Timeline -alexander 2

1855 - alexander becomes tsar

1856- treaty of Paris ends crimean war

1861 - abolition of serfdom

1860 - creation of state Bank, reform of tax collection

1862-74 - military reforms

1863 - polish revolt

1863 - University statute

1863 - publication of Chernyshevskys ‘what is to be done?’

1864 - local self government zemstva established

1864 - judiciary reform

1864 - elementary school reform

1865 - censorship reform

1866 - assassination attempt on Alexander 2

1867-69 - Church reforms

1870 - city/town government reform and introduction of dumas

1872 - Russian publication of Karl marks Das Kapital

1874 - military service reforms

1874 - populists ‘go to the people’

1876-79 - revolutionary populist organisations: Land and Liberty

1877-78 - Russo-Turkish war

1879 - Terrorisy organisation The Peoples Will established

1866 - assassination of Alexander 2