Caucasian War
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Was a series of Russian military expeditions into northern Caucasus that resulted in the inglobation of this region in the Russian Empire.
Chronology
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January 1792: In Chechnya Russia met more determined resistance from the preacher of the mystical school of Islam, Sufism, Sheikh Mansur Ushurma, who drove the Russian army out of northern Chechnya again in 1785-91.
January 1818: Russian troops under Yermolov conquered the flat northern Chechnya and founded the Grozny fortress.
January 1826: Kabardia was dissolved in 1825 and annexed directly to Russia.
January 1831: From 1818 to 1830, the Russian army under Ermolov and his successor as viceroy and field marshal, Count Paskevich, succeeded in taking eastern Dagestan.
June 1865: Tashkent was taken by the Russian troops.
January 1859: In 1858, the principality of Svaneti was abolished and converted into a district administered by a Russian-appointed officer (pristav).
January 1865: This Caucasian War raged until 1864, when the Avar Khanate was abolished and the Avar District was instituted instead.
January 1865: Russian occupation of Circassia.
February 1867: In January 1876, Tsar Alexander II stated that he had been forced to "... yield to the wishes of the Kokandi people to become Russian subjects." The Khanate of Kokand was declared abolished, and incorporated into the Fergana Oblast of Russian Turkestan.
January 1867: The principality of Mingrelia ultimately came to an end when Prince Niko Dadiani was deposed, and the principality abolished, by Russia in 1867.
January 1775: Originally, Russia did not want to conquer the North Caucasus, which was difficult to access, which also did not belong to the Ottoman Empire, but only wanted to control a paved connecting road to Transcaucasian Georgia, the Georgian Military Road, which Russia had expanded. Therefore, in 1774, the two principalities of the Kabardians bordering on this road, the "Great Kabarda" and "Small Kabarda", were declared a protectorate (dependent protective state).
December 1864: The autonomy of Abkhazia, which had functioned as a pro-Russian "buffer zone" in this troublesome region, was no more needed to the Tsarist government and the rule of the Shervashidze came to an end. In November 1864, Prince Michael was forced to renounce his rights and resettle in Voronezh. Abkhazia was incorporated in the Russian Empire.
January 1860: In 1859 after the death of Aglar-khan, the Gazikumukh Khanate was abolished "due to absence of heir", although there was such heir: Jafar-bek, son of Aglar-khan, who was still young. The territory of Khanate annexed to Russia as the Gazikumukh District.
January 1860: After a series of defeats, the resistance of the Murids in the east of the North Caucasus finally ended in 1859 with the capture of Imam Shamil.
January 1860: Russian forces conquered the Circassian territories from the Taman Peninsula to the hills and mountains south of the Kuban.
January 1868: In 1867 the feudal domain of the Shamkhalate of Tarki was abolished, and on its territory Temir-Khan-Shura district of Dagestan oblast was established.
