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Czar Alexander II is assassinated by the terrorist group ‘People’s Will
Czar Alexander the II was the ruler of Russia since 1855. The terrorist group ‘People’s Will,’ killed the Czar in the streets of St. Petersberg. They killed him with a bomb that was thrown at him in time to blow up and kill him. This assassination by the ‘People’s Will,’ was an attempt to overthrow Russian czarist autocracy. -
Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia
Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change Born in 1868 he succeeded to the Russian throne upon the death of his father Czar Alexander III in November 1894. -
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution
On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the priest Georgy Gapon marched to the Czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the protesters, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and riots broke out throughout the country in outraged response to the massacre. This is when Nicholas responded by promising the formation of a series of representative assemblies, or Dumas, to work toward reform. -
World War I begins
July 28, 1914 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. August 1, 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia. August 2, 1914 - Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and Germany sign a secret treaty of alliance. September 12, 1914 - First battle of the Aisne in France, begins, marking the beginning of trench warfare. This war was an intense battle between countries in Europe fighting over land through trench warfare in the Eastern and Western Fronts. -
The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
On March 8, 1917, demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets of the Russian capital of Petrograd. 90,000 men and women went on strike and the protesters clashed with police, refusing to leave the streets. On March 10, the strike spread among Petrograd workers, and irate mobs of workers destroyed police stations. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates (gives up power)
Nicholas approved the Russian mobilisation on 30 July 1914, which led to Germany declaring war on Russia on 1 August 1914. Following the February Revolution of 1917, Nicholas abdicated on behalf of himself and his son. Nicholas and his family were imprisoned and transferred to Tobolsk in late summer 1918. -
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
On April 16, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. After his exile ended in 1900, Lenin went to Western Europe, where he continued his revolutionary activity. After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Lenin returned to Russia. -
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Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd
Following the failure of the offensive in June, the Bolsheviks made an attempt to seize power in Petrograd in July. When soldiers, sailors, and industrial workers engaged in spontaneous armed demonstrations against the Russian Provisional Government. Only a small number of soldiers and sailors went to support the Bolsheviks and the uprising was supported mainly by loyal troops. -
The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd
The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the occupation of government buildings -
Russian civil war begins
The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin's Bolsheviks. The Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from November 1917 until October 1922 between several groups in Russia. The main fighting was between the Red Army and the White Army. The Red Army was an army of communists. The White Army opposed the communists -
Russia withdraws from World War I
After the October Revolution riots started to break loose in Russia and all over. Lenin did not want to focus on the war, instead he wanted to concentrate on building up a communist state. He accomplished leaving by agreeing to the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany. -
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The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
The Bolshevik, Russian: ‘One of the Majority,’ member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia and became the dominant political power. They change their name to the Communist Party. The Russian Communist Party, The Bolsheviks, was held between 6–8 March 1918. During this congress the Bolsheviks changed the name of the party to include the word "Communist". -
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Following the success of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Vladimir Lenin, fearing possible foreign invasion, moved the capital from Saint Petersburg back to Moscow on March 5, 1918. The Kremlin once again became the seat of power and the political centre of the new state. After Lenin died the state was changed from Moscow back to St. Petersburg. -
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
Late on the night of July 16, Nicholas, Alexandra, their five children and four servants were ordered to dress quickly and go down to the cellar of the house in which they were being held. There, the family and servants were arranged in two rows for a photograph, they were told they were being taken to quell rumors they had escaped. -
Russian civil war ends
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. This ended with a victory for the Red Army in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Tuva, and Mongolia, and many more. -
Lenin suffers second stroke
Vladimir Lenin had a disease called Intracerebral hemorrhage, which is an emergency condition in which a ruptured blood vessel causes bleeding inside the brain. There are many symptoms to this including strokes, headaches, and weakness of one side of the body. Lenin suffered from three of these strokes until he dies from the fourth. -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
On December 29, 1922 a conference of delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This was created for all of the delegates to decide on the territory of the former empire. -
Lenin dies
Lenin died on the 21 of January, 1924. The cause of his death was a disease called Intracerebral hemorrhage. This disease was what cause three strokes that he suffered and survived from, than died from the fourth due to this disease. This disease caused ruptured blood vessels to cause bleeding in the brain, and strokes and death are very common.
