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Bloody Sunday
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. -
Plan of San Luis
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 -
Uprising of villagers in Morelos
Emiliano Zapata leads uprising of villagers in Morelos for land and water rights. Simultaneously armed revolts begin in other parts of Mexico. -
New president in Mexico
Francisco I. Madero elected as new president in Mexico -
Death of Francisco I. Madero
President Madero and Vice President Pino Suárez are shot to death. Huerta declares himself President of Mexico. -
Villa occupied Zacatecas
Zacatecas captured by Villa's "División del Norte" -
Declaration of War
By Austria-Hungary on Serbia, begins the first World War. -
Pancho Villa sacks
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. -
The Mensheviks
Call for nation-wide revolution in Russia -
The Kornilov Affair
General Lavr Kornilov attempts to seize control of power from the Provisional Government in what is deemed the Kornilov Affair -
Constitution of 1917
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. -
The February Revolution
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 -
Order's of the Tzar
The Tsar orders the use of violence to quell civil unrest -
Petrograd Soviet
Soldiers mutiny against the government and the Petrograd Soviet is formed -
The abdicate
Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the throne -
April Theses
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 -
Bolshevik take control of the Provisional Government
Bolshevik revolutionaries storm the Winter Palace and seize control of power from the Provisional Government -
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War rages until the Bolsheviks consolidate power, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on December 30, 1922 -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, withdrawing Russia from the First World War, ceding much of the former territory of the Russian Empire -
Zapata death
Zapata slain in ambush. -
Obregón for presidency
Obregón announces his campaign for the presidency. -
Carranza death
Carranza murdered. -
Obregón became president
Obregón sworn in as President. The Revolution is over. -
Bibliography
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
