Tsar

1/16 — Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.

2/21 — Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.

9/5 — In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.

5/27 — Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.

5/29 — Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.

7/17 — Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.

3/23 — Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.

3/2 — Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.

5/26 — Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.

3/15 — Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.

10/6 — Samuel of Bulgaria, Tsar of the First Bulgarian Empire (b. 958)