1856-1914 Russia

By SimranD

  • Start of reign of Tsar Alexander II

    Start of reign of Tsar Alexander II
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    1856-1914 Russia

  • Crimean War

    Crimean War: The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the war. The Black Sea was demilitarized. Russia lost territory it had been granted at the mouth of the Danube, abandoned claims to protect Turkish Christians, and lost its influence over the Danubian Principalities.

  • Emancipation of the serfs

    Emancipation of the serfs

  • Peasant Land Reform

    Law was passed to accelerate legal transfer of the land allotted to the peasants.

  • Zemstvos established

    European Russia organised into provincial and district elected self-government

  • State Bank established

    Russia established the State Bank in 1866, which put the national currency on a firmer footing.

  • Duma established

    Duma = elected city councils

  • Military Reforms

    Conscription young men of 21 without distinction of class. Exemption was only granted to young men who were the sole breadwinners of their families. It also gave the army a role in teaching many peasants to read and in pioneering medical education for women.

  • Ukranian/Russiafication

    Alexander signed the Ems Ukaz, banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print.

  • Russo-Turkish War

    Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878): Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

  • Alexander II assassinated by revolutionaries; succeeded by Alexander III.

    Alexander II assassinated by revolutionaries; succeeded by Alexander III.

  • Labour Legislation

    Labour legislation was first introduced in 1882 with the creation of the inspectorate of factories (in charge of health and life saving regulations), the regulation of working hours and the limitation of female and juvenile labor.

  • First Russian Marxist group formed

  • Poll Tax abolished

  • Foundation of Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR)

  • Finland/Russiafication

    Russification of Finland: Nicholas issued a decree making Russian the official language of Finland.

  • Start of reign of Nicholas II

    Start of reign of Nicholas II

  • First Congress of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)

  • Second Congress of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Beginning of split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

  • Russo-Japanese War; Russia loses war

    1904-1905

  • Russian Revolution

    January: Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg.
    June: Battleship Potemkin uprising at Odessa on the Black Sea (see movie The Battleship Potemkin).
    October: general strike, Saint Petersburg Soviet formed; October Manifesto: Imperial agreement on elections to the State Duma

  • First State Duma. Prime Minister: Petr Stolypin. Agrarian reforms begin

  • Second State Duma, February–June

  • Third State Duma, until 1912.

  • Stolypin assassinated

  • Fourth State Duma, until 1917. Bolshevik/Menshevik split final

  • Lena Goldfields Massacre

    Lena goldfields massacre: The Russian army fired on a crowd of striking miners, killing 150.

  • Germany declares war on Russia

    Germany declares war on Russia