russian revolution aos1 dates

The Great Spur

beginning around the 1890s and ending around 1900s/1905

Coronation of the Tsar

14th May 1896

Khodynka Tragedy

30th May 1896

Formation of SDs

1898

Formal Formation of SRs

1902

Official split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

July-August 1903

Beginning of Russo-Japanese War

8th February 1904

Japanese attack on Port Arthur

8th February 1904

4 workers fired from Putilov Steel Works

4th December 1904

Loss of Port Arthur

2nd January 1905

Bloody Sunday

9th January 1905

February suggestion

18th February 1905

Battle of Mukden

20th February 1905

Formation of Union of Unions

8th May 1905

Battle of Tsushima

14th May 1905

Potemkin Mutiny

14th June 1905

August Manifesto

6th August 1905

Treaty of Portsmouth

5th September 1905

Formation of Kadets

12-18 October 1905

St Petersburg paralysed by strikes

14th October 1905

October Manifesto

17th October 1905

Formation of Octobrists

October 1905

Formation of St Petersburg Soviet

26th October 1905

National Congress of the Zemstvos

6-9 November 1905

Moscow Soviet formed

21st November 1905

Moscow Soviet workers’ uprising suppressed

8th December 1905

Fundamental Laws passed

23rd April 1906

First Duma summoned

27th April 1906

Appointment of Stolypin as Prime Minister

June 1906

First Duma dissolved

8th July 1906

Second Duma summoned

20th February 1907

Second Duma dissolved

3rd June 1907

Change in Electoral Laws

3rd June 1907

Third Duma summoned

7th November 1907

Stolypin assassinated

1st September 1911

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks split

1912

Lena Goldfields Massacre

4th April 1912

Ending of Third Duma

3rd June 1912

Fourth Duma summoned

15th November 1912

Beginning of WW1

28th July 1914

Germany declares war on Russia

1st August 1914

Battle of Tannenberg

23rd August 1914

Battle of Masurian Lakes

2nd September 1914

Tsar assumes power as commander in chief

23rd August 1915

Rasputin murdered

16th December 1916

International Women’s Day marches

23rd February 1917

General Strike

25th February 1917

Petrograd Garrison Soldier Mutinies

26/27th February 1917

Petrograd Soviet forms

28th February 1917

Provisional Government forms

28th February 1917

Soviet order No 1

1st March 1917

Abdication of the Tsar

2nd March 1917

Lenin’s April Theses

3rd April 1917

April Crisis

20th April 1917

First Coalition Government

5th May 1917

Kerensky’s June Offensive

18th June 1917

Kadets resign from coalition

2nd July 1917

Meeting held by the First Machine Gun Regiment

2nd July 1917

July Days

3-6th July 1917

Kerensky becomes Prime Minister

8th July 1917

Second Coalition Government

25th July 1917

Moscow State Conference

12th August 1917

Kornilov Affair

19th August 1917

Democratic State Conference

14th September 1917

Bolsheviks gain majority in the Moscow Soviet

19th September 1917

Third Coalition Government

25th September 1917

Bolsheviks gain majority in the Petrograd Soviet

25th September 1917

Trotsky becomes Chairman of Petrograd Soviet

25th September 1917

Lenin returns from Finland after July Days

7th October 1917

Meeting of the Bolshevik Central Committee

10th October 1917

Formation of the Milrevkom

16th October 1917

Kerensky orders arrest of leading Bolsheviks, raising of bridges of central Petrograd, closure of Bolshevik newspapers

23rd October 1917

Bolshevik printing presses recaptured, Trotsky and Red Guards control of main telegraph, post offices, train stations, State Bank, electricity stations

24th October 1917

Second All-Russian Congress

evening of 25th October 1917

Lenin releases premature statement to press, Committe gives approval for armed seizure of power

25th October 1917

Assault on Winter Palace

25th October 1917

Mensheviks and SRs walking out of the Congress, Congress in recess and re-opens

26th October 1917

Declaration of the Formation of the Sovnarkom

27th October 1917