All important dates for Russian revolution?
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Tsar Alexander II passes the Emancipation Edict, ending serfdom in Russia (but keeps peasants tied to the land through continuing labour obligations).
17 (5) February 1880Failed attempt (no. 5) to assassinate Tsar Alexander II by blowing up his palace dining room kills 11 and wounds 56. The Tsar survives through being late to dinner.
13 (1) March 1881Tsar Alexander II is assassinated by a member of the radical group People’s Will. He is succeeded by his son, Alexander III, who enacts anti-terrorism measures that curb civil rights and freedom of the press.
1882Pogroms against Jews spread across the Russian Empire, leading to mass emigration of the Jewish population.
1891–1892Famine in Russia kills between 375,000 and 400,000 and affects millions more.
1 November (20 October) 1894Tsar Alexander III dies after a sudden illness; his son Nicholas (Nicholas II) assumes the throne.
20 (8) December 1895Lenin, future leader of the Bolsheviks, is arrested to be kept in solitary confinement for 13 months and then exiled to Siberia.
The Khodynka Tragedy: 30 (18) May 1896A stampede in Moscow occurs during festivities following Nicholas II’s coronation, as crowds, worried that the supplies of free souvenirs would run out, rushed for the stalls to get them. This results in the deaths of over 1,300 people.
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9 January 1905 - Blo.ody Sunday
18 February 1905 - Nicholas acknowledges the short-comings of the bureaucracy and asks the people to petition to him
6 August 1905 - A duma is set up, solely to give advice to the Tsar
20 September -> 10 October 1905 - St. Petersburg is brought to a halt through strikes
16 October 1905 - Tsar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto with street violence occurring from the Left and Right
shortly after this
3 December 1905 - Arrest of Petersburg Soviet leaders trigger a revolt in Moscow
12 December 1905 - Rebel military gain control of all railway stations and several districts
15 December 1905 - Semenovsky regiment arrives and the uprising is crushed over several weeks
September-October 1913 - Trial of Beilis
17 April 1912 - Lena Goldfields Incident
31 July 1915 - Nicholas II orders General Mobilization
1 August 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia
2 May 1915 - Germans start major offensive
End of July 1915 - Great Retreat begins
16 December 1916 - Rasputin murdered
22 August 1915 - Nicholas II becomes Supreme Commander whilst Grand Duke Nikolai is dismissed and Stavka is moved 200 miles eastward to Mogilev
17 October 1916 - New Lessner and Russian Renault strikes in Petrograd
19 February 1917 - Petrograd authorities announce rationing due to start on 1 March. All the available bread is hoarded
23 February 117 - International Women's Day, originally a protest for equal rights but later joined by non-factory workers wanting bread and the abdication of the Tsar (100,000 people)
25 February 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II orders the Petrograd military district to 'put down the disorders by tomorrow'
26-27 February 1917 - Soldiers mutiny and join the crowds with 40,000 rifles and 30,000 revolvers taken from the arsenal
28 February 1917 - The 'Russian Bastille' (Peter and Paul Fortress) is stormed along with many other prisons, 8000 prisoners are liberated.
1 March 1917 - Soviet and Duma make an agreement for the Soviet to support a Provisional Government (dual authority)
2 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II abdicates along with his son in favour of Grand Duke Mikhail after advice from his closest commanders
20 March -> 1 April 1917 - Revolutionary banners are shown in the streets at a demonstration, but later order had been restored
16 May 1917 - Kronstadt rejects the authority of the Provisional Government but recognizes it once an elected commissar was guaranteed
9 June 1917 - Soviet bans the Bolsheviks demonstration on the next day and they call it off
18 June 1917 - Soviet sponsors the demonstration for 'revolutionary unity' but the Bolsheviks take it away from the point with 'All Power to the Soviets' slogan
11 May 1917 - Declaration on the Rights of Servicemen made to restore authority to officers
16 June 1917 - Offense begins in the South, Western and Northern Fronts
19 June 1917 - Advance halts due to resistance and alcohol
7 July 1917 - Kerensky becomes Prime Minister
25 July 1917 - A new government program is announced, no longer on Soviet principles
3 July 1917 - Soldiers and workers with red Guards rally in the streets
4 July 1917 - 20,000 sailors from Kronstadt arrive but are given no exact orders from the Central Committee
6 July 1917 - Kshesinskayes Mansion stormed and an order for Lenin and eleven other Bolshevik leaders are made
29 August 1917
Kerensky makes himself Commander-in-Chief and orders Krymov to halt
The struggle against 'counter-revolution' is headed by the Soviet with the Bolsheviks sending out the most people to defend the capital
31 August 1917 - Bolsheviks condemn the coalition of Soviet leaders and call for a Soviet government
25 September 1917 - Bolsheviks occupy 4 of the 7 seats in the Petrograd Executive Soviet
10 October 1917 - Bolshevik Central Committee passes the need for an armed insurrection (10 to 2, with Kamenev and Zinoviev rejecting the proposal)
25 October 1917 - October Revolution
29 October 1917 - Railway Union, Vikzhel, orders the Bolsheviks to begin talks with other socialist parties to form a government