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The Great Northern War
The Great Northern War (1700–21) 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 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, sensing an opportunity as Sweden was ruled by the young Charles XII, who was 18 years. -
The Decembrist Revolt
This event took place in Imperal Russia on the 26th of December, 1825. Russian Army officers led 3,000 soilders to revolt againts Nicholas I taking the throne. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
Alexander recognized the social unrest among the serfs, who were by far the largest portion of the population. He freed the serfs in order to avoid a revolution, which could overthrow not only his government and rule but the entire existing social order. As Alexander had said, it is better to free the serfs from above than have them free themselves from below. -
The Assassination of Alexander II
Czar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia since 1855, is killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary "People's Will" group. The People's Will, organized in 1879, employed terrorism and assassination in their attempt to overthrow Russia's czarist autocracy. They murdered officials and made several attempts on the czar's life before finally assassinating him on March 13, 1881. -
The Russo-Japanese War
February 1904 to September 1905.
The Imperial Russian Navys quest for an ice free port.
Russia wanted an ice free port in the Pacific rim. Japan didn't want them there; so they fought over it. Planted the seed for the Japanese Imperial Navy that would ulitmately fight WW2. -
Bloody Sunday
On Sunday, 22 January 1905, (9 January Old Style) the workers of St Petersburg organised a peaceful demonstration to demand political and constitutional reform. 150,000 demonstrators, including whole families, led by an Orthodox priest, Father Georgi Gapon, marched through the city streets armed with a petition to be presented to the Tsar, -
The Revolution of 1905
The 1905 Russian Revolution was sparked off by a peaceful protest held on January 22nd. This protest may well have been the turning point in the relationship the tsar, Nicholas II, enjoyed with his people. Led by a Russian Orthodox priest, Father Gapon, 150,000 people took to the cold and snow covered streets of St Petersburg to protest about their lifestyle. They were not intent on making any form of political protest in the sense of calling for the overthrow of the government or royal family. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
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Czar Nicholas II Abdicates the Russian Throne
Nicholas II abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917. Imprisoned first in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, then later in the Governor's Mansion in Tobolsk, and finally at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. Nicholas II and his family where all killed by Bolsheviks. -
The March Revolution
