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A group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands.
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Francisco I. Madero writes "Plan of San Luis" in San Antonio, Texas, calling for all Mexicans to rise up against the dictator on November 20, 1910
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Emiliano Zapata leads uprising of villagers in Morelos for land and water rights. Simultaneously armed revolts begin in other parts of Mexico.
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Francisco I. Madero elected as new president in Mexico
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President Madero and Vice President Pino Suárez are shot to death. Huerta declares himself President of Mexico.
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Zacatecas captured by Villa's "División del Norte"
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By Austria-Hungary on Serbia, begins the first World War.
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Pancho Villa sacks Columbus, New Mexico in retaliation for the United States' recognition of his enemy Carranza. Eight U.S. soldiers and 10 U.S. civilians killed.
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Call for nation-wide revolution in Russia
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General Lavr Kornilov attempts to seize control of power from the Provisional Government in what is deemed the Kornilov Affair
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Mexico adopts the Constitution of 1917, claiming rights over the subsoil, instituting new regulations to benefit organized labor and decreeing sanctions against the Catholic Church.
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The February Revolution begins in Saint Petersburg on International Women's Day and the Provisional Government is established as the ruling administrative power in the empire
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The Tsar orders the use of violence to quell civil unrest
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Soldiers mutiny against the government and the Petrograd Soviet is formed
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Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the throne
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Lenin publishes his April Theses condemning the Provisional Government for its incapacity to call an end to the "imperialist" war that Russia found itself in and calls for further revolution in Russia
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Bolshevik revolutionaries storm the Winter Palace and seize control of power from the Provisional Government
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The Russian Civil War rages until the Bolsheviks consolidate power, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on December 30, 1922
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, withdrawing Russia from the First World War, ceding much of the former territory of the Russian Empire
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Zapata slain in ambush.
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Obregón announces his campaign for the presidency.
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Carranza murdered.
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Obregón sworn in as President. The Revolution is over.
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Hispanic Reading Room. (u.d.) Basic Timeline for the Mexican Revolution. Recovered from: https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/mexico/timeline.html
Havighurst Center Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. (u.d.) Timeline of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Recovered from: https://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/centers/havighurst/cultural-academic-resources/havighurst-special-programing/1917-centennial/timeline-1917/index.html
