AD 106 Conquered by Roman Emperor Trajan and became part of Roman province of Dacia. Known in earlier times as Bessarabia.
mid-14th century Formed part of independent Moldovan principality.
late 15th century Under Stephen IV the Great principality reached height of its power.
16th century Became a tributary of the Ottoman Turks.
1774–75 Moldovan principality, though continuing to recognize Turkish overlordship, was placed under Russian protectorship; Bukovina lost to Austria.
1812 Bessarabia ceded to tsarist Russia.
1856 Remainder of Moldovan principality became largely independent of Turkish control.
1859 Moldovan Assembly voted to unite with Wallachia, to the southwest, to form state of Romania, ruled by Prince Alexandru Ion Cuza. The state became fully independent in 1878.
1918 Following the Russian Revolution, Bessarabia was seized and incorporated within Romania.
1924 Moldovan autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) created, as part of Soviet Union, comprising territory east of Dniestr River.
1940 Romania returned Bessarabia, east of Prut River, to Soviet Union, which divided it between Moldovan SSR and Ukraine, with Trans-Dniestr region transferred from Ukraine to Moldova.
1941 Moldovan SSR occupied by Romania and its wartime ally Germany.
1944 Red Army reconquered Bessarabia.
1946–47 Widespread famine as agriculture collectivized.
1950 Immigration by settlers from Russia and Ukraine as industries developed.
late 1980s Upsurge in Moldovan nationalism, encouraged by glasnost initiative of reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1988 Moldovan Movement in Support of Perestroika (economic restructuring) campaigned for accelerated political reform.
1989 Nationalist demonstrations in Kishinev (now Chisinau). The Moldovan Popular Front (MPF) founded; Moldovan made state language. Campaigns for autonomy among ethnic Russians and Turkish-speaking (but Orthodox Christian) Gagauz minority.

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