1408 Invasion of Moscow by the Tatars, who burn many towns and villages, but fail to capture the Kremlin.
1412 Vasili Dmitrievitch goes to the Horde, pays tribute, and the khan confirms to him the grand princedom.
1435 Vasili Vasilievitch blinds his cousin Vasili Kossoi.
1446 Vasili Vasilievitch is blinded by Dmitri Shemiaka of Galicia.
1448 The archbishop Jonas is elected metropolitan by an assembly of the Russian bishops, without regard to the patriarch of Constantinople.
1453 Dmitri Shemiaka is poisoned.
1462 Ivan III, son of Vasili ascends the throne. He assumes the title gossudar (lord, autocrat), and is regarded as the founder of autocracy.
1463 The princes of Iaroslav cede their domain to Moscow.
1464 Ivan gives the hand of his sister to Vasili, prince of Riazan, thus making sure of the approximate annexation of that appanage.
1469 The khanate of Kazan becomes a dependency of Moscow.