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The Great Northern War
Was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern Europe, Central Europe and Eastern Europe. -
The Decembrist Revolt
On 26 December 1825. Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession. Because these events occurred in December, the rebels were called the Decembrists. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
Important changes were made in legislation concerning industry and commerce, and the new freedom thus afforded produced a large number of limited liability companies. Plans were formed for building a great network of railways and much more. -
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. -
The Assassination of Alexander II
After Alexander became emperor in 1855, he maintained a generally liberal course. Despite this, he was a target for numerous assassination attempts (1866, 1879, 1880). On 13 March 1881, members of the Narodnaya Volya party killed him with a bomb. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The first great war of the 20th century.It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. -
Bloody Sunday
It started out as a peaceful debate but then somebody shot somebody and then it went crazy from there -
The Revolution of 1905
This started because of Boody Sunday -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
Military disasters at the Masurian Lakes and Tannenburg greatly weakened the Russian Army in the initial phases of the war. Russia for just over 300 years, were no longer in charge of a Russia that had been taken over by Kerensky and the Provisional Government -
The March Revolution
It destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Also in the chaos, members of the Imperial parliament or Duma assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government.
