| 922 | - | Acceptance of Islam by Volga Bulgaria |
| 985 | - | Peace treaty between Volga Bulgaria and Kievan Rus |
| XIIth c. | - | Founding of Kazan |
| 1212 | - | First extant work of Tatar literature, the epic poem "Tale about Yusuf" of Kul-Gali |
| 1446 | - | Kazan becomes the capital of the Kazan Khanate |
| 1486 | - | Treaty of "Eternal peace" between Moscow and Kazan |
| 1552 | - | Siege and fall of Kazan |
| 1708 | - | Kazan becomes a provincial capital |
| 1742 | - | The peak of religious persecution of Muslims |
| 1774 | - | Kazan captured by the troops of Emel'yan Pugachev |
| 1788 | - | Catherine II restores the right to worship Islam |
| 1801 | - | Beginning of provincial publishing |
| 1804 | - | Foundation of Kazan University |
| 1826 | - | Public exposition of Lobachevsky's origins of non-Euclidean geometry |
| 1871 | - | First edition of the yearly almanac in Tatar, published by Kayum Nasyri |
| 1886 | - | Birth of the great Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukay |
| 1906 | - | First public theatre performance in the Tatar lenguage |
| 1918 | - | Defeat of the "Republic beyond the Bulak" |
| 1944 | - | The heroic exploit of Musa Djalil |
| 1989 | - | Celebration of the 1100th anniversary of the acceptance of Islam in the Volga area in Muslim Chronology |
| 1990 | - | Declaration of the sovereign Republic of Tatarstan |
| 1994 | - | Signing of the bilateral state Treaty with the Russian Republic |
- On this Web-page we have used materials from the book:
- "Kazan. The Enchanted Capital" (Flint River Press Ltd, London, 1995).
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