Chronology

922 Acceptance of Islam by Volga Bulgaria

1005 Founding of Kazan

1212 First work of Tatar literature, the epic poem “Tale about Yusuf” of Kul-Gali

1399 Kazan destroyed by Moscow Prince Yuri Dmitriyevich

1446 Kazan becomes the capital of the Kazan Khanate

1486 Treaty of “Eternal Peace” between Moscow and Kazan

1552 Fall of Kazan to Ivan the Terrible

1708 Kazan becomes a provincial capital

1774 Kazan taken by Pugachev’s rebels

1788 Catherine II restores the right to worship Islam

1804 Founding of Kazan university

1886 Birth of the great Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukay

1906 First public theatre performance in the Tatar language

1920 Tatar ASSR formed within the RSFSR

1928 Tatar literary language adopts Latin alphabet

1940 Tatar literary language changed to Cyrillic
alphabet

1941 Many industrial enterprises from Western Russia relocated to Kazan for duration of the War

1989 Celebration of the 1100th anniversary of the acceptance of Islam in the Volga area in Muslim Chronology

1990 Tatarstan declares its sovereignty

2005 Kazan’s 1000th anniversary