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Great Northern War
it was a war fought aginst sweeden and russia -
Great Northern War Ends
russia lost the war aginst sweeden -
The Decembrist Revolt
there was a revolt aginst the Czar Nicholas II -
The Assassination of Alexander II
Due to many people unhappy with the czar, people started to make speeches and go to 'the people'. Although these acts were silenced by either killing, or sending them to siberia. Then there was a more serious action, there was a party made called the Zamyla i Volya. This party was in two sides, assainate or focus on the pheasents. They soon split into two seperate groups and the terroist group was called the Narodnaya Volya. After many unsuccesful attempts, they finally killed the czar in March -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
Nicholas II became Czar of Russia -
The Russo-Japanese War
this war was a disater for russia it showed up russia, it showed them stilling liveing in the past glories . -
bloody sunday
Bloody Sunday was the violent beginning of the Rusian Revolution. Bloody sunday was a masacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, where soldiers fired on workmen. These people were saying "god save the czar", although the czar was not at the palace. Nicholas' uncle Grand Duke Valdamir tried to stop the march. He did so by telling the police force to fire on the march. 100 people were killed by these shot, and several hundred were wounded. -
The Revolution of 1905
After Russias devestating involvement in WWI, the czar was forced to give up the throne. Soon after a provisional government was set in place. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
russia joins ww1 with the largest army Russian army expanded to over 5,000,000 soldier they had 4.6 million rifles -
The March Revolution
This revolution was once again the end to the autocracy governemnt. The government was replaced with a provitional government. Then a group called soviets, basically soliders, deputies, etc., who claimed to represent masses of people. These soviets was how the revolution started.The military was very weak at this time, and the soviets told sailors to take control of the units arms and ignore any opposition. Soon after anarchy started spreading accrost Russia.The czar rule ended, and now Soviets. -
world war 1 ends
germany signs the peace treaty with the alied powers
