The rule of Nicholas II 1894-1905 Key dates

1613

start of the romanov dynasty

1832

Fundamental laws of the Empire

1897

only 4% of population were working class

1861

serfdom abolished

1900

over 50% of the population were literate as the urban working class developed

1890s

a ‘great industrial spurt’

1914

the Russian population at 164 million with over 80% living and working in the countryside

1881

Alexander II blown up by radicalist group

1894

start of Nicholas II’s rule

1891-1902

trans-siberian railway built

1905-1905

Russo-Japanese war

22 Jan 1905

Bloody Sunday

Feb 1905

400 000 workers went on strike and by the end of the year 2.7million workers had been striking

Feb 1905

terrorism against government officials and landlords spread to the countryside through socialist revolutionaries. Peasants start seizing land

May 1905

Milyukov persuades liberal groups to form the “union of unions”

June 1905

mutinies occured in army and navy units including battleship Potemkin

August 1905

the Tsar reluctantly releases the August Manifesto

20 Sept 1905 - 30 Oct 1905

the workers strike is joined by organised university students

Oct 1905

St Petersburg soviet formed

Oct 1905

Nicholas II releases the October Manifesto

November 1905

Tsar announces mortgage payments would be reduced and eventually abolished

December 1905

Tsarist troops segied the St Petersburg soviet.

December 1905

Moscow Soviet formed

December 1905

12 day uprising