Chronology of the Russian Revolution
| Chronology of the Russian Revolution | |
|---|---|
| Mikhail Bakunin and Sergi Nechayev publish the book Catechism of a Revolutionist. | 1869 |
| The formation of the Land and Liberty group. | 1876 |
| Vera Zasulich attempts to assassinate General Trepov, the police chief of St. Petersburg. | 24th January 1878 |
| The People's Will, a terrorist group, is established. | October, 1879 |
| Alexander II announced that he is considering granting the Russian people a constitution. | 25th February, 1880 |
| Ignatei Grinevitski assassinates Tsar Alexander II. | 1st March, 1881 |
| Sophia Perovskaya, and other leaders of the People's Will is executed. | 3rd April, 1881 |
| Nicholas II becomes Tsar on the death of Alexander III. | 20th October, 1894 |
| A group of followers of Karl Marx meet in Minsk and form the Social Democratic Labour Party (SDLP). | March, 1898 |
| Socialist Revolutionary Party is established. | 1901 |
| Tsar Nicholas II appoints Vyacheslav Plehve as Minister of the Interior | April, 1902 |
| Lenin establishes the Bolshevik faction at the SDLP conference in London. | 11th August, 1903 |
| Julius Martov becomes the leader of the Mensheviks faction of the SDLP. | 11th August, 1903 |
| Father George Gapon gains government approval to establish the Assembly of Russian Workers. | 15th February, 1904 |
| Vyacheslav Plehve, the Minister of the Interior, is assassinated on the orders of Evno Azef. | 28th July, 1904 |
| Over 100 workers were killed and some 300 wounded when a group of workers attempt to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II at the Winter Palace (Bloody Sunday). | 22nd January, 1905 |
| Sailors on the Potemkin battleship, protested against the serving of rotten meat. This becomes the start of the 1905 Revolution. | 27th June, 1905 |
| Leon Trotsky and other Mensheviks established the St. Petersburg Soviet. | 13th October, 1905 |
| Tsar Nicholas II, on the advice of Sergi Witte, his new Chief Minister, published the October Manifesto. | 17th October, 1905 |
| The Duma is elected on the basis of indirect universal male suffrage. | May, 1906 |
| On the advice of the Tsar's chief minister, Peter Stolypin, the Duma is dissolved. | July, 1906 |
| Second Duma convened in February, 1907 but closed down four months later. | 16th June, 1907 |
| The Third Duma is elected that gives greater power to the large landowners to the detriment of the peasants. The Duma is now dominated by the reactionaries and the nationalists. | 14th November, 1907 |
| Peter Stolypin is assassinated by Dmitri Bogrov, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. | 1st September, 1911 |
| Germany declares war on Russia. | 1st August, 1914 |
| The Russian Army defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg. | 29th August, 1914 |
| Tsar Nicholas II replaces Grand Duke Nikolai as supreme commander of the Russian Army fighting on the Eastern Front. | September, 1915 |
| Gregory Rasputin is murdered by a group that included Prince Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, Vladimir Purishkevich and Stanislaus de Lazovert. | 29th December, 1916 |
| Workers go on strike protesting against the First World War. | 11th February, 1917 |
| Nicholas II orders the Duma to close down. | 26th February, 1917 |
| An estimated 200,000 workers in Petrograd on strike. | 27th February, 1917 |
| The Russian Army High Command recommend that Nicholas II abdicates. | 13th March, 1917 |
| Tsar Nicholas II abdicates and a Provisional Government, headed by Prince Georgi Lvov, is formed. | 15th March, 1917 |
| Lenin returns to Russia and announces the April Theses. | 3rd April, 1917 |
| Alexander Kerensky, the Minister of War, announces a new war offensive. | 18th June, 1917 |
| Kerensky replaces Prince George Lvov as prime minister. | 8th July, 1917 |
| Kerensky orders the arrest of Bolshevik leaders. | 19th July, 1917 |
| General Lavr Kornilov demands the resignation of Provisional Government and as a result he is recalled to Petrograd. | 7th September, 1917 |
| Alexander Kerensky attempts to recover his left-wing support by forming a new coalition that included more Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. | 25th September, 1917 |
| Kerensky orders the arrest of the Bolshevik leaders based in the Smolny Institute. | 22nd October, 1917 |
| Lenin gives orders for the Bolsheviks to occupy the railway stations, the telephone exchange and the State Bank. | 24th October, 1917 |
| Alexander Kerensky escapes from Petrograd. | 25th October, 1917 |
| The Aurora and the Peter and Paul Fortress open fire on the Winter Palace. | 25th October, 1917 |
| The All-Russian Congress of Soviets hand over power to the Soviet Council of People's Commissars. Lenin is elected chairman. | 26th October, 1917 |
| Elections for the Constituent Assembly begin. A total of 703 candidates were elected. This included Socialist Revolutionaries (299), Bolsheviks (168), Mensheviks (18) and Constitutional Democratic Party (17). | 25th November, 1917 |
| Victor Chernov, the leader of the largest party in the Constituent Assembly, the Socialist Revolutionaries, is elected President. | 5th January, 1918 |
| Lenin closes down the Constituent Assembly. | 6th January, 1918 |