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april theses
Lenin gave out his April theses speech -
peace negotiations
Russia opens peace negotiations with Germany -
strike on bloody Sunday
140,000 workrs strike in commemoration of the 12th anniversary of bloody Sunday -
strike because of food shortages
100,000 workers are still on stike,and the duma attcks government because they couldn't handle the food shortages. -
Tsar orders death of protesters
The tsar(Nicholas 2nd) orders the soldiers to kill the protesters an dozens are killed and he also orders he duma to be dissolved permanently -
Nicholas abdicates in favour of his brother
after consulting his generals nicholas looks to abdicate in favour of his brother Michael -
Michael refuses the thone
Michael refuses the throne and said that he'd be the tsar only if he got voted by the people. This ends 300 years of Romanov rule -
Nicholas house arrest
Nicholas and his family are detained in house arrest -
Baghdad gets captured
The British take control of Baghdad -
Lenin returns
Lenin returns to Russia with the help of the german government . -
declaration of war
US declares war on Germany -
Greece enters war
Greece enters the war and fights by the side of the allies -
Revolt of workers and peasants
The peasants and workers were spontaneously saying that that the Bolsheviks or the soviets should take power. -
Revolution begins
The October revolution begins . The Bolshevik Central Committee declares that an armed uprising is inevitable. The Petrograd Soviet creates Military Revolutionary Committee