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The Great Northern War
The Great Northern War started on March 14, 1700 when there was a military conflict with Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland together against Sweden in the Baltic area..The war resulted in the decline of the Swedish influence and the emergance of Russia as a major power in that region. -
Decembrist Revolt
This was a small group of nobles and army officers that tried to ovethrow the czar's government, they hoped to set up their own constitutional monarchy. The czar quikly stopped this uprising that was the Decembrist Rovolt. The czar killed all five leaders and sent hundreds more to Siberia. Although the revolt was a failure these leaders were heroes to the later generations of revolutions. -
Freeing of the Serfs
The Emancipation of 1861 in Russia was the freeing of the serfs. This was the first and most important of liberal reforms effected during the reign of Alexander II of Russia. The 1861 Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of the domestic household serfs. More than 23 million people recived liberty, these serfs were granted the full rights of free citizens, gaining the rights to marry without gain concent, own property,and own a business. -
Assassination of Alexander the II
The Czar was assassinated when he went to the Mikhailovsky Manege for the military roll call. He travelled both to and from there in a closed carriage accompanied by five Cossack sitting on the coachman’s left, followed and led by two sleds full of policeman. A young member of the Naradnaya Volya movement, was carrying a white package wrapped in a handkerchief. It was a bomb and the young man threw it under the carriage and killed one person, then another bomber threw a bomb and blew off his leg -
The Russo-Japanese War
This was the first great war of the 20th century, this war started by the rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The main land that they were fighting over was the southern Manchuria, the are around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. Russia wanted warm water ports on the Pasific Ocean for the navy as well as trading. -
Revolution of 1905
The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed to the government, while some was undirected. This Revolution involved worker strikesm peasant unrest, and military mutinies. This led to constitutional monarchy, the State Duma of the Russian Empire, the multi-party system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906. -
Bloody sunday
Bloody sunday was an event that happened in St Petersburg, Russia. This event was an act on unarmed demonstrators marching to a petition to the Czar Nicholas II, these marching pepple were fired apon by soldiers of the Imperial Gaurd when they were marching by the city center and the Winter Palace. The shooting did not happend in the Palace Square, Bloody Sunday was an event with consequences for the Czarist regime. -
World War I
Russia had the same involvement as all the other countries that fought in the war. It was on the allied side, and they fought terribly. Some of the troops didint even have guns and the equipment and food was always low. The citizens had to give them their food and that was still not enough. Early in WWI Russia invaded Germany but the Germans pushed them back into Russia and then Russia got out of the war in 1917. -
Nicholas II abdicated his throne
In early 1917 there were many rioting in the capital of Petrograd, soldiers went on the peoples side and didnt want anything to do with the government. There was an election called the Duma and this demanded for the czar to step down from the throne on March 15, this ended a ruling of the Romanov Dynasty of more than 300 years. The czar's family were exiled to Siberia and later executed. -
The March Revolution
This revolution put an end to the autocratic monarchy of the imperial Russia and replaced it with the provisional government. But the latter's authority was at once contested by soviets who claimed to represent the masses of the people and so to be rightful conductors of the revolution. Militarily the revolution appeared to the western Allies as a disaster and the central powers as a golden oppertunity.
