Chronological Quiz 1

The princes of Kievan Rus adopted Christianity from the Byzantine empire

988

Mongol Yoke

1237-1480

Rise of Moscow

1147

Ivan III

1440-1505

Time of Troubles

1598-1613

Mikhail Romanov elected tsar in

1613

Romanov Dynasty

1613-1917

Russian law fixes peasants to the land, making them property of nobles and the state

1649

Peter the Great crowns himself emperor, establishing Russian Empire

1721

War with Napoleon

1812

Decembrists (rising up of soldiers after Napoleon War)

1825

Crimean War

1853-1856

Emancipation Manifesto

1861

Zemstvo Reforms

1864

Municipal Reform

1870

Judicial Reforms

1864

Military Reform

1874

Alaska sold to US for $7 million

1867

Head of secret police assassinated

1878

Polish Rebellion

1863

Russian Army defeats Ottoman Empire

1877-78

Revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots governor of St. Petersburg

1877

Alexander 2’s eldest son and heir Nikolai dies of illness

1865

Alexander 2’s wife Empress Maria dies, marries mistress Ekaterina Dolgorukova

1880

Alexander 2’s first assassination attempt

1866

Alexander 2’s Death

March 1, 1881

Emergence of Public Sphere

18th Century

Alexander Herzen’s arrest and exile

1816

What is To Be Done published by Nikolai Chernyshevsky

1863

“Going to the People” (upper class university students lived among peasants, violence ensued)

1874

Land and Freedom splits

1879

Khiva Campaign headed by Bekovich-Cherkasky

1717

Abulkhair khan of Kazakhs accepts Russian subjecthood

1731

Gradual military fortification in Central Asia

1830s

Fall of Tashkent

1865

Turkestan General-Governorship created

1867

War with Bukhara 1866-1868

capture of Samarkand (1868) | Bukharan khanate/emirate (1501-1920) reduced to a Russian protectorate (1873)

Expedition to Khiva (1873)

Khivan khanate (1511-1920) reduced to a Russian protectorate (1873)

Fall of Kokand/Annexation of khanate

1876

Fall of Gok-Tepe

1881

Pamir Boundary agreed with British

1895

Caucasian War

1817-64

Military conquests in Central Asia

(1850s-1870s)

Counterreforms of Alexander III

1884: state oversight of curriculum, increased student fees | 1889: “Land Captains” – government-appointed noblemen | 1890: Government appoints zemstvo heads and employees, | 1892: Government confirms elected town officials

New Kazakh Orthodox Mission (Russian in all Muslim Schools)

1881

Peasant Land Bank

1882

Noble Land Bank

1885

Russia joins gold standard

1897

Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party (RSDRP)

Founded (1898) | Split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks (1902)

What is To Be Done (Borrowed Title)

(1902)

Russo-Japanese War

1904-1905

Putilov Strike

December 1904

Father Georgii Gapon led a procession of 50, 000 workers to the Winter Palace in Petersburg, the tsar’s residence

January 9, 1905

Bloody Sunday

1905

Peace Treaty of Portsmouth (ending Russia-Japan War)

September 1905

Battleship Potemkin mutiny

June 1905

October General Strike

October 1905

October Manifesto (Nicholas 2 finally concedes)

October 17, 1905

Moscow Uprising

December 1905

Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) formed

1905

Muslim petition campaign

1905

Vaqit

1906-1918

Qazaq

(1913-1918)

First State Duma

1906

Vyborg Manifesto

July 22, 1906

Second State Duma

February - June 1907

Third State Duma

1907-1912

Assassination of Stolypin

1911

Romanov Tercentenary

1913

Balkan Wars

1912-13

Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia/Herzegovina

1908

Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated

June 1914

Russia enters the War

August 4, 1914

Battle of Tannenberg

August 1914

Great Retreat

1915

Tsar Nicholas assumes personal command of Russian Army

1915

Central Asian Revolt

July 1916

Suppression of Central Asian revolt

October 1916

Brusilov Offensive

June - September 1916

Miliukov’s Speech to the Duma

November 1916

Rasputin murdered

December 1916

Petrograd Strikes

January and February 1917

International Women’s Day

Feb. 23, 1917

Soldiers Mutiny

February 27, 1917

Formation of Petrograd Soviet

February 27, 1917

Nicholas’ Abdication

March 2, 1917

Formation of Red Guards

March 1917

Trotsky addresses Congress

October 25, 1917