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The Great Northern War
Denmark–Norway, Saxony and Russia declared war on the Swedish Empire, -
Russia war ended
The war ended with a defeat for Sweden, leaving Russia as the new major power in the Baltic Sea and an important new player in European politics. -
The Decembrist Revolt
Russia army officers led about 3,000 soldiers to protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine -
The Assassination of Alexander II
A bomb was thrown under his iron-clad carriage,, the latter threw a bomb between himself and Alexander II, so that both of them should be killed. -
. Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
Amounted to the liquidation of serf dependence previously suffered by peasants of the Russian Empire. In some of its parts, the serfdom was abolished earlier. The 1861 Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of the domestic (household) serfs. By this edict more than twenty-three million people received their liberty. Serfs were granted the full rights of free citizens, gaining the rights to marry without having to gain consent, to own property. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 2 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Critics nicknamed him Bloody Nicholas because of the Khodynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, the anti-Semitic pogroms, his execution of political opponents, and his pursuit of military campaigns on a hitherto unprecedented scale. Also under his rule the Russians lost the Russian and Japanese war. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The first great war of the 20th century,Russians sought a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean, for their navy as well as for maritime trade. Vladivostok was only operational during the summer season, but Port Arthur would be operational all year. -
The Revolution of 1905
Mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. It led to the establishment of limited constitutional monarchy. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world's great powers,[5] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungry and italy -
The March Revolution
Tsar was deposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
WQorld War 1 enden and the allies won -
Bloody Sunday
26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
