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The Great Northern War
A conflict which Russia, Denmark, Poland, and Saxony faught Sweden because of their expansion on the Baltic Sea. -
The Decembrist Revolt
Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
Over 23 million serfs were freed and were granted full rights of a free citizen. -
The Assasination of Alexander II
Alexander II was traveling through the snow to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg when a group of radicals killed him by bombing his iron-clad coach. -
The Russo-Japanese War
A war with a Japanese victory against Russia, which gave Japan power over Korea and Manchuria. -
Bloody Sunday
Unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard. -
The Revolution of 1905
A wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire including the event of Bloody Sunday -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
Russia faught against Germany, but Russia was unprepared for war due to shortage of supplies, allowing Germany to push forward. -
The March Revolution
Rioting triggered primarily by food shortages in the city, which were caused by the wider problems of a worse economy and repeated failures on the battlefields of World War I. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
Nicholas II was forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place.
