1913: Odesa Conservatoire of Music is founded.
1917: The first Ukrainian National Congress convenes in Kyiv.
1920: The first convention of Poor Peasants’ Committees is held in Kharkiv.
1941: Sydir Kovpak and Semen Rudnev are placed in command of the Soviet partisan units at Putyvl (Sumy oblast), forming the Putyvl Partisan Detachment.
1945: Uzhhorod University is founded.
1991: The Soviet Union enacts the Law “On the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression” that nullifies all previous court and extrajudicial rulings since October 1917.
1995: Ukraine joins the Council of Europe.
1995: Ukrainian and Polish foreign ministers sign a bilateral economic cooperation and trade agreement.
1996: The Constitutional Court of Ukraine is founded.
2011: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Tajikistan sign an agreement on CIS free trade area.
