Timeline of The Russian Revolution
Timeline of The Russian Revolution |
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| Gregorian date | Julian date | Event | December 14, 1825 | December 25, 1825 | In the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, 3,000 Russian soldiers led by army officers revolt against Imperial Russia. This would come to be known as the Decembrist revolt. |
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| May 18, 1868 | May 6, 1868 | Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov, better known as Tsar Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, is born |
| April 22, 1870 | April 10, 1870 | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |
| October 26, 1879 | November 7, 1879 | Leon Davidovich Trotsky is born Lev Davidovich Bronstein |
| March 13, 1881 | March 1, 1881 | Alexander II is assassinated |
| November 13, 1894 | November 1, 1894 | Tsar Nicholas II assumes the throne. |
| December 19, 1895 | December 7, 1895 | Lenin is arrested and held by authorities for an entire year, then exiled to Shushenskoye in Siberia. |
| April 1898 | April 1898 | The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party is formed in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organisations into one party. |
| April 1899 | April 1899 | Lenin publishes the book The Development of Capitalism in Russia |
| 1902 | 1902 | Lenin publishes What is to be Done? |
| 1903 | 1903 | Stalin is exiled to Siberia |
| xxx | November 17, 1903 | The Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party meet in Belgium to attempt to create a united force. At the congress, the party split into two irreconcilable factions. the Bolsheviks lead by Lenin and the Mensheviks headed by Julius Martov. |
| xxx | February 4, 1904 | Japan severs relations with Russia in anticipation of war. |
| xxx | February 8, 1904 | The Russo-Japanese War, a war between Meiji Japan and Imperialist Russia, begins |
| 1904 | 1904 | Stalin returns from exile in Siberia |
| xxx | January 2, 1905 | Port Arthur finally falls to the Japanese after a series of brutal, high-casualty assaults. |
| 1905 | 1905 | The Russian Revolution of 1905 takes place. It was a country-wide spasm of both anti-government and undirected violence. It was not controlled or managed, and it had no single cause or aim. It is usually regarded as a signpost of changes in Russia |
| xxx | 17 July 1918 | Tsar Nicholas II and his family, including the gravely ill Tsarevich Alexei and several family servants, were executed by firing squad in the basement of the Ipatiev House where they had been imprisoned by a detachment of Bolsheviks led by Yakov Yurovsky. |
| xxx | March 3, 1918 | Russia and the Central Powers, sign The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a peace treaty, marking Russia's exit from World War I. |
| xxx | March 18 1921 | The Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and Soviet Russia ending the Polish-Bolshevik War. |
| xxx | December 1922 | The Soviet Union, a union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics is formed. |
| xxx | 1922 | Lenin has his first stroke partly induced by the bullet still lodged in his spine |
| xxx | 1923 | Lenin is effectively removed from public life. |
| xxx | January 21, 1924 | Lenin Dies. The city of Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor. |