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The Great Northern War
The war starrted when an alliance of Denmark-Norway, Saxony and Russia declared war on the Swedish Empire, launching a threefold attack. The war ended with a defeat for Sweden leaving Russia as the new major power in the Baltic Sea. -
Decembrist Revolt
Took place in St.Petersburg, Russia. A group of military officials got together to revolt against Tzar Nicholas I. The group were liberals and they felt threatened from the rulers conservitive views. -
The March Revolution
The German March revolution began in the wake of and as the immediate consequence of the Parisian February Revolution. -
Czar Nicholas II Emancipates the Serfs
Alexander II spoke before the gentry of Moscow and asked them to consider emancipation of the serfs, adding that it would be better to begin to abolish serfdom from above rather than wait for a rising from below. -
The Assassination of Alexander II
A bomb was thrown under iron-clad carriage, to stop it. Rysacoff was the one who threw the bomb. Right then he was arrested. -
Czar NIcholas II abdicates the Russian Throne
Nicholas was crowned in May. He wasnt train or ready to rule. Since he wasnt trained it didnt help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change. -
The Russo- Japanese War
The Japanese Navy attacked the Russian eastrern fleet at Port Arthur. The Russians were poorly organized and the Japanese defeated them. World observvers were surprised that Japan won. -
Russian Revolution of 1905
The people of Russia wanted a change in their government. Troops started a fire on a peacful march. This event is also 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 II not to go to war because he predicated that Russia would lose.. When the Duma was dissolved, Rasputin took over the government in St. Petersburg. -
Bloody Sunday
It was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
