 – Invades Novgorod, which becomes a puppet state
1472 – Eldest brother, Yuri, died childless; Ivan seizes his land
1474 – Buys Rostov
1476 – Refuses to pay tribute to Khan Ahmed of the Golden Horde
1478 – Annexes the Republic of Novgorod
1480 – Golden Horde advances to the Ugra River but retreats (the last attempt to force Muscovy to pay tribute)
1481 – Younger brother Andrei dies, leaving Ivan his land
1483 – 1st Georgian emissary
1484 – 1st purge of Novgorod
1485 – Annexes Tver. The official date of revival of statehood; an acceptation of new title – 'Grand Prince of All Russia'
1486 – The only autonomous Muscovite prince, Mikhail Andreevich of Vereia dies; Ivan seizes his land.
1487 – Kazan Khanate becomes a Muscovite puppet state

2nd purge of Novgorod

3rd purge of Novgorod: 1,000 expelled.

1491 – Ivan's elder brother Andrei imprisoned for not helping the Crimean Khanate against the Golden Horde

2nd Georgian emissary

1492 – War with Lithuania started August
1493 – Andrei the Elder dies in prison; Ivan seizes his land
1494 – Last brother, Boris, dies and leaves his land to his sons, Ivan and Fedor

February – Lithuanian war ends

Muscovy annexes Vyazma and a sizable region in the upper reaches of the Oka River

1499 – Lithuania invaded. 4,000 troops cross the Pechora River, take 1,000 prisoners, pelts and found Pustozyorsk.
1503 – Ivan takes the land of his nephew Ivan on the latter's death

Chernigov, Starodub, Novgorod-Seversky, and sixteen other towns ceded by Lithuania to Muscovy, ending the war