Soviet Russia dates

January 1904

The Russo-Japanese War began

9 January 1905

Bloody Sunday

March 1905

Russian army defeated at Mukden, Manchuria

May 1905

Union of Unions formed

May 1905

Russian navy destroyed by Japanese at Tsushima

June 1905

Crew of the Battleship Potemkin mutinied

August 1905

Treaty of Portsmouth ended Russo-Japanese War

13 October 1905

St Petersburg Soviet formed

17 October 1905

Nicholas II issued the October Manifesto

April 1906

Nicholas II issued the Fundamental Laws

April–July 1906

First Duma sat

July 1906

Stolypin appointed Prime Minister

February–June 1907

Second Duma sat

November 1907 – June 1912

Third Duma sat

September 1911

Stolypin assassinated

April 1912

Strikes at Lena goldfields, Siberia

June 1912

Third Duma dissolved

November 1912

Fourth Duma began

1913

300 years of Romanov rule celebrated

1 August 1914

First World War began

26–30 August 1914

Battle of Tannenberg

7–14 September 1914

Battle of the Masurian Lakes

August 1915

Nicholas II took personal command of Russian armies

June–September 1916

Brusilov Offensive

December 1916

Rasputin murdered

18 February 1917

Strike began at Putilov steel factories, Petrograd

23 February 1917

International Women’s Day demonstrations for food

26 February 1917

Petrograd Garrison refused to fire on demonstrators

27 February 1917

Duma formed Provisional Government & Petrograd Soviet

28 February 1917

Nicholas II prevented from returning to Petrograd

2 March 1917

Nicholas II abdicated (for himself & his son)

3 April 1917

Lenin returned to Petrograd & issued April Theses

June 1917

Disastrous Russian offensive vs Austro-German armies

July 1917

“July Days”

8 July 1917

Kerensky became Prime Minister
August–September 1917

September 1917

Bolsheviks won majority in Petrograd Soviet

Trotsky became Chairman

23 October 1917

Kerensky tried to close Bolshevik newspapers

24–25 October 1917

Bolsheviks took over Petrograd

27 October 1917

Lenin formed Council of People’s Commissars

October–November 1917

Decrees gave land to peasants & factories to workers

January 1918

Constituent Assembly closed down

March 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (peace with Germany)

1918–1921

Civil War between Reds and Whites

June 1918

Start of War Communism

July 1918

Execution of the Romanov family

March 1921

Kronstadt Mutiny

21 March 1921

Start of New Economic Policy (NEP)

January 1924

Death of Lenin