March 12 1923: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR sends a note of protest to the governments of Great Britain, Italy, and France in connection with the annexation of Eastern Galicia by Poland.
1945: The Ukrainian National Committee begins working in Berlin, trying to form a national army out of the remaining members of the SS Division Galicia.
March 13 1669: Hetman Demian Mnohohrishny and his Cossack officers sign the Treaty of Hlukhiv with Muscovite envoys.
1949: The Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences begins its activity in Canada.
March 14 1958: The Kyiv electronic computer is developed by the Institute of Mathematics at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
2004: The International Monetary Fund severs its relations with Ukraine because of its National Bank’s unreliable fund.
March 15 1668: Demian Mnohohrishny is elected hetman of Left- Bank Ukraine.
2000: President Leonid Kuchma visits Georgia to sign a number of bilateral agreements.
March 16 1917: The Hetman Pavlo Polubotok Ukrainian Military Club is founded in Kyiv, the first organization destined to play a major role in the development of the Ukrainian military movement.
1990: The first session of the revived Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society is held in Lviv.
March 17 1972: The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to establish the State Book and Printing Museum of the Ukrainian SSR in Kyiv.
1995: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine annuls the Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea and recognizes the Crimean parliament’s authority.
March 18 1917: Ukraine’s first gymnasium (high school) opens in Kyiv; the distinguished Ukrainian educator Petro Kholodny is appointed principal.
1993: The Higher Certification Commission of Ukraine issues the country’s first diplomas for doctors and candidates of sciences.
