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A conflict where one group led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern Europe.
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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.
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The first and most important of liberal reforms effected during the reign of Alexander II of Russia.
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Alexander fell victim to an assassination plot in Saint Petersburg.
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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.
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A wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
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A global war centered in Europe that involved all of the world's great powers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
