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Chronology of Moldova

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Chronology of Moldova

Ancient Moldova
6000 BC	Evidences of a civilisation from the Bronze Age were found in the territory of today's Moldova
100BC-1 BC	A Roman fortified citadel was built, probably in order to protect a town occupied by a Sarmatian king.

Medieval Moldova
14th-15th Century	The principality of Moldavia was established between the Dniester River and the Carpathian Mountains.
16th-19th Century	Russia and the Ottoman Empire were rivals in a fight for Moldavian territory. There were several wars which followed the conflict.

19th and Beginning of the 20th Century
1812	With the Treaty of Bucharest Eastern Moldova was included into Russia's and Western Moldova became part of the Ottoman Empire.
1878	The Ottoman Empire admitted the independence of Romania and Western Moldova.
1918	After the revolution in Russia, Eastern Moldova declared its independence and wanted to be united with Romania.
1920	The Treaty of Paris recognised the Moldova-Romanian union, something that the Soviet Union refused to do.
1924	Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was founded by the Soviet. It was situated on the eastern side of the River Dniester within the territory of Ukraine.
1939	Romania suffered from the agreement between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR. It stated that Eastern Moldova was one of the areas to be incorporated by the Soviet Union.
1940	The Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was connected with the recently acquired Eastern Moldova and thus the Soviet Union formed the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1941-1945	For a brief time Romania regained its control over Moldova due to the Nazi attack, but soon USSR included Moldova back to its territory.

Post World War Moldova
1980s	The Moldovan Nationalism was awoken in the period of the Soviet openness toward the outside world.
1989	Romanian was brought back as the official Moldovan language. The Latin script replaced the Cyrillic script used earlier.
1990	Moldova declared itself a sovereign country. The Gagauz people in the south-west declared their independence, soon the Trans-Dniester region followed. Authorities of Moldova refused to admit the possibility of the declarations.
1991	Moldova finally declares independence. Also, it becomes the member the Commonwealth of Independent States, which is the formal successor of the Soviet Union.
1992	Moldova joins the United Nations. A battle begins between the Trans-Dniester region people and the central power. Hundreds of people die during the fights. Russian 'peacekeeping' soldiers are brought in to stop fighting and achieve agreement.
1993	The Moldova Leu is installed to replace the Russian Rouble.
1994	Moldova finally is a neutral country with a new constitution that gives a special autonomy to the Gagauz region and the Trans-Dniester. Moldovan was declared the official state language.
1995	The death penalty in Moldova is abolished.
1996	The new Moldovan president becomes Petru Lucinschi.
1999	Russian troops and army is withdrawn from the Trans-Dniester region despite the opposition of the leaders there.

21st Century
2000	The parliament is not in agreement due to a failure to decide on the future president, thus early elections are called for the next year.
2001	After the elections Communist leader Vladimir Voronin becomes president with just over a 50% vote.
2001 April	The parliament dismissed the radio and TV high ranking staff in an attempt to have more power over the opinions of society.
2002 January	Plans are announced to make Russian an official language and obligatory in schools. Thus ensue mass protests which was finished when the project is withdrawn.
2002 September	Trans-Dniester agree to allow the Russian withdrawal in exchange for a promise to forgive the region's gas debts.
2004 July	Closing the Moldovan-language schools in Trans-Dniester which use Latin instead of the official Cyrillic script caused a dispute.
2005 March	Communist Party wins the parliamentary elections again. In April Voronin became president for the second time.
2006 January	The Russian petrol giant company Gazprom stopped its supplies to Moldova when the country refused to pay double price. Provisional compromise was reached and negotiations continued.
2006 September	Trans-Dniester holds a referendum to gain independence from Moldova and plan to join with Russia.
2007 March	Moldova accuses Romania of weakening the country by making applications for Romanian citizenship so easy that Moldavans can easily be tempted to become Romanians and travel in the EU freely.