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The Great Northern War
A conflict where one group led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern Europe. -
Decembrist Revolt
Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constatine removed himself from the line of succession. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
The first and most important of liberal reforms effected during the reign of Alexander II of Russia. -
The Assassination of Alexander II
Alexander fell victim to an assassination plot in Saint Petersburg. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The first great war out of the 20th century, it grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. -
The Revolution of 1905
A wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. -
World War I
A global war centered in Europe that involved all of the world's great powers. -
Czar Nicholas II Abdicates the Throne
Ruling from 1894 until his abdication on March 2nd 1917, Nicholas II saw imperial Russia go from being o ne of the foremost great powers of the world, to economic and military collapse. -
The March Revolution
The collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. -
Bloody Sunday
An incident in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers in the British Army.
