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Sasha Ulyanov, brother of Vladimir Ulyanov( later Lenin) is hanged for planning an assassination attempt on Alexander III.
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Lenin was sentenced to solitary confinement for 13 months, and then exiled to Siberia.
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A stampede in Moscow during festivities of the Coronation of Nicholas II leads to the deaths of 1,300 people. Nicholas attends a party instead of handling the situation.
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Japan wins, and destroys the Russian naval fleet. The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed, and the war is ended on September 5th, 1905.
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Troops open fire on a peaceful demonstration outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. 1,000 people are either killed or injured. The press blames Nicholas.
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Nicholas promises civil liberties, and an elected parliament called the Duma. Restrictions are implemented on the monarchy's power, and a constitution ( Fundamental Laws of 1906) is issued.
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The Second State Duma is dissolved, its members are arrested, and there is a change in electoral law.
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After Russia allies with Serbia, Germany declares war. St. Petersburg is later renamed Petrograd to make it sound less German.
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Close friend of the Tsar and Empress, and healer of Tsarevich Alexei Grigori Rasputin is killed by Prince Felix Yusupov, after several failed attempts.
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On International Women's Day, demonstrators take to the streets to protest food shortages and the war. The strike spreads in Petrograd.
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Nicholas abdicates and removes Alexei from succession. His brother refuses to take his place. A provisional government is set up.
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Lvov resigns, and Kerensky takes control of the government, issuing an arrest for Lenin and crushes demonstrations. The Soviets lose dual control of the government after Bolshevik leaders are arrested.
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On September 9th, General Kornilov, commander of the Russian army stages a coup to counter the Bolsheviks. He fails. On the 14th, Russia is declared a republic.
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Bolsheviks seize Petrograd, and take control of the Winter Palace. The Decrees on Land proclaims the abolition of private property and redistribution among peasants, and proclaim withdrawal from WW1. The death penalty is also abolished.
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Russia ends participation in WW1. Russia loses a third of its empire population, a third of its railroad network, half of its industry, and nine-tenths of its food supply.
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Nicholas II, his family, and servants are repeatedly shot and stabbed by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg.
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A period of political repression and mass killing begins after an assassination attempt on Lenin by Fanny Kaplan, and the murder of Uritskii.
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Red Army invades Crimea, forces White Army to withdraw.
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Stalin dismisses Trotsky, who is exiled and murdered in 1940.