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The Great Northern War (Start)
The Great Northern War lasted from 1700-1721, The Great Northern War had been fought between Sweden's Charles XII and a coalition that was lead by Peter the Great. After the long battle that lasted for years Sweden no longer had supremacy as the leading power in the Baltic region. She was then replaced by Peter the Great. -
The Great Northern War (End)
Towards the end of the war there were four peace treaties that brought apparent stability to the Baltic. With this, it actually turned everything towards a better direction. -
Decembrist Revolt
In St. Petersburg, Russia, a group of military offcials started a revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. Those rebels where liberals who felt that the new rulers conservative view on things was just not right. They were then defeated by Tsars army and as a result of this event Nicholas I made some tough disiosions on numerous of new regulations. Disciosions had to be bad wisly to prevent the spread of liberal -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
The Emancipation Reform of 1861 was the first and most important of liberal reforms effected during the region of Russia. The reform, together with a related reform in 1861, amounted to the liquidation of serf dependence previously suffered by peasants of the Russian Empire -
The Assassination of Alexander II
Czar Alexander II was the ruller of Russia since 1855 when it all came to an end on March 13, 1881. Alexander II was killed when a bomb was thrown by a member of the revolutionary "People's Will" group. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was the first great war of the 20th century. It grew out of rival ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. -
Bloody Sunday
A large body of people, led by radical priest Georgy Apollonovich, had marched into czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. They were marching there to try and get there demands made. Shots are fired on a croud of hundreds of people killing and wounded over hundreds of thousands. This lead to out breaks of riots and strikes that mojority of the time ended out in a violant matter. -
The Revolution of 1905
It all started during a peaceful protest that was occuring and most say this was the turning point in the relationship with the Czar. 150,000 people took to the cold and snow covered streets of St Petersburg to protest about their lifestyle. They were lead by a Russian Orthodox priest, Father Gapon. The protesters said that they were looking for some political protest just that they help them out. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II is forced to abdicate the throne on March 15, 1917. After strikes and general revolts break out in Petrograd occured. -
The March Revolution
Major changes came to Russia during this time. Not only was Rasputin dead, the first World War had taken millions of Russian lives. Those not actually fighting had to face serious food shortages. The winter of 1916-17 was very cold and fuel was in very short supply. Many people didnt survive that winter and there wasnt much they could do at the time. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
The Russians involvement in World War I was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. It was a separate peace treaty that the Soviet government was forced to sign on March 3, 1918. After almost a six-month-long negotiations at Brest-Litovsk between Russia and the Central Powers marking Russia's exit from World War I
