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A conflict which Russia, Denmark, Poland, and Saxony faught Sweden because of their expansion on the Baltic Sea.
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Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne.
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Over 23 million serfs were freed and were granted full rights of a free citizen.
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Alexander II was traveling through the snow to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg when a group of radicals killed him by bombing his iron-clad coach.
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A war with a Japanese victory against Russia, which gave Japan power over Korea and Manchuria.
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Unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard.
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A wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire including the event of Bloody Sunday
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Russia faught against Germany, but Russia was unprepared for war due to shortage of supplies, allowing Germany to push forward.
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Rioting triggered primarily by food shortages in the city, which were caused by the wider problems of a worse economy and repeated failures on the battlefields of World War I.
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Nicholas II was forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place.