Russia Dates AOS 1 Flashcards
Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II (Khodynka Field Tragedy)
14th May 1896
social democrats split into Mensheviks and bolsheviks
July-august 1903
Russo - Japanese war start
February 1904
National Congress of Zemstvos
November 1904
Dismissal of four Putilov steel workers in St Petersburg sparks widespread industrial unrest
December 1904
Bloody Sunday massacre
9th of Jan 1905
Russian defeat at the battle of Tsushima
May 1905
Potemkin Mutiny
June 1905
Treaty of Portsmouth ends Russo-Japanese war
5th September 1905
Constitutional democrats formed (Kadets)
12-18 October 1905
St Petersburg paralysed by general strikes
14 October 1905
October Manifesto
17 October 1905
Moscow Soviet Formed
November 1905
Moscow uprising suppressed by force
December 1905
Resignation of Prime Minister Sergei Witte
April 1906
Fundamental Laws passed
23rd April 1906
First Duma
April-July 1906
Stolypin appointed Prime Minister
July 1906
Second Duma
February-June 1906
Second Duma dissolved and the passing of new electoral laws
June 1907
Third Duma
November 1907-June 1912
Stolypin assassinated
1 September 1911
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks officially split
1912
Lena Goldfields Massacre
4 April 1912
Fourth Duma
November 1912-August 1914
Germany declares war on Russia
1 August 1914
Tsar Nicholas takes charge of armed forces commander in chief
22 August 1915
Rasputin murdered
16 December 1916
Brusilov Offensive
4 June - 20 September 1916
Tsar dismisses Duma
2 September 1915
International Women’s Day Marches
23 February 1917
Petrograd garrison mutiny; Petrograd soviet formed; Provisional Committee assumes authority
27 February 1917
Soviet Order No. 1
1 March 1917
Abdication of the Tsar Nicholas II
2nd March 1917
Provisional Government formed
2nd March 1917
Miliukov’s note
April 1917
Lenin returns to Russia and presents his April Theses
3 - 4 April 1917
June Offensive
18 June - 2 July 1917
First Coalition government
5 may 1917
July Days
3-6 July 1917
Kerensky becomes Prime minister
8 July 1917
Second Coalition Government
25 July 1917
Moscow State Conference
12 - 15 August 1917
Kornilov Affair
19 - 30 August 1917
Third Coalition Government; Trotsky becomes chairman of the Petrograd Soviet
25 September 1917
Preparliament opens
7 October 1917
Bolshevik Central Committee meets
10 October 1917
First meeting of the Military Revolutionary Committee (MilRevCom)
16 October 1917
Kerensky orders arrest of leading Bolsheviks, closure of Bolshevik newspapers and raising of bridges of central Petrograd
23-24 October 1917
Trotsky and Milrevcom troops and Red Guard re-take the city
24 October 1917
Storming of the Winter Palace and the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets
25-26 October 1917