Russia dates Flashcards
Crimean War
1854-56
Emancipation of the Serfs
1861
Assassination of Alexander II
1881
Reign of Alexander III
1881-1894
Witte’s reforms
1894-1906
Jewish Bund formed
1897
SD party formed
1898
SR party formed
1901
SD’s split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
1903
Russo-Japanese War
1904-5
Kadets formed
1905
Octobrists formed
1905
Bloody Sunday
22nd January 1905
Unions of Unions formed
May 1905
Potemkin mutiny
June 1905
October manifesto
October 1905
Moscow Soviet set up
November 1905
First Duma
1906
Stolypin as chief minister
1906-1911
Fundamental Laws issued
1906
Second Duma
1907
Third Duma
1907-1912
Goldfields episode
1912
Fourth Duma
1912-1914
Germany declare war on Russia
1st August 1914
Russias full mobilisation orders are given
30th June 1914
Fourth Duma reconvened
June/July 1915
Progressive Bloc formed in Duma
25th June 1915
Nicholas II becomes commander-in-chief of army
22nd August 1915
Putilov strikes
18th February 1917
February revolution
18th February - 4th March 1917
International Womens day leads to widespread strikes
23rd February 1917
Nicholas is prevented from returning to Petrograd
28th February 1917
Provisional Government formed from the Duma commitee
2nd March 1917
Tsars abdication made public
4th March 1917
Lenins April Thesis
4th April 1917
Bolsheviks Red Guards formed
20th April 1917
Start of Russian offensive against Austria
16th June 1917