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The Great Northern War
The war started when an alliance of Denmark–Norway, Saxony and Russia declared war on the Swedish Empire, launching a threefold attack at Swedish Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish Livonia, and Swedish Ingria.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
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.It was suppressed by Nicholas I, and took place in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg. -
The March Revolution
The German March revolution began in the wake of and as the immediate consequance of the Parsion February Revolution -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
In 1856, Tsar Alexander II spoke before the gentry of Moscow and asked them to consider emancipation of the serfs. In 1858, nine met in what was called a Main Committee, at St. Petersburg, and agreed to the abolition of serfdom should the tsar decide to do so. Many freed felt that they did not get all the land that had been promised them. Some serf communities failed to receive forested areas or access to a river. -
The Assassination of Alexander II
A bomb was thrown under the iron- clad carriage to try to stop it. Rysacoff was the one who threw the bomb. He was then aressted. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The Japanese Navy attacked the Russian eastern fleet at Port Arthur, a naval base in the Liaotung province leased to Russia by China, which led to war. The Russians were poorly organized and the Japanese defeated them in a series of battles on land and at sea. World observers were surprised that Japan won. -
Russian Revolution of 1905
The people of Russia wanted a change in their government. Protests were doing a peaceful march to the palace, When they got met by soldiers, the soldiers fired at them. This event is called Bloody Sunday -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
When the war started Russia responded by patriotically rallying around Nicholas II. Military disasters at the Masurian Lakes and Tannenburg greatly weakened the Russian Army in the initial phases of the war. Rasputin advised Nicholas not to go to war as he had predicted that Russia would be defeated. When the Duma was dissolved in September 1915, Rasputin took charge of just about all aspects of government in St Petersburg. The Russian Empire collapsed in March 1917, and Russia left the war afte -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian Throne
At the end of the "February Revolution" Nicholas II chose to abdicate. Nicholas named his brother, Grand Duke Michael, as the next Emperor of all the Russia. Michael wouldn't accept the throne until the people were allowed to vote through a Constituent Assembly for the continuance of the monarchy or a republic. The abdication of Nicholas II and the subsequent Bolshevik revolution brought three centuries of the Romanov dynasty's rule to an end. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday happened in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army. The incident occurred during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march. The soldiers involved were members of the First Battalion of the Parachute Regiment.
