| March 9, 1890 |
Born in Kukarka, Russia
|
1906 |
Joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
|
1911 |
Enrolled at the St Petersburg Polytechnic
|
1911 |
Joined the editorial staff of Pravda
|
1916 |
Appointed member of Bolshevik Party's committee in Petrograd
|
1920 |
Appointed Secretary, Central Committee of the Ukrainian Bolshevik Party
|
1922 |
Appointed member of the party secretariat
|
1926 |
Appointed member of the Politburo
|
1930-1939 |
Chairman, Council of People's Commissars (Prime Minister)
|
1939-1949 |
Foreign Minister
|
1952 |
Elected to the Presidium of the Communist Party
|
1953-1956 |
Foreign Minister
|
1957 |
Expelled from the Politburo and the Central Committee, appointed Ambassador to Mongolia
|
1960 |
Appointed Soviet representative, International Atomic Energy Agency
|
1961 |
Removed from all his positions and expelled from the Communist Party
|
1962 |
Announcement that Molotov had retired from public life
|
1984 |
Allowed to rejoin the Communist Party
|
November 8, 1986 |
Died in Moscow |
